Originally posted by Link
If a job accepts you for your skills in modelling im pretty sure you are going to get paid enough money to afford it. Their are free modelling or cheap ones that you can afford untill you are able to get a more expensive professional software. The better something is the more it cost. Just because you can afford a Pinto are you going to go steal a Porshe because you need it to get to work faster?
You can\'t compare it, it doesn\'t take a long time to get used to cars.
But lets say you\'ve been modelling with a low budget program for a long long time, then if you were suddenly gonna use a new program (like 3dsmax) it would be a whole new program to start using, wich would mean you need to learn everything over again (oh well maybe not everything but it would still take a long long time)
If you are gonna be a professional modeller you can\'t stick to some \"cheap-but\" (avoiding the use of the A- word here) program, you need a good one, if you are just modelling for fun or something like that you can use a program like milkshape or whatever.
But if you are serious in modelling, basic milkshape skills wouldn\'t do.
That means you will have to learn another program, which would indeed take some time, and I doubt anybody would pay you not to do anything but learning something new.
Although if they do, good for you!
If I were serious about modelling I would most likely download 3d studio max, and then if I got a career in it, I would buy it, but only if I got a career in it, if I didn\'t become any successfull at all, I would not.