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Vue 8 Pioneer - Free!

Submitted by metalliandy on November 6, 2009 - 8:27am

Vue 8 Pioneer has been released as a free download and its functionality can be expanded upon by purchasing the 12 available modules to match the features of the full Vue 8 package.

Building Generator Script For Max

Submitted by metalliandy on November 5, 2009 - 7:02pm

A really cool building generator script has been released for max and is now available over at scriptspot.

Created by Tyson Ibele the script allows the user too create multiple buildings procedurally within 3dsMax.

Epic Released Unreal Editor 3 for FREE!

Submitted by Riki on November 5, 2009 - 9:29am

This is so awesome, I downloaded it and it has all the recent updates that licensees get. Amazing!!

You can get the download FREE from their site, more info here: http://www.udk.com

Meshlab 1.22 Released

Submitted by metalliandy on November 2, 2009 - 4:56pm

The new version of MeshLab (1.2.2) of the GNU program, famous for its awesome decimation feature, has now been released and includes numerous bug-fixes and new features.

You can now officially get excited

UNITY Engine 2.6 Indie Now Free!

Submitted by metalliandy on October 30, 2009 - 6:44am

Unity Engine 2.6 Indie is now free to use for personal or commercial projects!

The Indie version of the superb engine, now simply called Unity, is a slightly feature reduced little brother or the Pro edition, but still shares much tech. goodness with its sibling.

ZBrush - Rubble Tiling Texture Tutorial

Submitted by metalliandy on October 29, 2009 - 1:59pm

Nick Marks has created a very interesting tutorial on creating a tiling rubble texture in ZBrush.

Very cool stuff indeed and highly recommended viewing

You can watch the tutorial on Nick's Vimeo page

Games Industry Mentor Episode 7 Now Available

Submitted by Eat 3D on October 27, 2009 - 3:52pm

Aaron Canaday's immensely cool Games Industry Mentor podcast about breaking in to the games industry has just been released.

Currently at Episode 7, Aaron is joined by BioWare Environmental Artist Isaac Oster and our very own Riki Babington in which they question "What is needed to have a successful portfolio that gives the artist the best shot at landing a job?"

First ever DirectX 11 benchmark released

Submitted by metalliandy on October 24, 2009 - 8:56am

Unigine Corporation have announced the release of the first ever DirectX 11 benchmark.

DirectX 11 contains some very intriguing technological improvements such as Tessellation, Multi-threaded Rendering and Compute Shaders which could provide some very interesting results when they trickle down to the development world as part of Shader Model 5

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Beta now availiable

Submitted by metalliandy on October 23, 2009 - 1:05pm

Adobe has now released the public Beta of Photoshop Lightroom 3

Luxology release modo 401 trial

Submitted by metalliandy on October 23, 2009 - 6:51am

Luxology Have released two trial versions of their flagship 3d application modo 401.

The available versions of the trial differ length of the trial and in the extra content in which they provide with the downloads.

Remote file syncing made easy with Dropbox

Submitted by metalliandy on October 22, 2009 - 4:48am

Have you ever wanted to securely sync files across multiple PC's for free? What about having those same files on you iPhone too?

Yes you say?

Well it seems that you are in luck!

Darkest of Days Mod Tools Beta Released

Submitted by mdamico on October 13, 2009 - 2:47pm

The guys over at 8 Monkey Labs, the makers of Darkest of Days, have released the beta version of their development tools.

Motiva SOAP

Submitted by Billabong on September 24, 2009 - 9:24am

a free real time post production tool which allows not only change colors of objects but their influence in the whole scene.

Blender 11 month development schedule announced

Submitted by metalliandy on September 21, 2009 - 8:31am

Chairman and Lead developer Ton Roosendaal has announced an updated development schedule for Blender over the next 11 months, in which he lays out the release of 5 beta's, the possible 2.6 release date, the Durian Premiere and much more.

Laurens Corijn 3DS Max Viewport Shader

Submitted by mdamico on September 15, 2009 - 9:13pm

For anyone looking to have the functionality in 3DS Max that most game engines provide for great art presentation Laurens Corijin has released his 3DS Max Vieport Shader over at his site.

ZoomFit for ZBrush 3.5

Submitted by metalliandy on September 14, 2009 - 7:19am

Svengali, a member of zbrushcentral, has announced that the newest version of the ZoomFit Button has been released.

The plugin, which allows you to switch between zoomed view and full view and then back again with the click of a button, has been recently updated for for compatibility with ZBrush3.5

gile[s] and tree[d] - the freeware apps for lightmaps and trees.

Submitted by metalliandy on September 12, 2009 - 5:03pm

If you have ever wanted to generate Lightmaps or Trees in anything other than your normal applications?

Then today is your lucky day!

The kind folks over at www.frecle.net have recently made two such programs freeware.

LazyNezumi Updated

Submitted by metalliandy on September 7, 2009 - 7:20am

An update to LazyNezumi, the LazyMouse application for Windows based image editing applications, has been released.
Compatibility for 64bit Windows and custom application support have been added due too popular demand.

Blender 2.49b Released

Submitted by metalliandy on September 3, 2009 - 5:22pm

The Blender 2.49 series has today been updated with its second bugfix release.

Blender 2.49b not only contains numerous bugfixes, but also includes new and updated functionality.