[naxos]

Yo guys...

I often use Maya, Sketchup and MAx for work...

But i'm starting to be interested in Blender, more and more powerfull, toll free tool...

For now, blender render engine is poor, and altenative is Yafray... free too, but ok, not so high-end...

Maxwell for Blender could be a very cheap solution for freelancers...

NL dev team ? what do you think about that ?

[tom]

i'm second... blender rules!

[Nicolas Rivera]

Yes Blender is great and free, but people please take a look to Hexagon from Eovia, man that software is soooooo easy to use its scary. I hade to buy that, so now i'm learning how to use it to its full.

[jeje]

there is an italian guy who works in Arup wrote a program to migrate Radiance (another high profile open source renderer) to Blender. hence you will get both hardcores for free!!
check his site out http://www.bozzograo.net/radiance/index.php
for radiance: http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/

[bakbek]

Yes Blender is great and free, but people please take a look to Hexagon from Eovia, man that software is soooooo easy to use its scary. I hade to buy that, so now i'm learning how to use it to its full.

I tried it a little for archviz work, but can't get the easy workflow i have with sketchup... any chance there is an architecture related tutorial that you know of? Sketchup is weak on selection tools and multiaple vertex/edge/face manipulation that i can really use in hexagon.

[Nicolas Rivera]

Hi Bakbek. i do not know of any archviz tutorial for hexagon, but believe me man, hexagon is going to be big, al least for me it was as easy as trying sketchup or archicad.

As an architect i can tell you that nothing will beat Archicad, but as sketchup, it is limited with tools to make smooth edges or to model a cellphone or a remote control, with hexagon it is easy.

I have tried and have install blender, but i hate reading manuals, with hexagon just try it a little bit and i find it super easy to model anything you can imagine. Sketchup is great on doing thing in a fast way, archicad can do thing faster but with more care to detail, and having hexagon just complimented my arsenal of easy tools to make my life easier.

best regards.

[naxos]

so ? any NL guy to tell us if Blender is on the list ?