...yeah from what I understand reading on other forums it has become "abandonware".  Guess it beacame Nevercenter's "Hexagon".  Sad, in that it appears more stable than Hex and has a UI that doesn't require a graduate degree in Cryptology to understand (Blender).

Being only a modelling application is what attracted me to look into it (and years ago into Hexagon). I have other softwares for rigging, surfacing and rendering. This means the programme's focus is devoted solely to the task of modelling rather than supporting other features. 

Blender used to be primarily a modelling application. Now it is trying to be more of a freeware version of 3DS which makes it all that more complex and cumbersome to learn as it's UI really doesn't look (or work) much different than it did back in the 4.4 days.

Yeah it's too bad there appearently will be no future devlopment of either Silo or Hexagon (Hex has seen one minor update in the five an a half years I've had it and that was a beta back in 2011).  Seems Daz is more content to develop and push Carrara, support an expensive pro grade modelling/sculpting application (ZBrush), as well as a new "pseudo modeller" (Curvy3D), than a good basic easy to use and stable dedicated polygon modelling application.

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...forsaken daughter is watching you.

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