> -----Original Message----- > From: Melchior FRANZ > > * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 22 December 2005 10:13: > > Blender is clever, but almost impossible to use. > > > > > To get going quickly, while getting acceptable results I would recommend > > AC3D. The $40 or so it costs is money well spent I reckon. > > Could be. But didn't the ac3d author already screw some paying customers > over? I remember the discussion here on the devel list. >
Yes this is true. I'm one of the people who bought AC3D back when Coleburn was telling customers that all future upgrades would be free of charge. Later he modified that statement somewhat, but I have a copy of the web page that was there when I bought the software originally and there is no doubt he screwed some people. > I don't really care who uses what, as long as I can use Blender. AC3D > may be a nice application and is certainly good enough for FlightGear > modeling, but Blender is far from "almost impossible to use". > If I were facing a choice between the two programs right now it would easily be Blender. There are a number of things that are more efficient in Blender once you get the hang of it. I speak as someone who has spent countless hours performing tedious tasks in AC3D. In fact I often find myself switching to a text editor for tasks because the AC3D interface is so cumbersome. Don't let the initial ease fool you. A great project if someone wants to take it on would be to enhance VRML support in plib so that a wider range of options would be available. This is something that was brought up by David Megginson several times and I think he is right. It would really open up the options. Perhaps we could actually get to a place were the ac3d format would be largely if not entirely replaced in flightgear with something open and human readable. Best regards, Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
