When comparing VoxelShop vs Makers Empire 3D, the Slant community recommends VoxelShop for most people. In the question“What are the best voxel editors?” VoxelShop is ranked 2nd while Makers Empire 3D is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose VoxelShop is:
VoxelShop is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Specs
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Pros
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.
Pro Works on many platforms
Supports iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac.
Pro Gamification
While only simple at this stage when you create and participate in sharing and commenting or even uploading you can unlock various, useful, purpose built items to create more detailed 3D printable models. The characters and avatars which you unlock are very cute like Japanese inspired anime.
Pro Easy to use navigation
Icons are easy to understand and so simple that children (as young as 4) can use it.
Pro Easy to use with touch controls
It is touch optimized, making for an easy touch controlled experience.
Cons
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).
Con Not easy to export to .qb when there are many models
Con This is not a voxel editor. Shouldn't be in this list.
Con Limited exporting formats
You can only export files as STL.