I have to learn how to use 3DS Max for school this fall. Not really a complaint; I saw that one coming.
But… when I finally started up Max, my first reaction was… “wtf?”
How, honestly, can people complain that Blender has a bad interface (I believe the words were “Blender is the king of the very bad, very fucking bad UI”) in favor of Max?
I mean, I know Max has a TON of awesome tools and features. How the hell am I supposed to use them, though? At least Blender has its different sections of tools organized and labeled nicer, and the keyboard shortcuts make sense (in Max, r != rotate.) Max is like “here you go, have fun!” I just don’t understand the workflow of Max yet, I guess.
For people that have never used 3DS Max, here’s a side-by-side of Max, Wings3d, and Blender. To me the only think Max has going for it is that it only uses 1 window…