Sorry for seeming ignorant but I work for an architecture firm and we use Autodesk Revit to build our models and get working drawings done. It works absolutely perfect for that, but AccuRender just doesn't cut it. We need a much better way to render and be able to have walk-thrus, fly-bys, and more realistic visualizations for our clients. We just purchased 3DS Max to solve that problem and up until today i was sure it was the best way to go. I just learned about Autodesk buying Alias and when i looked up the website i learned its supposed to be the "best 3D modeling program available"-i thought thats what 3DS Max was? So are they competing software? are they both the same? is one better than the other? or are they for completely different markets? Just hoping someone could let me know what they feel would be the best way to go for animated architectural visualizations. Thank you very much for your time!

Sincerely,
Brian Andresen