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Warspite wrote:TrueSpace 3 is now free!

About time Caligari made trueSpace available for as much as it is worth...

Free Textures:

http://www.fantasticarts.com/textures/index.htm

http://www.mayang.com/textures/

Anyone know where i can get a sovereign class mesh?

I can't seem to find one for lightwave.

And a jumpgate one if possible, they all seem to point to kier darby's whitestar download page, no jumppoint download as far as i can see.

Pixia
A Japanese image editor translated into English

Whatever happened to Painter?

Hamel wrote:Whatever happened to Painter?

Corel bought it out some time ago.

Just a little piece of advice

If you want a good balance between file size and quality in your jpgs, use irfanview to encode them. My 300x100 blingbling avatar would be over 25k if encoded by photoshop even at a "bleh" setting

Use photoshop to do your work, then let irfanview handle the encode~ the not-so-big quality increase in PS simply isnt worth the gigantic file sizes

Where's a good place to download fonts?

Hamel wrote:Use photoshop to do your work, then let irfanview handle the encode~ the not-so-big quality increase in PS simply isnt worth the gigantic file sizes

IMHO, I prefer using Adobe's ImageReady to compressing down images. It works quite well for me. The native Photoshop compressor, of course, is designed for quality rather than size.

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:Where's a good place to download fonts?

www.redsun.com has a lot of fonts, but they're often made by amateurs.

Good fonts will cost you money.

How does Rhino 3d compare to the likes of Lightwave, 3DS max, and Maya?

Shinova wrote:How does Rhino 3d compare to the likes of Lightwave, 3DS max, and Maya?

It's workable, if you ever worked with Autocad, you'll be on familiar grounds, the interface is very precision-orientated but intuitive, it's good for modeling objects with precise dimensions.
My main quibble is the rest, material interface, cameras, lights and the renderer, they don't offer the level of versatility the other programs offer.
As always, good results can be done with the program, if you dedicate anough time to it.

Check this page for an example of the kind of acheivable results.

I would also like to suggest Renderman, by Pixar. I think it's considered the best renderer out there, and it's used as a plugin for Maya.

Well, on the topic of renderers, Brazil is one of the best around, the results are, ummm, what's the word I'm looking for... Impressive?

About image compressing:


So IrFanView degrades quality less for a filesize that is equal to an image compressed by photoshop?

What are the programs to capture DVD screenshots (things like paint, photoshop don't work).

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What are the programs to capture DVD screenshots (things like paint, photoshop don't work).

Because of video overlay. Use a program like PowerDVD.

Dalton wrote:

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What are the programs to capture DVD screenshots (things like paint, photoshop don't work).

Because of video overlay. Use a program like PowerDVD.

How much?

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:

Dalton wrote:

Grand Admiral Thrawn wrote:What are the programs to capture DVD screenshots (things like paint, photoshop don't work).

Because of video overlay. Use a program like PowerDVD.

How much?

It's a bit pricey. Fifty for the standard full edition.

Hrm, can't VideoLAN Client do screengrabs?

Dalton wrote: It's a bit pricey. Fifty for the standard full edition.

Oh well, was hoping for a free program, but I may get that.

To add to the list of software, there's kpovmodeler (part of kdegraphics package, obviously linux-only, more like an IDE/crude modeler for povray) and pngcrush to compress pngs.

Shinova wrote:How does Rhino 3d compare to the likes of Lightwave, 3DS max, and Maya?

i´ve never used rhino, but it´s supposed to be unbeatable if you want to work with splines. for regular box modeling use max.

Maya Personal Learning Edition has just been declared Freeware!

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