3DS Max 2010

so, Christmas came early and i got a hold of 2010. problem is some things aren't working in it. is any one familiar with it to answer these questions:

1: how do i turn on shade selected, some times it works but most of the time when i click it doesn't shade the polygon and as soon as i move the camera any that are shown disappear; seems to work better when selecting large quantities.

2: how do you turn on 2 sided faces? in 8 i just unchecked back face cull and it was fine...

i realize that most of you are poor college students but maybe someone has gotten lucky

I think I've fixed both problems, i had the drivers set to use DX 10 and when i set it back to 9 it appears to work fine. not really sure why but file for future reference i guess.

Well, I think that in my opinion 3ds max is easier to learn, because last year I have been using 3ds max for like 5 years and then tried to learn Maya but it was really all confusing for me (the interface and the tools and commands). So i just continued to do 3ds max since the programs don't differ too much.

yeah, it took me a bit but once i figured it out it's pretty intuitive.

Oh I have same problems with shading, well I have problems with shading in 2010, dont know if they are same but.. I have windows 7 64 bit and using 64bit max. But when I export to wc3 shading isnt quite good. I think I didnt have any problems with previous versions.

BTW people say that is maya easier to learn for starters.

Hehe, you may consider this spam, but how large your income has to be to get 3ds max 2010 as a 'christmas present'? ;)

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