jodapiento

I have been trying sketchup, archicad and 3d studio, but when it comes to do something like landscape or organic geometry it is useless and if it is usefull it doesnt has the precision for doing architecture.

or for example in sketchup, it doesnt has an organic type of modeling that you could be confortable with. and archicad it is very weak to model rare type of buildings and surfaces. and 3d studio it feels to me that it isnt very easy to use for modeling. well i dont know.

what program do you use?
or do you combine more than one to do differents type of things?

Dave Buchhofer

personally i just use max, but we've got a lot less curvey organic stuff and a lot more irregular angle stuff to build generally

landscaping and whatnot always feels to me like there HAS to be something better out there to do it, but if there is, i've yet to find it after 8 years. We solve it more by being judicious in framing our shots than we do by going for sheer accuracy.

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jtaddei

i prefer to use max to model a scene with straight up poly modeling... more control over the textures in less steps.

at work we model in autocad and file link into max... it's really the only way like 5 people can work on different parts of the 3d file and changes can just be updated with a simple file link.

AJLynn

Define "organic". Can you give some examples of the sorts of modeling you want to do?

alrawli

Max is pretty flexible for organic modelling and youll get alot of benefit when you get to unwrapping and texturing.

Antisthenes

Rhino... very interoperable

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AJLynn

The problem with Rhino is that it can do great geometry, but if the desire is to use animation tools to do parametric modeling, Rhino fails miserably. That's why I asked what kind of modeling - if the answer is "I want to model things with curves and have very good manual control of the curature and make clean geometry from them" then, Rhino. If it's "I've got this here vector field and I want to track particle movement through it to generate some whimsical forms" that's a whole different game.

Antisthenes

it sounds like you havent used paracloud, the new plugin that came out today: Grasshopper(explicit history), Uniform deformation the RealFlow plugin or History. in v4.

http://grasshopper.rhino3d.com/
http://en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.as...wImporter.html

i would love to show you around. let me know.

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