Silo Modeller (Atrocities please read)

[Ed Kolis]

Atrocities, I thought you might be interested in this:

http://www.nevercenter.com/index.php/Home/254

I downloaded the 15-day trial (the full Version is something like $109 so it's FAIRLY affordable ) and it looks like a pretty sweet modeller - debatable whether it's better than Wings, but it does look like it has the ability to build using "parts" like Doga (at least I'm ASSUMING that's what the "load reference into scene" command does) as well as model things from scratch. It's a subdivision modeller so you basically set a general outline for your shapes and let the software do the interpolation; you can set how sharp or smooth you want each edge to be. Silo can export to POV-Ray so you can render for SE4, and it also exports to 3DS so you can add textures with a UV mapper and convert to X with 3dsconv for Starfury! (Not sure if I'd recommend it over Wings, but I'd have to play around a bit more... it DOES support booleans and extrusions (though it's picky about when you can do them), unlike Wings, which is a biggie

[narf poit chez BOOM]

*sniffs at the link, nibbles on an edge of it and sits back to smooth his wiskers with a paw*

i've been thinking that i havn't been adding any mouse manerisms to my Posts, despite RP'ing a cartoon mouse. of course, i'm(by that i mean the real me) hampered by never having had a mouse for a pet.

*taps the link firmly with his paw and looks up*

[sparkly transportation graphics]

*emerges, dragging a .zip file behind him*

[ February 07, 2004, 04:59: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Ed Kolis]

I don't see any zip file...

[narf poit chez BOOM]

go through the link, click on downloads.

*straightens a wisker*

it's really quite simple

[Narratio]

I found Povray / Mowray had to use but the "learning Version" is quite well handled I think (being a total novice at this).

Good site. Good program

[Ed Kolis]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
go through the link, click on downloads.

Oh, I thought you meant you POSTED a zip file somewhere, not downloaded the software

[Nocturnal]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
*sniffs at the link, nibbles on an edge of it and sits back to smooth his wiskers with a paw*

i've been thinking that i havn't been adding any mouse manerisms to my Posts, despite RP'ing a cartoon mouse. of course, i'm(by that i mean the real me) hampered by never having had a mouse for a pet.

*taps the link firmly with his paw and looks up*

I feel like I'm watching history being made.

[Atrocities]

Hey thanks Ed.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I feel like I'm watching history being made. [/QB]

thank you. *spends the next 30 seconds scratching his ear.*

[ February 07, 2004, 23:12: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]