Old discussion and screenshots thread

[Holy_Diver]

Ill give Maya a try sometime i think it can export animations... I could be wrong.

All modeling suites that I know of provide some manner of animation. Probably the more limited the suites feature set the more Som friendly it would be. The real place to place your concern is in the export dept. I used Maya for a long time and still do in a pinch, but the only modeler I can sincerely recommend is Blender... which ironically I'm not very handy with, though once upon a time I was for like a week, but promptly forgot everything I knew about Blender because the damn UI is so counter intuitive for casual users.

I have a feeling Maya may not have many options in the export domain as is. But I haven't worked with a version of Maya newer than 5 so... anyway with commercial suites like Maya usually exporters are provided primarily by third parties, like Okino. I dunno how functional P2P crack sharing is now days, but I'm sure with a little ingenuity you could score all you need. These days I'm a little past uber commercial software / try not to use it for anything. I think we have all the tools we need so to no longer be dependent on commercial crap (powered by monkeys, focus groups and feature lists, and of course; industry sponsors)