Quote - *Yeah -- my impression of Luxology as a company is that they are top-tier when it comes to customer relations -- it addition to making a great program.  What more could you want?

*Agree with you, Robert - sometimes they are already overdoing it a little. I tried Modo (demo) and I think it's a great tool for anybody who is not an old, bit stupid, stubborn Windows Conventions used guy like me.
Hexagon does one thing for shure: it sucks - until you learn to save every important step in modelling. All my shops stuff and my freebies are made in Hex - from a walnut fairy boat to a celtic harp to a clubs facade to even V4.1 facemorphs, it's versatile, has no real limits and it integrates smoothly with UVMapper. Like with every other program, one has to know what he's doing, of course.  But - it cost's not too much more than a smile, and on most machine config's it really works - and it follows (most of the time) windows conventions. It has got paint and displacement paint options (which I don't use), and after some, let's say 60-80 hours everything neccessary has gone into the bones and the marrow - and becomes pretty easy to use.

To answer the initial question: I would give it a trial.

 

I really need to give Hexagon a look sometime.  Just so that I can say that I have.

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