ShawnDriscoll opened this issue on Mar 16, 2006 ยท 12 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Thu, 16 March 2006 at 7:22 PM
I pre-ordered Hexagon 2 from Eovia which is coming out in April. Any Hexagon users here? It has UV unmapping like modo 201 has and displacement, texture, and bump map painting like ZBrush 2 has. And it handles more polys now for models than it used to.
Teyon posted Thu, 16 March 2006 at 7:37 PM
I own it...don't use it much though. Silo's covered about all my bases. Still, I'm interested in seeing what Hexagon 2 can do. Maybe I'll slide over to it while waiting for Silo2....
philebus posted Fri, 17 March 2006 at 7:11 AM
Yes, Hexagon is the easiest program I've tried to learn, despite the line tools (which I'm using a lot) being a let down next to Shade, I'm finding that I'm using it for everything now. For an amateur starting out like me, it's a great place to start and looks more and more like it will be the one to continue with as I improve. These new tools a very welcome - particularly the UV mapping, that will make a big difference to workflow. There's no doubt that there is enough here to earn it's upgrade, not just extra frills. I didn't hesitate.
Teyon posted Fri, 17 March 2006 at 8:46 AM
Yeah, I just had a look and almost everything mentioned in the Silo 2 specs are mentioned in the Hexagon 2 specs. I'm still not a huge fan of modeling in Hexagon though. Maybe that'll change when 2.0 is released.
laughingnome posted Fri, 24 March 2006 at 4:10 PM
i have Silo1 and Hex1, i prefer Silos UI though Hex has the better toolset in my opinion, thats a personal preference on my part not a critism of either app.
I'll probably go the Hex2 way though thats aslo a pref not a crit.
i am biased so disregard this and try both demos and decide yourselfs when released this is my unbiased advice.
stu
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ShawnDriscoll posted Fri, 24 March 2006 at 6:22 PM
Attached Link: http://hexablog.eovia.com/
http://hexablog.eovia.com/ has more quicktime movies showing Hexagon 2's features.
Nate posted Sun, 26 March 2006 at 6:50 AM
Not sure where to post this, but was wondering when or if Renderosity was going to create a software forum for Hexagon. So far it seems as though Renderosity is ignoring this software, which in version 2 looks like a major contender to me.
I definitely plan to upgrade to Hexagon 2, and am definitely imressed with what Eovia is doing with this one.
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Teyon posted Sun, 26 March 2006 at 9:05 AM
There hasn't been enough interest in it here for a forum. Same thing with the slightly more popular Silo. When we see more folks requesting a forum for one or both of these programs, we'll start a forum.
Pauldg posted Sun, 26 March 2006 at 11:20 PM
A forum would be great! That's one more request.
ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 27 March 2006 at 2:16 AM
Build it and they will come.
Jcleaver posted Mon, 27 March 2006 at 9:17 AM
And another.
Nate posted Mon, 27 March 2006 at 9:30 AM
Attached Link: http://www.eovia3d.net
There's a poll going on over at eovia3d.net to see what interest there is in trying to get a Hexagon forum at Renderosity.
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