Wings 3D or Blender for modeling

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#1

I see many ppl prefer to use Wings 3D to do there modeling and then import it into blender. Is this just a matter of preference or does Wings 3D have superior modeling ability??

If you prefer 1 or the other I would be interested in knowing why (please only respond if you have tried both).

Thanks

Robb

#2

If you are box modelling wings has a few tools that blender still lacks ie. intrude. Wings also supports ngons which blender does not (this is a big deal for some people although it isn’t for me). If I create more complex models in wings (try a cactus with a lot of spikes) I find that it slows down considerably, I gather this is because of the size of the data structures involved.

If you like to model by extruding faces or a combination of face and box modelling (the way I usually work) it is usually easiest just to do it in blender.

So in summary – unless there is a specific feature in Wings that would make my life easier (ie. intrude) I generally just model in Blender. Note that before the loop cut tools etc. were added to blender it was the other way around – I modelled in wings3d unless some feature in blender made my life easier. Learn both and use whatever is best for the task at hand.

GreyBeard

#3

I’m sure other people will come up with a lot of good reasons, but a big reason why I like Blender is ease of use. All of the navigation modifier keys are in the right place (for zooming, rotating etc). It feels like a tool that was built by people who actually used the software all day every day. It reminds me of when I worked for a newspaper in the early 90’s and I used QuarkXPress like it was the air I breathed.

Scott

#4

If Blender had:

  • a bevel tool that works was well as the one in Wings3d
  • a better way to display flipped normals (I like the lines attached to faces in Wings, makes it very easy to find a flipped normal).
  • better mouse/keyboard customization (the mouse customization settings in Blender don’t work very well).

I don’t think I’d need to use Wings anymore.

Likewise, if uv mapping in Blender were as good easy/intuitive as it is in Ultimate Unwrap3d, I wouldn’t need UUwrap3d either :wink:

I’m not trying to badmouth Blender, I’ve really grown to love it over the last few weeks, but I think there are some areas it could improve on.

Just my 2cents…