By-Tor, well i know
Lightwave 6 & 3dsMAX 3.1 very good
(working with MAX at work). Both are very strong 3D applications.
You can't say who is better, both have theire strenght & weakness.
We using both, Lightwave 3D 6.0 and 3dsMAX 3.1 at work.
But if you planing to work in the games developing scene, i would
suggest to learn MAX. Soon there will come
GMAX, read this
article about:
http://www.stomped.com/published/jcal9663830321.html I use
MAX mainly for animating Humans & Animals with the
MaxBones system. But you can do same in LW, especially with
LW6.0 & Messiah plugin. Both Apps are also good for modelling.
I read somewhere HTC using
Multigen for modelling.
Another question is the Price ($), MAX cost's aprox twice then LW.
By-Tor if you have more questions you can write me an email.
greetings
Gh0stFT