leather-guy opened this issue on Apr 15, 2002 ยท 15 posts
leather-guy posted Mon, 15 April 2002 at 5:02 PM Online Now!
Hi, All! I want to thank everyone who offered input on my informal survey question last week Old Question Returns; What 3D Modeling apps does everyone here use? I posted similar questions in the Poser & Modeling Forums at Renderosity, as well as a Post over at PoserPros. Besides tallying the responses directly posted, I spent a little time prowling the various software Forums and websites looking for links to tutorials and who wrote them, as well as searching back 6 to 8 months thru old postings for when others had asked similar questions, noting who had responded. I want to stress that I used a purely subjective method of scoring, and multiple votes were counted when an artist recommended more than one app, as long as they admitted some experience with each. Bearing in mind that this was completely informal and by no means definitive, heres the results, in case anyone else is curious. In first place is Rhino 2.0 with more than twice the votes of the second place App - (23). Second place was Lightwave (11) Third is a three-way split between Cinema 4D, 3DS MAX, and Amapi - each with (7) Fourth was Truespace with (5) Raydream had a surprisingly strong support, along with Infini-D, and there were a few scattered endorsements for Amorphium, Milkshop, and some of the free and shareware modelers, but I was primarily interested in the major current commercial apps. Again I want to thank everyone who was kind enough to take the time to post feedback directly. http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=654272 http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=654275