Artlantis vs 3d studio max

[Anonymous]

I have been working with models created in Archicad and saved to Artlantis for a while and although I feel that Artlantis is amazingly easy to get good results out of, I am starting to want more realism and find my clients are demanding it too. Now I could either spend a while messing around with multiple lights and more subtle textures in Artlantis or move over to 3d max. I had a look at it on a friends computer and was bewildered by the features.

What i would like to know form you guys is how difficult is it to learn and use for rendering only (I will still build the models in Archicad) and to get results better than those of Artlantis?

[Anonymous]

Djordje wrote:
Nope. ArchiForma.

Yes now. But it wasn't available then (AFAIR).

[Djordje]

Matthew wrote:

Djordje wrote:
Nope. ArchiForma.

Yes now. But it wasn't available then (AFAIR).

AFAIR was, since version 1. GDL Toolbox (what happened to that one ?!?!??!) had text curving onto a sphere, too.