Tinderbox is an impressive collection of 2D visual effects plug-ins, delivering unlimited creative possibilities for artists involved in producing digital images for film and video. Opt for instant gratification with hundreds of presets or add your unique touch with a multitude of adjustable parameters. Continue Reading
StretchMesh is a new paradigm for surface deformation. By using a fast algorithm for relational vertex knowledge, smooth character deformations can be created quickly and with superior results over existing techniques. StretchMesh is implemented as a standard Maya deformer to work seamlessly with and enhance existing work flows. Continue Reading
T-Splines v2 for Rhino has many significant improvements, focused on three areas:
1. Creating smooth, organic models,
2. Editing them quickly, and
3. Exporting them for manufacturing without remodeling.
1. Create smooth organic models
T-Splines models are truly watertight, and even complex models can be created as a single surface. Mechanical detailing can be done with Rhino. Read more.
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2. Edit quickly
Editing is done with a manipulator that can push and pull, rotate, and scale parts of the T-splines surface. Whether T-splines points are moved an inch or a mile, the surface will maintain outstanding continuity and not tear apart.
Many T-splines commands, such as extruding edges, deleting faces, subdividing faces, and extruding faces are popular techniques used in the animation industry for their speed. T-Splines brings these commands into industrial design for the first time, with one critical improvement. With T-Splines, you can add detail to a model, and the surface doesn\’t change or warp until you move the control points. Read more.
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3. Export for manufacturing without remodeling
T-splines designs can be exported for manufacturing without needing to be remodeled. This is because all T-splines can be converted exactly to smooth, water-tight manufacturable NURBS. This is a push-button operation.
T-splines can be manufactured by any machine that reads in Rhino .3dm files. T-Splines can also be exported to solid modelers like SolidWorks.
Download Link:
rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/282790018/TS2.rar
V-ray Advanced 1.5 Sp4 x64 for 3ds Max 2010 | 39.4 MB
The V-Ray? 1.50 Service Pack 4 is compatible with Autodesk? 3ds Max? 8, Autodesk? 3ds Max? 9, Autodesk? 3ds Max? 2008, 3ds Max? 2009, Autodesk? 3ds Max Design 2009, Autodesk? 3ds Max? 2010, Autodesk? 3ds Max? Design 2010. ( But This Download Is Only For Max 2010 x64 )
The new V-Ray build supports both 32-bit and 64-bit OS.
Added New Feature in V-Ray 1.50 SP4 is V-Ray Ambient Light.
Autodesk Softimage Face Robot v1.9 | 480 MB
Autodesk Softimage Face Robot v1.9 – a full-fledged software product for rigging and animation of 3D, allowing you to create realistic animation of persons with unparalleled speed and ease. Built around the core XSI 6 version of Face Robot 1.8 is full of innovations that will facilitate the work of animators on the animation and facilitate the export of animation for games.
FumeFX is a fluid dynamics engine designed for simulation and rendering of realistic fire, smoke, explosion and other gaseous phenomena.
It’s versatility, robustness and intuitive workflow makes it a perfect solution for the most demanding tasks in the computer graphics industry. Almost every aspect of simulation can be customized through 3ds max scripting, allowing user to interfere with simulation computation at the lowest level. Continue Reading
KRAKATOA? is Prime Focus? production-proven Volumetric Particle Rendering, Manipulation and Management Toolkit. It provides a pipeline for acquiring, caching, deforming, shading and rendering vast quantities of particles at unprecedented speed to represent natural phenomena like dust, smoke, silt, ocean surface foam, plasma and even solid objects. Krakatoa? integrates well with Particle Flow, the flexible 3ds Max built-in Event-Driven Particle System, and provides data exchange capabilities for sharing particles with other 3D and simulation applications. Continue Reading
This just in: SolidWorks 2010, optimizing the core design functions you stake your career on every day, has hit the streets. Sources confirm it contains some 200 new user-driven features to help designers and engineers work faster and smarter every day. Copies are going fast.
Roadkill Pro For Maya
The new version of the massively popular UV tool, Roadkill, now fully integrated into Maya on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, for both 32-bit and 64-bit Operating systems.
Roadkill Professional has been written from the ground up, specifically designed for unwrapping high polygon 3D meshes quickly and accurately.
Maxwell Render is a rendering engine based on the mathematical equations governing light transport, meaning that all elements, such as emitters, materials and cameras, are derived from physically accurate models. Maxwell Render is unbiased, so no tricks are used to calculate the lighting solution in every pixel of a scene; the result will always be a correct solution, as it would be in the real world. Maxwell Render can fully capture all light interactions between all elements in a scene, and all lighting calculations are performed using spectral information and high dynamic range data. Continue Reading
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