-Avid Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: AVID), today announced that its Softimage, Co. subsidiary has released SOFTIMAGE®XSI® 6, the latest version of its flagship 3D animation and character creation software. Available now for download, XSI 6 software offers new features and solutions that result in a fast and highly integrated way to work with complex 3D characters and motion capture data in a mixed-studio pipeline. Whether used for visual effects in film and broadcast programs or for designing next-generation PC and console games, XSI 6 software delivers many powerful capabilities to 3D artists this holiday season. Along with major advances in animation and data management for complex 3D scenes, the rendering core within XSI 6 software has been enhanced for increased performance, scalability and extensibility.
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- nPower Software boast Power NURBS 2.0 facilitates construction of even the most complex geometry. (PR) nPower Software, a division of IntegrityWare, Inc, announced today the 2.0 release of its popular Power NURBS product (with support for 3ds Max 9, including 64 bit support). Power NURBS hybrid Solids / Surface Modeler is revolutionizing 3D design with the ability to combine both types of models in a seamless, integrated fashion. Power NURBS' hybrid design flexibility makes it uniquely applicable to a broad range of markets. Power NURBS 1.0 achieved great success in the industrial design, mechanical, electronic and architectural industries. Version 2.0 simplifies the construction of complex geometry typical of the automotive, aerospace, medical, entertainment and organic modeling industries........Download Free Beta!!
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-Deadline of this years high-profile Howdesign competition closing in, So Don't miss your opportunity to enter the 15th Annual How International Design Awards. It could be your chance to gain international recognition, feel like a star and show off your hard work Winning entries appear in the April 2007 issue of HOW. Entry deadline is September 1, 2006. Download rules and an entry form here(.PDF). [Source: Howdesign]
- Chaos Group has Released Beta version 1.5 of the V-Ray rendering engine for Autodesk® 3ds Max® is now available for download. The New features in this version includes; Support for motion blur on Particle Flow systems with both translational and rotational motion blur, New Reinhardt color mapping mode, Sub-pixel and per-pixel color mapping modes, Detail enhancement for the irradiance map, supports 64-bit operating systems, Render elements are fully supported in VRay distributed rendering mode, Support for including/excluding objects from the Toon effect and many more enhancement features. chaos group has also released public beta for Autodesk Maya .
V-Ray 1.5 RC1 for 3ds max
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Autodesk, Inc. has launched Autodesk Maya 8 and 3ds Max 9 , both Supports 64-bit Technology and Multithreading Enhancements Offer New Levels of Scalability and Speed. Both programs have also been optimized for large datasets, one of the most crucial features for high-end film, broadcast and game users. Each program also contains numerous improvements, in areas such as productivity, pipeline efficiency, rendering and file exchange capabilities with other programs.The latter is one of the advantages of Autodesk owning both programs, plus other assets which came to it in the Alias purchase last year. One of those was the FBX plugin, which has now been upgraded for tighter integration between Maya, 3ds Max and MotionBuilder. The new version features inter changeable geometry between Maya and 3ds Max. In addition, render layers can be exported to Autodesk’s Toxik database. Both of them will take advantage from mental ray 3.5 core. The 3ds Max 9 will be available in October 2006, while Maya 8 starts shipping in August 2006.(source: CGI, Y!news)
For a complete list of new features in Maya 8, please visit www.autodesk.com/maya.
For a complete list of new features in 3ds Max 9, please visit www.autodesk.com/3dsmax.
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- Various task specific 3d studio max scripts written by Ivan Tepavicharov. 'steps'. AlignMultiple - This script aligns the selected objects along the X coordinate axis by picking a point on the viewport. LinkBySelection - Links objects by order of their selection. For example, when selecting two or more objects, the first selected is linked to the second, the second to the third, and so on. AnimationTransfer - Transfers animation from one object to another by exporting it to a file and importing again. GlobalGlossySubdiv - Globally changes reflection or refraction glossy subdivision for all vRayMtl materials, as well as, for all vRayMaps. FixMapPath - If there are missing maps within the scene this script automatically finds and fixes them. All you need to do is assign a directory that contains the missing maps (the script searches within subdirectories as well) and the script repairs the paths.......And many more!
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- Various task specific 3d studio max scripts written by Shibu Menon. BonesPro 2 Skin - As the name suggests, this script allows you to use all the good features of BonesPro, and then convert all skinning info to the skin modifier need to save a structure file of BonesPro before the conversion. TurboManager - Useful in managing Turbosmooth modifier in large scenes can manage Turbosmoothing of either selected objectsor the whole scene. MeshBaker - Bakes any animated mesh. I wrote it for a project where some skinned objects had become unstable and caused a crash on render.I baked these objects using this script. AnimatedAlign -Same like the align tool in Max, allowing an object to be aligned (pos/rot) to another object.Only difference being, it sticks the first object to the other over a specified time duration.If steps = 1 then keys are generated on the child on each frame within the specified duration. Else it will generate keys depending on 'steps'.......And many more!
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- Bionatics, the leading developer of 3D plant modeling and simulation tools for the 3D industry, announces the release of the version 4 of its 3D plant modeler natFX for 3ds max, its signature product used by the largest 3D animation and video game studios around the world. natFX® is a plug-in of 3ds max® designed for 3D Animation, Video Game willing to reduce production costs, rendering time or optimize realtime performances. natFX provides new first class technologies as such as: animation, real-time modeling, level of details, normal maps, texture management.
- Two New handy 3ds Max script by Mark Walters available for download. Buckyball 1.00 - The user can create buckyballs (geometric shapes of carbon atoms consisting of 12 pentagons and a varying amount and arrangement of hexagons), other fullerenes, radiolarians, soccer balls (european footballs), or any number of other interesting geometric shapes. Cancel out of the Chamfer floater to create other fun shapes with the vertexes and edges that get selected on the base geosphere.. Tracer 1.30 - This is an updated version of the original Tracer Script written by Neil Blevins.The user draws any combination of top, front, right, bottom, back and left views of an object, scans in the pictures, and then this 3ds max script will create the corresponding planes in your viewport with your pictures on them, allowing the user to use the reference photos as a guide for building their 3d model. For best results, make sure that all widths and heights correlate appropriately in your image editing software.
- Independent online publication and CG portal, CGIndia has announced the Release of CGToolbar for Computer Graphics Community. CGToolbar is extremely useful and must have tool for CG Artists, Animators, VFX and 3d professionals. CGIndia's Toolbar is one of its kind (unique)- probably the first toolbar which is loaded with custom features, built by focusing on the needs of a computer graphics professional and to cater the whole CG community. This small but powerful Toolbar bring all the resources a CG artists ever need at their fingertips by bridging the gap between various useful CG Portals. Besides all this, its offers all the features that a normal toolbar may have..!!
- RTsquare is an advanced GPU based 3D rendering plugin for 3d studio max. RTsquare gives 3ds Max users Benefit from the power of system GPU. This plug-in Offers high Productivity- Processing time divided by more than 10. Main features includes ; Soft shadows up to 256 samples, Reflection on multiple level and refraction, Reflection and refraction caustics, Global illumination and skylight, Atmospheric effect with shadows management, Depth of field, fog and layered fog, Motion blur, cartoon rendering and many more.............Download Trial Link!!
- Free Maya rig By Andrew Silke. Generi is a free model rigged and ready for character animation in Maya 5.x. The Generi rig includes full lip sync and facial controls and the brand new trigger UI selection method for selecting puppet controls. He's a simple model with a production quality rig perfect for learning character animation. Download size 500k only........Link!!
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- P SOFTHOUSE Co. LTD has Released Liquid+1.3 and Pencil+ 1.2 plugins for 3d Studio Max 8 . Pencil+ is the NPR Shader plug-in that lets 3D artist truly realize the style of hand drawing.You can create fascinating renderings that simulate from the vivid colors of the wax pencil strokes to the delicate pigment pen drawings. Liquid+ is the NPR Renderer plug-in for 3ds max lets 3D artist truly realize style of hand-painted watercolor expressions with blotted and blurred images on 3D/CG animation. This brings great visual experiences you never had........Download demo!!
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Download Free HDRI...............source:CGI
- Good HDRI are hard to find especially the free and unique ones. Download these free HDRI for using them in 3D applications to render real world lighting situations and realistic reflections. HDRI means High Dynamic Range Image; a normal 24 bit image is called a Low Dynamic Range image. For example in a 24 bit image, a white wall pixel is as bright as a white pixel of the sky. In fact, the pixel of the sky should be many times brighter! HDR images contain this information and therefore can be used to accurately light 3D scenes.Download Free HDRI link*
Some Free HDRI Maps Available for Download *
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-Autostitch™ is the world's first fully automatic 2D image stitcher. Capable of stitching full view panoramas without any user input whatsoever, Autostitch is a breakthrough technology for panoramic photography, VR and visualisation applications. This is the first solution to stitch any panorama completely automatically, whether 1D (horizontal) or 2D (horizontal and vertical). Autostitch is built using cutting edge research from the AI lab at UBC, but it's incredibly simple to use! Just select a set of photos, and Autostitch does the rest: digital photos in, panoramas out.Try the free demo
- Good news for 3d artists, CGIndia has announced a very interested contest, in which 3d artists has to develop a space ship using a base 3d model provided by them. The Contest will act as a proving ground for CG-artist to show their talent. Participate to win loads of useful prizes Sponsored by some of the biggest names in the CG industry. Deadline for submitting entry is 22nd May 2006.......Go to contest main page (Recommended) !!
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