[RonB]

Acropora by Voxelogic deserves a look see. It's a free standing voxel modeler that does some amazing detailed modeling at eye blink speed. It's exports a variety of file types...obj for us Lightwavers. Still in development with lots of new features coming fast. It's a one man show and the creator is a nice guy...although I don't know his name. There is a fully functional demo available and the images below are a few renders from my first experiments with it. It does not however export UV's at this time but he is working on it. Once you see the modeler in action you will understand his difficulty with coding UV mapping. But it's a powerful tool even as it is. Give it a try!

http://www.voxelogic.com/index.php

Cheers, Ron

BTW...These were not rendered in Maxwell...I am doing that now!

[Hervé]

looks pretty cool Ron, thanks for the link... I wonder if 3D coat uses the same voxel technology...?

http://www.3d-coat.com/voxel-sculpting/

[yolk]

thanx alot ronB

couldn't come at a better time..it saved my ass this night as i had to model coral reefs.

it's an amazing piece of software..the interface is still not very intuitive but it'll come

[yolk]

yes herve..underlying is the same voxel technology

in fact i exported the raw voxel data and imported it into 3dcoat to sculpt it there an refine it..then i quadringulated it in 3dcoat.

give it a try..it's really nice

[Hervé]

really cool.. thanks David.. post a result if you got a chance..

[RonB]

Very cool yolk!
You might be interested to know Thomas the creator told me he got the idea for the program while working on a project and having to model coral himself...hence the name Acropora, (which is a species of scleractinian coral).

Have fun!

Cheers, Ron