Which should I use?

kairunotabi · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 07 Sep 2013 **Location**: Home

3ds Max or 3ds Max Design?

Which do you think is the best for making 3d models and for rendering SHPs?

Orac · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:44 pm Post subject:

3ds Max works fine. I'm not even sure what a "Design" edition adds.. Or that there even is one.

kairunotabi · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 07 Sep 2013 **Location**: Home

Okay, which version of 3ds Max do you think is the best? I kinda don't like the latest version and I heard that there was an old version of 3ds Max that is commonly used

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Orac · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 10:55 pm Post subject:

The C&C3 and RA3 SDKs don't work with anything but Max 8 and 9, if memory serves.

kairunotabi · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 07 Sep 2013 **Location**: Home

Okay, thank you for the help!

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tomsons26lv · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:15 am Post subject:

The CNC3/RA3 tools should actually work with any versions from 9 to above, there is a big performance difference between 9 vs 2010, if you can, test them with 9 and 2010/2013.
The Design edition is a version that has features like realistic simulations and a lot more that can be used when projecting real life architecture, basily to architects its a excellent tool for testing their design, to us its a fatter more ram eating version of Max

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4StarGeneral · General **Joined**: 14 Sep 2006 **Location**: Limbo

2013 works super fast and has tons of plugins, but you may still want to stick with 2009 because of the considerable less ram usage and the free VRay. I used to run with 2009, it's very reliable, but 2013 is just so much nicer with alot more options, improved rendering, etc. Not that rendering is really important to exporting to RA3/C&C3.

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kairunotabi · Vehicle Drone **Joined**: 07 Sep 2013 **Location**: Home

Okay, I'm currently downloading the 2012 version of 3ds Max. Any good tutorials or templates about how to setup 3ds Max environment to get it ready importing 3d models and rendering them as SHP for TS/FS and/or for RA2/YR

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Sun Sep 08, 2013 9:27 am Post subject:

I stick to 7 because the Generals SDK is old #Tongue