At first I thought my video card was incompatible...
Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 3:08 pm
I'll be honest, I've just tuned into this program over the past two days and love it to pieces as I got it as a magazine freebee but I did try this out a few months back and ran screaming initially.
The two things that threw me off were the number of 'this feature not in your version tags' which led me to believe that the program was under some heavy construction and whenever I saw the little red 'not allowed' sign next to a tool I thought it was because I was using the demo.
Also, the even bigger thing is I believe that a lot of people familiar with this new novelty way of modeling experienced the Teddy Smooth and Shape Shop prototypes which require you to draw the shape COMPLETELY thus closing the line that you were drawing.
Obviously, in Curvy this makes a huge mess.
It was actually buckling down and playing hard for the past two days that I realized that you're only meant to squiggle one half of the shape and the other half falls into place symmetrically. Silly me, going back to 3D 101, that is what a 'lathe' is......however......the kind of people that will be the biggest audience for this program are the ones that don't have the time or patience to go through that 3D 101 and learn the hard way through poly modeling.
I thought my video card just wasn't up to par for this a few months back and that's why I kept making a big mess (although the orbit function works much to quickly and chaotically in 1.6 and I have to VERY slowly move it in tiny increments to keep my model from jumping all over the screen.).
What I'm suggesting is more tuts like the teapot one that explains not to panic when a big mess happens on the first curve and that is just what the program does until the next curve is drawn in properly and also explaining the definition of 'lathe' and when starting off the model with the lathe tool, only the first side of the expected shape should be sketched and not closing the line. =)
Now that I know what I'm doing, I'm having a blast! I just wish I could attach my pieces together in 1.6 so that I can export my Curvy models to other programs.
Will be looking to purchase 2.0 before x-mas though. =)
The two things that threw me off were the number of 'this feature not in your version tags' which led me to believe that the program was under some heavy construction and whenever I saw the little red 'not allowed' sign next to a tool I thought it was because I was using the demo.
Also, the even bigger thing is I believe that a lot of people familiar with this new novelty way of modeling experienced the Teddy Smooth and Shape Shop prototypes which require you to draw the shape COMPLETELY thus closing the line that you were drawing.
Obviously, in Curvy this makes a huge mess.
It was actually buckling down and playing hard for the past two days that I realized that you're only meant to squiggle one half of the shape and the other half falls into place symmetrically. Silly me, going back to 3D 101, that is what a 'lathe' is......however......the kind of people that will be the biggest audience for this program are the ones that don't have the time or patience to go through that 3D 101 and learn the hard way through poly modeling.
I thought my video card just wasn't up to par for this a few months back and that's why I kept making a big mess (although the orbit function works much to quickly and chaotically in 1.6 and I have to VERY slowly move it in tiny increments to keep my model from jumping all over the screen.).
What I'm suggesting is more tuts like the teapot one that explains not to panic when a big mess happens on the first curve and that is just what the program does until the next curve is drawn in properly and also explaining the definition of 'lathe' and when starting off the model with the lathe tool, only the first side of the expected shape should be sketched and not closing the line. =)
Now that I know what I'm doing, I'm having a blast! I just wish I could attach my pieces together in 1.6 so that I can export my Curvy models to other programs.
Will be looking to purchase 2.0 before x-mas though. =)