03-21-2016, 06:23 PM
Hi Everyone,
I've not posted anything for a long time but I do lurk on the forum so I keep an eye on things, looking out for suggestions, niew releases , gain inspiration from the fantastic models I see getting created by various peoples (and getting envious) and generally trying to learn techniques and methods to become a better modeler.
Wings 3D is certainly not dead, but I do think we all, and that includes me, need to be more active in creating and displaying our efforts. The gallery for the main website has good samples, but why cant we do something like they have in Blender and Povray (although Povray to a certain extent suffers the same way as Wings - people have created fantastic images that get shared internally but rarely seen outside).
But if anyone things Wings is not being taken up, let me tell you of a recent experience. I was looking at the Art of Illusion and at the end of last year the creator of the program put out a sort of SOS. He has reached a point where he can no longer really keep improving and adding the functionality because of the calls on his time in real life. He started a discussion about the future of the program. And there was a lot of debate about the positioning of AoI as regards to whether they should aim to make it a more professional product or pitch it to the casual artist. Then there was the question of take up. Wings has a good healthy following that is fortunate in that the few really talented contributors are also easily approachable when it comes to help and advice. AoI has a handful of people who are regulars on their forums and and even fewer who are contributors with regards to producing images and such. In some ways their woes are similar to ours but on a bigger scale. I think though that unlike AoI that claims to be easy to use it's not as intuitive or as quick and easy to pick up as our Wings.
So I think we have it good, but there are areas that could be improved, better gallery, getting the documentation up to date , more tutorial videos and documents. Perhaps a central documentation repository for anyone with written tutorials can be added and accessed.
Anyway sorry for the long post, just making up for lost time
I've not posted anything for a long time but I do lurk on the forum so I keep an eye on things, looking out for suggestions, niew releases , gain inspiration from the fantastic models I see getting created by various peoples (and getting envious) and generally trying to learn techniques and methods to become a better modeler.
Wings 3D is certainly not dead, but I do think we all, and that includes me, need to be more active in creating and displaying our efforts. The gallery for the main website has good samples, but why cant we do something like they have in Blender and Povray (although Povray to a certain extent suffers the same way as Wings - people have created fantastic images that get shared internally but rarely seen outside).
But if anyone things Wings is not being taken up, let me tell you of a recent experience. I was looking at the Art of Illusion and at the end of last year the creator of the program put out a sort of SOS. He has reached a point where he can no longer really keep improving and adding the functionality because of the calls on his time in real life. He started a discussion about the future of the program. And there was a lot of debate about the positioning of AoI as regards to whether they should aim to make it a more professional product or pitch it to the casual artist. Then there was the question of take up. Wings has a good healthy following that is fortunate in that the few really talented contributors are also easily approachable when it comes to help and advice. AoI has a handful of people who are regulars on their forums and and even fewer who are contributors with regards to producing images and such. In some ways their woes are similar to ours but on a bigger scale. I think though that unlike AoI that claims to be easy to use it's not as intuitive or as quick and easy to pick up as our Wings.
So I think we have it good, but there are areas that could be improved, better gallery, getting the documentation up to date , more tutorial videos and documents. Perhaps a central documentation repository for anyone with written tutorials can be added and accessed.
Anyway sorry for the long post, just making up for lost time