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Blender Vs. trueSpace 7

by Ryan Neighbour · in Artist Corner · 08/20/2009 (2:25 am) · 4 replies

Hey all,

I'm just starting out with 3d modeling and I could use some advice. Basically I'm stuck between trueSpace and Blender. I have minimal experience with both but I find trueSpace easier to wrap my head around (I think it's the super simple interface).

What would you guys recommend?
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    Torque Owner Daniel Buckmaster
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    #1
    08/20/2009 (12:33 pm)
    I'm a Blender user, but I've never tried TrueSpace so I can't really compare it. If both are free, I think I'd have a look at which has the most fully-features exporter for DTS shapes (unless you're using T3D and Collada). I guess the interface is an issue for some people - I've found that the Blender interface makes perfect sense after a little while - plus, it's so customisable.

    Torque Owner Ryan Neighbour
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    #2
    08/20/2009 (6:46 pm)
    I find the truespace interface much easier to use for sure, but I think they set it up to be friendly to new users. Up until last night I found the Blender UI to be daunting (borrowed a friend's tutorial dvd from Lynda Online Training). It's starting to make sense and I think I'll end up going with Blender. From what I can tell it seems more powerful in the long run for me.

    Thanks for the advice.

    edit: Almost forgot, I'm using T3D. How do the collada exporters work? I've heard that some people can't get them to work right.

    Associate Steve Acaster
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    #3
    08/20/2009 (7:44 pm)
    Blender User here:

    Blender's UI is ... somewhat unintuitive ... to be polite.

    But after you read through the docs and get a grasp of it's technicalities, it's actually not a bad little modeling program.

    Never tried Truespace so alas, cannot make a comparison.

    Collada exporters ... they seem to have a funny setup for getting a DTS in the end ... I know that there is one brave soul on the case here.

    However the standard DTS exporter for Blender is good and has it's own site. jsgreenawalt.com/

    Torque Owner Ryan Neighbour
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    #4
    08/21/2009 (7:32 am)
    I'm definitely leaning towards blender. I think truespace was nice to get my feet wet but I've been playing around with the interface in Blender and I think I've got it set up nice and pretty like. Now that the keyboard shortcuts are starting to stick in my head I'm having a much easier time with it too.

    It's still a little overwhelming but at least it's starting to make sense bit by bit.