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[TechnicolorYawn]

Discreet, the company who make Gmax, have recently been taken over by Autodesk who have immediately shown what a money-grabbing, utterly heartless organisation they are by stopping the support and distribution of Gmax.

http://www.turbosqui...tThreadID/18624

This means that as of November 1st, you will no longer be able to download it, and no longer be able to register it.

To me this seems an utterly stupid move as apart from deserting tens of thousands of modders throughout the world, its just crying out for people to download pirate copies of 3DS Max, which are freely and easily available to anyone with a torrent client.

A sad day for modding in general.

Edited by TechnicolorYawn, 21 October 2005 - 02:16 AM.

[IBtheSarge]

TechnicolorYawn, on Oct 21 2005, 03:16 AM, said:

Discreet, the company who make Gmax, have recently been taken over by Autodesk who have immediately shown what a money-grabbing, utterly heartless organisation they are by stopping the support and distribution of Gmax.

http://www.turbosqui...tThreadID/18624

This means that as of November 1st, you will no longer be able to download it, and no longer be able to register it.

To me this seems an utterly stupid move as apart from deserting tens of thousands of modders throughout the world, its just crying out for people to download pirate copies of 3DS Max, which are freely and easily available to anyone with a torrent client.

A sad day for modding in general.

Thanks a LOT for posting that ... gonna have to devote several "sit up" sessions to downloading anything and everything that GMAX can use, so I don't come up missing something that isn't available after 1 Nov.

Nice catch!  

[Brad]

Interesting indeed.  

[ucantcme]

Yea...I still have it though.. So would it be illegal if I posted it on a site and 'didn't know' about Autodesk...?

[IBtheSarge]

ucantcme, on Oct 21 2005, 03:11 PM, said:

Yea...I still have it though.. So would it be illegal if I posted it on a site and 'didn't know' about Autodesk...?

Yep; unless you have the original author's permission to upload it.

[onthescopes]

Dumb Autodesk, The whole sim community relies on Gmax for its modelling. They don't realize what they are doing.

[Hurock]

onthescopes, on Oct 21 2005, 10:41 PM, said:

Dumb Autodesk, The whole sim community relies on Gmax for its modelling. They don't realize what they are doing.

Not just sim community, modelers of every mods for BF2, BF1942, and a lot of other games!    

[gta95]

They are just killing themselves.....

[onthescopes]

So to get this straight, Even though I have a copy of Gmax now I can still use it when they stop giving Gmax out or not?

[Fsimfan]

Everytime I hear about something like this, I cringe.  

It's just another unecessary damper on the availability of tools that allows many to express their talents, and stifles new creations that could be of benefit to a multitude of users

Edited by Fsimfan, 22 October 2005 - 02:00 AM.

[Marshall Carter]

They'll probably start charging for it.

[TechnicolorYawn]

onthescopes, on Oct 22 2005, 06:25 AM, said:

So to get this straight, Even though I have a copy of Gmax now I can still use it when they stop giving Gmax out or not?

You can still use it - you just can't get another copy if your one breaks.

[N376JA]

I wonder if we sign a petition, would they change there mind? I mean since we have like 3000+ members if they all signed it Autodesk would change there mind. Just An Idea. I really don't like how there changing it to payware.

[TechnicolorYawn]

Even if thsy just changed it to payware and charged $10 to use it. I'd pay that.

[onthescopes]

Just sent Autodesk a real bad email   

[Zach]

onthescopes, on Oct 22 2005, 12:33 PM, said:

Just sent Autodesk a real bad email   

    

[ucantcme]

Zach, on Oct 22 2005, 05:16 PM, said:

onthescopes, on Oct 22 2005, 12:33 PM, said:

Just sent Autodesk a real bad email  

  

What did it say


I will use mine and will continue to use it. I will not PAY for something that was Freeware...shouldnt it be the other way around... (it was payware now freeware!!)

[Carter]

Technicolor Yawn said:

Discreet, the company who make Gmax, have recently been taken over by Autodesk who have immediately shown what a money-grabbing, utterly heartless organisation they are by stopping the support and distribution of Gmax.

Autodesk has ALWAYS been Discreet.

Discreet was the film, video, and other production software company, that they distributed all of the 3DS software under. Autodesk published everything else under 'Autodesk', that includes all of the AutoCad & Mechanical Desktop titles.

I have a copy of 3DS Max (base for GMAX) and it's a Discreet/Autodesk product.

[ucantcme]

Carter, on Oct 22 2005, 08:15 PM, said:

Technicolor Yawn said:

Discreet, the company who make Gmax, have recently been taken over by Autodesk who have immediately shown what a money-grabbing, utterly heartless organisation they are by stopping the support and distribution of Gmax.

Autodesk has ALWAYS been Discreet.

Discreet was the film, video, and other production software company, that they distributed all of the 3DS software under. Autodesk published everything else under 'Autodesk', that includes all of the AutoCad & Mechanical Desktop titles.

I have a copy of 3DS Max (base for GMAX) and it's a Discreet/Autodesk product.

How is 3Ds? Looks like something I MAY be interested in

[Carter]

It's great, blows GMAX out of the water, BUT, it's a bit expensive... $3495

This is for version 8, I won't upgrade so I'll still have V7...