My interest is with QuadSpinners Helios, a cloud plugin. What technology is this and is it compatible with or can it be made compatible wioth iClone is the big question?

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at a cost possibly some of it
nothing from Cornucopia us cheap and most locked to the program and worse still your computer so new computer new license.
I have the free vesion of the plant editor but am not even allowed to use that in renders!
paid one I could.
no sharing of created trees except on cornucopia store and I think it costs a grand or so so Xfrog or something else better is just as viable and less restrictive.
Vue itself requires several modules to be of any use.

Hi Wendy... It is interesting but, yes, the prices are sort of prohibitive.

To me the "Stack it high sell it cheap(er)" philosophy works. Maybe this is a corporate issue.
I summed up the software I'd like to use including 3DXChange and the total came to about $1,800:00.
I don't even think Father Christmas can help me there.

Hi Armstrong,

First of all, a great fault of mine is not logging on to pay tribute to the many wonderful works displayed on the Reallusion forums.  So, while I'm contributing to this thread, I'd like to say how much I've appreciated your creative output.  Had I not already bought iclone, some of your videos would have been enough for me to make up my mind to do so. 

Anyway here's the point: did you notice that iclone4 pro and 3dXchange4 pro are being given free with 3dArtist magazine this month?

I know you don't need iclone but even the older 3dXchange would give you access to all sorts of free stuff.  And if you were looking at modelling in an external package you could import your own objects.  Just a thought. 

1. Well, this is a constant drive of mine in any arena be it 2D flash script and animation with SwishMax of olde (which has died for me now because it's a dinosaur ) or iClone. I bought iClone because I came into this forum and looked around. What I saw, but mostly what I read, prompted me to buy.

If I'd read some of the derogatives that've happened since I would have walked away f rom Reallusion. If 1 customer does this theyre representative of 2000. In data-mined accumulative figure analysis.
Help sell iClone, your work tool, keep prices down. This should be the singularity in loyalty drives for everyone who uses iClone in a commercial vein.

2. THIS is good news. I struggle to find money for avatars so this is exciting because it gives me a field to learn in. I'm kind of new to practical work modelling. Half of that time is deciphering what the hell Swoooop says,  I have a cray computer that's fairly good and my girlfriends martian so we get by... but 3DXChange even an earlier version is new ground for me. Thanks for this.

Armstrong.

Hi Armstrong,

Very glad that this is welcome news.  I had a quick look at my magazine copy - it's issue 65.  Then I noticed the serial number expires at end of August this year.  I don't know if that is to give time for buyers worldwide to obtain the magazine or whether the serial is only good until then.  I hope and expect it to be the former.

Another suggestion, if I may.  Have you tried out Sculptris for mesh sculpting?  I think everyone who tries it gets results to be pleased with in their first couple of hours.  You could create boulders, for example, of any shape - a grotto perhaps.  The polygon count could be extremely high in such an example but that can be avoided.  (Or else you enter swoooop territory).

Sculptris is free from the makers of zbrush.  From memory www.pixologic.com

My 2 cents....

All Vue product are for Broadcast production , it could be usefull to build one frame for matte painting set but if you want to make HD animation ...mmmmhh.... with a very speed cpu with 32G of ram ,each frame will take 30 min to render an outside scene....so , a 15 sec HD fly shot will make.... 225 h!!! more than 9 days with one machine...

I bought Plantfactory and it works very well in Iclone in realtime it you figure low polymesh.

By the way , is the free 3dxchange pro 4 the 4.0 version ?

Thank you for your answer

Marc

Hi Mtakerart

I took a look at the magazine disc and it unzips to an exe file created on 20th Jan 2014 so I suppose if there were updates this will be the latest.  It says 3dXchange 4 Pro and will import 3DS, obj, skp and fbx files.

I also took a look at Plant Factory.  Did you buy the $99 version?  If not, is that version OK for Iclone?

Thanks.

Hi Grimhilda ,

As swooop said , it is very important for me that it is the 4.0 version of 3dxchange because it is
the only version wich you can import fbx facial bones animation , not the 4.1 and higher , reallusion disabled this feature....

My version of Planfactory is the Studio version but I bought it at 395 $ when it was a beta release. I suggest every time people to buy beta version to benefit pro feature... but sometimes
you can wait some years and tools are free , today I see that Autodesk release Toxik and MatchMover for free.....

http://www.cgchannel.com/2014/03/autodesk-to-release-toxik-and-matchmover-for-free/

Ah! I see why you need to know the specific version.  Unfortunately it looks like it will be the later one, judging by the file date.  I wouldn't like to go through the process of installing it to find out because I have it already.  Perhaps if Armstrong does obtain the software he would be able to confirm the version.

Thanks for the information and the link.

Regards