JET2003 opened this issue on Sep 21, 2003 ยท 14 posts
jval posted Sun, 21 September 2003 at 2:07 PM
Wings3D is an excellent modeler, regardless of price. In fact, it seems to be attracting those who are already using other well regarded and pricey programs such as Maya, Lightwave, etc. The fact that the scale of objects created is rather outsized when imported into Poser is not a Wings limitation or fault. Rather, it seems that Poser's scale is considerably smaller than in most other programs. In any event, this is easily adjusted and not much of a problem at all. Another inexpensive modeler to consider is Silo (windows only at the moment.) Like Wings3D, it is based upon subdivisions. But unlike Wings3D, models need not be solid. They can have holes or be hollow. Silo also allows lathed objects, polygon and line creation and extrusion objects. It handles larger objects than Wings3D without slowing down as quickly as the latter. The workflow doesn't seem as quick as in Wings3D but that may be because I am more familiar with Wings3D. At any rate, the Silo workflow is still quite good. A working time limited demo is available at http://www.nevercenter.com/