who here has used Alias Studio?

[beaker]

I started on Studio 7.0 back in 96 on an indy. Very nice at nurbs modeling. Lots of nice tools that I wish they would put into maya. Curve Networks, Blend Curves, better fillet tools, point cloud tool(evalviewer), linear lights, plus many others. Make sure your only interested in it for it's nurbs tools. I haven't played with the poly tools much except for a little bit back 4-5 years ago and they pretty much sucked back then. Maya's multilister is pretty much pulled from studio. We had Studio with many PA modules, so I have no idea what was dropped from studio after PA went defunct. Rendering is a little weird. There are two renderers, Raycaster(scanline) and Raytracer. So you can only raycast everything or raytrace everything. Spot lights are the only light that can cast shadows in the raycaster. Have to raytrace to get shadows with the other types of lights. Some of these things might have changed with 10.0. I haven't had a chance to use it yet.

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