TS7 Renderers 2004-12-07 - By Zsuzsa/Susan Lee
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"There is an educational discount on XSI Advanced of $295 (that is not
the discount, but the final price) and as my wife is a teacher, I think
we could qualify."
You would definitely qualify. You'll need to supply the seller with some
proof from your wife that she's a teacher and she'll get the discount.
If you ever consider doing this, check out Maya Unlimited for about
$400. I think tS is a good foundation for Maya. I tried several other
programs (XSI, Max, C4D, LW) and found Maya to be the closest to the tS
workflow.
"Apart from the price, can anyone speak to the ability of these
programs/companies/user communities when dealing with newbies? Are they
patient and tolerant of simple newbie questions or do they just respond
with "This is a professional forum. RTFM!!!". "
There are a lot of forums and other resources. Cgtalk is a good place to
check out and ask for help. There are a lot of people there who try to
help others and not everybody is a pro user (and even the pro users jump
in to help). There is the occasional RTFM (especially from one
particular person who even has it in his avatar), but that's the
exemption rather than the rule. Of course, like somebody else mentioned,
it also depends on the question. If it's obvious that you haven't even
tried to read the help files to find the answer to some simple question,
people might not be so anxious to help.
There's also Renderosity with its many forums and lots of helpful people
and other places like highend3d.com, 3dbuzz, cghannel, 3dtotal,
3dworldmag.com's forums etc. etc.
Susan
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"There is an educational discount on XSI Advanced
of $295 (that is not the discount, but the final price) and as my wife is a
teacher, I think we could qualify."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You would definitely qualify. You'll need to
supply
the seller with some proof from your wife that she's a teacher and she'll get
the discount. If you ever consider doing this, check out Maya Unlimited for
about $400. I think tS is a good foundation for Maya. I tried several other
programs (XSI, Max, C4D, LW) and found Maya to be the closest to the tS
workflow. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Apart from the price, can anyone speak to the
ability of these programs/companies/user communities when dealing with
newbies? Are they patient and tolerant of simple newbie questions or do
they just respond with "This is a professional forum.
RTFM!!!". "</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are a lot of forums and other resources.
Cgtalk is a good place to check out and ask for help. There are a lot of people
there who try to help others and not everybody is a pro user (and even the pro
users jump in to help). There is the occasional RTFM (especially from one
particular person who even has it in his avatar), but that's the exemption
rather than the rule. Of course, like somebody else mentioned, it also depends
on the question. If it's obvious that you haven't even tried to read the help
files to find the answer to some simple question, people might not be so
anxious
to help.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There's also Renderosity with its many
forums and lots of helpful people and other places like highend3d.com,
3dbuzz, cghannel, 3dtotal, 3dworldmag.com's forums etc. etc. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Susan</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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