Hexagon - A great subsurface modeler
GothicStar
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I've tinkered with 3DMax, Maya, Modo, Blender, Moi, Alibre, Zbrush, Carrara.... I'm leaving out a ton... and Hexagon really is a cool little program for subsurface modeling. I use to have a few crashes when running it under Vista. However, using Windows 8.1 with 64 bit and I've never crashed. Is Daz going to maintain Hexagon and further it's development? I really do think it is a powerful program... and... the little guy is fast. It really is fast once one learns all it's capabilities.
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What does Hexagon do that Carrara doesn't? (Or what does it do better)
It's usually more about the user interface more than anything else for many. Myself, tried 3DMax, Maya, Modo, Blender, Rhino, Silo, Zbrush, Carrara, etc as well as Hexagon and stuck with max for the UI
Am I the only one that really likes Blender's UI?
I'm one of the ones who has had horrible problems with Hex crashing...although the best I've had was the last install...in a previous version of WINE. I haven't tried it on my new machine, yet. The one thing I really like about Hex, is the bridge between it and Studio.
I prefer Hexagon as well. I didn't feel so mentally stunted on its learning curve and with the DL videos it was fairly straight forward to learn. I've not experienced and crashing issues. i'm running it on WIN 8.1 both a normal and a virtual desktop.
...I guess.
Yeah, Hex crashing is a real drag. I like the UI, nice straightforward and elegant nothing to memorise or have to look up all the time. Wish they'd really fix it and bring it into the 64 bit world. If Nevercenter could breathe new life into Silo (which appeared to be DOA), Daz certainly can do it with Hexagon.
yes ;) No rhime or reason to me with the Blender UI. Who designed this UI? Sheldon Cooper? ;)
About Hexagon: it's a cool app. It crashes less, if you switch off all the gpu features in the app's options' settings.
...where does one find those settings. I see nothing in the edit menu that is labelled 'Options".
Sorry, it has been a while, since I've been doing it. It's called the preference editor (alt+p). Use the tab "3d display". Try to figure out what settings work best for you.
Making it largeadressaware and able to use 3GB of RAM helps ...
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/large-address-aware.112556/
I think that may be one reason it was more stable under WINE/Linux, the way memory management is handled.
We're two at least. If Hex wasn't crashing I guess I'd appreciate it as well.
It depends on what you need to do. Hex can only be used for modeling. If you need more then you need something else
Another Hex thread.... well I'll, once again, throw my vote to see Hex updated and give a nice new shiny 64bit treatment too! Come on DAZ. Enough new toys, fix the ones you have in the toolbox. Thanks!
Nothing. But Carrara is an all in one package whereas Hexagon is just a modeler.
I hate blender's UI...
But never had any problems with hexagon running under wine on my ubuntu.
I agree however that it needs 64-bit and large memory support.
No, if anything the Blender UI has gotten WAY better from the pre 2.5 days.
I think most of the hate is it's free and some people think it can never be a legitimate package for that reason alone.
that being said expect to spend 2 or more days understanding WHY that interface is the way it is before it reveals itself as very useful.
...if Blender's UI were as simple to navigate like Hexagon's or Carrara's out of the box, and the programme was still more of a dedicated modeller than a "do it all" application, I'd most likely be working with it, Apologies, but between a keyboard and pointer driven UI, I'll take the latter.
Again I have other programmmes to handle rendering (biased and unbiased), texturing, rigging, etc.
As to Hexagon vs. Carrara, Hexagon can import and export to more file formats than Carrara, and is 100% dedicated to the task of modelling only, so it is a lot leaner.
Sorry, it has been a while, since I've been doing it. It's called the preference editor (alt+p). Use the tab "3d display". Try to figure out what settings work best for you.
...thank you. May I ask which settings you use?
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Hexagon working with more formats is a big plus.
Think I may pick it up at some point, then.