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More good news on Silo3D.
Was previously dissapointed when the 3D objects i had made in Silo3D crashed Atmosphere, whenever i tried to "Convert to Surface" (native Atmosphere mesh).

This problem was not caused by Silo3D. Now it works fine, with no special tricks. The problem was that my new ATI Radeon X-800 Pro display card was not setup in the Atmosphere display hardware file and i didn't realize it. It seems critical to be in hardware render mode for "Convert to Surface", and i was not.

This time i tried Rolu's downloadable program for discovering and setting up your display card, rather than doing it manually. From:
 <http://www.roce.org/tools/hwconfig.html> Works great!

3D models made in Silo3D, with or without UV maps and textures, edited in ZBrush2 or not, all worked fine, after running them through Viewpoint Scene Builder as usual. In Atmosphere, i also scaled the models before and after "Convert to Surface" with no problems.

BTW, Silo3D (still only U$109!) uses 4 sided polys, but has a "Tessallation" command to convert them to triangles, if your other programs require it. I didn't need to do that.

The Silo3D developers keep adding new features every month and the next one (coming by next month) is pretty revolutionary. It lets you draw (freehand) a new mesh on top of your old one, then creates a new object with the geometry you drew! Great for creating clothing, for simplifying a model or for correcting after 3D scans. Many new work flows and ideas are bound to come out of this new tool.