bandolin opened this issue on Sep 15, 2004 ยท 14 posts
waldomac posted Thu, 16 September 2004 at 10:00 AM
Well, to qualify a bit, Bjn has said he is dropping his personal efforts for further development of Wings that will work on Jaguar. He also has said he will be working on Wings for all platforms a lot less than he used, because he has other projects. My observations of Bjn, though, is that he is more prolific on a bad day than most programmers at their very best. Plus, he has said he may rev up Wings again in a few months again, when he "... gets [his] inspiration back." When he was totally jazzed about Wings, back when he first started this project, we used to get four or five new releases a week, and I saw in those days sometimes as many as three in one day, which even occasionally included something large he'd just polished up, along with bug fixes. I agree that we likely will not see anything like that again, but then Wings is pretty awesome as is. If we never saw another release, I'd be a happy camper. It's just a great program. Meanwhile, I do not by any stretch of the imagination proffer myself as a Wings expert, but I would like to say this: I stand ready to lend assistance to anyone who wants to learn Wings. Granted there are things I do not even know about the program, nor use, but I have been able to accomplish almost any modeling task I try with this great program. Another guy, username GetaVe, on Renderosity's Wings forum has put up a high-quality video that goes through a lot of Wings's basic functions for the beginner. It is a 50 mb download, but I would highly recommend it if you want to get a jump start. Here's a link: Beginner's Wings Video