A first!!!

Kana · #1 January 4th, 2007, 02:27 AM

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Atrocities said:
The only thing I hate about SE V is that I can no longer make my own ship sets thus I must rely upon the skill of others for that.

If you can learn to use Doga, you can probably learn to use some other 3d modeling program...

Atrocities · #2 January 4th, 2007, 04:38 AM

Doga was easy, lego 3d. The other programs are not any where as intuative or user friendly as DOGA. These big *** company's that make these really expsensive 3d programs just might take a look at what DOGA has done, and improve upon it.

But no, they want to keep their magic as complicated as humanly possible so they can rake in the cash through teaching people how to use their over complicated, head beating against desk, rocket scientist level, most unintuative 3d graphics program.

Black_Knyght · #3 January 5th, 2007, 12:18 AM

Here again I agree with AT.

DOGA is easy to use and fairly intuitive. Nearly every other 3D program is overly complicated or unable to duplicate features that are readily accessable in DOGA. They are designed towards high-end, professional users only, with no real thought or development put towards novice or beginner usage.

Possum · #4 January 8th, 2007, 02:09 PM

Atro is right on the money.

These programs are deliberately made counter-intuitive, specifically so that it will be all-but-impossible to learn them on your own. Yes, precisely to create a secondary market in instruction.

Fyron · #5 January 8th, 2007, 02:47 PM

Maybe some are, but not every modeling app is specifically designed to be obtuse... What about the freeware ones that are not made to make any money?

Atrocities · #6 January 8th, 2007, 05:22 PM

Most are very good programs but are still rather complex to learn. However they are learnable if any one wants to invest the time. The important thing to remember is that before you begin to learn the program make damn sure that it will meet your needs and can do the things you need it to do such as export to a working X format that SE V can read, and texturing tools that work. Otherwise you'll just end up spinning your wheels. (Like I have done.)

Ed Kolis · #7 January 8th, 2007, 09:48 PM

If you're looking for a combination of intuitiveness and power, I'd recommend Art of Illusion - save for the fact that the UV texturing support in that app is just horrible (you have to manually drag the vertices around and half the time you can't even get them to appear on the uvmap

)! Fortunately someone by the name of Francois is working on a mesh-auto-unwrapper plugin-gizmo-thingy for AoI, and in the meantime Wings 3D, while it has a bit of a learning curve (you have to do everything via right-click menus ala SE3 - no click and drag) can be used to create a nifty looking model in no time flat. (Just watch out for intersecting or nonplanar faces - those things are a PAIN!)