claudej opened this issue on Feb 12, 2008 ยท 31 posts
arcebus posted Sun, 17 February 2008 at 6:47 AM
A word about Hexagon.
It's definitely not running on all hardware configurations. Had it on an AMD 6000X2/Geforce 5600 - nope, had it on an AMD 4800X2/Radeon 1900 - nope.
Was running it for a while on a notebook (Dual T2050, Ati Radeon Xpress200M) - no problems.
Now I have got it on a QuadCore (Q6600@4x3GHz) with a Radeon 2600 Pro), and I am able to handle even a 1.8 M (!) vertices without even thinking about crashes.
Hexagon is tricky as far as the GUI and the workflow is concerned (validate....validate....validate...) but is a simple and a good modeler (never wanted to be more than this).
The tut that comes with Hex is a lousy joke (won't find the videos it's referring to...) but once you learned to understand Hex's a bit weird dialect, you will understand.
Another application which is not bad is Blacksmith, which is at the lower price segment, too. It's more like "analogue modelling" than everything else I had, and I use it occasionaly.