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• idanF

  about 4 years ago

  I use several addons by Polygoniq, all of them rather impressive, I have to admit this one slightly dissapointed me, feels like this addon and the "Traffiq" were left behind.
  Comparing this addon to other CHEAPER addons results in a rather poor quality.
  Sorry for the harsh criticism, it's my honest thought as of right now.

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  polygoniq

  about 4 years ago

  Hi Idan, ground breaking materialiq 5 is around the corner. It's true it was left behind a bit but this next update should more than make up for it. Traffiq definitely wasn't left behind though, we just released a new version on 28th of July so about 4 weeks before your review. Trust us, we're really trying but we've got a lot of products and projects on our hands:) Thank you for your support and reviews of our other addons:)
• Jack

  over 1 year ago

  A single materialiq material in a scene just wrecks performance, and makes navigating crazy laggy. I really wanted to like this product but just cant recommend it as-is. 3090, 64gb RAM, Blender 4.3. Not sure if this is a problem specific to this hardware/software combo, but it isnt good

• Manuel Camelo da Silva Poloni

  over 1 year ago

  Unfortunately I really CANNOT recommend this Addon because adding just 1 single 'Materialiq MATERIAL' from its library (browse assets), means that the scene will become extremely LAGGY and a loss of framerate like no other. It's crazy seriously what's so TAXING on the GPU and RAM when it comes to this Addon? I'm absolutely disappointed, 50 euros thrown into the trash.

• Eric Mills

  about 2 years ago

  Their new Beta system looks nothing like their menus on the older systems and the installation instructions are poor and incomplete. I am not able to use the product and will be requesting a refund

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  polygoniq

  almost 2 years ago

  The Beta phase is already over and we have fully transitioned materialiq to engon, try to give it a shot and get in touch. The UX is different, but we are trying to make the product better. Now you can search through all materials at once and see relevant results and even have the asset browser in a separate window. If you don’t like using it, we automatically add all the assets to the native Blender browser.

  For instructions, we would like to hear what isn’t unclear, we have quite comprehensive documentation on docs.polygoniq.com.
• Igor

  over 2 years ago

  The idea is great, the implementation is terrible
  You make a copy of the material, change various settings, but when you assign a new material, all copies fly off
  After updates to the addon or the blender itself, all materials turn purple, even the new addon engone allegedly does not help with the restoration of materials
  You write to the developers, they ignore and write that they don't understand what's going on
  They create new addons a lot and quickly, but they forget about the stability of existing ones
  Terrible, very terrible, I bought an addon for convenience, but in the end I got a problem(((

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  polygoniq

  almost 2 years ago

  Sorry to hear that, the support message got to slip through. We have the “Remove Duplicates” functionality that is automatically enabled to remove all .001, .002, … duplicate materials (that could be copied by accident) and merge them into the first one. This can be disabled in engon spawning opitons

  https://docs.polygoniq.com/engon/1.3.0/panels/engon/spawning_assets/?h=spawn+option#asset-spawn-options

  if you want to keep the duplicates. We prefer to keep this enabled and name materials based on the changes we do to the material to keep things tidy.
• Peter Nebelong

  almost 4 years ago

  Dishonesty is one of the worst human trait I know of. Polygoniq promise free updates forever but then a little more than 1 year later they introduce a new highest tier that will get the updated 8K images only. In essence the product you bought has been degraded to second class and in the future it might get degraded to 3'rd class... Who knows.

  If you for instance bought Adobe photoshop with lifetime updates, and after a year they updated from 8 to 32 bit color (old times I know) but the 32 bit version was called "Photoshop ultra" and unfortunately you didn't buy that product, so no updates to you except for some new workflows that you don't need if you like to stick to native Blender workflows.

  I tried to communicate with polygoniq about this pretty obvious dishonesty but they basically told me that the alternative was to just abandon the product because everybody had already bought it (so they could only make more money if they screwed their customers).

  I have bought most of their products which come with the same promise, but I can feel where this is heading...

  I'm sure from my conversation with them that they will try their best to prove me wrong so they can keep on getting customers on false promises or they will do as they wrote in the last message, which is to go for a subscription model, just like Adobe. I'm sure though that they will have to put a little more effort into the update frequency and -quality if they want people to subscribe to that. For a business run by 15 people I think they could do better.

  This is my honest review after having tried to communicate to them that existing customers of highest tier should be upgraded to highest tier again but all I got was that they couldn't understand what I was talking about. I'm sure I'm not going to buy any more products from these people unless they realize that this actually is dishonesty which is not something anybody wants in the Blender community. Remember, they don't have to provide free updates to assets but then they of course cannot write that they do. They do need to provide "free" updates to fix bugs in code they sell and to fixes for Blender version updates for at least a year.

  I put a lot of thought into whether to write this or not and decided to do it because I for one don't want neither Blendermarket or Blender to become a place of greed and broken promises and I also want people new to the Blender community to know what free updates mean in the context of Polygoniq. Polygoniq, you get the last word...

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  polygoniq

  almost 4 years ago

  Hi Peter, but we have upheld our obligation: you got materialiq 5 full for free - a massive update nearly 2 years in development - doesn't sound like abandoning addons to me. You messaged us to get the upgrade to ultra for free and after we didn't you gave us this review, which is hardly honest. Since materialiq is sold based on resolutions it made most sense to us to divide it this way, after all 8k is not that useful in most instances. If you don't like where our addons are heading please feel free to discuss with us on our Discord or request a refund for each of them, we will grant it. Adam from polygoniq
• Ged

  over 4 years ago

  Sorry I purchase this addon, I assumed you could just install the addon and work in your normal interface but no, you seem to have to through misguided information just to open the interface and there's little to no instructions on what you're suppose to do when you finally figure it out, the latest blend file I could find was for 2.81 and no 3.0 or above available.
  I don't want to use someone else's blend file, I like my own configuration.

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  polygoniq

  almost 4 years ago

  Hi Ged, we have documentation for various versions of the addon we released. I assume you used 4.6.2. You can check out how to use the panel at https://docs.polygoniq.com/materialiq/4.6.2/getting_started/material_panel_overview/

  The blends support multiple versions of Blender, including 3.0 and above, even though they are called 2.81, the naming is legacy from earlier versions of materialiq.

  You can absolutely use your own configuration and use materialiq at the same time, this shouldn't be an issue. We do this internally in our team.

  --Martin

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