Free DAZ software

Ark · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

Thanks for the heads up

Let's see if Hexagon's .obj files can work well with Messiah: Studio.

Ben Apuna · Feb 2012

Thanks! I always wanted to give Hexagon a try

Paradan · Feb 2012

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

Tehrasha · Feb 2012

Offer ::
Studio4 Pro, Bryce7Pro and Hexagon2.5 FREE

Stipulation ::
* Free products require a newsletter subscription.

Enticement ::
We have placed a 30% OFF coupon in your account to use with your first purchase.

All seems rather innocent....

Paradan · Feb 2012

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

r_fletch_r · Feb 2012

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

Ark · Feb 2012

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

r_fletch_r · Feb 2012

nothing new there then

Stromberg90 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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 · Feb 2012

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

Free DAZ software

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