Quote from: TheBadger on April 06, 2014, 11:01:27 PM
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I value your opinion and voice on many issues and would like to hear how you think
MODO compares to lightwave which is another option for me in terms of cost.
That is a hard question.
I stay away from saying anything directly about this mostly.
Lightwave was in a crisis for some years because of the things that
happened when the original programmers departed and begun to work on Modo.
Since 2-3 years Lightwave took a positive direction ones more.
But it still does have some rough sides to be polished.
And what happens to it is probably depending on the 12 and 13 versions (it is now at 11.61) .
With some plugins like LWCad (
http://www.wtools3d.com/) ,
Rhiggid (
http://www.rebelhill.net/html/rhiggit.html) for example it is still very nice and better in some aspects.
So hard to say anything because it depends on who you ask and what you want to do.
For character animation actually Maya should be your best choice probably .
But that is not my area of interest.
For modeling Modo or Lightwave-especially with some plugins-aren't much so different.
But with LWcad Lightwave looks much better.
But as a more general all in one software Lightwave is still probably a little better then Modo.
Modo does have one interface.Lightwave is still 2 interfaces.
One for modeling the other for animating etc.
This could-should be changing in the near future.
If you think about using your software for work especially in the movie industry Maya
would be the first choice then Modo then Lightwave or others maybe.
Lightwave is more used in the TV industry so much i know.
Would be nice to hear what others think too of course.