Posted by c4dlist on December 26, 2010 – 10:49 pm
DRIVE! 1.5
The free update provides a wealth of new features and improvements. Now, any number of vehicles can be simulated and recorded simultaneously. Optionally, collisions of the car body with the ground are calculated, so that a car e.g. can roll over several times. With the improved learning mode the results of the simulation are now almost 100% reproducible. In the new version, more parameters can be changed during the running simulation, e.g. the time scale can be animated to get beautiful slow motion effects. Skid marks can be fitted with a rail spline, so that they always lie perfectly on the ground even in steep turns or sloping terrain. And more…
CRASHBOX 1.0
The new CRASHBOX Add-on for DRIVE! enables collisions between cars and other objects. Characteristic force curves are used to define crumple zones that achieve a realistic crash behavior of the car. Damages of the car are controlled by the simulation via various deformer objects and can be extended by custom effects. Special output ports can be used to make connections to CINEMA 4D R12 Dynamics.
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Posted by c4dlist on December 21, 2010 – 2:12 pm
Transform – Transform tool inspired by Photoshop
Time Shift -Changes the time value for the evaluation of shaders
Extended Starfield – Very customizable 2d starfield shader
Atmosphere Shader – Physical atmosphere material for orbital views
Simple Colormap – Post effect color mapping plugin
Noise Deformer – Deforms objects based on noise functions
UV Deformer – Place objects on surfaces via uv maps
Smooth – Powerful mesh smoothing plugin. Comes as deformer and dialog based
CopyPastePolys – Provides Copy/Paste capability for polygons
Duplicate Object – Minimalistic generator to make multiple copies of objects
ThingsOnSurface Shader – Renders randomly distributed brush stamps
SplineConnector – Generator which gathers child splines into a single one
SplineNoiseDeformer – Deforms splines in perpendicular direction based on noises
Cellular Shader – Renders cellular noise functions
Point Collapse Tool – Tool plugin to merge two mesh point together
UVtoObject – Generates polygon objects from uv maps – and automatically transfers changes
ShearRotateScale – Transformation tools which use the mouse position as pivot
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Posted by c4dlist on December 20, 2010 – 6:09 pm
Ptex is an efficient Per-Face Texture Mapping method developed by Brent Burley1 and Dylan Lacewell2. It does not use UV coordinates but stores a separate texure per face in a single texture file for a given mesh and supports multi-resolution textures for MIP mapping.
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Posted by c4dlist on December 18, 2010 – 2:08 pm
Adding detail to 3D objects for enhancement of apparent size or realism is a time-consuming task. It is made easier if tools are available to reduce the workload and time involved. Greebler is that new tool for your arsenal. It provides support for multiprocessors, NET Render, selections, materials, and much more.
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Posted by c4dlist on December 13, 2010 – 5:37 pm
Posted by c4dlist on December 13, 2010 – 2:29 pm
“This 40 minute tutorial demonstrates and explains the Soft Selection mode that the Live Selection Tool, Move, Scale and Rotate Tools have. This is a replacement for an old 9 minute tutorial. At 40 minutes, I cover things a lot better this time around.” -3DKiwi
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Posted by c4dlist on December 13, 2010 – 12:57 pm
Those with long memories (back to C4D R8.5 or earlier) may remember a shader system called ‘DarkTree’. This was (and still is) a system to develop complex procedural shaders using a variety of mathematical components linked together in a shader tree. These shaders are independent of the host application but for several of the major 3D apps, a plugin (called a Simbiont) was available to let you use the shaders in the app of your choice, and the simbiont interface allowed you to adjust a number of parameters for each shader tree. The simbiont didn’t allow you to develop your own dark trees, but there were a very large number of prewritten ones which can still be downloaded for free from the DarkSim site. And of course you can still buy the app which lets you create your own trees.
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Posted by c4dlist on December 12, 2010 – 1:19 am
“I’m happy to announce an epic 63 minute tutorial where I go through all of the Modelling / Object Selection Tools.” -3DKiwi
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Posted by c4dlist on December 8, 2010 – 12:41 am
Gigashader Tute from mike batchelor on Vimeo.
Post and other stuff found here. LINK
Posted by c4dlist on December 8, 2010 – 12:38 am
Not sure how I missed Robert Leger’s site update with Xpresso Lessons… LINK
XPresso Lessons Introduction from Robert Leger on Vimeo.
XPresso Lesson #2 – Result from Robert Leger on Vimeo.
Robert’s site is a definite bookmark! LINK
