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Here is where I believe Lightwave dropped the ball, big time, in the mid-to-late nineties when the gap between themselves and Max was not as large as it is now, and they failed to capitalize on the then burgeoning 3D viz industry was just beginning to take off. If only Maya were not too focused on the film CG and FX industry and if Cinema4D, XSI and the rest had larger marketing budgets, that might have been a more realistic hope. So maybe there exists an opening for another player to eat into their market share. Still, their (Autodesk's) prevalence in the 3D visualisation and modelling fields is not nearly as over-dominating or complete as it is in the CAD and architectural/mech. that's like hoping to see more people switch from AutoCAD to Vectorworks because it's dual platform and cheaper, and because Autodesk needs to get the message that their upgrade licensing policies are draconian and exploitative. I'd like to see more people switching to XSI, and give Autodesk a clear messgae that their pricing and lack of options is monopolistic abuse. Most likely, the switch won't be too difficult unless you are trying complex things. I'd stick with it, but might start playing with Max. That's something when you stare at menues all day. XSI does look much better than Max or Maya (both of which look 10 years old, imho). Just upgrading cost more than new copies of XSI! But I'll probably stick with Max, at least until the plugin renderers have standalone versions.
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I've thought about switching to XSI because of the cost of Max.