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Ultimate Unwrap 3D
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Support for many file formats
It supports more than 100 file formats. Some of these formats include FBX, DAE, ASE, DXF, LWO, OBJ, and DirectX.
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Windows only
It's developed for Windows only. So no Linux or Mac version is available.
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One of the fastest alternatives around
Unwrap 3D's developers claim that it's the fastest UV mapper on the market. Several benchmark tests and it's 64-bit unfolding core have proved that statement true.
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Blender
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Free and open source
Blender is licensed under the GPL. Some Blender modules such as the Cycles rendering engine are licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
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Too many possibilities, no unified workflow
The operations are not optimized enough for specific tasks.
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Wide import and export format support
Support lots of modern 3D formats including DAE and FBX - ideal for game developers.
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The physics engine is a bit lagging behind, especially the destruction physics
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Has a powerful rendering engine
Blender runs the Cycles path tracing engine under the hood. Cycles is a very powerful rendering engine capable of full path tracing (light fall off, caustics, volumetrics). It is mostly compatible with OpenCL and CUDA rendering, and is implementing mycropolygon displacement features. The upcoming release has a viewport engine called EEVEE whereby you can see and interact with your work in render mode in real time!
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Difficult learning curve
Blender has a history of being unintuitive, but the 2.8 overhaul made the program far easier for beginners to pick up, and changes continue to be made to further improve the experience. However, there is still a learning curve.
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Python extensibility
Blender embeds Python 3, which can be used to write add-ons, tools, extend the interface, rig characters and automate tasks.
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Not good for Industrial Design because it uses average vertex normals
You can not create a hard surface with a radius continuity degree along a surface using a specific radius value.
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Powerful animation suite
Blender provides a full rigging system, and automates animation by interpolating between keyframe positions.
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Vertex normal issues on edges after boolean operations.
After creating a simple boolean operation the vertex normals are broken. A lot of work to fix the issue and you loos surface continuity.
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Supports both low-poly and hi-poly modeling
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Bad vertex normal after boolean operations
Does not handle well polygon intersections. And need tweaking by hand points or adding average vertex normals via modifiers.
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Regular release schedule
Releases are made every ~3 months.
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Does not handle NURBs
Is not capable of real hard surface for industrial design because is not able to reproduce surface continuity degree as a NURBs does and average vertex normal destroy surface radius.
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Sculpting and 3D painting features
Although Blender's 3d painting and sculpting tools (mostly painting) are not at par with specialized software like Substance Painter, ZBrush, or Mari, it is more than capable of getting most jobs done if the user takes the time to learn and understand it.
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Poor particle system
The Blender particle system can at times be a little limiting and finicky (and buggy) to get working. Even if it can get most straight forward jobs done, it is far from the most advanced system, and could benefit largely from advancements.
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Includes video editing & compositing tools
Blender's node-based compositor has comprehensive video sequencing and post-processing features.
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Node based modeling support
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Keyboard shortcuts
Good keyboard shortcuts for everything. Keep your left hand on the keyboard and your right hand on the mouse.
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Very useful for a freelancer
It offers a round solution (it covers many areas and professional fields) for a freelancer, for free, constantly updated, very polished, and allowing high quality results that clients do require. After some learning, it becomes very useful for professional work.
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Has a large community
There's a huge community to help you get started immediately.
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Coherent and streamlined workflow / internal use logic
The trick with Blender is to get used to its usage philosophy, as it keeps consistent through all the application. Once you get it, every feature or addition is learnt naturally, almost effortlessly.
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Very versatile
You don't have to switch between software when you want to do different things. Because modeling, sculpting, composting, video editing etc can all be done in blender.
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Generative geometry using nodes
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, FreeBSD
Technology:
C, Python
3D:
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2D:
Yes (as of 2.8)
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RizomUV
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The fastest and toughest unwrapping algorithm
It's capable of handling shells made by more than one million triangles.
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Super intuitive and easy to use
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Several powerful algorithms to cut meshes automatically
New options have been added with the RizomUV 2018 release in May 2018.
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Has FBX support
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Totally scriptable using LUA
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Tool tips everywhere
Fast easy and makes sense. Headus is dated, and requires too many clicking around and navigating a dated UI. However RizomUV in my opinion is the fastest and easiest to use. Best packing and cutting automation.
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Modo
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Crashing non stop!
If you like deleting CFG files regularly, and sending bug reports then give modo a go!
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Unparalleled modeling pipeline
Even long-standing Maya users envy Modo's modeling toolset and pipeline for its power, flexibility, and speed.
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The most unstable 3D software
Modo takes UNSTABLE to a whole another level! Use Maya, Max, or Blender instead!
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User-friendly
It's very easy to get the grasp of the modeling work flow.
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Very unstable with too many bugs that were never fixed
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Decent user interface
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Poor value
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Organized layout and UX
Allow the users to take control of different aspects of the modeling pipeline with ease: UV maps, Weight maps, shader tree, selections methods included selections by statistics, falloff, workplane management.
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Not good for animation
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Great value
The new subscription-based licensing option brings entry costs down to $599 / year for floating licenses and promises even faster feature development.
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Very slow viewport performance
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MeshFusion
MeshFusion is a procedural boolean-based workflow that helps you to create complex meshes effortlessly.
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A lot of learning resources exist for this program
There are great support resources for newcomers and pros alike.
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3D-Coat
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Not a voxel program
This is a paid texture program. Why is it in this list?
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A known app for retopology
3D coat is also known in the game industry to be a great app to preform retopology.
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Voxel sculpting hits your system
Voxel is quite heavy on your computer, if you intent to use this as your main model and sculpt app do enough research to see if your computer can handle it and if you have the right graphic card for it. If you really have doubts , just go ask in the forums.
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Link to Photoshop, or any app that can open PSD files
You can save and open your texture work in apps like Photoshop, work on them and send them directly back to 3D coat. It will remember your layers and update.
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7 layer restriction in the affordable version
The cheapest version available only lets you paint on 7 layers, which is very unfortunate.
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Professionals recommend 3D Coat for Handpainted textures
You can texture in many styles with this app, but when it comes to Handpainting, as seen in World of Warcraft and Torchlight, 3D Coat is the one that many professionals will advice you to as their top choice.
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PBR materials
3D Coat supports the creation of your own PBR materials that are ready to be used in the PBR workflow.
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Voxel sculpting
Voxel sculpting is entirely free from the bounds of polygons and topology.
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A fast and fun way to UV
3D coat has made UVing my work go super fast and it's actually quite fun because you're finished in a breeze.
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