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> On 4 Jul 1996 02:10:26 GMT, p-baer@students.uiuc.edu (baer peter
> patrick) wrote:
> 
> > "Jon E. Schultz II" <jeschult@uiuc.edu> writes:
> >
> > >What's so cool about Lightwave?  Some people have told me to go
> > >for Autodesk, while others swear by Lightwave.  What's the
> difference?
> 
> I have to agree. I have used LOTS (and still own) of 3D packages over
> the years. Lightwave is certainly the most intuitive and easiest to
> learn and use. I would go so far to say that Lightwave and 3DS Max
> are more or less equivalent in features. 

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> I am lead artist for a video game company which pretty
> much allows us to use the tools that we want. ALL of the junior
> artist have decided upon lightwave citing ease of use. Nobody wants
> to spend a ton PLUS invest a lot of time only to get output that isnt
> quite there. You definately will not regret LW.

  Well to add to this, I dis-agree.  I can't comment on the Lightwave
5.0, but the old version was very NON productive.  For example, creating
a simply sphere in lightwave requires many more commands than 3DS. 
Also, what happens when you want to animate it?  You wewre required to
load iup a second program.  I am not in anyway skilled in Lightwave, but
have been using 3DS ever since day 1 and I got fed up with LW very
quickly.  As for comparing MAX and LW, there is non.  MAX is buy far
better than LW in features, functionality, support, and seats.  I to am
a game artist, and we like so many other companies out there choose MAX.
-- 
Stewart Allen
Digital Wizard
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