Quite frankly, once you're "Blenderized", other interfaces seem awkward and illogical. I wasn't altogether thrilled with what I was able to do with sculpt (at the time) and so tried Silo. Perhaps it's my technique (or lack thereof), but I wasn't impressed with its sculpting capabilities over Blender's. And Blender didn't keep crashing on me.

I'm certainly no modeller yet - have heaps more to learn - but I nevertheless feel that one is getting an incredible tool with Blender even if it cost money, which it doesn't. I'll save up for the right tool and eventually get it. At this point, Blender serves my purposes more than adequately and I know there are enormous aspects to the programme I haven't even got my head around yet.

And as far as interfaces go, anyone happy with Vista, yet? heheheheheh

Quote - Now,  I'm thinkin' do I spend the next two weeks takin' the engine apart,  pre heatin' the block and weldin' it with Ni rod or do I just go buy another car?)

Change out the entire motor?

It's simpler than tearing down and rebuilding, cheaper in the long run when considering time and materials. (Had to learn a few things in self defense against an old tractor.:laugh:)

Change out the entire motor?

Good Idea!  It's just a work car so it would probably be cheaper than buyin' another clunker.  Do you think a ton and a half come a long would be enough to pull a 2.2 litre?

ok so blender got a huge upate days ago.

remember how the interface was the only problem with blender? not anymore. its not anymore so alien.

so what to do now? today you download blender for free. its big 20MB. you start learning today. in 2 months you will know a lot.

what is the best part? the sculpting in blender got a huge update and its faster. when i say faster i mean a looooooooot faster. not just for changing the shape of a character. its so fast that you can use blender for adding details to the mesh. wrinkles,pores,rust,dirt,.....

so again the facts:

• updated interface
  -free
  -size 20 MB
  -free
  -you can use it for morphs,details,displacement,bump,.......
  -free
  -modeling dynamic clothes,conforming clothes
  -supports polygroups. those are the groups for the grouping tool. so you can add pollygroups for dynamic clothes. for pins. you can add groups for conforming clothes
  -painting. you can paint in blender. its not perfect but its good for 3D painting. everything else you add in photoshop.
  -free

LINK

sculpting

blender beginner tutorials

remember how 90% of poser users complain how they dont have money for expensive apps? blender is free.

If I could learn it well enough to model and sculpt with it, anyone can do it (I have difficulty distinguishing between left and right). The online documentation is very good - I mainly learned using the wikibook "Blender3d: Noob to Pro". There are many tutorials available, and I recommend the book "Mastering Blender" by Tony Mullen. That being said I am looking forward to the new interface that will come with Version 2.5, because I tend to forget the hot keys.

you mean you are loking forward to the new interface that si already out?

;) :) 

I'm one of those strange people who don't mind hotkeys: after you use them for a while, they become second nature, and you start wishing the other programmes worked that way. They did change some of the hotkeys in 2.5x - which I'm not real pleased about - but perhaps I'll either get used to that or somehow reprogram them.

when i go into Poser after using Blender, i find myself automatically pressing number keys to switch cameras.  and getting peeved that i can't maneuver my view as quickly in Poser.