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Have any of you folks had any success at all with this program? Inspired by jotero's beautiful work I have been playing with it but mainly it doesn't do for me what the tuts and video's show. Trying to work along with a couple of the video's has not worked at all. Following along with an avi by jotero is fine until after a couple mouse clicks and then it turns crappy...executions just do not function as they do in the tut. It crashes a lot and I get "out of range" errors doing the same action as shown in the tut.

Maybe it's that I am on a 64 bit machine and XP and the program is for older systems? Sure would like to get it to work...I'd love to do some of those wonderful moebius objects he posts.

Thanks much,
Ron

I have only used it for simple things. I don't know how he does it!

It crashes a lot

Yup, that bothered the hell out of me, especially after 60 carefully placed clicks to flesh out some twirly thingys...

I stuck to the simple stuff and eventually uninstalled it. Great idea, but unworkable.

Thanks guys...I was worried it was just me...
I've had better luck with another free program, julia4d. Although not as fun with object manipulation as TopMod looks to be. This object was generated from the equation: Z = cos(Z)^a + C*cos(Z)^a...I don't have a clue what that means but it makes for an interesting sculpture. Sure wish someone would get TopMod working smoothly for us art types...
I have been playing with the idea of rigging this thing and animating it as conjoined quadruplets...maybe that's too weird, but it sure looks like 4 eyeless characters to me.
This render is not from Maxwell, as you can see, but native Lightwave as I wanted something quickly and this took about 3 minutes. Cheers, Ron

Yes, welcome to the club, i've tried that one as well

Very cool sculpture there!