EIM Rave

#1

Nothing I can show but wanted to express my pleasure at EIM being reborn into the future.

Been working over the holidays - someone has to pay santa for all of the new guitars and amps he left in my place over the last boxing-day week!

I have to say, EIM is such a creative modeler - especially for graphic design type of work. It just works - days and days in it and not a hick-up or crash. I think if EI keeps including tools which designers can use there is a whole market there which no-one else is providing anything like EIM can.

A little simplification might be needed in some places but the core is definitely there.

Also the added features in V7 are a welcome addition. Multi-layers are such a joy to use and the HDRI is doing what it needs to do.

#2

Hi, Paul
Are you testing the new EiAS modeller?..
FelixCat

#3

Nope - not yet.

#4

I’m pretty stoked by the idea of Modeler rising from the ashes. To this day it remains the one and only 3D app I have ever been able to sit down and just use without any training. I tried a bunch of apps before I settled on EI — from Lightwave to Max to InfiniD — and none of them were approachable or, more importnatly, discoverable the way that Modeler was. That’s what sold me on EI. I downloaded a cracked copy and immediately built a model with it. Because of that positive experience, I bought a license.

Flash forward a few years and everything else I’ve tried since then has seemd positively haphazzard in execution. Modo has some real merits, but the second I see an app with enforced modes, e.g. vertex mode, edges mode, polygons mode, items mode — that is, complexity solved with more complexity — alarms begin to go off in my head. EI Modeler, for all its complexity, manages to stay simple, which is a huge accomplishment.

Besides, polygons are SO 1990.

#5

EIM is a unique modeler and if some basic rules are followed with it, it performs well but if those rules or work-flow isn’t quite right it can be very tedius to work in.

I’ve gotten to know what I can and can’t do in it so always reach for another modeler if I know EIM isn’t up to the task - this keeps frustration at bay. But what it does well, nothing else I’ve used touches that - a very creative tool.

I’d like to see:

Snapping of Rhino/Concepts
Forgiving nature of Rhino - numerical precision can relax a little
Rounding capability of Concepts
Bezier curve toolset as capable as 3D Max - you don’t hear much about this but Max’s Bezier curves and tools are fabulous.
Blend and continuity tools of Rhino - once again the forgiving nature and robustness
SubD enhancements - Modo comes to mind

#6

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