Looking for a lightweight modelling program

fearian

Hey guys, Ive recently bought a sexy [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-NC10-10-2-inch-Netbook-Windows/dp/B001GZC8K8/ref=sr_1_1/280-1265991-4813645?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1235916873&sr=8-1"]Samsung nc10[/ame] netbook and I'm looking for a good, lightweight, modelling program to take with me on the go.

any suggestions?

Spinks

i have a lenovo s10, so basically the same specs, silo2 feels pretty responsive for lowpoly stuff.. haven't done much more than loading stuff up and rotating around a bit, the display is a bit too cramped for me too work with for anything serious.

Rick Stirling

Silo

Mark Dygert

Rick Stirling wrote: »

Silo

x2

EarthQuake

Silo on the cheap, Modo if you're looking for a little more(rendering etc)

jrs100000

Dont forget Wings and Blender. Those two will work on just about any hardware.

ScoobyDoofus

Silo ftw

Zwebbie

Here are Blender's system requirements. It's even lightweightier than Silo.

solar

Is silo still competitive? I used the program a while back but haven't really returned to it, seemed very buggy and broken the last time I used it. Is anyone using it frequently for their day job?

Mark Dygert

I use it quite a bit at home for personal projects and when I was doing environment art I used it quite a bit at work. I haven't had it crash or run into any bugs, but you could have tried a really old release?

Some features are a bit immature like sculpting but the quick and easy interface more then makes up it, something Blender really needs to work on. I haven't tried Modo, it looks great and its feature set keeps growing. But now I "make things move" as opposed to "make things", so for the most part I'm happy with Max or Silo. For a while I used Maya to do some modeling but that was more just to be familiar with it. Naked Maya is a pig to work with and requires a lot of customization to be even remotely useful to someone coming from Max or Silo.

Mechadus

Id go with Lightwave personally. Layout gets pretty intensive, but Modeler will run quite happily on a dell inspiron P3 without hardware rendering. I know LW is kinda the ugly stepchild of the 3d world, but the modeler part of the program is amazing.

-Nick

fearian

Wow! With such a large response about Silo, and the fact that my friend with an eeepc has it running fine - I'm gonna go with that. I'll try the trial and see how it fares!

thanks!

Mister Sentient

I'll second Wings 3D. It's the simplest most elegant modeller about and on top of that it's free.

http://www.wings3d.com/

hobodactyl

I use silo for most of my personal lowpoly stuff, or if I just can't get max to do something right :P

Mister Sentient

fearian wrote: »

Hey guys, Ive recently bought a sexy Samsung nc10 netbook and I'm looking for a good, lightweight, modelling program to take with me on the go.

any suggestions?

I'd be interested to hear your take on your new netbook. Would you mind posting some initial impressions?