Talk:Wings 3D
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Can you provide more detail? Is this similar to ray tracers like POV-Ray or is it a modeller that is used in ray tracers as input data? What capabilities does it have? - Tεxτurε 17:48, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Press Release
This article reads like a press release. It touts all the great features of the program, but says little else. It should be pared down to state what the program does without sounding sycophantic. 66.243.210.102 20:16, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Wings 3D is a modeling program
Wings' primary purpose is to provide modelling facilities that allow its user to create 3D models 'from scratch' or modify models made in other apps.
As many (most) people probably also want to do other things with the models they've made, various facilities have been added to Wings since its public release in 2001 to facilitate model use outside Wings.
Industry standard Import / Export options allow communication with the 'outside world' of 3D, so that models can be used in appropriate software for (usually) rigging /animation and rendering purposes.
Since Wings initial release, it has grown in flexibility and usefulness by the addition of many powerful modelling tools / features, but one major non-modelling facility has also been added during this time - AUV.
AUV offers the user a range of options (both automatic and manual) that lets them create (and export) the UV maps /charts necessary for model texturing purposes.
(Bit mapped graphics editing programmes, eg Photoshop / Painshoppro / Gimp etc are needed for the actual texture creation / painting)
[edit] paring things down
<< It should be pared down to state what the program does without sounding sycophantic >>
Maybe you'd like to offer a 'pared down' version here - so it can be discussed?
Considering it's free, anyone prepared to spend a little time investigating its uses can find out for themselves, at no financial cost.
I get rather fed up seeing inaccurate / half baked comments / reviews / synopses etc written by ppl who've hardly used it and most certainly haven't investigated its full depth / power.
