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I think FlippedNormals do a fairly fair appraisal of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gjmE3hJ2M
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whyterabbyt wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 1:03 pm I'd actually put Blender in the same place as Maya. Along with 3DS Max, and maybe Cinema4D etc they're 'general purpose' 3D applications which would sit at the centre of a workflow, and could easily be the only 3D tool you'd need to use. Both handle all the core functionality; modelling, some sculpting, rigging, animation, texturing, lighting, dynamics, particles, rendering; their functionality is on par with each other.

Specialist tools would be Substance Painter, Houdini, Modo, ZBrush, 3DCoat that sort of thing.
My bad, I think I confused Maya with ZBrush here (think that was what the guy I know was talking about).

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Zbrush, 3DCoat, etc., is definitely where the line gets drawn. As Maya is decently accessible and contained, just as Blender. I think the point made is really valid, as the software listed branches over to higher specialised software that might not be worth the money if you don't need it professionally.
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v1o wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 11:07 amThis guy was a Maya user for 15 years. He previously was a trainer at Dreamworks and also worked on several motion pictures. He seems very impressed by Blender.
I know. I've been essentially quoting him in this topic the whole time. :D
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FarleyCZ wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2020 5:57 pm
v1o wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2020 11:07 amThis guy was a Maya user for 15 years. He previously was a trainer at Dreamworks and also worked on several motion pictures. He seems very impressed by Blender.
I know. I've been essentially quoting him in this topic the whole time. :D
he certainly has the youtube thumbnail facial expressions down to a fine art :)

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vurt wrote: Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:07 pmhe certainly has the youtube thumbnail facial expressions down to a fine art :)
:D ...I heard that's the key to success these days.
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FarleyCZ wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:50 pm Anyone remembers Delphi? It was a "modern" version of Pascal, coding language with HUUUGE unshakable heritage. Literally Pascal/Delphi and C/C++ were everlasting competitors. (Btw original versions of FL Studio were written in Delphi.) It was doing great exactly up until 2005. ...where Borland, company that owned Delphi, was bought by "Embaracedo Technologies" and they cut off the "free to learn version". I'm sure if you contacted them the way you can do that with Adobe or Autodesk, they would cook something up for your school. But nobody was interested. It was just too much of a hustle. Especially when C++ was open. ...and because even lifelong diehard fans (who were too old to go to school) couldn't code in it at home, the language just sunk. Nobody codes in it anymore.
The Demise of Delphi was inevitable and well started before Borland evaporated. Microsoft hired nearly the entire Delphi brain trust and it profoundly changed MS. In short order they phased out COM, that steaming pile they called OO technology, and replaced it with something almost entirely based on "the Borland approach" to OO. They also introduced C# for Windows programming. Now MS finally had a powerful and elegant programming technology to offer folks who until then had only the choice of VB (too primitive) and C++ (very complicated and convoluted). They also developed a class framework for Windows programming that was clean and as understandable as things can be when programming Windows. Instead of a class named (something like) HandleToDeviceContext, they offered a class called Canvas to use for drawing on the screen, as just one example.

Don't get me wrong. I loved Delphi. I was a regular contributor to The Delphi Magazine. I miss having something so easy to use that you can churn out a quickie program on Windows in just minutes (I never properly learned C#, with which you can probably do the same). But when MS acquired the Delphi team, the writing was all to clearly on the wall.

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dmbaer wrote: Mon Jun 08, 2020 7:39 pm The Demise of Delphi was inevitable and well started before Borland evaporated. Microsoft hired nearly the entire Delphi brain trust and it profoundly changed MS. In short order they phased out COM, that steaming pile they called OO technology, and replaced it with something almost entirely based on "the Borland approach" to OO. They also introduced C# for Windows programming. Now MS finally had a powerful and elegant programming technology to offer folks who until then had only the choice of VB (too primitive) and C++ (very complicated and convoluted). They also developed a class framework for Windows programming that was clean and as understandable as things can be when programming Windows. Instead of a class named (something like) HandleToDeviceContext, they offered a class called Canvas to use for drawing on the screen, as just one example.

Don't get me wrong. I loved Delphi. I was a regular contributor to The Delphi Magazine. I miss having something so easy to use that you can churn out a quickie program on Windows in just minutes (I never properly learned C#, with which you can probably do the same). But when MS acquired the Delphi team, the writing was all to clearly on the wall.
Totally OT, but thank you. I didn't know about Microsoft aquiring Delphi devs. Learned something new today! :oops: ...still though, Delphi 7 was used for years eventhough Borland wasn't exactly pushing updates. I remember days where Delphi and C# were widely used at the same time. If Delphi was doomed already, that removal of free to download version was it's final breath.
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