Software that sucks

[daverave]

Just having a little gripe, is there any software (or part of)that makes you say why did they do that whats the point. A lot of the times I say it must be me im going some thing wrong but its not always. One for me is photoshop 3D thing does any one use it? Zbrush Decimater that does a lot of good to your mesh LOL.......dave

[ben hobden]

I used the photoshop 3d thing once, but I dont think theres really a whole lot that can be done with it....I'm sure someone out there has done something that would prove me wrong with it, but unless you spent along time exploring it I think it's fairly limited.

Dont mind the decimation in Zbrush much? The couple of times Ive used it its pretty much worked, I did over do it once...decimated 3 times or so I think, and by the third the mesh was looking a bit worse for wear.

Have you used it on your elephant toy challenge?

p.s Dave...you know theres a percentage setting in Decimation Master you can adjust, so you can decimate to 20% of the polys, or 78% or whatever you choose....

[bullet1968]

did a bit dave with the 3D thing in PS, got flustered and left it after that..I actually tried it on my Spitfire with a little succes...but yeh Im still puzzled by it.

cheers bullet

[Chirone]

i'll throw in blender into this discussion.

I haven't used it for ages but I've used it a few times and found there is a hidden menu that you access by dragging some bar that doesn't look draggable.

and it's a useful menu too... why hide UI and not give indication that it exists?

[ben hobden]

I'll add my support to this. I used blender for a few hours once...not sure if I was even familiar with Maya at the time...think I tried to follow some tutorial to create a snowman...but just something about it, the u.i maybe, ...probably, but still, three years on, when I see or hear people mention Blender, a little part of me inside, groans.

[honestdom]

i guess if you use a lot of pirate software its easy to moan about open source stuff. Never used blender but i hear its great... except when its updated and nothing from a previous version works.

[bullet1968]

Yes I DL'd Blender...used it for 5 and left it at that. You could try some of my Survey software LOL...same crap....some is good most is mud.

[ben hobden]

Not knocking Blender too much, Ive seen some cool stuff and then been surprised to see its been created with Blender...just brings back some bad memories for me...bad time.

[Chirone]

its easy to moan about open source stuff

regardless of whether or not the software is free you should never write your interfaces to have hidden menus that have no obvious way on how to show it.