Kodon Reviews

really buggy

seems like developer abandoned this app. There`s no updates and any news about what they do or what they want to do. Thanks gods that I got this sh7t with discount

best vr sculpting application by far, practically zbrush in virtual space. unfortunately its no longer in active development, but even in the state its currently in it is a masterpiece.

Not even an hour in and I'm already loving this. Sculpting in VR is so satisfying. The UI is very intuitive, especially if you already have some experience with 3d modeling software. It's going to completely change my workflow for the better and I really hope the devs come back to polish it up a bit more.

Funciona en modo escritorio desde GnuLinux, lo probé en un Manjaro XFCE.

This app has so much potential. I really enjoyed sculpting in it (though I'm not a pro), and it's quite robust. However, as stated by other users, its an unfinished product and its buggy. Really sad and disappointing that the devs don't seem to be carrying this app forward to completion.

The VR part of this VR sculpting app doesn't load in VR. It doesn't do what is says it does and because I accidently left it running in the background for more than 2 hours while I tried to figure out why it wasn't working, Steam won't refund my money on something that Jazza from DrawWithJazza had the same problem with when he recently reviewed a bunch of VR art programs. I wish I had seen it before I bought this useless license for a product I don't own because you don't own anything you purchase on Steam. As I've heard someone say before: Steam is like an amusement park and each license you purchase is like a life-time ticket to a ride and I've got a ticket to a ride that doesn't work. Thank you Steam for the lack of customer service. If I had known I only had 2hrs, I won't have bothered trying to figure out why it wasn't working. But that was never clearly stated before checkout.

Man..... I tried and tried hard. VR mode in this program is unusable. When I first loaded it up, it worked GREAT - for about 10 minutes. Since then, I have spent 4 hours just trying to get Kodon to load in VR.... no such luck. Black screen. Steam can't refund, and apparently this is all but abandoned. Spectacular. I would love this program, if only I could SEE it. Shame to have bought it for FP

URGENT NOTE: [strike] There was an update on December 20th 2024 that made the steam version have the text "trial version" across the screen and some features removed [/strike] The developers fixed the trial mode thing now. If you are seeing "Trial" text over your program you may need to uninstall it and reinstall it. Verifying the download may also fix it. The bad: It crashes often and randomly, totally unstable, save often, if it saves. The program has not seen updates in all of 2024 The developers are not active in the discord There was an update on December 20th 2024 that made the steam version become a trial version. This is probably a mistake and will be fixed, and you can still access the full version from the versions listed in the beta section. The good: The program is very promising, and when it works it is quite a joy to use. when it was released a year ago the developers were quite active and the development seemed to go quite well. If you have the money to spare or find it in an offer by all means get it. If you want it to use it as a tool for work, then probably wait and see if it ever gets updated before putting money into this one. [strike] I will change my recommendation to positive if the trial version is fixed and there are updates. [/strike] As it was fixed, this review is now positive.

VR system: I'm using Index controllers and an old HTC Vive headset. The latest two updates - after a year of silence from the developers - has improved the interface. It's still a bit quirky but is much easier and clearer to work with than with earlier versions. It also loaded all the geometry of almost all the OBJ and FBX files I threw at it, only choking on a enormous OBJ with several million faces. Actually working in VR was less enjoyable. In less than fifteen minutes I managed to lock the tutorial three times in three different ways - it apparently stopped reading the menu button, the trigger, and the grip on the primary controller at different times, requiring that I leave VR and close Kodon from the desktop. Each time the controller worked flawlessly once out of Kodon. I never did get very far in the tutorial due to this. I spent anther fifteen or twenty minutes playing around, sculpting on the provided base meshes. Performance was acceptable, but buttons in the dialog boxes wouldn't always load their labels; you had to remember which was which. Finally Kodon stopped recognizing the menu button again, and I shut it down. I spent another hour or so after that in VR, in various programs, with no controller issues. The 20 Dec 2024 update had an issue (everyone was set to "trial version") that was corrected by another update the next day. That issue was quickly resolved, and I only mention it here because it may be mentioned in other reviews. Kodon is a great concept that's hobbled by an inconstant, buggy implementation. I cannot recommend Kodon as it stands presently. I do have hope that it will improve.