Weird question. [3DS Max/Maya subscriptions]

[cyaoeu]

@mariomguy;488194

Blender is kind of sad if you’re used to Maya. A lot of Maya’s workflow is simply not present in Blender, making for some very awkward transitions. For instance, UV’s… if you thought making UV’s in Maya was bad, oh ho, just wait until you attempt making them in Blender! Seam marking is a great UV technique for organic objects, but not hard surfaces. Your options are seriously limited.

What? UV mapping in Blender is good enough that some people use it for that only. I don’t see why seams aren’t good for hard surface UVs. Anyway, unwrapping isn’t the only option, you could probably get away with view projection for some hard surface models.

Something else that’s annoying, instead of just selecting which edges you want to soften or harden, you must soften or harden the entire object in Blender, which makes no sense at all whatsoever. If you want to bevel an edge, you can’t just select an edge and bevel it, you have to add a modifier to the whole object. There are parameters, but… see the problem? You can do anything in Blender as long as you do it everywhere on the model and you’re perfectly OK with sloppy work. If you do use Blender the Maya interface option is nice, but if I recall, you lose the ability to scale all 3 axes of the object at the same time. It will take time to adjust.

I’m not sure what you’re talking about, you don’t need to use bevel modifiers to bevel something, you just select something and… bevel it. You can do operations on part of the mesh, I mean, that’s pretty obvious, you don’t really do stuff to a whole object at once (maybe scaling I guess). Blender does what it tell you to do so if you work sloppily you’ll get a sloppy result, but it’s pretty easy to get precise results. It’s probably harder to do something sloppy. Also even for Maya users I would recommend with sticking with the default keymap and then changing the keys yourself.

You can’t use Blender to retopo, you can’t use Blender for APEX anything, you can try to use Blender for hard surface, but even for characters it’s a pain. Maya had Epic’s A.R.T, Blender has nothing. I think if you were desperate, you can use a separate tool by NVIDIA to make cloth, but I’m not sure how robust it is. I just know I did it once before.

You can use Blender for retopo, there are a bunch of different addons (free) for that, and you can do APEX in the Nvidia clothing tool, as long as it’s one bone, there’s a bug with several bones (Apex cloth, 1 bone works but 2+ doesn't - World Creation - Epic Developer Community Forums).

Anyway, to say something on topic, yes, 3d suites are expensive. But Blender is free so you can at least try it out and ask on the blender artists forum or the Blender stackexchange if you get stuck.