Forger 4+

3D Modeling & Sculpting

MAXON Computer GmbH

    • 3.0 • 50 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Forger is a desktop-class 3D modeling and sculpting application for artists that want to create anywhere. Forger now pairs its award-winning sculpting toolset with the powerful polygonal modeling engine from Maxon’s venerable Cinema 4D desktop application. Forger now offers the best of both worlds in one 3D creation app: sculpting’s organic expressiveness and the exactness of hard-surface, polygonal modeling.

The new Forger includes:

· An intuitive multitouch interface, Apple Pencil support, draw-to-select and on-screen navigation and orientation tools gives artists an intimate, intuitive and powerful way to manifest their ideas as digital 3D creations.

· A full library of polygonal primitives to get started quickly, including: cube, sphere, hemisphere, platonic, cone, pyramid, disc, cylinder, tube, oiltank, capsule, and Torus.

· The full polygonal modeling engine and tools from Maxon’s Cinema 4D desktop solution, including Transform, Extrude, Bevel, Inset, Bridge, Line and Loop Cut and more.

· A desktop-class sculpting workflow and brush engine that offers the power of a Desktop sculpting application, without compromises.

· A large sculpting brush library: standard, clay, flatten, move, pull, smooth, pinch, inflate, crease, scrape, polish, planar, layer, stamp and mask. Each brush has an alternate function that does even more! Even use custom stamps (alphas).

· Professional concept sculpting - With two powerful remeshing algorithms (volume based remeshing and edge-flow topological remeshing), the ability to cap holes, slice, split and merge sub-meshes; doing concept sculpting on a mobile device is no longer a dream.

· Multi-resolution meshes - Increase the resolution of the model by multiplying the number of faces by four, whilst keeping the previous (coarser) version of the mesh as another sub-level. Step back and forth between levels to do big changes or work on details. Rebuild subdivision levels on previously subdivided meshes if importing from another software and carry on with Forger!

· Sculpt layers - Work in a non destructive manner by creating layers per sub-level for quick concepting and adjusting their intensities for different results.

· Advanced stylus & external keyboard support - Users can choose whether they want brushes to be affected by pressure in strength or size. Users that are used to sculpting & texturing softwares will feel at home with keyboard support, allowing them to skip the learning stage of the app due to the very commonshortcuts found in known Desktop 3D digital content creation tools.

· Vertex Colors - Paint your creations with per-vertex colors for presentation purposes, use this to create rough base textures or final stylized ones.

· Bidirectional model sharing between Forger and Maxon's Cinema 4D, winner of a Sci-Tech award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science, offering the ultimate in workflow flexibility.

· File I/O - Save your scenes to the internal scene format and use the other popular file 3D formats to import or export new models or base meshes into your favorite 3D application.

What’s New

Version 2024.0.5

- Fixes possible display issue when UV coordinates with NaN values are used.

Ratings and Reviews

3.0 out of 5
50 Ratings

50 Ratings

c93j2922lk ,

Good start but needs a bit more

I paid for a year as it's not much for trying to use it as part of a polygonal modelling workflow (so my comments don't really cover sculpting which seems fairly usable). It's actually a pretty good start and would be very good if they added some simple things like boolean operations, poking a vertex into a face, easy numerical values input for things like translations, that kind of basic stuff. Without that you're pretty limited in terms of what you can achieve in a sensible amount of time, and in terms of dimensional accuracy. So I hope they improve it in future so I can subscribe again.

idleDrone ,

Classic Greed

There are really only two apps in the Apple eco system that can do sculpting and 3D painting and rendering. One is forger the other is nomad.

Both were apps that you had to pay a one-time price.
Forger has recently been bought by Maxon (makers of Cinema 4D). The first feature they announced to the community. Relegate the current build of forger to Classic, and reintroduce a new Forger app with a subscription based model.

Maxon has also bought Pixologic. The makers of Zbrush. Which is the industry standard when it comes to sculpting on a desktop machine. Pixologic, just like Nomad had a one-time price, they increased the cost of the application as it grew in features but gave all users free upgrades.

Again, the first feature Maxon announced after the purchase is there will be no more free upgrades and they will now switch to a subscription based model. See the trend?

If you are reading Maxon, you have alienated users. Without hesitation the first thing you have raced to do it put a subscription model in place.

You the offer the people nothing and you want them to continuously pay for it.

Zbrush is in a great state that i will never need to purchase the subscription model and to be honest, Forger is as good as Nomad.

Good luck with your decisions! It is very clear that creating great products isn't the primary objective.

Combot6 ,

Not useful

As an avid user of Zbrushcore, I thought that I’d get Forger so that I can create concepts and sculpts whenever I’m away from my desk. However, I can’t see the point of being able to use reference images if the option to lock them to side, front and top views etc isn’t available..! I Can see the benefit if you want a quick reference as you sculpt, but if you want to work on a character from a T-pose, you’re out of luck because as soon as you rotate or zoom in, the image stays in place. Surely this must be fixed in a later version?

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