Free Autodesk Software Students/Gainfully Unemployed

[Lamont]

Free for students and those who lost their jobs recently. Not for contract/paid work of course. This kinda removes all the bad stuff I said about Autodesk... most of it. They still need to lower the upgrade prices.

http://students3.autodesk.com/?nd=assistance_home

[womball]

Wow at that registration. I wonder if they'd accept a registration after 4 months of being unemployed? Btw which one has better real time abilities, Softimage or 3d max 2010? I'd like to have even more control than marmoset has over realtime shaders.

[Lamont]

Wow at that registration. I wonder if they'd accept a registration after 4 months of being unemployed? Btw which one has better real time abilities, Softimage or 3d max 2010? I'd like to have even more control than marmoset has over realtime shaders.I've been out of work for the past year so length isn't an issue. Registration is almost instant. I did it to test it out and see what software they had.

[Shadownami92]

Only problem I see is the fact that it's the student versions. So no renders by using the programs unless you want a big watermark over your render.

[Lamont]

As this is the full version, not the lite editions or whatever. I don't think the images are watermarked. Install and find out. The CAD output is watermarked in the wings(borders) only. Other than that, you got a clean draft.

[Broseidon]

thanks for the link. I just wish it was Zbrush. Gonna cost my me and my parents $400 (well mostly them because im unemployed) :doh:

[Maph]

Nice move from Autodesk. :)

I'd rather see them take on SideFX's "starving artist" approach though. ;)

womball: Softimage has good RT support, DX9, DX10 and OpenGL. So you can use CGFX, HLSL or GLSL wherever you want. The one thing it doesn't support are MRT's if I recall correctly. Could be that has changed in the meanwhile.
But it doesn't come packed with examples like Max on the subject.

[womball]

MRT's what are they?