You can render in Hex? I haven’t had a chance to install my copy yet.
Thank you 
Can’t go wrong for two bucks. I don’t use Daz’s models anymore but I leave my platinum membership active and it has saved me a lot of money over time. Much more than it costs. I’ve got to learn to check it more often though. I would have missed this.
I heard it has a lot of bugs
You can do a hardware (open gl) type render. I believe there is a small camera button near the bottome that can save the image. I have not had to much time to play lately though.
Upgrade now available on daz to 2.01Eovia Hexagon 2.01 Update
Hexagon 2.01 fixes several issues identified in Hexagon version 2.0. We strongly recommend all users install the Hexagon 2.01 update.List of main bugs fixed:
- Various fixes in the documentation
- UVS smoothing an object ,generate automatically uvs
- Texture change size internal error
- 4-Views windows show loaded objects from same viewpoint
- Adding and closing second New View leaves permanent black rectangle
- Program reports internal error when trying to export a displacement map
- Using the cone tool to make a truncated cone you can not tab to the radius to set the value
- Menu titles remain highlighted
- Internal error using UV unwrap w/ no selection
- Properties panel display corrupts after use of Extrude Line tool
- If material with texture not set on global object, painting on domains does not work
- UVS/Exception draw error when unwrap with invalid seams
- Interface bugs
- Menu File / Recent Files, not to list the non-importable files
- Display Command Viewer no longer works
- File saved in hexagon causes “Internal Error!” on loading
- Incorrect behaviour and interface corruption using Weld
- Bezier curve modif controls not working on Mac
- Properties panel: after rotation via input fields, size values are not adjusted
- Normals and UV data exporting with model when boxes are unchecked.
- Material names hidden.
- BUmp map paiting crash
- Hex opened by file from windows loses name, doesn’t always save
- Crash after creating new document after 2x load model
Several new dialogs have been added when Hexagon detects that the graphic board does not support a specific feature or when the version of OpenGL is less than 1.4. This helps users to understand what is wrong when the application does not work on their system.
© Eovia, A DAZ Productions company 2006
BIcc39… thanks for the hint regarding the update! It runs MUCH better now. I really lost my last arguments to classify it as 2$ junker… Wowza. I textured smome geometry from ZBrush today with it and it… it… just worked lol. Bumpmap as well as texture was easily painted on. Great addition to ZBrush.
And while being there I also got Carrara 5 PRO … 311$ instead of 600$ are cheap considering I get more than in my XSI package right now… So… Carrara day today 8-).
Let’s see what that beast can do to my geometry hahaha. Downloading right now…
Lemo
Tried it out on two machines. Seems to be very touchy about graphics cards. On one machine it keeps giving me a false error message about the version of Open GL. The manipulators wont appear but the other controls work.Says I’m running 1.4 and I’m actually running 6.somethin. I called the support phone number and got a recording directing me to another number which was Daz’s
phone support. The lady who answered told me that “phone support is only for Daz software” in a very rude tone and told me that I’d have to use e-mail support which would take 24 to 48 hours for an answer. I told her I thought Daz had purchased Hexagon was I mistaken and she got testy so I got off the phone. Oh well only 2 bucks I guess. Can’t complain. I hate these long email exchanges though. You send in an email explaining. 2 or 3 days later you get a response asking for more information. You send the information. 2 or 3 days later you get another answer saying we are working on it. You send another email asking when to expect a reply. Then 2 or 3 days later you get a reply that they will contact you as soon as they have an answer. Two weeks later you email again as they have forgotten you…:rolleyes: I was ready to give Carrera a try but I’m waiting to see how quick the support is. Might be OK. Who know’s.
Now that I’ve got that off my chest - I like it. Handles lots of poly’s and the dynamic geometry looks interesting. A couple of little bugs. Anybody know how good Carrara’s renderer is? I have not seen any renders anywhere that I can remember?
:evil: :evil: bah these DAZ guys are really …:evil:
First i got hexagon, that was totally ok for the price, it has some funky tools (like life painting with alphas which would be great for Zbrush too, youd not need to touch projection master again for painting details), buts still a bit buggy. no worries for that price though. But… as they planned ive seen this nice 30% voucher that was placed to my account. Which was obviously placed there to hook people up for carrara. Had quite a hard time to convince myself that i dont actually want that software… but i won the fight at the end, hurray…
This morning theres this damn newsletter in my email … they now sell carrara with a poser plugin, so you get even more for the bucks. Dang , im downloading now … haha i dont even own poser … i haaaaaaate special deals …
Blaine…
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/zbc/showthread.php?t=34970
You can see some renders there…
Lemo
Seems that the delay in release of ZBrush 2.5 has created a software feeding-frenzy in some members of this forum !
…yes, that includes you too ,Lemo :lol:
jantim
Blaine, this is not by way of an apology for DaZ, but
it might explain.
Have talked to customer service over the last few months
and have found them to be great, so your reponse surprised
me.
Had a question about a totally unrelated matter and decided to
call them yesterday.
Spoke to a fantastic woman. Will not give her name for obvious reasons.
The whole Eovia deal was done quickly and as far as DAZ employees were
concerned too quietly.
The customer support line was used to dealing with so many calls a day
regarding problems they knew and could solve.
All of a sudden the same people were being inundated with calls about
software and issues they knew nothing about.
Let us remember that the Program Hexagon’s new release had been discussed
and was in the works for this period.
Customers had made purchases. After the deal, DAZ was the owner of a program that basically hadn’t been released yet. To make matters worse
( for the employees) they came up with the deal we are discussing and the related problems. ( Not to mention the versions of Carrara and it’s plug-ins)
So instead of say, five people handling about 100 calls a day about problems they could fix. They are getting 4x that many about issues that they are learning about.
Add to that the wiseass Bicc 39 tells everybody and you get the idea.
Did not mention my post to her. Was afraid.
I would say in defense of them however, I have never called there without
my questions being answered.
Have sent some people to them that is why this interested me.
I agree. Daz services has been as good as service here. Never an unsolved problem. Even good with refunds when you got the wrong stuff or an unexpected quality. Hexagon took them by surprise and one of the major problems was that there have been a lot of very rude calls as quite a few people pre ordered Hexagon for a different amount… So stress everywhere.
Would be the same if 2.5 would have to be pre ordered for 200$ and then would be free after change of ownership. Hmmmm actually that would be worse as Bicc and I would driver there hahahahaha.
Cheers
Lemo
Thanks Lemo.
Not to worry bicc39. My first thought was that they were overwhelmed. I was told no phone support though? Its running fine on one computer.
My email from Daz says the crossgrade from Poser for the Carrara bundle is under $100 but when I go to the site it is 50% higher than the email says. I must be missing something.
Blaine…you need to be a platinum member.
And if you are aone, you need to log in. Otherwise it won’t show. I did that and felt real stupid after talking to support.
Lemo
Thanks,
The discount does not show up until checkout.
They sent me an email about the transition and it sounds like there will be phone support shortly.
Ok, so both were well worth the money, however theres mainly 1 point which is a bit confusing to me. Both of the apps keep crashing regularly, if i google for the error mesages (if theres any), i find nothing! Are there no users?
Am i the only one whos PC keeps crashing all 3 minutes? For Hexagon its ok as its just very new, but for carrara? There are many occasions where the GUI just goes ultimatively slow (SSS/displacement for example). I just cant see why the GUI needs to take 5 minutes to switch windows when such features should, if at all, slow down at render time only. I have turned off preview, but that makes it only a bit better. While I find the features of both carrara and hex to be very sweet, its usefulness is heavily hidden by bugs and UI quirks. I hope ill learn how to shiparound some of these.
BTW is there a texture size restriction? 4096 maps just keep crashing the app on me.
4096 maps… Trying to render the universe again ehhh?
I don’t really have problems alike. Actually… I did not crash with Carrara yet… Maybe you would like to open the task manager and check what your memory consumption is and also check that you have apropriate graphic drivers. I found Hexagon being very sensitive and with my big ATI I had to create it’s on little settings as it did not like my SoftImage settings…
Trial and error…
Good luck!
Lemo
I’ve seen so many posts with people having issues with Hexagon and Carrara. Maybe I’m just lucky?..I have found both apps to be almost 90% as stable as C4D. That means alot…to me at least. It always helps if you post your system specs. :rolleyes:
thanks, btw not the universe, just schnecki I keep crashing with 4096 displacement maps, 2048 works fine thoug. A also get quite a lot of memory allocation errors while dealing with high SD levels(around 1-2 mio polys) though task manager only reports an usage of ca 600 MB (of 2GB).
Gonna try some new drivers for my ATI card, maybe even a new card doh.
I plan to do a full char rig and animate in Carrara including some Zbrush workflow, so maybe i can post some findings. Initially wanted to do it in Blender, but im somehow tempted now to do it in carrara, the material system just seems to be more convincing atm (mat nodes will only be available in blender in the next release). Woohoo my first animation…probably gonna end up in a lot of frustration lol
BTW specs are
P4 3.2 HT
2 GB RAM (fully functional per memtest)
win2000 latest
plenty HD space on both primary and scondary HD
ATI RADEON 9700 PCI express