zombiebrain opened this issue on Apr 28, 2006 · 7 posts
zombiebrain posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 9:39 AM
How easy is it to learn Hexagon? I’ve been trying to self teach my self Shade 8, but its going slow. I guess I’m just wondering if it’s easier to model in Shade 8 or Hexagon 2
electronicpakrat posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 10:00 AM
I could say it's far easier than Shade's kludge of a UI, but then why should you believe me ? If you're a PC member then go over to DAZ3D.com, buy it for the measly $2 bucks and then return it inside of 30 days if you decide it's not for you. 
zombiebrain posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 10:27 AM
I guess ill do that since it's smarter to pay 32 than 200+ to try it. Thank’s. :)
Dynamo posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 10:33 AM
Yea, I got shade..never liked the UI myself EP. Im in the same boat as you Zombie, but for 2 bucks, I'll bite.
oscillator posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 1:42 PM
But it all depends on what you want to do, doesn't it? Shade is a spline-based modeller (with some polygon mesh tools thrown in to let you do morph targets for your Poser figures), whereas Hex2 is for polygon modelling.
As a Shade user I'm seriously thinking about buying Hex2 for the polygon tools. I think the two tools will complement each other just fine.
www.oscillator.se/3d - Shade tutorials and Poser freebies.
Tashar59 posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 2:13 PM
I have Shade8.5 standard. Can't beat the usefulness of it's spline and curves. Wings for the blockmodeling.
Hex is like the 2 together, in a way. Hex kind of takes the best of both with a better ui. Hex 2, the unrwaping UV, the displacement brushes alone would make it worth the price.
But, modeling software is a personal thing. What works for me my be total crap for you. But you really can't go wrong getting it for the price right now.
philebus posted Fri, 28 April 2006 at 2:19 PM
The Hexagon line tools don't quite match Shade's but then splines is what Shade has been about for a looooong time. The interface is a matter of taste - if you've done any TD or CAD, then when you look at Shade, you just fall into it. Hexagon is the easiest to use though, I learned a whole lot faster thanks to its manual with videos and the interface is very well designed - if a bit buggy! While Shade is like useing a drawing board, Hexagon is more akin to sculpting. Whatever you think of the building tools, its worth getting at this price for the UV mapping, texturing, and displacement painting tools alone. You'll not get those in anything for even close the same price.