Valence 3D 4+

Polygon & Subdivision Modeling

Hi-Rez

Designed for iPad

    • $29.99

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Description

Take your sketches to the next dimension with a powerful suite of polygon & subdivision surface modeling tools. Create, edit, import, export, render, measure & organize

Valence 3D is a new powerful, beautiful & easy-to-use 3D modeling & design tool built from the ground up for iPad & iPhone. No matter whether you're learning 3D modeling for the first time or a professional working in design, construction, gaming, web dev, digital fabrication, architecture, or spatial computing, Valence 3D has what you need to get started!

CREATE, IMPORT, EDIT & EXPORT 3D MODELS

• 15 primitive shapes are built-in & ready to help you start modeling: plane, box, sphere, squircle, rounded box, arc, circle, cylinder, tube, cone, capsule, torus, icosphere, helix & voronoi
• Import existing models and reference images
• Import a lidar scan or room plan directing in modeling mode
• Compatible import & export formats: OBJ, STL, USD, USDZ
• Move, Rotate, & Scale gizmos make it easy to transform nodes, faces, edges & vertices
• Powerful modeling gizmos for extruding, insetting, beveling, poking, creasing & cutting
• Multiple selection & automatic loop selection help accelerate your modeling
• Tap on one of the gizmo handles to bring up an input field for precise transformations & mesh operations
• While using a gizmo, touch down with a second finger to turn on snapping
• Selection operations: grow, shrink, select shell & deselect
• Mesh operations: duplicate, instance, center pivot, apply transform & subdivide
• Face operations: separate, combine, bridge, extract, poke, collapse, delete, dissolve, harden & soften
• Edge operations: extrude, insert vertex, collapse, dissolve, bridge, harden & soften
• Vertex operations: insert edge, dissolve, delete & merge
• Non-destructive & configurable mesh modifiers: mirror & subdivision
• Apply complex transformations using different gizmo pivot points & orientations

EASILY NAVIGATE & STAY IN FLOW WHILE DESIGNING

• Carefully crafted & fully optimized for iPhone & iPad
• Designed to minimize cognitive overload by only showing tools & commands that are contextually relevant
• Easily navigate to any part of your model by dragging and pinching: two finger pinch to zoom and roll, and one finger drag to rotate
• Pop into the standard orthographic views by tapping one of the handles of the orientation gizmo
• Use two & three finger tap gestures to undo & redo
• Select components by dragging or using the rectangular selection mode
• Your work is saved automatically every two minutes and everytime you go back to the gallery
• Get an overview of your scene’s structure from the Outliner
• Long press on a node in the Outliner to easily rename, duplicate, instance, delete, parent & reorder any object in your scene
• Precisely adjust any node’s position, rotation & scale with the Inspector
• Adjust material properties, display & modifier options with the Inspector

STAY ORGANIZED ACROSS ALL YOUR DEVICES

• Preview, share, duplicate, delete & rename your models from the gallery
• iCloud syncing keeps all your models up to date, private & accessible across all your devices

PREVIEW, MEASURE, & RENDER YOUR CREATIONS

• 5 powerful rendering modes: Modeling, Physically Based, X-Ray, Wireframe & Path Traced
• Export renders in any aspect ratio & scale
• Preview your model in AR in two taps
• Export your scene as a USDZ & be confident it’ll look consistent on all Apple devices
• Tweak your model’s material & see changes in real-time
• Tweak-able scene settings: camera field of view, background type, blurriness, intensity & rotation
• Get model measurements in one click
• Add persistent dimensions between any two surfaces in your scene

PURCHASE & COMPATIBILITY

• One time purchase unlocks both iPhone & iPad versions
• Apple Pencil supported on select iPads
• 120 FPS supported on devices with ProMotion displays
• Path Tracing is supported on iPads with M series chips & iPhones with A15 Bionic & later
• Lidar Scan & Room Plan is supported on devices with a lidar sensor

What’s New

Version 1.1.4

WHAT'S NEW:

• Added Isolation / Solo.
• Added Persistence To Scene Graph Outliner.
• Added Triangle Count to Outliner & Inspector.
• Added Path Traced Rendering Options.

BUG FIXES:

• Fixed Move Tool's snapping so it only snaps to the axis being used.
• Fixed Path Tracer occlusion bug.

Ratings and Reviews

4.2 out of 5
53 Ratings

53 Ratings

Kamikazetedibear ,

Solid for what it is, can be a little crashy

I already use Shapr on my iPad for hard surface modeling, but wanted to give this a shot since Shapr is a pretty pricey subscription and doesn’t really do vertex or face manipulation since it’s CAD software.

It’s solid. You can get most of what you need done with its built in primitives and adding loops. The ui is solid enough and overall it works great. It really needs some simple Boolean tools though to round itself out and make it shine. It would also benefit from being able to extrude shapes on a curve. It’s snapping isn’t great but it gets the job done, and it could use a few more selection tools (like being able to select a loop easily). A way to inset a grid divide instead of just poke or inset would be great too instead of just have it to cut a bunch of loops.

That said it feels like it could be for hard surface, low poly modeling what Nomad ended up being for sculpting with some time.

JQ1991 ,

Great Beginnings for iPad Native Poly Modeling

The developer of Valence has taken on a truly daunting task but one that has been needed since the introduction of the iPad Pro. 3D sculpting for iPad has been great with apps like Nomad and soon Zbrush but when it comes to hard surface modeling, the options we did have were severely lacking. Valence 3D finally changes that! For the first time, I’ve been able to do hard surface 3D modeling with an intuitive interface and get actual work done that I can then transfer to my laptop for finishing. The updates have been frequent and the pay once model is a serious breath of fresh air in a world where every other app wants a subscription.

That being said, Valence still has some ways to go. However, I still think it’s more than worthy of 5 stars as long development keeps going at this pace. Some of the things I would definitely like to see to make this a more robust 3D modeler are:

1. Boolean functions

2. Curve tools (would be very powerful and easy to use with an Apple Pencil)

3. More interface customization (ability to move buttons, lock rotation axis, etc)

4. More reliable screen picking (there are occasional times where the app has a tough time telling which vertex point I am trying to select and ends up selecting a different point)

If this is where we are this early in the software life, I cannot wait to see where Valence goes over the coming year! This very well could end up being the “Blender” alternative for the iPad.

maximalist ,

A Great Start

This is a terrific little app, especially for v1, and it should surpass SketchUp in no time if he continues to work on it. I had been wondering when someone was going to release a valid 3D app for iPad based on modeling, not sculpting, and here it is. It’s missing some features (it’s a pretty good app already, but I’m largely rating it on potential) such as lathe and lofting, but one in particular: UV Maps.

The most popular art app on the iPad is Procreate, which can import 3d models (that have UV Maps) and paint on them directly. The killer iPad app is a 3d program that can export their models to Procreate for painting and texturing. That would be a game-changer, imo. It would give concept artists a legit tool for combining 3d and 2d without having to schlep a laptop around. I think Valence3d is missing a real opportunity by not including it right away. Still, it’s a great start and worth buying.

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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