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From: "Nigel Critten" <Nigel@gameware.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: SI or Alias game development
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 17:31:54 -0000
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>because that's what the "industry" uses.  I will think about Inspire 3D for
>personal use though.


Inspire is a very good choice, and you can go straight from that to
Lightwave with little problems (from what I've heard about LightWave6 it
should knock a hole in the support for MAX - especially when
Lightwave/Inspire isn't as buggy as MAX)

>On the subject of plug-ins, there is a 3DS plugin to export to .rsd, does
anyone
>know if it will work on Max?

I wouldn't have thought so, I have a friend who has written MAX plugins, he
would probably be able to knock a plugin exporter together.

>And one more question... anyone out there use Nichimen Nendo or N-World?
Those
>are supposed to be kick-a** in low-poly and export to a load of gaming
formats.
>Nendo is only about 90 quid, not sure about N-world.


Nendo is odd, it has potential but to be honest if you are used to
Softimage, AI, MAX or Lightwave like myself you will find it a hard learning
curve, (almost F'in vertical in fact), but with a bit of determination you
should be able to do something nice in it, N-World is shortly to be replaced
by Miari (or already has been) I wasn't impressed with N-World but again
that's coming from a Lightwave/Softimage background.


BTW a demo of Nendo is available on the nichimen web site.

Cheers
Nigel