years ago I used Gmax to make models and I very dissapointed in the
program mainly because of the plugins and that Discreet doesn't want you to gmax they want you to use 3dsmax.
Well I searching on the net for something that was similar to gmax and then I found the prgram its called ligthray3D of course I had to spend some money on it but it waaaaaaaaaay cheaper than 3dsmax and it feels just like gmax plus you get aloooooot of plugins for almost every commercial game out there unfortuantely they dont have a dark basic pro plugins yet but Im waiting for it
from http://www.sxcreations.com/lr3d/lightray3d.php
P.S Lightray3D is $100
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