PrecisionXXX opened this issue on Mar 14, 2013 · 78 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Sat, 16 March 2013 at 2:33 AM
Quote - Shawn, the "hole" material is how it is designated in Wings... It's purpose is/was to assign which faces will not be included during export. Later versions of Wings have changed this a little I think (I use version 99.53). Also, if you were to import, say, a one sided square into Wings the "blank" side of the poly is colored by this material rather than behaving as it does in poser as transparent. End result, you can see the object from the transparent side. I imagine this is what you mean also when you say transparent material.
Ok. Hiding is what I'm used to it being called. Most modeling apps I've used let you select parts of a mesh (or select meshes in a group of meshes) to hide so they are not exported to OBJ. I do this all the time. Some apps use material name to select what to hide/show depending on what polygons have such material assigned. I used Wings3D when it was version .8 or .9, but didn't understand the GUI all that much. Reminded me too much of 3DCrafter's GUI.
Quote - You're a Hexagon user, how do feel about the latest free version?
I love Hexagon 1.21. That was the last bug-free version before DAZ3D took it over.
Quote - I had read that there were some serious stability issues but I had to test it for myself... A crash occuring within 15 minutes of starting it up was all the proof I needed. I've heard from some Hex users on the forum here that they really don't have problems with it and that perhaps it's a Mac build issue ( I'm a Mac user).
Hexagon 2.0 was very buggy and later versions still are. Some people don't mind the crashing, and will state how all software crashes as their excuse. 3D-Coat does a much better job of sculpting and painting/texturing than Hexagon 2.x ever could, and it doesn't crash on me ever.
Quote - I have Carrara 8.1 pro and think it's pretty solid, unfortunately I don't use it nearly as much as I should considering the investment.
I stopped with Carrara 5.1 Pro because it's stable and didn't have DAZ3D code creeping into it. I tried 6 and 7, but only have 5.1 installed. It is the perfect OBJ exporter/converter. Carrara in general is dog slow at rendering. Almost as slow as Bryce in GI rendering.
Vue, on the other hand, is much faster at rendering than Carrara. Vue 9.5 was the last good version before bugs totally ruined it though. Bugs have gotten worse from Vue 10 to 10.5 to 11. Quality of workmanship or craftsmanship (whatever you call it) does not exist at e-on software. Some users swear by it, and say Vue 11 is the bees knees, but in the same breath they will also say that all software is buggy and that no software is perfect. These are people using current computer hardware and OSs, that Vue was written for, saying this nonsense. Vue 9.5 Infinite does not crash on my system. I'm doing a quick Poser walk cycle in it now of V3.