should I stick with wings?????

[TheFrumpster]

www.anim8or.com
You can use that to render. That's what I use. Check out the WIP forum on the website to see what kind of renders you can do.
Or just use blender.:surprised

Edit: Or better yet, why don't you render using yafray or 3delight?

[tsuru]

I would argue that looking for one application to fill every need you have is just not plausible or efficient. If you find that you are working great in wings then by all means don't cast it aside because it doesn't have a mature enough texturer yet.

What you should be looking for IMO is how well wings fits into the pipeline <yay buzzwords> of your work flow. Wings' great strength is it can export to a variety of standard formats that many other applications, both commercial and free, can import and then work from there. In fact I, along with some others I hear, have moved from using Maya for poly modeling to Wings... then when ready to animate / texture we send it to Maya.

don't throw away your dremel tool just cause it can't paint a house.

[JDex]

Keep wings in your toolbelt... I have XSI, but I model (or at least mostly model) everything in wings. Never dismiss it, as it works great, offers some modeling options that no other program does, and best of all... it's freakin free.

If you're a student, keep modeling with wings until you can afford a better program than the ones you mentioned (I have truespace, don't like it, don't use it), instead get a student version of XSI, or Maya, or Lightwave or Cinema4d... I personally recommend XSI (of course I would) because it's academic version is "permanent" (doesn't expire) and also because from what the folks up at Softimage have been telling me they will allow students to upgrade from academic to academic release (3.0 to 3.5 and so on). I don't think any of the other "professional" applications are (or will) allow that.

Anyways use wings... it doesn't get (much) better for poly's...

whew... 2 cents please

[MasonDoran]

the newest issue of 3dBuzz magazine has a bonus CD with all of the free apps you need for doing 3d....including wings!

[strongforce]

ok I have decided to stick with wings. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: So can you tell me any free programs that I can export to to render that aren't in dos.


I know this is a stuipd question but could you tell me how I get my avitar up

[dAfTiE]

No idea about the avatar thingie...
As for renderers I use 3delight,cinema4D and for the last 5 hours or so,yafray.
If you install yafray,you can render directly from within wings,
as you can with the ribbit and povray exporter plugins,
but since the yafray one is in the core distribution,
you don't have to wait for it to be updated :)

You need to get the 0.03 and the march 9 CVS snapshot update for windows,
or just the source tarball "yafray-cvs20030309.tar.gz" for linux.
Not tried it in windows yet,but so far it seems to work really well in linux.
Oh,and you can get the files from :
http://www.coala.uniovi.es/~jandro/noname/downloads.php
hope this helps some...

[S3D]

I believe that you have to have a certain number of posts before you are able to post your avatar.

as for sticking with Wings... why not? a) it's free
b) more important than a) it has a nice assortment of just the right tools for box modeling c) see above :)

as for free render apps... pick em :)

[JamesMK]

...and there's no reason not to try Blender. I use Wings all the time for modeling and UV-unwrapping, then export to VRML+UV and feed that into Blender. It's extremely capable, at least if you can manage the somewhat steep learning-curve, and, indeed, free too. But do not dismiss Wings. It kicks rear bits.

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