FZnoob

I still use it for my day to day. It's fast and I end up doing lots of revisions, so it works well for that.

I would suggest contact them via email: support@formz.com

I've used a variety of 3D packages over the years. The majority of what I do is concept work. and I primarily use sub-d for product modeling. For me, C4D is the best at this. It's fast, clean, and has a lot of options that FZ lacks. But with that being said, I do find work-arounds for most of FZ's shortcomings, and I can get some pretty decent results.

I guess this explains why I never seem to be able to get this to work. All I ever get are cell phone pics of store interiors. I have had better luck just eyeballing it. What I am doing is pretty simple to what you all are though.

I have had problems with rounding and crashing going all the way back to the original V7. Even something as simple as rounding a cube, or controlled rounding of a single edge. This has been across several new iMacs and flavors of the Mac OS. I will say that in my case it usually doesn't crash several times in a row. Usually only once. The one thing I have learned is always "save" before attempting any type of rounding.

When I resize the modeling window the toolbar mushrooms in size and runs off the page. Restarting the app fixes it. Annoying as hell when you are busy.

Anywhere you don't have a continuous "loop" you are going to get triangles. Like on the arm of your chair.

Yes a quad mesh is preferable. I actually had this discussion with a FZ Mod at one point. One of their tuts shows an area divided into triangles. That's always a no-no in my book because triangles can't be further subdivided. You essentially paint yourself into a corner.

That doesn't happen to me. The "edge hardness" is retained even after swapping back and forth. One thing that DOES occur is if you apply mapping to a face in sub-d, the mapping is lost when you swap it back to a poly

Yes, I switch back and for between the sub-d mode and swap. In addition to using the sub-d "controls" you can also select points directly on the geometry using the"pick tool" set to point mode. I really don't care for the sub-d controls. Feels sort of like a puppet on a string but I have gotten used to it.

C4D is my all time favorite 3D software! I used it for quite a number of years. I would still be doing so, but my current employer uses FZ, so I just learned to love it. Matter of fact I have sort of become the main "instructor" at the Enterprise level. Which I would not have thought could ever happen as I absolutely hated FZ the first few months I used it.

Ken here bro. I am technically a graphics guy, but 3D modeling has been part of my skillset since about 1998

I did this Coke bottle with sub-d as a bit of a personal challenge. It's a 20 oz plastic bottle, and is a little different that the glass one. The real kicker was the bottom. Took me a little while to figure it out

It's gotta come down to developmental and promotional $$$ FZ is never going to be able to compete with the big dogs in those areas. It's like trying to compete with Adobe on the graphics front. Good luck with that too.

When I have the issue you are describing (when ALL the missing textures are in the same folder, and formZ finds, oh, the first 3) I find that going to the "project info" tab and then "linked files" usually works. I just had a project where FZ was finding all but 5 files, even though they were all in the same directory. When I went to "linked files" folder and relinked the first file, it found the other 4 by itself.