mesaticus
02-03-2005, 11:38 PM
I'm fairly new to Cinema and have been working on R8.2 with the Meshsurgery tools for about a month or so (bought the packaged off Ebay).
Being a total newbie at modeling, I often struggle when trying to follow tutorials (in other software) so I decided to download a demo of R9 to see if it was worth getting the upgrade since I haven't yet fully developed the fine workflow of R8 (I've ready several threads on this board with people seemingly to be content with R8 and certain plug-ins, so it makes myself hesitant as to if its worth the money). Yet on the otherhand, just n-gons and the way the weld tool works seems to me as if it would save headaches (when I weld in R8 I never know where its going to result from)
The first thing I noticed, was how much faster R9 was (viewport wise, didn't test the rendering), and how much better things displayed in the viewport. Opening up my same project in the demo, the comparison was uncanny.
Was this actually a touted feature of R9? Can people who've upgraded speak to this? I'm really only interested in the "core" program, so I assume you don't have to own certain modules for this performance enhancement (sorry if that's a dumb question).
Another thing I notice in R8 when I have blueprints is pretty bad "pixel jumping". You can see what I mean here http://frame7.com/viewport_shift.jpg . R9 doesn't appear to do this at all. This is another headache when I'm trying to align points on a seemingly moving target everytime I rescale.
Sorry if this was a long speech, just wanted to see what the people who've upgraded have felt in terms of performance. I'm almost ready to dip into the cookie jar, but am willing to listen to the people who tell me to be patient with R8.
Thanks.
Being a total newbie at modeling, I often struggle when trying to follow tutorials (in other software) so I decided to download a demo of R9 to see if it was worth getting the upgrade since I haven't yet fully developed the fine workflow of R8 (I've ready several threads on this board with people seemingly to be content with R8 and certain plug-ins, so it makes myself hesitant as to if its worth the money). Yet on the otherhand, just n-gons and the way the weld tool works seems to me as if it would save headaches (when I weld in R8 I never know where its going to result from)
The first thing I noticed, was how much faster R9 was (viewport wise, didn't test the rendering), and how much better things displayed in the viewport. Opening up my same project in the demo, the comparison was uncanny.
Was this actually a touted feature of R9? Can people who've upgraded speak to this? I'm really only interested in the "core" program, so I assume you don't have to own certain modules for this performance enhancement (sorry if that's a dumb question).
Another thing I notice in R8 when I have blueprints is pretty bad "pixel jumping". You can see what I mean here http://frame7.com/viewport_shift.jpg . R9 doesn't appear to do this at all. This is another headache when I'm trying to align points on a seemingly moving target everytime I rescale.
Sorry if this was a long speech, just wanted to see what the people who've upgraded have felt in terms of performance. I'm almost ready to dip into the cookie jar, but am willing to listen to the people who tell me to be patient with R8.
Thanks.