Call me kooky

I recently installed 3ds max 9, and boy have things changed over the years. It’s not as onery to get installed for one, and the whole underlying system had been reworked. But some things stay the same, I get frustrated. Since I’ve never properly “learned” the program I can’t really do what I want to do. And I get frustrated with the whole thing.
Add to that ameretto, a plugin for nvidia’s gelato GPU rendering system. It works, but without textures and it crashes hard on hair systems. It’s so much faster to use that I want to use it damnit!