I found this thread now and I have to say that made me laugh a lot...kkkk
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Swoop talking in parabolas kkk and PSD , man you need to listen this guys ... You are wrong mmy friend... If you study a bit you will understand that you are modeling wrong and for your model work, ANIMATED, you need less polys! You showed your character in IClone editor, but if you will rig them(will be hard too , very high poly) you will see that your animation work will be a nigthmare... And this not good to show like a 3dcoat model, even autopo was made wrong... I can show you a better workflow if you need.
Well, and about this thread, ... 3Dxchange, will have rigging and bones in next version already? I think this is the most important feature that link IClone to Max yet.Of course IClone was made on top of Autodesk Max technology... I saw this since I bought IClone in version 2. I decided buy IClone just to escape from render times in top 3D softwares.Of course realtime tecnology is the future for me , and I start to incorporate this to my workflow for some time now.
So (PSD) IClone is a program to make films, but, you need to incorporate real time techiniques( low poly modeling, Uvs, shaders etc) in your work.
Of course Max is a much more complete software, but with the work that RL is doing, you will don't need it for development soon.At least for the kind of production IClone bring to us.
So in my point of view , RL will bring the kind of tools you need to development to this marketplace... You will have a modeling tool like Max have? I don't believe this, but you will have bones, rigging, vertex naming etc, and you can use any no expensive tools (modeling)to do this focus in creativity and originality, and not just customization.(I really don't know why modeling softwares like ZBrush and 3D Coat don't have bones and rigging tools... For me this kind of feature make sense to be incorporated in a modeling tool , and not in a animation tool, at least, simple bones and not constrains)
So this will be a real development tool for all and not just for Max users... So if you are a MAX developer, you will continue to be a developer...what's the problem? For the time being RL must to update IClone/Max plugin, of course!

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