As I Daz3D have made Hexagon, Bryce and Daz Studio all available for free for a limited time. As a Blender user, until they finally ship BMesh, I am always in the market for a good modeler with effective COLLADA support. So at a price of 0$ I figured I would try out Hexagon 2.5. This is not a complete review, not even close, think of this more as a “These are the things I ran into that made me decide to not waste any more time on Hexagon” review.

Daz 3D, 3D Models, 3D. But I got Hex in 2013 and my serial number showed up automatically in my. Sent in the req to Daz for the Hexagon serial, they added it to. Hexagon 2.5 is a 3D Polygonal modeler for three. DAZ Studio Bridge, sculpted. Hexagon 2.5 Free Download With Serial Number [Windows & Mac] Hexagon 2.5 normally.

Obviously, it doesn’t have a happy ending, which is a shame. First off, it is a remarkably capable modeler, almost every feature you could want is in there somewhere. Feature-wise, it actually spanks Blender handily, with support for n-gons, good boolean supports, surfacing, etc. Nfs Most Wanted V1.2 Nocd Crack. First a look at the interface: At first glance it’s pretty clean. Properties and scene graph on the right, a tool shelf ALA Maya across the top and a mish mash of visibility buttons across the bottom across the bottom. Then this is where things start to show the sloppiness as well. Consider this expanded icon: As you can see from the tool tip, this control “Activates actual lighting” and when you click it, that toolbar folds out.

Any guesses what any of these icons means? Cause, I’ll tell you, I don’t have a bloody clue either! None of them have mouse over tool tips, so you are stuck trying to figure it out from the icons good luck with that. Don’t worry, there is always the help files to sort things out or wait, is there? Here comes big and I mean BIG strike number two. The help, yeah, there is none! Of course, there is a Help menu, and as you can see, the options look pretty encouraging over all but they do nothing!

You click Help->Documentation or Help->Tutorial and you are brought to Daz3D’s website. At first it appears that it is going to bring you to a documentation page, but then you are redirected back to the Front page. Alright, so the help hyperlink is broken, no big deal right, just surf to the help manually in your browser? Ah good idea, let’s try that! So you go to Support->Wiki from the front page manual. Then select Hexagon on the left hand side and click the Hexagon documentation link. Ooooh, this looks encouraging!

Hexagon 2.1 Manual in English, it’s an earlier version but better than nothing, lets click that! Amateur hour continues. So, no help, I guess you are on your own figuring things out and, well good luck with that. The interface is downright confusing. Take view navigation for example. Other than Blender, the 3D world has become pretty standardized on how to navigate in 3D, so lets see how it works in Hexagon.

To pan your view, hold down your middle mouse button. To zoom in your view, use the scroll wheel. Ok, pretty standard. To Dolly/Rotate your view you.

You well apparently you use the arrow keys. Yep, by default there is no mouse mode to actually orbit the camera! Of course, there might be, put to hell if I can find it with a complete lack of documentation!

Of course, a little googling later and I discovered the answer It’s a preference and it’s by default OFF! Seriously, why? For those following along at home, its pretty easy to resolve. Go to the Edit Menu->Preference Editor. Under the User Interface tab, click Misc then select Dolly around selection center, like so: Can you seriously tell me a reason why this wouldn’t be enabled by default? It’s a small thing, but it is infuriating until fixed. It’s a problem that exists for no reason, and those are always the worst kinds of problems.

There are a few thousand examples like this, all around, it’s like death from a thousand paper cuts. Like features are added or removed with no thought to being a cohesive tool. Lets take a look at the tools panel for an example: Second Life??? Why exactly is Second Life getting such important placement, or even placement at all? Now *this* is the type of thing you make optional in the Preference Editor! Now take another look back at the shelf and answer me this where you do think you would go to say split an edge? If you said anything except Vertex modeling, you are wrong.

Best Network Diagram Software Ware. Now lets take a look at that process How do you split an edge? Using a tool named Tessellate, that expands down with various options, lets take a look at that next!

So, not only do you not have documentation, you also do not have tooltips so its basically anyone’s guess which icon you actually want to press. But wait, there is a description of each icon below the shelf!