I am new myself. I would say if you are new do what is easiest. Of course that is a personal opinion.The models you finish and the reduced frustration go along way. You can always then try another way. There are some airplane modelers here tho. Box modeling can get you alot of places. 3dxtract.com and eovia3d.net have some good tutorials, as well as others and more coming. Hex is more robust and easier in my opinion. As nice as the VM is now, I ended up getting hex myself because it was so much quicker and easier to me. I held off. Waiting for pro...thinking it would do because I didn't know much about hex. The only advantage I see to c5pro modeling is it is in c5pro w/ all the other goodies. If they get the two connected more so you can send things on over and update...that would really make them a set.Like to see surface paint tools in c5pro...they have said it is planned. Don't see that happening to hex since they want that to be modeling only, however, I would like to see some more robust uv tools.Believe it or not...I think texturing will be more of a challenge. Having a great model is so cool, but if you don't have textures like you want...you will not be satisfied. I think in general box modeling works better for organics and polyline for mechanical stuff. I could be wrong there.

Message edited on: 12/27/2005 21:12

No need to think outside the box....
    Just make it invisible.