I wanted to mention this problem as it has casued me allot of greif thoughout the project.






















I have noticed this as a major problem throughout the project that because I have a copy of 3DStudioMax 10 instead of 9 which is installed on the university computers.

I found that when I tried to open them in a lower version I was getting the error messages shown below:










Unlike Photoshop and Microsoft word which is backwards compatible, 3DSMax however is not. This means that I had to export the models from version 10 into 9, which can cause errors such as when I added modifiers they would be molded to the model and then cannot be turned off.

The reason that I don't have Version 9 is because it would not work and install with Vista that is installed on my pc and did not work with my mac (due to not being compatible) but luckily after a long process I managed to get it working and now can move on with my work so that it can be opened at university and by the moderator when marked.