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Like features are added or removed with no thought to being a cohesive tool. There are a few thousand examples like this, all around, it’s like death from a thousand paper cuts. It’s a problem that exists for no reason, and those are always the worst kinds of problems. Under the User Interface tab, click Misc then select Dolly around selection center, like so:Ĭan you seriously tell me a reason why this wouldn’t be enabled by default? It’s a small thing, but it is infuriating until fixed. Yep, by default there is no mouse mode to actually orbit the camera! Of course, there might be, put to hell if I can find it with a complete lack of documentation! Of course, a little googling later and I discovered the answer… It’s a preference and it’s by default OFF! Huh? Why? Seriously, why?įor those following along at home, its pretty easy to resolve. You… well apparently you use the arrow keys. To zoom in your view, use the scroll wheel. To pan your view, hold down your middle mouse button.
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Other than Blender, the 3D world has become pretty standardized on how to navigate in 3D, so lets see how it works in Hexagon. So, no help, I guess you are on your own figuring things out and, well… good luck with that.
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Ooooh, this looks encouraging! Hexagon 2.1 Manual in English, it’s an earlier version but better than nothing, lets click that! Then select Hexagon on the left hand side and click the Hexagon documentation link. So you go to Support->Wiki from the front page manual. Yay.Īlright, so the help hyperlink is broken, no big deal right, just surf to the help manually in your browser? At first it appears that it is going to bring you to a documentation page, but then you are redirected back to the Front page. You click Help->Documentation or Help->Tutorial and you are brought to Daz3D’s website.
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Of course, there is a Help menu, and as you can see, the options look pretty encouraging over all but they do nothing! Here comes big and I mean BIG strike number two. Consider this expanded icon:Īs you can see from the tool tip, this control “Activates actual lighting” and when you click it, that toolbar folds out.Īny guesses what any of these icons means? Cause, I’ll tell you, I don’t have a bloody clue either! None of them have mouse over tool tips, so you are stuck trying to figure it out from the icons… good luck with that.ĭon’t worry, there is always the help files to sort things out… or wait, is there? Then this is where things start to show the sloppiness as well. Properties and scene graph on the right, a tool shelf ALA Maya across the top and a mish mash of visibility buttons across the bottom across the bottom. Feature-wise, it actually spanks Blender handily, with support for n-gons, good boolean supports, surfacing, etc.Īt first glance it’s pretty clean. Obviously, it doesn’t have a happy ending, which is a shame.įirst off, it is a remarkably capable modeler, almost every feature you could want is in there… somewhere. This is not a complete review, not even close, think of this more as a “These are the things I ran into that made me decide to not waste any more time on Hexagon” review. So at a price of 0$ I figured I would try out Hexagon 2.5. As a Blender user, until they finally ship BMesh, I am always in the market for a good modeler with effective COLLADA support.
#Daz 3d studio review for free
As I recently mentioned Daz3D have made Hexagon, Bryce and Daz Studio all available for free for a limited time.