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This it’s a pretty solid program and I look forward to see its progress. Right now it’s not “fun” to use and I find myself wanting to quit the program due to frustration. It’s clunky in a way that you cannot customize the interface. I am constantly selecting tools from all over, especially the ones I use the most. I would like to move tools around to better fit my work flow or alter the tool bar to a tool window which would have multiple short rows of tools instead of one long one that you have to scroll up to access all the tools. I feel that it takes me longer to model something low poly than it should. Right now I know a big part of it is the learning curve, but the other part is the limitations of the program. I find the gizmo gets in my way when trying to select vertexes. The orbital rotation feels off not sure if it’s reversed or just user error. All in all not bad and can’t wait for future updates.

Keyboard shortcuts for Bluetooth keyboards for iPad/iPhone. (probably should just copy blenders shortcuts.) I'm having problems joining Verts and faces missing a edge or two. I do enjoy the app.

Very good UI, ships with its own renderer similar to Cycles. I’m extremely impressed with just the few minutes I’ve spent with it. Once this app supports booleans and reference images, it will rock for hard-surface blockouts and ideation. Tested a small model and exported to Blender just fine—needed 10x scale and rotate X.

Overall it’s a promising start but the app is plagued with bugs and has plenty of quirks as well as seemingly missing features. I’ve been using Maya and Blender for years and while my expectations were set pretty low, the bar ended up being below them. The good: The interface is clean and as an experienced user of 3D modeling software I did not need to watch any tutorials to figure it out. Most of the basic modeling functions such as extrude, edge cut and mirroring are present. Flipping normals is something I was pleasantly surprised by. Yes you can model on the go and you may even do somewhat complex hard surface pieces with it. A flat fee of 30$ is a good price for when this suite works. The bad: The app crashes on my iPad fairly frequently causing loss of progress and while the auto save feature somewhat helps as each time I lose minutes of progress it eventually adds up. Selecting individual verts with a pencil is incredibly fussy, with a finger, almost impossible. Selecting multiple adjacent verts is unreliable and time consuming. Continuous edge select is incredibly unreliable as it seems to select and deselect on a whim. There doesn’t seem to be any vert welding as far as I could tell and a google search didn’t yield any results. Similarly I was unable to find a way to delete an edge along with the verts on it. I can either delete the edge and the verts, leaving a hole behind, collapse the geo, or delete edge only and then have to perform manual vert cleanup. This wastes time and makes The ugly: The meshes occasionally get corrupted with geo becoming impossible to select and revert. Mesh repair worked once but in most cases it’s a lost cause. Get ready for some frustration and lost work. All in all. This is barebones and I am rather bewildered by the amount of 5 star reviews talking about the app’s potential. Yeah the potential is there but at its current state, this is not a 5 star product. It is also not a 4 star product given how prone it is to corruption and crashes.

Watching the rapid app improvements, decided it was time to drop some coin and support the dev. Like the app and the direction this app is going. Appreciate the attention the dev is giving it. App interface is very productive and a serious 3d app for an iPad using the Apple Pencil. As such hopefully the dev will focus precious resources to making an iPad only version the best it can be and forgo the limitations of an iPhone version if need be.

This app is a really good start. I purchased it to support the developer. It is functional and I can get the basics done. I’m hoping we have a full blown mesh editor app on the iPad very soon!

As a programmer I can understand the state of the app, building a 3DC app from scratch has got to be a very intense task open to many bugs. That being said, as a former 3D artist I can also say that to be honest this tool is simply not in a state that allows it to be treated as a professional tool: many bugs simply ruin meshes and create “unselectable” topology which haunts you forever after appearing (not bring undoable either).. etc. I’ll try the app again in a few months hoping for some substantial upgrades in stability and bug-less behavior: it would be a 5 star then. A smooth selection tool would also be appreciated. Good luck dev 👍🏼 please keep up the updates.

I like most of the features, but is there a way that I can make X and Y lie on the grid, and make Z perpendicular to the grid. This convention feels more normal for me.

The developer of Valence has taken on a truly daunting task but one that has been needed since the introduction of the iPad Pro. 3D sculpting for iPad has been great with apps like Nomad and soon Zbrush but when it comes to hard surface modeling, the options we did have were severely lacking. Valence 3D finally changes that! For the first time, I’ve been able to do hard surface 3D modeling with an intuitive interface and get actual work done that I can then transfer to my laptop for finishing. The updates have been frequent and the pay once model is a serious breath of fresh air in a world where every other app wants a subscription. That being said, Valence still has some ways to go. However, I still think it’s more than worthy of 5 stars as long development keeps going at this pace. Some of the things I would definitely like to see to make this a more robust 3D modeler are: 1. Boolean functions 2. Curve tools (would be very powerful and easy to use with an Apple Pencil) 3. More interface customization (ability to move buttons, lock rotation axis, etc) 4. More reliable screen picking (there are occasional times where the app has a tough time telling which vertex point I am trying to select and ends up selecting a different point) If this is where we are this early in the software life, I cannot wait to see where Valence goes over the coming year! This very well could end up being the “Blender” alternative for the iPad.

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