Forum: 3D Modeling


Subject: Wings 3D

Bovasso opened this issue on Dec 13, 2002 ยท 18 posts


BazC posted Sat, 14 December 2002 at 5:00 AM

Attached Link: http://www.wings3d.com

Hi there, I use Wings on OSX (10.1.3), to use the latest versions of Wings you do need 10.2, whatever it says on the website it won't run under 10.1 If you need an earlier version to run under 10.1 just put up a request in the wings forum and I'm sure the creators will send one. Actually as it's completely open source it may be OK for me to send you a copy, not sure about that. Wings is a very powerful modeller and once you learn to use it it's very efficient. However it does ONLY do sub division modelling. It won't produce single skin meshes, you can't do point by point modelling, no splines, boolean, nurbs or anything fancy. Oh and the renderer is USELESS! Having said all that it's the easiest modeller I've used and the big advantage over Cinema for SubD modelling is that it will allow n-gons. Cinema won't and automatically adds edges when you split a poly, usually in the wrong place! Wings allows any number of sides to a poly so you can construct a mesh exactly as you want it and don't waste time deleting edges that the computer wants but you don't! I'd say wings was the ideal companion to Cinema, use Wings for subd meshes and Cinema for everything else, especially rendering! I'm only just starting to get to grips with Cinema and Lightwave (I'm still very new to modelling) and I prefer Lightwaves modeller to Cinemas, mainly because it doesn't restrict how you construct your model but I reckon Wings has even Lightwave beat at least in the early stages of establishing volume and poly flow. What else, oh yeah the interface of Wings looks very primitive and dated, don't let that fool you, I found it tricky to learn at first, but there was no manual for it at that time, one is available now though I don't know how good it is. If you do have any difficulty figuring it out I'll happily start you off though like I said I'm pretty new to 3d. If you have much experience in modelling it'll probably make more sense to you than it did to me at first :o) though I feel it has more in common with Lightwave than Cinema. If you want to know anything else I'll be happy to answer if I can, the forums on the site are pretty good though probably not quite as good as here and it's not so easy to get help with the Mac version.

Oops a bit long winded, hope it helped!
Baz