When comparing Buffy the Voxel Editor vs VoxelShop, the Slant community recommends VoxelShop for most people. In the question“What are the best voxel editors?” VoxelShop is ranked 2nd while Buffy the Voxel Editor is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose VoxelShop is:
VoxelShop is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
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Pros
Pro Provides public and private cloud storage
Pro Supports .qb and .vox file formats
Pro Works in web browsers
No need to install, cross platform
Pro Easy to copy and share public models
Pro Cross-platform
VoxelShop is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Pro Free
VoxelShop is Open Source. You can download and use the software for free, but donations are encouraged to support the project.
Pro Great for game-dev
Exported .dae files are optimized to lowest possible amount of polygons. Despite lack of animation support .dae files can be imported to Blender and animated.
Pro Layers
Pro Export to COLLADA
Pro Exports optimized meshes
The export (to DAE files) removes unnecessary geometry, creating an optimized model.
Pro Palettes
Easy to go with a theme.
Pro Textured voxels
Pro Exports to kv6
Helpful for making larger voxels for Doom.
Cons
Con Does not support offline mode
Con Website is no longer available.
Con Does not support .obj export format
Con Really buggy
Sometimes it crashes at startup, some large models instantly crash the program, having the mirror function on causes every action to get mirrored (even imports get mirrored).