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Old 14th October 2006, 21:39   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Grendel View Post
I looked at Messiah as well before I bought XSI. They handle pretty much the same as far as animation and the shader/render tree is almost identical. But there does not seem to be much activity with Messiah's development, it looks good now but I don't want another Eovia situation so went with XSI.
Not sure where you looked Grendel but the Messiah dev team have released 4 updates to Messiah this year. With quite a few enhancements from improved rendering, a new particle system, a new manipulator, etc. a short list of SOME of the new features can be found here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost...11&postcount=3
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