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Animation:Master 12.0v (Mac OS X)

A:M - Much better than many will tell you....  

Hi! Many of you told us about the bad things about Animation:Master... some things are more or less true, some are not, so I as an user of Animation:Master for several years now will comment on some of your statements if you dont mind. Some of you told us about their bad experiences with the support of Hash... the most unseen aspect of your comments were: - Hash is a small company which cant afford a own support-team. So they implemented an forum and A:M Reports, which will connect you to the community (which is a very helpful and friendly one) and the programmers and even Martin Hash (company-owner) himself. If you have questions, especially the once like "Will A:M work with Tiger?" you should ask them there. In fact, many people did and I think they didnt answer you because of the 20 replies of Martin to the forum-topic... for all of you who didnt know that till now: The latest A:M v12.0 and of course A:M v13.0 ARE available for Tiger. One of the comments which really annoyed me is this: "A:M has very few modelling features. Maya has many... why doesnt they get that fixed?" There are quite many modelling-features available. Sure Maya has more, but you leave some facts out: Most of the modelling-features in Maya are for polygones and cant be transfered to Patches so easily. Other possible reasons why they "dont get it fixed...": 1.) You keep the control over your modell if you do much by hand. If you dont like that, you should stick to Poser... 2.) Many features are available through free plugins. 3.) Most users like/love the clean interface of A:M which would become the same optionlist/overwhelming-thing as 3ds's GUI is if you add too much at the surface. In fact, A:M has many more modelling features if you work with it in the depth than you can imagine... nevertheless they are easy to access for the advanced users and at the same time won't irritate the new user. "A:M is buggy." I have to admit, that the Windows-version of A:M is more stable than the one for the Mac. I cant tell you much about the Mac-problems there, because I use A:M at my Windows-machine. There I have to say that with the exception of Cinema4D there is not other 3d-program which is more stable than A:M, if you use a good and more or less clean system. I worked with 3ds and Maya at work and I had the same amount of crashes there too. I admit that for example in version 9.x A:M was very unstable but that changed since version 10.0. My conclusion: The Cons: 1.) A:M cant easily communicate with other 3d-apps, because patches and polygones dont like each other much... but in v13, a new patches->polygones-engine is introduced which makes it a bit better. The Pros: 1.) A:M has some nice features like the hair-system, the new cloth-system 2.) Great animation-set which can easily be compared to the one of XSI 3.) A good and easy to learn interface 4.) It has the most reasonable price I can imagine... 299 Dollars? Which other 3d-software package can be bought for that price? (Blender... that's it...) 5.) A nice community and a nice Bug-Report-System. -> A:M Reports. Your problems will in general be fixed within 1-2 weeks in the next release of A:M which can be downloaded free for one year. 6.) Update-costs from any version to the newest version (even v1.0->v13.0) are 99 Dollars. My 2 cents... *Fuchur* [alert admin]

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