Comment Re:Community editors and scripting additions in DO (Score 1) 189
Actually Maya Builder costs less than 3dsmax, which is all you need for realtime 3dwork. Most games dont need fur, cloth, and nurbs. Maya builder costs(us$3k), and 3dsmax costs 3.5k, but anyone doing character animation also purchses character studio which is another 1.5k. So maya actually isn't that bad.
Also, all 3d applications take many hours of practice to get the hang of it. If you allready know a 3d application, it is quite easy to switch to others. I moved from Alias Pa to maya within a week.