Valence 3D

Je trouve personnellement que c’est très fastidieux dans les contrôle . Le système de sélection est très peu pratique . Ça manque encore de fonction . Moi qui suit un habitué des soft de modé. Bah c’est vraiment dure à prendre en main . Je regrette vraiment mon achat . L’ergonomie de l’interface est catastrophique. Sinon dans l’ensemble tourne très bien et super optimisé.

Dans la veine de Plasticity sur PC, et ça fait plaisir ! Interface agréable et assez intuitive. Il manque encore quelques fonctions importantes comme les booléens ou les fillets, mais elles vont arriver. Ne vous fiez pas trop aux screenshots, ils ne rendent pas hommage à l’appli qui est bien moins austère qu’il n’y parait ! Ça présage du bon !

Il faut faire attention à ce que l’on dit sur cette application. Valence 3D est bcp plus puissante que ce l’on peut croire au premier abord. À l’usage, on se rend compte qu’il est possible de modéliser absolument tout ce que l’on veut à l’instar de Nomad Sculpt, même de l’organique . Pour certaines choses, comme l’organique justement, Nomad (qui reste globalement bcp plus puissant et stable) permettra de faire le job plus vite, mais pour d’autres ce sera l’inverse. La seule chose, vraie, que l’on peut reprocher à Valence est son instabilité. Mais elle semble déjà plus fiable en quelques semaines de mise à jour. Enfin, à titre purement personnel, je trouve l’interface de Valence très bien faite, efficace et fluide. Bon travail en somme. Bravo !

Application non abouti. Beaucoup trop de bug et d’outils non fonctionnel. Peu intuitif… je ne recommande pas, en tout cas pas pour le moment. Faut attendre un peu.

Suite à la mise à jour du 02/04 , la galerie a disparue , tout les exemples et le travail effectué est perdu 😭

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.