The future of new modeling tools

[puzzledpaul]

Since both incarnations of Bend have been mentioned - all I'll say is that I doubt that Luiz (Fonte Boa) would get very far with his very useful video tuts that feature Bend ... if he'd been using the ML version.

Long time since I've used / tested the ML bend, but it'd have to have changed (a lot) for any serious user to prefer it over the default version, imo.

lack of interactivity is one aspect I remember ... having to ok, eyeball, undo if wrong, redo, rinse repeat ... in a 'suck it and see situation' is one (of many) problems.

Whilst nothing is perfect (including default bend), what I thought was ridiculous was for anyone to completely re-write a tool, rather than improve what already existed ... especially when the 'new, supposedly improved' tool lagged way behind the original in versatility / power etc.

This has (combined with other issues) - unfortunately - imo - been the story behind many 'so called' improved versions of tools from the ML stable.

How anyone can make a fair, logical comparison of the pros / cons etc of the 2 Bend versions, when they state that they 'never actually figured it out' ... is beyond me too

If an 'ol codger like me can do so ... it should be plain sailing for anyone else - that's serious about using wings.

pp