I’ve just got a shiny new computer! So today I have the slog of going through and installing all my old apps on it. The question is, how many versions of 3dsmax should I go back? I’ve got oodles of hard drive space, but there could be:
3dsmax 7
3dsmax 8
3dsmax 9
3dsmax 2008
3dsmax 2009
Which just seems silly! Maybe just 7, 9 and 2009?
Obviously it’s good to be able to test scripts on different installations, but the other beef is maintaining and updating plugins across different installs.
What’s everyone else do?
Cheers,
Dave
Hi Dave,
wooooh shiny pooter. :bowdown:
I have max 8, 2008 and 2009 on my machine. 2008 and 2009 have slight differences in what works in DotNet, so I keep them to try this out on, and Max 8 is for older script testing. Occasionally i have to open and save old projects so max 8 is for that too. Not sure if that helps, but it’s what i do!
Cheers Pete,
That sounds like a good compromise. Gawd, do I hate installing software and copying files and settings! And vista managed to give me a BSOD within 30 minutes of having it turned on.
- Help! *
ack! turn off Aero and user account control IMMEDIATELY! 😮
UAC hs gone (what a faff) but I quite like aero. Is it a resource hog or something?
It’s a bit marmite for me, and it annoyed me. Reminded me of those animated graphics they used to do on The Day Today that were really pointless and overlong.
When instead of just doing something, it rotates it 720 degrees, turns it into a box, and then farts out a webpage from the top, or something. I could have just made that last bit up though.
As for resource hog, you’ve got a quad core baby! you need to turn more stuff ON!
My mate has just signed me up and gifted me Hlaf Life 2 or something. I’m in enough trouble as it is with Guitar Hero III and Assassins Creed on teh XBox 360!
Looking fwd to getting the max installs up and running
I would install what ever versions you need to use daily, or use to send files to outside individuals. I have 9, 2008, and 2009 and use BFF if I need to send data back to a previous version.
Its really your call on what you need to support.
-Eric
True enough.
If I can avoid littering the system with backburner services, that would be good!
Well as state by John 5-2009 all use the same service (you should only have one version of backburner for those 7 versions of Max), now the mental ray satellite services are a different story and you can use a dos prompt and some cmd prompts to remove those.
-Eric
Because of the LightRigger script I wrote, which works on 3ds Max 3 and up, I have 3ds Max 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2008 and 2009 on my WinXP computer without any major problems. I even have network rendering functioning for all versions. 3ds Max 3 and 4 have their own, while 3ds Max 5 and up all use Backburner 2008.
I would definitely install them in order, with with the earliest version first. That’s the way Autodesk tested them when each version was developed, and it avoids possible problems with putting the earlier version on after the new ones. You should keep this in mind when you decide how far back to go. Having to install earlier versions later might be more troublesome than just putting on each install now…