Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 21:41:54 UTC No. 861175

>>861172

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 21:42:27 UTC No. 861176

What do you intend to do with the software?

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 21:46:04 UTC No. 861177

>>861172
whichever you use to achieve your goals is gonna be the best in the world for you.

You ARE working on achieving your goals, right?

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 22:09:18 UTC No. 861184

Software is mostly irrelevant. If you're not artistically inclined or trained then no feature-laden piece will help you make decent work. The computer is a tool, it does nothing without your genius.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 22:11:03 UTC No. 861185

Software is mostly irrelevant. If you're not artistically inclined or trained then no feature-laden tool will help you create decent work. The computer is a tool, it does nothing without your genius.

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 23:21:19 UTC No. 861195

Did you even read the sticky?

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 23:33:39 UTC No. 861196

>>861172
THE ONE YOU HAVE WITH YOU

Anonymous at Tue, 9 Nov 2021 23:51:28 UTC No. 861201

>>861172
personally am a long time fan of max for modeling/unwrapping but am going to need to make the switch to maya for work. zbrush is good for sculpting and from what i understand even tho you can model in houdini its really good for fx/fluid sim and destructions

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 09:07:20 UTC No. 861241

Blender
/thread

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 11:47:19 UTC No. 861258

>>861241
If you're poor and you don't value your time, yes.

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:53:21 UTC No. 861312

Red is must have.
Green you can chose.
I don't know anything about the rest.

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 15:55:25 UTC No. 861313

>>861312

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 16:27:17 UTC No. 861322

>>861172
H
Z
B or/and C

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:04:27 UTC No. 861343

>>861172
Best FOR WHAT?
You realize that different tools have different specialities, right?

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 18:24:03 UTC No. 861347

>>861313
>Blender or Maya
>"Green you can choose"
>proof that they don't have a real job in the industry

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:01:51 UTC No. 861366

after dropping everything and reminiscing for a few minutes :)

2d/3d generalist btw

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:25:45 UTC No. 861378

>>861172
Yes

Anonymous at Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:47:49 UTC No. 861390

>>861313
this but without blender, it's useless for anything more serious than rendering noisy donuts

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Nov 2021 04:18:43 UTC No. 861439

if you have money buy all of them and shove it up your ass

Anonymous at Thu, 11 Nov 2021 23:52:18 UTC No. 861571

i like rhino for archviz. it's at least much better than sketchup

Anonymous at Fri, 12 Nov 2021 01:48:54 UTC No. 861583

Cinema 4D, Houdini and ZBrush

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:23:12 UTC No. 862712

>>861343
Not OP but what would be the best choice for video game asset creation. I've played around in blender but I don't have much interest in animation so I'd like to switch something more tailored to game development.

Anonymous at Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:07:11 UTC No. 862734

I'm a newbie to /3/ but what's with Cinema4D being used so much? Can someone enlignten me on what this software does better than the concurence?

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Nov 2021 05:04:53 UTC No. 862831

>>862734
Text, graphic design elements (working with SVG to 3d) and motion graphics stuff with the node system in it.

Basically c4d is really lovely for advertising and TV work and not ideal for anything else.

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:44:03 UTC No. 862930

What would be best for sculpting something I want to 3d print? I've tried blender and the free version of zbrush (which is slightly better for it IMO.)

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:09:43 UTC No. 862944

Extremely biased take

Anonymous at Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:04:39 UTC No. 862952

>>862930
You answered your own question.

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Nov 2021 08:59:38 UTC No. 865325

>>862944
Why do you have Cinema4D listed as shit?

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Nov 2021 11:43:55 UTC No. 865350

>>862944
Dumbass kiddie

Anonymous at Sun, 28 Nov 2021 12:07:47 UTC No. 865359

>>862944
>blender
>good

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 08:21:12 UTC No. 868293

>>861343
Retard

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 09:05:03 UTC No. 868297

>>861172
I am looking for a nice creative outlet and scuplting seems fun, is there a decent free software for it? Zbrush is way too expensive

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 09:27:34 UTC No. 868300

>>868297
zbrush but pirated

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 12:24:54 UTC No. 868332

I pirate everything I see. Software, hardware, cars, women.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:03:13 UTC No. 868352

>>862944
Based. Fuck C4D

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:19:55 UTC No. 868357

>>868297
There's a free version of Zbrush in their own website you can use called Zbrush core mini.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 14:23:46 UTC No. 868358

>>868352
show portfolio, brainlet

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 19:21:52 UTC No. 868426

>>861258
then what do you use as beginner

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 19:26:35 UTC No. 868431

>>868426
Invest the time and sweat to get into big boy territory from the get go
Pirate Maya or 3ds, pirate zbrush, pirate Substance, pirate Nuke, pirate all the necessary plugins and resources.

Anonymous at Thu, 9 Dec 2021 19:33:55 UTC No. 868439

>>868431
ty bro will do

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 04:15:53 UTC No. 868863

>>861185
This

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:43:46 UTC No. 868904

>>862944
pretty good take.
I'd move maya and blender up to great, 3ds to good or great.
substance is a great program but I'm getting tired of people shitting up the world with auto baked smart materials, cause they lack art direction, which often turns to be soulles. Obviously not a fault of the software, just personal spite.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:46:19 UTC No. 868906

>>868439
>>868431
be careful about pirating nuke. The foundry is known to send out letters to individuals even without any commercial dwelling. If you are NA or EU i'd get the free version to learn it. Or diconnect your PC from the internet and use burner emails and don't register anything connected to you on their websites.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 12:11:05 UTC No. 868910

>>868431
oh shit not the f**ndry, i dont want to get cease and desist orders

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:39:32 UTC No. 868932

>>868910
>>868906
My compositing machine has no physical connection to the internet.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:52:33 UTC No. 868951

>>868932
good shit.
For everybody wondering, the foundry comares imei numbers between the software-reports and email-headers to find out names, adresses and social media profiles. I'm not even sure if they are still practicing their violent copyright practices anymore since blackmagic dropped fusion to like $170 and the market seems more competetive than ever. But better safe than sorry.

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:18:17 UTC No. 868965

Rhino grasshopper hands down

Anonymous at Sat, 11 Dec 2021 18:37:39 UTC No. 869036

>>861172
blender, i have no problems with it and i am no longer a beginner whose still looking for modeling sofware

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:04:03 UTC No. 869228

>>861172
>blender
The old interface is pants on head backwards and I hate it. There are options in the interface to make it work more like other software of your choice but it's not the same. I've never tried the update.

>3DS Max
Is great and is what I learned a ton about making 3D models on. Unless you're pirating, I'm not sure it's worth the money, especially since they have a subscription only last I checked.

>Cinema 4D
This is what I prefer, mostly only because this is what my school used so it is what I am most comfortable with (I am studying digital media arts), and is like 1/2 the price of 3DS max last I checked.

>Maya
I played around with it once like 15 years ago. I dunno what the big hype is (or was), but then again, last I tried it, I didn't know jack shit about making 3D models.

>sketchup
If this is what I think it is, just learn 3DS or C4D instead of wasting your time.


I haven't heard of or used any of the others.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:09:22 UTC No. 869229

>>861172
Is it a general rule to have a semi-decent pc to run ANY 3d modeling software? I admit my laptop is 5+ years old but it can barely handle any 3d software I try to use.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:15:16 UTC No. 869230

>>869229
not OP but I can tell you, that you generally want as powerful of a computer as possible, especially when it comes time to render your project. If you're modeling something and not rendering, you can get away with not as powerful of a computer, depending on how big of a project it is.

I'm willing to bet your laptop has some bottom of the barrel integrated graphics chip in it. Granted, this should be enough to *start* a 3D modeling program, you will have an awful time doing anything more than just making a few cubes. Get a computer with a good graphics chip.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:16:50 UTC No. 869231

>>869230
Any recommendations?

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:30:23 UTC No. 869233

>>869231
Build your own. Good GPU, lot of RAM. The rest is less important, but decent enough not to bottleneck you.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:34:05 UTC No. 869235

>>869231
I don't really have much on mind, but if you're a beginner, then pretty much anything made in the last couple years that you can afford with an NVIDIA graphics chip should be plenty to get you off the ground, for now. Make sure whatever you get says it has a discrete or dedicated GPU. Otherwise it'll be integrated and you'll be in the same boat you are now. If it doesn't specify on the tech spec page if it's discrete/dedicated or integrated, then move to another one because it is probably integrated. The reason I say NVIDIA as opposed to AMD/Radeon is because a lot more software things support NVIDIA than Radeon. CPU IMO doesn't matter if it's Intel or AMD.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:37:08 UTC No. 869237

>>869233
I'm poor.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 11:58:13 UTC No. 869239

>>869237
>>869235
Not sure if this is in your price range (it was the 1st laptop I saw on newegg.com) but see pic related. That's what you want to see. IMO the part that says "card" is misleading, unless it really is a card that can be replaced (only seen it in super high-end laptops that are >$6,000 so yeah, not likely actually a "card").

Here's a link to the laptop if you want to see for yourself
https://www.newegg.com/ink-black-msi-summit-e14-a11scs-088-mainstream/p/N82E16834155666

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 13:21:02 UTC No. 869249

>>869237
Self built is cheaper. Also don't get a laptop then, you pay more for mobility. Unless you absolutely need mobility.

You can't exactly work on graphics if you can't afford a computer that can do said graphics, can't really get around that.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 19:03:27 UTC No. 869308

>>869249
This. High performance laptops also tend depreciate so quickly that it is practically throwing money away. Unless you truely need the mobility (if you have to ask, you probably don't need it), get a desktop. They're cheaper and have bigger heat syncs/radiators and fans (the cooling system) so can take the abuse much better. Personally I would never use a laptop for heavy loads like rendering for hours upon hours. If I ever got a high performance laptop, I'd strictly use it for modeling and send the job to my desktop at home to do the heavy lifting. The most I'd use it for would be a few renders here and there to make sure the model/texture & shit look OK before sending it to my desktop at home, comitting it to hours upon hours of work.

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 20:59:46 UTC No. 869333

>>868965
i will never be smart enough to properly do that

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:01:19 UTC No. 869354

>>869233
Good luck, it's a seller's market and scalpers are driving prices into the fucking stratosphere.

Gotta go prebuilt, it's yucky but at least you won't have to dispense of a kidney

Anonymous at Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:07:05 UTC No. 869357

>>869354
Prebuilt uses the same cards.

Anonymous at Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:44:01 UTC No. 869533

hey guys what best one to do wrap around 2d pics on model that is pre-made? and is there function where i can pick part of model and ignore rest while doing first.
>complete noob

Anonymous at Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:45:03 UTC No. 869534

>>869533
i have 3d coat and use ps to apply 2d picture, but it doesnt work too well obviously. or i dont know well enaugh yet

Anonymous at Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:18:31 UTC No. 869538

>>869357
they buy in bulk, so they have reduced prices.

Anonymous at Tue, 14 Dec 2021 01:09:14 UTC No. 869576

>>869354
why do all the prebuilts come covered in stupid rainbow lights with gayass childish logos
can I get a pc with a good graphics card that doesn't look like it was made for a teenager please?