Re: FLASH: Strata 3D (and C4DXL)

[Arcanus]

Obie Daids wrote:


>I have this program. I've been a heavy user of it for 3.5 years now. Give me

>your offline info and maybe I can help you out. Damn license people could be

>look over my shoulder you know.


Yeah, nuts that they want to make money, huh?


I've been using it for 10 years. Many good things, several not so good 

things, but you can't beat free as a price for such a workhorse. Their 

development process is still _slow_ as molasses . . . 3 years since the 

last update. But, again, nothing beats it in the free category as it's a 

professional program and produces professional results.


Internally, we've moved in C4DXL from Maxon, because it has a lot more 

features, much better modeling and animation, and Maxon is _much_ more 

responsive about fixing any bugs or problems that crop up--there are some 

bugs in Strata (the commercial product, the one we paid $1400 + about 

$700 or so in upgrades for) that haven't been fixed in 4 years! Also, the 

update frequently and support other the very important things Strata has 

no plan to--like LightWave import and export, and .3ds import and export 

with textures, cameras, lights--the works. 


Also, C4DXL has a cool cel-shaders that's great for turning into vector 

art and importing into Flash, but that's a whole 'nuther story.


On the price comparison, however, C4DXL is about $2000 and Strata 3D is 

free so . . . C4DXL is a great xplatform solution for professional 3D 

production but if you're looking to dabble in what is still arguably a 

very professional product in terms of interface and results, Strata 3D 

makes a lot more sense (and is a lot less painful than Amapi, POV Ray, 

etc., in their free or fully-functional demo incarnations).


Obviously, we gotta like it some--we sell texture and model libraries 

specifically for SSP as well as for general consumption.


Cheers,


Arcanus

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