I stink at modeling i Hexz and Carrara. Wings is a lot easier, but it’s not as advanced. You just click Extrude and then click X, Y, or Z and just move the mouse instead of click and drag stuff.
Hex has a great lathe and extrude feature, you just need to learn them. Hex is really a very powerful modeler once you do a few of the Tut’s it’s not hard. Sure I only use it to tweak a morph or do simple props I send to it from Daz but I find it easy to use. With just two days of tut’s and playing I can do everything I want except UV maps. That’s going to be my next goal. Then I could make much better props.
I stink at modeling i Hexz and Carrara. Wings is a lot easier, but it’s not as advanced. You just click Extrude and then click X, Y, or Z and just move the mouse instead of click and drag stuff.
Hex has a great lathe and extrude feature, you just need to learn them. Hex is really a very powerful modeler once you do a few of the Tut’s it’s not hard. Sure I only use it to tweak a morph or do simple props I send to it from Daz but I find it easy to use. With just two days of tut’s and playing I can do everything I want except UV maps. That’s going to be my next goal. Then I could make much better props.
I’m trying to find some tuts from the lists on this forum but a lot of them go to a 404, which sucks a bit.
I found one set in those that had four or five one the same list. They were Video but very good. I’ll look after I do a render or two. It is my DAY off.
A couple really good ones to start with I find are the clothing ones… If it’s in your budget you might want to get Fugazi’s Genesis Starter Kit and Classic Bikini from the store. His workflow shows some good information about the various tools and topology issues that are very helpful even if not making clothing. The fact you learn to make clothing also is a bonus. It might go on sale again if there’s a catch-up portion to the PA sale.
and ofc I assume you already know of Geekatplay, a great resource…
You might want to start with the first couple I listed and/or Fugazi’s as they cover some basics whereas some of the others don’t spend as much time going over the basics but rather jump right into a particular example.
Hexagon has extrude, lathe, polylines, coons patches.. tons of tools. As Jadrail said, it just takes getting familiar with them and using the best one for the job. The same task can be done many ways, but there are more efficient and less efficient ways to do a given task.
A couple really good ones to start with I find are the clothing ones… If it’s in your budget you might want to get Fugazi’s Genesis Starter Kit and Classic Bikini from the store. His workflow shows some good information about the various tools and topology issues that are very helpful even if not making clothing. The fact you learn to make clothing also is a bonus. It might go on sale again if there’s a catch-up portion to the PA sale.
and ofc I assume you already know of Geekatplay, a great resource…
You might want to start with the first couple I listed and/or Fugazi’s as they cover some basics whereas some of the others don’t spend as much time going over the basics but rather jump right into a particular example.
I know about Geeksatplay, which is why I was a little confused. After picking up the knowledge that Booleans are bad, the first thing a Geeksatplay tut tells me to do is cut a door out of a cube using Booleans.
I did some reading when I went to bed last night about polygon modeling and I think I’m on the right path now, but yeah, gonna take a while to play with Hex enough to understand everything. Looking forward to it.
@Jeff: A render, woot! And a day off, even more woot! I’m visiting a friend again today, and then when I get back I’m playing with Hex ‘til I break it!
I don’t think booleans are bad, that was just another case of our resident Carrara trol. . . . . uhm expert JM2000 stirring up another lengthy discussion, it is just often easier to do things other ways.
I have never tried them in Hex as Hex does not play nice with me.
I have textures I have never found the clothing for,
well, I just found the textures in the shop and I do indeed own the clothing they are for!
so I reset my download for it so I could rerun the installer to find out where the hell in my runtime they are!!
