뒷북이지만 네이버 리드미컬 카페에서 퍼왔습니다. ^^;
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TDT3D 사이트에 흥미로운 기사가 실려 가져와 봤습니다.

3dsMax, Maya, Cinama4D, Lightwave, SoftimageXSI, Blender 를 각각의 기능별및 특징별로 비교분석하여

어떠한 장점과 단점이 있으며 어떤 용도에 적합한 프로그램인지 분석해 놓은 자료입니다.

100% 정확한 분석이라고 할 수는 없겠지만 나름 괜찮은 분석자료인듯 하여 몰래 퍼왔습니다.

어느 프로그램이 더 뛰어나다 라고 말하는 것은 별로 의미없는 내용인 듯 하며 자신이 사용하는 프로그램이

어떤면에서 강점을 보이고 단점을 보이는지 살펴보는 것도 차후 다른 툴을 선택함에 있어 도움이 될 만한 자료인것 같습니다.

 

아래의 테스트 테이블의 내용은 약 12개월간의 테스트를 통해 심도깊게 검토가 된 후 작성되었으며 본 테스트를 한 사람(아래)은

10년간의 3D 프로그램을 사용한 경험을 바탕으로 현재 CG 선생님을 하고 있는 사람이라고 합니다.

아래 본문내용은 어떤식으로 테스트를 하였는지 나오는데 특별히 볼만한 내용은 아래 표에 있으니 그 부분만 보셔도 괜찮을것

같습니다.

 

 

3D applications 2007 comparisons table.

Written by Benoît Saint-Moulin
Date : 2007-09-21 01:58:00

If you ever wanted starting in 3D creation today, you probably need to know with which 3D applications package with you will feel better and which is the most suitable for you and business ?

Many new CG artists try many softwares before really starting their 3D business, that's of courses the best solution to try out and know if you feel coMfortable with one than other, so after you can't know all specs of all 3D softwares when starting in 3D...

Here is a comparison table with cons. and pro. for the most know today top industries 3D applications. This table isn't intended to be complete with all softwares features available but try to surround the common today 3D cg artist tasks.

All softwares listed in this table was deeply tested during a total of about 12 months, during this 12 months,  I installed all releases and Service pack (EDU, PLE, full softwares,...) and try to use all of listed softwares to do the same work with when I created my students classroom projects like (Motion,  Realtime, Mag.Print, Architecture, Lowpoly, texturing,...)

I used all of this 3D applications in 10 past years, when I was working for companies in CG area, now it's relativly easy for me to switch from one to others and I have a good feeling with softwares interfaces...of courses that's always a long and a painfull tasks to switching but when you learned 2 or more package in 3D applications, technical features is always the same, the most difficult is to know where to found !

As I'm now CG Teacher / Educator, I will always say to my students the most important isn't the package, but technical understanding and that's a polygon with 3 vertice will always have... 3 vertice :-) as in Autodesk 3ds max, NewTek LightWave, Blender,...

Also switching from one applications to others often is bad because you lose you feeling and way of works. When you are ready with one just stay on, don't listen to the sirens ! Each 3D applications is good and no one can be better than an others, today all 3D package can do all your dreams, you just must have ideas to do...

 

 

3D DCC applications analyses from 12 last months :

First thanks to all 3D pro and geek who re read my work and give me a lot of feedback ! Artists who read this articles are from many CG area and differents countries (Beligum, France, Germany, Sweden,  USA, Vietnam,...) , all of this reader have used more than one 3D applications before jump into business.

I also was in contact (Phone call or emails) with peoples(2 or 3 usually) who working in each listed softwares company to avoid mistakes, I was requested functions knowledges, sometimes SDK, discussed about imports/exports common troubles, interface ergonomic, parameters finetune,...

The tested applications is base package with the low prices for starting in 3D, of courses many softwares listed have highend production version available ! Here is few how-to tested parts (in no order) :

• Modeling Speacker using polygons and splines

• Procedural and bitmaps materials, how applications can handle heavy materials scenes ?

• How is easy to found / assign or to re-use datas ? Drag and Drop, libraries, assets,...

• Fine tune lights parameters, using lights layers, IES data, include/Exclude, negative lights, softshadow, area shadow,...
  

• Backward compatibilities with old softwares releases import and getting back maximum datas

• Stability when modeling and manipulating (vertex, polygons, edges,...) high polygons datas (Maximum in this test was 2 millions polygons scenes)

• Rendering quality using default render

• Speed of rendering for web (550x450 antialiased pictures), broadcast (720x576, motion blur 5, motion AA), print (A3 200 DPI) render quality

• Imports Silo3D 2.0 and Zbrush 2.5 Objetcs with high SubD sculpted meshes

• Assign default bones and wire quick IK setup

• N-Sided Quidam models import with ready rig and materials

• Get back motion capture data from FBX and Point Oven, cleanup motion key datas (Datas are from friends in film productions / motion capture / motion builder)

• Fcurves and motion mixer testing with datas I get back from animator

• Working with OpenEXR and HDRI import/export pictures

• Use env. with xStream from Vue 6

• Imports OBJ, 3DS, Collada and FBX scenes and try getting back importants datas (lights, cameras, materials,...)

• Imports Moi3D IGES nurbs models

• CAD DXF and DWG (when possible)  imports with layers

• Texture backing and re-apply it to projects before realtime exports

• Exports scenes to 3D realtime VRML and X3D

• Unwrap toolset and PeltMapping on human head and organic models
  

• Datas exchange between xStream Vue 6 ! (OpenGL feedback and rendering quality/time)

• Flash SWF exports for the web with and/or without plugins

• Basic meshes scripting to do some rotation/translate, move along path and camera targetting

• ...

	Autodesk 3ds max 9 SP2	Autodesk Maya complete 8.5	Maxon Cinema4D R 10.1	Newtek Lightwave 9.2	Softimage XSI Foundation 6.2	Blender 3D 2.45
First market	Games - VIZ	Games - Film	Motion - Design	VIZ - VFX	Animation - Film	VIZ / Realtime
End user prices 04/07 (base package)	5.083 €	2.510 €	819 €	824 €	449 €	FREE
Platforms	Win	Win - OS X - Linux	Win - OS X	Win - OS X	Win - Linux	Win - OS X - Linux
Languages	FR or EN	EN	CZ EN FR GE IT JP PL SP	EN	EN JP	All around but best is EN
Languages Switch	None	None	All include	None	None	All include
Industries populated	High	High	Middle	Middle	Low	Low
Technologies Core Aged	Old	Old	Middle	Old / Re-new	Modern	Old / Re-new
Learning path to be productive	< 3 months	< 3 months	< 1 month	< 3 months	< 3 months	< 3 months
Company support for single users	Low / Good	Good	Very good	Very good	Bad	Users communities
Supports reactivities for single users	Good	Good	Excellent !	Very good	Low	Users communities
Interface	Clean and powerful	Like a Forge, but robust !	Clean and fast	A bit old	Logical, good !	Not for beginner !
documentations	Very good	Excellent !	Very good	Very good (excellent Shaders manual !)	Good	Good
DVD training	A lot	Amazing !	Low	A lot	Low	Poor / Coming better
TOP Import / Export needed by industries.
3DS	Robust	Robust	Robust	Good	Low	Good
COLLADA	Robust	Robust	Not yet	Not yet	Poor	Robust
FBX	Robust	Robust	Robust	Good	Good	Robust
OBJ	Robust	Robust	Robust	Robust	Good	Low
VRML / X3D	Robust / R.97	Low / R.2	Low / R.2	Robust / R.97	None	Good (1.0, VRML97)
Point Oven	Plugin	Plugin	None	Plugin	Robust	90% working
DXF	Robust	Good	Good	Good	Good	Low ~ Good
IGES	Good	Low	Plugin	Plugin	Good	None
STL	Robust	Robust	Robust	Robust	None	Good
Output compositing	RPF RLA EXR	RPF RLA EXR	RPF RLA EXR	RPF RLA	EXR	EXR
Rendering
Rendering	Internal, Mentalray	Internal, Mentalray	Internal	Internal	Mentalray	Internal
Rendering quality	Very good	Very good	good	Very good	Very good	Good
Must to have render plugin	Vray	Vray	Adv.Render	Fprime	none	Yafray / Indigo
Rendering Quality w/plugin	Excellent !	Excellent !	Very good	Excellent !	none	Very good
Textures Baker	Robust !	Good	Very Good	Good	Robust (a bit hard)	Good
Top base package for industries need ! (Base package without plugins!)
Animation tools	Very Good	Robust	Good	Good	Excellent !	Low
UV tools	Robust, a bit confuse	Very good	Excellent ! (Bodypaint)	Good	Very good	Excellent !
3D painting	No	Very Good	Excellent ! (Bodypaint)	No	No	Low / coming better
Modeling	All set	All set	All set	All set, a bit confuse interface	All set	All set (bad curves setup)
Modifiers	Excellent !	Very good	Good	Good	Very good	Good
NURBS	Poor	Robust	Very Good (HyperNurbs)	Good	Robust	Very poor, a nightmare !
Dynamics / Rigid bodies	Excellent !	Very good	No	Good	Excellent !	Very Good
Hairs	Very good	No	No	No	No	Good
Cloths / Soft bodies	Good	No	No	No	Very good	Good
Particles	Excellent !	Very good	Good	Very good	Excellent !	Very good
Fluids	No	No	No	No	Very good	Good
Compositing	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Nodals Shading	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
CG shader for Games dev.	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes, Excellent !	Yes
Top unique feature	Biped & PFlow	PaintFX / Artisan	Bodypaint	Hypervoxel	Gigapolygone	Game engine / Video Editing
Scripting	Good	Excellent !	Good	Good	Excellent !	Robust
Scripting languages	Maxscript	MEL, Python	EXPRESSO (nodals scripting), COFFEE	LW script	Vb, Python, Jscript	Python
SDK	Robust	Robust	Very good	Very Good	Robust	Very Good (opensource)
Vue 6 xStream plugin	Good	Good	Excellent !	Good	Poor	None
The dark side !	Price !	Learning curve	Default render	Interface	Imports / Exports	Interface / documentations
All you need for Film / Production Ready ?
Package	Standard	Unlimited	Bundle	Standard + FPrime + SasQuatch + Dynamite	Essential	Standard + a lots of Python scripts
Prices (on 04/07)	5.083 €	9.088 €	2800 €	1800 €	1461 €	Free
All you need for Freelance / Designer Ready ?
Package	Standard	Complete	Standard W/Bodypaint+ Adv Render 2 W/Pyrocluster + Mocca 3 W/Clothtilde	Standard + FPrime	Foundation	Standard
Prices (on 04/07)	5.083 €	2.510 €	1525 €	1174 €	450 €	Free
All you need for EDU / Student ready ?
Package	Standard	Ulimited	Bundle	Standard	Advanced	Standard
Prices (on 04/07)	131 €	250 € ?	185 €	235 €	216 €	Free
Can I Found a jobs with ?
VIZ / Design	Excellent !	Poor	Excellent !	Good	Poor	Good
Film	Low	Excellent !	Low	Good	Excellent !	Poor
VFX / Motion	Good	Excellent !	Good	Excellent !	Excellent !	Good
Game	Excellent !	Very good	Low	Low	Very Good	Low
Web designer	Good	Poor	Excellent !	Poor	Poor	Good
3D Realtime / VR	Excellent !	Very Good	Low	Low	Low	Very Good
Users communities and popularity ?
Nord America	Very Good	Excellent !	Good	Very good	Excellent !	Good
Europe	Excellent !	Very good	Good	Low	Low	Very good
Asia	Very Good	Good	Low	Very good	Good	Low
Few words ?
The lasts words	By far the most well know and used 3D dcc applications in the industries all around the world, so the prices for freelance is too much expenssive and old core.	One of the most know by popularity in the Film and VFX industries, the lake is on learning curve and on unlimited prices !	Very good all around application suitable for freelance/designer best quality tools for the price ! Not enough popular yet !	An old but very powerful suitable first for VFX and VIZ market, the lake is an old and slow interface and a bit confuse menu / parameters.	No doubt for the prices Foundation is the best all around, so Imports/Exports and communication is the bad part !	A good all around application for hoobies and freelance , the interface and lake of structured documentations is the bad part of this application, so it's the best free all arround solution.

Conclusions :

As you view each softwares have their strong and weaks parts !

Of courses he is always users who are defending their favourite applications opposed to others,  this comparison table isn't writed in this way, I don't wont here to push an application more than others and had try to stay independant / free from softwares editors, of courses each softwares editor naturally prefer to be the best, so for now there is not, all is bad and good, that's depend on what's you want to do and your working area.

I already know this articles bring me head Fireball and Thunder from softwares editors :) but I hope they read this article to improve their softwares or fix the wrong !

I also hope my goal is reach with this table and a long hard work, I hope you get more ideas on what's solutions is the most suitable for you !

 

If you want discsuss or give your comments about this articles, feel free to do on this forum thread.

 

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