Silo 2 Reviews

I work professionally in games as an artist. While I use Maya, Max, Zbrush, and Mudbox for Modeling at the studio, I love using this at home. It has all the basic tools for most folks and is increadably intuitive. Plus you just can't beat the price for how good this is! Definitely recommend.

I don't get what happened I used SIlo back in it's ealiy version and it was so easy to use. This version seems less user friendly and it does not have alot of model formatting that transfers well. To be fair I am comparing it to Strata Design 3d. I just feel like the old version was so much eaiser to use and had better formatting. Sorry SIlo Team

I've really like the focused approached to 3D modelling that Silo 3D offers. It's very quick to pick up and learn all its features in a reasonable short time. It works well when you utilize its strengths as a dedicated 3D modeler in combination with other software like Unreal engine, 3D Coat, Zbrush, etc. When used in this scope then it makes sense a tool like Silo 3D would be useful if you need to quickly create 3D models as part of your workflow. Blender is too slow for model making in comparison to Silo due to a complex UI that is cluttered due to the jack of all trades tool that Blender excels at, but is also one of the disadvantages to those who just want to create a model quickly. Silo 3D is purely focused on modelling and is the best tool I've found that gives the user a clean UI and focused approached in model creation. As someone who believes in having various tools to help in the creation process. Silo 3D is a welcome addition to my extensive toolset for 3D animation and video creation.

Silo is not the best tool on the market, but any experienced 3D artist will agree that there is no equivalent to a "panacea" in the 3D-modeling fields. Silo is a focused polygonal modeling tool with some limited sculting capabilities and that pretty much covers it. It has UV-unwrapping functionality as well, but it is painfully inadequate and very difficult to work with. Silo's primary strength lies in its user friendliness and how simple, fast and reliable you can build a high-quality mesh of either a lowpoly or highpoly nature. Creating a character mesh by manipulating Silo's great subdivision functions and adding details with the paint displacement tool is nothing new that you would not be able to do in 3DS Max or Blender, but it is the ease of doing so in Silo that sets it apart from its competitors. This tool is not for everyone and I recommend trying it before you buy it.

Silo is a modeling package that is designed to do modeling and nothing else. By focusing on just modeling however, it's able to make itself into an intuitive tool used for quick modeling and UV mapping. The interface has some very smart, intuitive features (hitting a hotkey combo while hovering over a menu option will assign that hotkey to the menu option for example) that make using the program quick and easy. With it being a smaller program with less community than, say Maya, 3ds Max, or even Blender, finding help on line for modeling beginners or Silo newcomers can be troublesome. Other issues include the fact that it can be fairly easy to crash the program if you're not careful. However the ease of use the program brings to the table, not to mention it's incredibly fair price make it a program to look into if you're in the market for a affordable helpful modeling program.

I bought Silo back when it was only $80 and during a 40% off sale, so I didn't spend much. But now it's $100. That is too much. I cannot recommend Silo at it's current price. Instead I'd recommend Blender (free). The new Blender 2.8 update has a massive UI update making Blender much easier to use.

I bought this software ages ago... loved it when I first started using it... Now? Well, I use a paid version of a different program as I can't support a developer that dumps a whole (Steam) community and insists that you will need to buy the new version(s) directly from their site... And developers wonder why their software gets pirated... (I won't pirate it, or use it anymore for that matter. But I can see why someone would pirate the newer versions considering that they paid for it on Steams' platform but have no upgrade path available to them). I do NOT support piracy... But I understand why people do when they've got something they paid for and have benn dumped like this.

Pro: Good program for beginers and industry standards also used in Digital Tutors as one of the best easy and fast modeling programs out there, UI is clean and solid , the performance is great Con: Modeling Tool only, Poor coding within the program its self, the program is very hardware dependant and also crashes when any model is at 1mil polycount so be warned when modeling in this program, program is no longer supported | abandoned from the company Overal: Apart from the crashing when you hit 1mil polycount, this program is a decent modeling tool for the price its at, with all the others being extremly high cost. the program is good for people wanting to start in the industry for beginers or for artists wanting to freelance or sell there models online. Important Side Note: because its no longer supported | abandoned there is no support for it if you have any issues. (excluding the 1mil poly count crash) Side Note: If you cant afford to buy any 3d software there are 2 free to use alternatives to get you started which are Blender Sculptris you will need to research if there only for personal, commercial use or both 15,07,2014 Update I was surprised yesterday on the 14th, I noticed a update from silo 2 - v2.3 that was posted on july 2nd Note: This update focuses mostly on Silo for Linux (our most-requested update), plus small bug fixes and internal optimizations that should benefit all users. We've also added .stl import and an updated windowing system. Much of this update is internal code optimization to pave the way for future updates. (So even though we've added support for a whole new operating system, we've kept the version increase small--just 2.2 to 2.3.) source: https://www.facebook.com/Silo3D only took them over a year to release a update

As you can see I've played this game a lot. Unfortunately I'm not sure how one would win this game with over 300 hours played it remains a mystery. Joking aside Silo 2 is a very competent low poly modeler with fairly easy to use UV unwrap tools. On the downside its clearly no longer updated or in development (although the company that owns it always denies this despite years of no bug fixes or version changes) so if you do happen upon a bug you will have to learn to work around it. Generally its cheap entry price and simple approach to low poly modelling is refreshing enough its worth picking up when on sale for sure ; otherwise you might want to check out other options like Blender 3D while complex, with overtly complex UI it is constantly being improved upon and free. UPDATE : March 2017 Nevercenter has started updating this software adding some very long awaited features such as PSD support, smoothing groups, watching your texture map for updates so you don't have to manually refresh it every time. FBX and Collada support.

If it were free, I would recommend it, but it is not. I bought it for 30 while it was on sale, so I found that to be money well spent. However, when the price is 80 US dollars, making it only 10 dollars away from something as powerful as 3D Coat, which does modeling like magic and mixes in sculpting and among other things. It is very very hard to recommend this relic to anyone when for 10, 20 or 30 dollars more you get much much more useful software like Modo Indie or Substance Painter. This was an astounding and flexible piece of software 5 years ago, that’s for sure. Now? It's old, it's buggy and overpriced.