News

August 30, 2007

May 19, 2006

  • I redid the first page of the "Using UV Sets and Layered Textures" Maya tutorial and also added a UV mapper texture to the texture  downloads area.

March 22, 2006

  • I added a new Maya tutorial about duplicating objects along a curve.

  • ambientLight's trueSpace tutorial links are now hosted at my site. See the trueSpace section in the Resources area.

February 9, 2006

  • I redesigned and updated the website, changing the look and adding a few new areas (some new tutorials, downloads and gallery). If you find any broken or missing links, please let me know.

July 15, 2004

  • ambientLight, creator of seamless photograpic texture packs and 3d models, is having a summer sale until July 31st. Add to that the 10% special discount offered to Render-Lab visitors, and you get a really great price!

February 21, 2004

  • Many thanks to Nici for translating my "Setting up dynamic clothing for a sitting pose in Poser 5" tutorial into German. You can find her translation at www.nicinet.de in the Tutorial section.  

February 5, 2004

  • Uploaded a tutorial about using Chikara Kojima's PolyTools plug-ins. 

February 2, 2004

  • CK Game Factory (Chikara Kojima) has come out with a great plug-in pack for trueSpace 5+: PolyTools. It includes 17 plug-ins for only $20. The free version (which has a limit of 200 polys) can be downloaded at PrimitiveItch or CK Game Factory. It's definitely worth a look, the plug-ins are very useful.

December 12, 2003

  • Added the "Simulations" part to the "Getting around in trueSpace 5 and 6" tutorial. Thank you Nigel Doyle for writing this section!

July 28, 2003

  • TrueSpace 6.6 is shipping!

June 25, 2003

  • Caligari has announced that trueSpace 6.6 is scheduled to ship on July 7, 2003. 

May 7, 2003

  • Added the animation parts of the "Getting Around" tutorial. Big thank you to Nigel Doyle (3dkiwi) and James Diel (RimRunner) for contributing this part!

March 25, 2003

  • TrueSpace 6.5 is  released!

March 12, 2003

  • Kerlin Softworks has put together a suite of image utilities in one package. It includes Eleblend and Ripple Rain, which used to be commercial plug-ins. The other software included in the package are Gradient Thief, UT Screenshot Assistant and Mosaica. This suite can be downloaded for free, and is supported by donations. Thank you to Kerlin Softworks for their great programs and their generosity!
  • Steve Cox's UVMapper now has its own forum! Click here to visit the forum where you'll be able to discuss and learn about texture mapping.
  • The latest release date for trueSpace 6.5 is March 15, 2003. 
  • I updated the luuv tutorial. I changed a few things and included information about texturing Victoria 3's eyes inside trueSpace. 

February 16, 2003

  • The release of trueSpace 6.5 has been pushed back to the end of February, 2003.
  • The luuv plug-in for trueSpace has been updated. The new version has several improvements. Go to the web site and download it!

January 30, 2003

  • DAZ has announced that the base version of their new DAZ Studio prior to the release of version 1.0 will be available as a free beta. This free version renders imported Poser 4 .PZ3 files. Posing, animation, model import and other features will follow later. Eventually DAZ Studio will be a modular program, i.e. customers will be able to choose and buy those components that they need, among them dynamic hair and cloth-authoring. 

December 20, 2002

  • DAZ has released Victoria3! This is a much higher resolution model than Vicki2 and it seems that the joints are better. Just look at the pose with the arms lifted above her head! 

December 17, 2002

  • Caligari Corp. and Curious Labs, Inc. announced a new partnership. Hopefully this will lead to an improved integration between trueSpace and Poser. 
  • Caligari Corp. has also announced a technology partnership with Primitive Itch, maker of (among others) Motion Studio.

December 9, 2002

  • The update for the MetaObjects plug-in for trueSpace is out and it looks really good. It was included in the dePak, so if you have this pack, go to the dePak page to download the update. 

December 7, 2002

  • Special discount on ambientLight's seamless photographic texture packs and 3d models for our visitors! See details on the Resources page. 
  • The Luuv tutorial is now available as a zipped PDF file. Go to the Tutorials section to download it. 

December 6, 2002

  • New in the Downloads section: an excellent IBL light library for trueSpace 5 and 6 provided by ambientLight!

December 4, 2002

  • An announcement from Primitive Itch:

    "GalloSoft has ceased operations and has generously released
    ShaderMagic and Infinity2 as freeware. You can get them from
    the Primitive Itch website here:

    http://www.primitiveitch.com/

    Many thanks to GalloSoft for sharing these wonderful
    plugins! (Just don't bug them for tech support.) [ :) ]"

 

  • Another recent event: Sisyphus will no longer publish plug-ins, so TrueParticles will no longer be available. See the company's website:

    www.sisyphus.com

 

 

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