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> Quote - Hi chikako, > > do you use Shade for your modeling projects?   > > Pappy

Pappy! At Meshbox, we use Shade for some things, 3DS MAX for others.

Shade 10.X was sort of the beginning of the "new era" in Shade. Shade 9 was actually almost ready to ship but it was mostly worked on during the E Frontier America days. I translated and localized a lot of Shade 10 from Japanese to English.

A lot of new technology went into Shade 10, but it still has much of the old style interface. Shade 12 introduced a new interface. If you love the Shade 10 UI, its possible to create a workspace in later versions of Shade that is almost the same (all the key commands are the same still).

Shade has multiple modeling paradigms, including its own curved surface tools as well as more traditional polygon tools. If you are going to keep what you are doing in Shade, curved surfaces work really well. If you need output that will work in other applications (like making props for Poser), then polygons are the way to go. It is possible to translate Curved Surfaces -> Polygon Mesh easily enough.

If you'd like to see some really cool things that can be done in Shade 10.5, check out the gallery... and a sample here:

Best regards,

chikako
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