this is great mind mapping software.
Great for writing, planning a big project or even linking to images.
You can use it to help eg study an art movement because each thread of the mapping software can linkto an image, a web page, a word doc etc,
So you could use it to eg map out links to a bunch of threads on posing, rendering
It's main advantage is that ideas are mapped out in an image format., as opposed to a linear, down the page approach.
I don't believe DEM works directly in Bryce, certainly not in Carrara. Use Wilbur to convert DEM to height-map and it'll work in any 3d app that does height-maps.
Bryce was actually the first program I am aware of (that didn't cost a fortune) that did work with DEM's. I had played with it and I haven't played with Bryce in over 10 years. The article below talks about it in v4, but iirc, one could do it in 2.x or 3.x but the process of getting ahold of the DEM's at the time, and then converting/bringing them in was a bit complex.
Bryce was actually the first program I am aware of (that didn’t cost a fortune) that did work with DEM’s.
As I said, it doesn't work with DEM's directly - they have to be converted. IIRC - haven't needed to use it in a while - Wilbur converts DEM's directly to heightmaps, which can be used in Bryce and any other software that uses heightmaps.
EDIT:
Now I remember - get the DEM from USGS, unpack in 3DEM (also free), process in Wilbur, heightmap to Bryce. Here's a quickie of a corner of Utah done in Bryce:roll::)
- "QTTabBar" = adds tabs to win explorer (not IE explorer, but dir/folders) and has many features; I leave it on all the time. It says v1.5 beta but it has been solid for a year.
- "QTTabBar" = adds tabs to win explorer (not IE explorer, but dir/folders) and has many features; I leave it on all the time. It says v1.5 beta but it has been solid for a year.
You might ask why you'd want this when you got Hexagon for free. It's just a matter of taste really. Wings is a very basic box modelling tool that always seemed really straight forward to me. Its still my modeller of choice.
TopMod is based on a new paradigm that allows dynamically changing the topology of 2-manifold polygonal meshes. The new paradigm always guarantees topological consistency of polygonal meshes.
Based on our paradigm, by simply adding and deleting edges,handles can be created and deleted, holes can be opened or closed, polygonal meshes can be connected or disconnected. These edge insertion and edge deletion operations are highly consistent with subdivision algorithms. In particular, these operations can easily be included into a subdivision modeling system such that the topological changes and subdivision operations can be performed alternatively during model construction.
TopMod demonstrates practical examples of topology changes based on this new paradigm and show that the new paradigm is convenient, effective, efficient, and friendly to subdivision surfaces.
After experimenting with numerous back up solutions this very powerful and free back solution has been the best thus far Cobian's backup http://www.cobiansoft.com/index.htm
I use Total Commander (which isn't free, its like the old norton commander but on Steroids) I don't know if anyone has seen a 'good' replacement that I can recommend to people. Again this isn't free but in case someone has a recommended alternative the link is here http://www.ghisler.com/
Good find, now free, previously sold for 149$, reviewed here: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403940,00.asp Bottom Line
Web design app Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional costs than half the price of Dreamweaver CS6, yet it offers most of its features of its more muscular competitor, in a clearer, more efficient interface.
Excellent piece of software for creating normal maps, specular maps, displacement and occlusion maps.
Theres a public beta version for Mac (I've been using it for ages) and I believe there is also a demo for windows users.
There is, and here's their homepage. Looks great! CrazyBump It's $99 USD for personal use license - a deal for what this can do. Not sure what happens in an unlicensed version.
100% legal, works on any computer, any OS and always free, with future updates.
Ah, okay. That makes more sense. Sort of...
Still, it's out of character for them to do it this way, I think. Not even plastering the catch all over the download page. Usually they are air-tightly controlled to where it is impossible to get even a sniff of this kind of access legitimately. To me they've been the epitome of tight controlling of their apps.
Curious... for them.
I do use GIMP when I need those extra abilities that my old, trusty, (a-hem) legit PS5 lacks. I guess that amounts to quite a few features after all these years, but not that many that I've needed so far.
I haven't yet sat down and fully committed to the GIMP. One of these days...
It's called having their cake and eating it too... They mass release an "obsolete" (because of OS updates) version with a press release, then have their legal dept say that you don't actually own it if you download it (in otherwords they are legally exempt from supporting it).
Kinda like when Apple was the underdog and would inflate their OS install numbers by including the number of people using their software illegally.... Kind of ironic to claim software pirates as users, but it's all about "leveraging" reality. In most cases people have owned a pirated or "borrowed" copy of Adobe products before they buy in... It's actually part of their business model.
I DLed the Adobe files, as I still have a legacy computer. I don't feel bad about it either because they had nothing on the download page explaining their reason for release. They didn't even have a link to the page with the explanation. All they had on a public page were the complete files, activation numbers and system requirements for a series of seven+ year old, unsupported, no longer sold, software.
100% legal, works on any computer, any OS and always free, with future updates.
sorry, didn't know there was anything not legal with it!
as a few people have said , there is nothing on the download page about the conditions for downloading it
EDIT: reading this (from the Adobe Blog) , it says nothing concrete about preconditions:
Effective December 13, Adobe disabled the activation server for CS2 products and Acrobat 7 because of a technical glitch. These products were released over 7 years ago and do not run on many modern operating systems. But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.
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FreePlane (a Freemind derivative with additional features), http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Dia, a flowcharting tool https://live.gnome.org/Dia
thanks I will check that out
mind mapping software is a blessing
http://www.meshmixer.com/index.html
mesh mixer - you've probably seen it but great to play with, you could export a posed Daz figure and tweak it to youtr heart's content
Bryce was actually the first program I am aware of (that didn't cost a fortune) that did work with DEM's. I had played with it and I haven't played with Bryce in over 10 years. The article below talks about it in v4, but iirc, one could do it in 2.x or 3.x but the process of getting ahold of the DEM's at the time, and then converting/bringing them in was a bit complex.
http://www.shadedrelief.com/bryce/large.html
just starting exploring HDri's .... and found
this old Carrara 3 article is worth a read re HDRi
http://www.hdrvfx.com/tutorials/3dxtract_aug04_HDRI.pdf
also http://ict.debevec.org/~debevec/HDRShop/tutorial/tutorial5.html
could be of interest
but HDRshop no longer seems to be free for non commercial use tho ugh
As I said, it doesn't work with DEM's directly - they have to be converted. IIRC - haven't needed to use it in a while - Wilbur converts DEM's directly to heightmaps, which can be used in Bryce and any other software that uses heightmaps.
EDIT:
Now I remember - get the DEM from USGS, unpack in 3DEM (also free), process in Wilbur, heightmap to Bryce. Here's a quickie of a corner of Utah done in Bryce:roll::)
Not specific to only 3D or Carrara:
- "search everything" = fast, easy, HDD searches
- "QTTabBar" = adds tabs to win explorer (not IE explorer, but dir/folders) and has many features; I leave it on all the time. It says v1.5 beta but it has been solid for a year.
Doug.S
I use both of these constantly.
My personal favourite Wings3D:
http://www.wings3d.com/
You might ask why you'd want this when you got Hexagon for free. It's just a matter of taste really. Wings is a very basic box modelling tool that always seemed really straight forward to me. Its still my modeller of choice.
Megacal put me onto this one: thanks Cal!
Top Mod
looks interesting.
No Manual but tuts are available via Youtube
Examples of work produced
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsa_dFhRBE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp0ZPqFJ3O0&feature=relmfu
link to downloads http://code.google.com/p/topmod/downloads/list
Free terrain generator - L3DT
this is a score
I;ve been looking for a free program that will export ai files that can be read in the spline room for ages
http://www.microsoft.com/expression/expression-design/Default.aspx
After experimenting with numerous back up solutions this very powerful and free back solution has been the best thus far Cobian's backup http://www.cobiansoft.com/index.htm
Hope it helps some
free cs2 goodies inc illustrator fo your vector drawings to import into spline room....
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
they are old versions but mightbe handy ?
suggestion: be quick?
you might like
http://www.wxcommander.com/
or the one ive used for several years http://www.freecommander.com/
Good find, now free, previously sold for 149$, reviewed here:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403940,00.asp
Bottom Line
Web design app Microsoft Expression Studio 4 Web Professional costs than half the price of Dreamweaver CS6, yet it offers most of its features of its more muscular competitor, in a clearer, more efficient interface.
Direct link to Microsoft Expression Design 4 (Free Version):
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36179
thanks for that link too :)
You all are really super cool for putting this whole catalog together! Thanks a Mill!!! :coolhmm:
Heh, yes it is handy, in fact it is awesome ! :)
Very Awesome! Man, you ROCK for rejuvenating this!
Lots of stuff here I'm absolutely eager to check out. This is great!
;)
Crazybump.
http://crazybump.com/mac/
Excellent piece of software for creating normal maps, specular maps, displacement and occlusion maps.
Theres a public beta version for Mac (I've been using it for ages) and I believe there is also a demo for windows users.
There is, and here's their homepage. Looks great!
CrazyBump
It's $99 USD for personal use license - a deal for what this can do. Not sure what happens in an unlicensed version.
Indeed! This is almost too good to be true! Is there a catch? :gulp:
I almost missed this! As well as all the other CS2 programs.
Many thanks for this, Andrew! I've been soldiering on with PS5 for so many years/decades.
The catch is that it is NOT 100% LEGAL unless you already have a CS2 license.
Sure, it is only a problem for businesses trying to be fully legit, to avoid risking piracy raids and being sued.
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2013/01/update-on-cs2-and-acrobat-7-activation-servers.html
Sticking with GIMP, Inkscape via
http://portableapps.com/
100% legal, works on any computer, any OS and always free, with future updates.
Ah, okay. That makes more sense. Sort of...
Still, it's out of character for them to do it this way, I think. Not even plastering the catch all over the download page. Usually they are air-tightly controlled to where it is impossible to get even a sniff of this kind of access legitimately. To me they've been the epitome of tight controlling of their apps.
Curious... for them.
I do use GIMP when I need those extra abilities that my old, trusty, (a-hem) legit PS5 lacks. I guess that amounts to quite a few features after all these years, but not that many that I've needed so far.
I haven't yet sat down and fully committed to the GIMP. One of these days...
It's called having their cake and eating it too... They mass release an "obsolete" (because of OS updates) version with a press release, then have their legal dept say that you don't actually own it if you download it (in otherwords they are legally exempt from supporting it).
Kinda like when Apple was the underdog and would inflate their OS install numbers by including the number of people using their software illegally.... Kind of ironic to claim software pirates as users, but it's all about "leveraging" reality. In most cases people have owned a pirated or "borrowed" copy of Adobe products before they buy in... It's actually part of their business model.
I DLed the Adobe files, as I still have a legacy computer. I don't feel bad about it either because they had nothing on the download page explaining their reason for release. They didn't even have a link to the page with the explanation. All they had on a public page were the complete files, activation numbers and system requirements for a series of seven+ year old, unsupported, no longer sold, software.
If I'm a pirate, I suck at it.
I grabbed it too :red: guilty %-P
not software but...
Using Poser 3D Software to Create the Ground-Breaking Graphic Novel Anomaly
http://my.smithmicro.com/webinars/poser/using-poser-3d-software-to-create-ground-breaking-graphic-novel-anomaly/index.html
worthwhile watching