If not. Why? 3D in Coreldraw is very dated and primitive and AI's is very good....especially the vector mapping around the 3D object's surface. NOT just bitmap texture, but vector mapping! Good stuff!
Unlike most of you in this forum, I'm just a hobbyist, but I have upgraded to most of the new versions starting with Draw 7.
Because I also enjoy 3D modeling, the X7 upgrade would have been a sure thing had it been given the ability to paint directly on 3D models like PS extended can. As it stands, at least for a hobbyist, I'm not seeing the value in upgrading to X7 yet. I was really hoping to see 3D capabilities in PP. Maybe X8 will get there.
Hi, hello,
I am little bit too late to post here, but I just want to comment about CD's 3D effect. It is just an effect, and does what it intends to do for a 2D program. If you want full 3D effects, then use Blender 3D, with no additional cost on your part but it will require time to learn but worth the effort.
Check this:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blender+3d+text
In the future, you really can't see improved 3D capabilities on both AI and CD. Because they are intended as 2D application, not as 3D.
I'd prefer Corel spend dev $$$ on better 2D capabilities. There is so much room for improvement and progress. 3D is a very niche effect, I'm not sure I have ever missed it.
hywelharris said: I'd prefer Corel spend dev $$ on better 2D capabilities. There is so much room for improvement and progress. 3D is a very niche effect, I'm not sure I have ever missed it.
I'd prefer Corel spend dev $$ on better 2D capabilities. There is so much room for improvement and progress. 3D is a very niche effect, I'm not sure I have ever missed it.
3D effects are important if you work on both Illustration/graphic Arts and Video editing. You want your less than 10-second Animated Logo/Video intro into your video projects beautiful, and no amount of AI/CD expertise can make your animated logo looks professional, except by editing it with a full 3D application like Blender.
I think and believe that Graphic artists need not to stay on the 2D world, but explore also 3D it is an additional tool as a graphic artist. There are very good tutorials(still a noob in Blender) in youtube and also in blender.org.
It is because of you mentioning Blender that I have begun to explore it's possibilities. So thank you! I'm thinking of using it in the sign industry to build 3D mock-ups to better illustrate proofs and designs. 2D works well to a degree but doing simulated 3D in CorelDraw takes too much effort if a change is required. I wish CorelDraw had better 3D tools like Illustrator does but, it doesn't. I'm trying to learn Illustrator but it's so unnecessarily complicated compared to CorelDraw to do basic things in my opinion.
Anyhow back to Blender. Blender 2.71 (www.blender.org) is a free piece of software and is a small download (55 MB) on Windows 7-64 bit. There's a 32 bit version available too but if you have a 64-Bit machine, take advantage of the extra RAM in your machine. It works on Windows 8, 8.1 and even Vista. Mac 10.6+ and GNU/Linux too. There are tonnes of tutorials out on the web and YouTube is full of them too. Personally, I prefer to watch video tutorials and I found that Lynda.com has a title called Blender 2.6 Essential Training which is very impressive. I would highly suggest it to anyone interested.
I'm not sure yet if Sketchup or Blender is better suited to my needs but Sketchup looks incredibly easy to use. I'm really surprised Google let this baby go. It's one program Corel should have purchased and sold off a whole bunch of other software instead to pay for it - looking at you WinZip amongst many others. My first impressions of Blender is that it is very nice but there's a lot to learn. But I will explore Blender for the time being and make it through the Lynda.com title I mentioned earlier. I may end up trying Sketchup too afterwards. Lynda has Sketchup tutorials also by the way that are top notch.
Anyhow, wish me luck! I'll probably need it :)
HI Drew
wish you luck with blender it' is impressive for freeware. Illustrator cs6 is complicated for sure, we use it for what corel x6 won't do. eems to be more and more X7 just isn't ready to run in our environment we get paid for what we produce not what we fix.
We hope one day corel draw 2d will add 3d extensions.
ross blair