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by Markku
Sat Mar 03, 2018 4:16 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

Take your time, Simon. Trust me, in the end it will be faster to make it carefully. Rushing causes bugs. Those bugs can be very hard to correct. :D
by Markku
Sun Feb 25, 2018 6:21 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

A lot of progress, it seems. :D

Take your time. If there will be demo period, I'll be interested... :D
by Markku
Sun Feb 18, 2018 9:45 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

SVG would be a nice open format choice, better than many proprietary/commercial formats. (Commercial formats have additional nuisance: when new versions of commercial software is introduced, new additions to the format may be introduced, but no documenation exists until someone hacks the format.) Bu...
by Markku
Sun Feb 18, 2018 7:14 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Mecha II (testing some features found in manual)
Replies: 1
Views: 12171

Mecha II (testing some features found in manual)

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Just testing something I found in manual... :D

Modeled 100% in Curvy3D, render in Blender+Cycles.
by Markku
Sun Feb 18, 2018 10:34 am
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

Really, Simon, if these improvements are implemented, version 4 will really be awesome! :D

Take your time. Meanwhile, I re-read manual and learned a lot. So, when version 4 is implemented, remember to update the manual afterwards!
by Markku
Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:38 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

Another idea came to my mind when I was playing with line objects. Now line object's profile is circle. Could it be square? Then you could (for example, with half-circle arc curve) draw architectonic parts easier. Curved arches are parts of many things, but often they are not round in profile. Using...
by Markku
Sat Feb 17, 2018 8:52 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

First of all, I'm not *against* Booleans, I have used them longer than polygons. :D What I mean is, because Curvy is very, very good with curved surfaces, *and* produces nice meshes from them, it could be the competitive edge for it. I mean, market is full of 3D apps which produce polygon-heavy mesh...
by Markku
Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:55 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Re: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

Much of the lathe's and line's good behaviour with Curvy map is due to resolution slider. It does not work with cube...
by Markku
Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:19 pm
Forum: Curvy 3D New Features
Topic: Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...
Replies: 27
Views: 81463

Wow! 4.0 seems awesome...

There are really valuable additions coming. Those engraving tools look really good! :D However, unless booleans are really magical, I think we are getting into weak area of polygons. Booleans are bad, if they generate too much polys or if cuts are ugly. In raytracing (say, POV-Ray) booleans work, bu...
by Markku
Fri Sep 19, 2014 6:49 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Curvy for 3D Characters to be rigged?
Replies: 3
Views: 14621

Re: Curvy for 3D Characters to be rigged?

Hi Gochris, I've animated other models (mostly in Blender) and I've always used triangles. I don't understand why Cinema would prefer quads - they are IMHO more likely to deform badly when animated. I just want to clarify this, if it's relevant to someone... All animation apps nowadays prefer quads...
by Markku
Fri Dec 27, 2013 4:03 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Second life tutorials that aren't for sculpties?
Replies: 3
Views: 14959

Probably that's sculpted objects and Blender just shows it unsmoothed. You can smooth it inside Blender, it only changes normals, not geometry. If you make a Lathe and export it without any sculpting, it's pure quad object, very low poly. I guess Second Life likes more low poly objects? You can easi...
by Markku
Tue Dec 03, 2013 12:09 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Little Glass Man
Replies: 0
Views: 18214

Little Glass Man

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Modeled in Curvy 3.2.1, rendered in Blender Cycles.
by Markku
Mon Dec 02, 2013 3:40 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: Curvy Island
Replies: 1
Views: 19376

Curvy Island

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Curvy 3D 3.2.1 and Blender 2.69.

Island modeled in Curvy, Blender particle foliage, Blender Cycles render.

Every time I start Curvy I get these strange ideas... :D [/img]
by Markku
Sun Dec 01, 2013 7:32 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: A cartoon bird
Replies: 6
Views: 36621

With commercial game engines nowadays, anything is possible. I just wanted to warn you about problems I've already seen. :D

And yes, Curvy is a good tool in experiments; I use it for sketching forms all the time. With retopo tools, those forms can be used anywhere.
by Markku
Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:16 pm
Forum: Gallery
Topic: A cartoon bird
Replies: 6
Views: 36621

Probably this is not your thing then. :D It's very fast to do, probably 15-20 mins if you know waht to do; however, polycount is not very low. The more details you have the bigger polycount. For games, I think you need to retopo, if you consider this way of modeling. I have done something to game mo...