Free DAZ software

Ark

Spotted this on CGTalk and thought id post it here.

DAZ software are giving away a few of their programs for free for a limited time.

Hexagon looks like a pretty decent modeler too.

http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d/free-3d-software-overview

EmAr

Thanks for the heads up Let's see if Hexagon's .obj files can work well with Messiah: Studio.

Ben Apuna

Thanks! I always wanted to give Hexagon a try

Paradan

whats the catch?
theyre not gonna make me buy lingerie packs every month or something weird are they?

Tehrasha

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All seems rather innocent....

Paradan

yeah, I think this is the equivalent of goin free-to-play

r_fletch_r

If they've made hexagon stable it could be a great tool. the problem with 2 was it was very unstable.

Ark

Yup Hexagon crashes the minute i try to create a primitive.

r_fletch_r

nothing new there then

Stromberg90

Never tried hexagon myself, but seems like a ok program, hope they fix the stability issues.

For anyone who wants to try it, here is quite a few tutorials almost hundred and quite a few in the other categories.
http://www.geekatplay.com/hexagontutorials/index0.php

passerby

testing it out, haven't had a crash yet but the hard coded navigation is a bitch, wish they would just use maya style nav, and the keys for manipulators are weird, wish they would have just done the QWER like every other app.

the viewport nav wtf, it's like maya that it uses alt+mouse buttons but they got what each mouse button does all flipped around, so it makes you really fight muscle memory bad

Blaizer

hexagon was one of the contendants against silo and modo on its days. I tried the first version like with modo, and silo, but i ended using modo due to its better perfomance.

It's a great and easy to use app, though. No crashes here.

WarrenM

I'm watching a few tutorials on it and I really like the look of the interface and ... what's the catch? Why have I never heard of this modeling app? It certainly LOOKS capable...

Is it not being developed any more or something?

r_fletch_r

WarrenMarshall wrote: »

what's the catch?

Daz bought it and its been stagnating since.

Blazier: they were great days, when Silo was actually being developed and modo was being plain awesome. it really looked like there was a revolution going on in the 3D modelling world.

Bibendum

Pretty much... It had a lot of potential and then DAZ bought it and pretty much all promotion (and presumably development) died.

I'm not really sure what they were planning/thinking at the time as it doesn't really fit into the rest of their products very well.

passerby

r_fletch_r wrote: »

Daz bought it and its been stagnating since.

Blazier: they were great days, when Silo was actually being developed and modo was being plain awesome. it really looked like there was a revolution going on in the 3D modelling world.

Modo is still be actively developed and works well, aside from a few things, but silo is dead.

r_fletch_r

Bibendum wrote: »

I'm not really sure what they were planning/thinking at the time as it doesn't really fit into the rest of their products very well.

I think they wanted to supply their content creators with a modelling app closely integrated with their posing app.

Modo is still be actively developed and works well, aside from a few things, but silo is dead.

nothing so exciting though. guess its just me being nostalgic