Friday Flashback #331

[Stephen Blair]

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Re: Modeling Options

[Morten Bartholdy]

Thanks for the info, Jonathan. Never too late to learn new stuff, but perhaps a 
bit pricey if only for modeling if you don't do that much of it :)

MB




> Den 15. februar 2018 klokken 17:44 skrev Jonathan Moore 
> :
> 
> 
> Full transparency - I'm an alpha/beta tester for Foundry but IMHO nothing
> beats Modo for asset creation. It used to be flakey and bug ridden but
> since Modo 10 they moved over to a new incremental development strategy and
> things are far more solid. You can rent or buy outright but with the rental
> being circa $500 per annum it's actually not a bad route to take,
> especially if your unsure about any long term commitment. There's three
> major point releases each year, and you can set up a new 30 day demo for
> each. It's not an oversight, it's something the Modo team decided to
> provide seeing as each release brings significant new features.
> 
> When you start moving beyond the asset creation toolset things are still a
> little flakey, badly designed or both. But for modelling, UVing etc nothing
> comes close for the money.
> 
> Blender is obviously an option, but I think the modelling UX in Modo is
> worth the price of entry alone.
> 
> On 15 February 2018 at 16:23, Morten Bartholdy  wrote:
> 
> > Marc, are you by any chance trying to install on a Win10 machine?
> >
> > I had the exact same problem and some googling provided a solution:
> >
> > https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/softimage-forum/softimage-
> > 2015-error-1603-on-windows-10/td-p/6993199
> >
> > Quote:
> >
> > Re: Softimage 2015 - error 1603 on Windows 10
> > Options
> > 04-05-2017 02:20 PM in reply to: brissef2
> > OK I found the solution.
> >
> > I had to uninstall the MS Visual C++ redist. 2012, both x86 and x64
> > versions, that were prevously installed on my machine.
> >
> > That apparently was the cause of the problem, since the setup process kept
> > rolling back the Softimage installation without those two installed before
> > it.
> >
> > Mysteries of Windows...
> >
> > Now there's another problem: the software doesn't support text scaling, so
> > with my 21:9 high res monitor the fonts and the icons are too small to read!
> >
> > End Quote"
> >
> > This actually worked on my end, so you can give it a go.
> >
> > If everything fails, I would go with Blender if I were you.
> >
> >
> > Good luck!
> >
> > Best Morten
> >
> >
> > > Den 14. februar 2018 klokken 19:01 skrev Marc Brinkley <
> > marc.brink...@microsoft.com>:
> > >
> > >
> > > Hey List
> > >
> > > So what are people modeling in these days? I am trying to get Soft up
> > and running again so I can do some basic modelling and what not. Mostly for
> > myself. But installation is not going so well. The usual 1603 error that I
> > am trying to diagnose without much luck. Even the ex-si support blog has
> > not be able to clue me in.
> > >
> > > But it got me wondering what people are using for modelling software
> > these days in case I cant get Soft running again (which I have to admit is
> > going happen some day).
> > >
> > > I would prefer a non-ADSK product for obvious bias. I have never been
> > able to get comfortable in Maya for modeling. It feels like modeling with
> > mittens on.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
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