 NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, has unveiled the first graphics processing unit (GPU) of its next-generation GeForce 9 Series that may offer the largest single-generation performance jump in the Company’s history. Introduced today, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT GPU delivers up to 116% more performance than its predecessor at a price below $199.
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 Version 4.0 of Quest3D is now available from Quest3D resellers and the Quest3D website.
With the release of Quest3D 4.0, Act-3D B.V. lifts its flagship to an even higher quality level of real-time 3D application development. New functionality contains real-time support for COLLADA, Newton Game Dynamics, Advanced Weather Simulation, 3D GUI Support and a fully Object-Oriented development model.
The new release is a giant leap forward in real-time 3D software development. High-end 3D software projects, such as 3D architecture visualizations, product and design presentations games and training simulators benefit from the newly supported technologies in Quest3D.
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 Creative Dimension Software Ltd are pleased to announce the release of 3DSOM Pro 2.1, the next generation tool for creating and presenting 3D models from photographs. A key new feature is the ability to publish 3D models in a new Flash-based web format. The only requirement to view, grab, spin and zoom the models is the popular Adobe Flash Player 9 Plugin - already installed on the vast majority of PCs.
The 3DSOM Pro system takes a number of photographs of a real object taken from different angles. The images are loaded into the software and 3DSOM Pro then constructs a high quality texture mapped model with very little user interaction. The software is being used by museums to present 3D online galleries as well as for product visualisation, retail design, medical research, teaching and other graphics and industrial CAD applications. As well as the new Flash 3D web format the software can export models in industry standard 3D formats and also a powerful Java based web 3D presentation solution.
Along with the usual bug fixes and performance improvements, this new release also includes a number of features aimed at the CAD community.
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 NewTek, Inc., manufacturer of industry-leading video and 3D animation products, today announced LightWave v9.5, a major update to its award-winning 3D application, LightWave 3D. LightWave v9.5 new capabilities include a complete hair and fur solution, new lighting system and many improvements to animation, global illumination, rendering and workflow. The update will be available to registered owners of the LightWave v9 series at no charge.
The LightWave v9.5 Open Beta program is scheduled to begin early March; LightWave v9 owners who wish to participate may register now by visiting: http://register.newtek.com.Be first to comment this article | Views: 2014 |
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 3Daliens LTD. develops glu3D and PWrapper: fluid system software suit for 3dsMax and Maya. Glu3D is a complete plugin system that makes easy making liquids in 3dsmax. Glu3D uses particles to simulate the liquid behavior, and a multi-resolution polygonal surface is also generated to display the liquid surface.
Changes for Glu3D v1.3.18: the filling objects function is now stable, a few bug-fixes.
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 A new issue of downloadable PDF CG Chosen Magazine is dedicated to the endless theme of architecture. As many CG artists work in the area of architecture visualization which usually assumes making an ordinary job on modeling and rendering a certain object one can say it's no more a creative work. We tried to prove the opposite mixing ordinary visualization projects and real masterpieces devoted to outstanding architecture buildings. You will find really interesting projects described here in 6 Making Of articles, stories about artists and companies working on architecture visualization and design in 2 interviews and lots of inspiring artworks including 4 Chosen Artist sections and the Gallery.
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 ColladaMax is a COLLADA importer and exporter plug-in for 3ds Max. It supports all COLLADA 1.4 core features (e.g. animation and skinning) and a subset of ColladaFX. There is no support for ColladaPhysics at the moment. Backward compatibility is also considered important: COLLADA 1.3 documents can generally be imported without problem, and in the future we plan to continue supporting older versions.
Changes for ColladaMax v3.05B include: fixes export of ScaleXYZ controllers, fixes Max 2008 build path project setting, fixes UV coordinate, mirror and wrap export/import, adds a new warning for unsupported UV parameters, adds languages 407 and 408 to the Max installer search, position curves are now imported as 3 float curves rather than 1 3D position curve, fixes export of animated visibility, fixes transforms on instances of skinned meshes, ...
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 nPowers Revit to Max bi-directional translation solution provides your design visualization team the most advanced Revit to 3ds Max translation tools on the market today. nPower Software’s precise surface and solid modeling technology plugs directly into 3ds max enabling an accurate data transfer portal allowing you pass Revit data seamlessly back and forth between Max and Revit without polygonal data loss.Be first to comment this article | Views: 1946 |
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 The ABVENT Group announced the release of the latest version of Artlantis Render and Studio, rendering software dedicated to architects, designers and most 3D CAD users. The key new features enhance Artlantis' lighting, photo-realism, rendering quality, user-friendly interface, and creative possibilities.
With this new concept of Full radiosity, Artlantis improves all lighting conditions, and offers Real sky simulation and Automatic light adjustment. Artlantis' new options include Integrated image post-processing, enabling users to modify the effects of a rendered image without additional image editing software. Thanks to a new Shader creator, users can now create their own shaders and access a Rich Media collection of shaders and 3D objects. Artlantis family introduces 5 new media volumes: 3D Animated People, 2D Bilboard People, Cars, Stones and Marble Floor.
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NVIDIA, the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AGEIA Technologies, Inc., the industry leader in gaming physics technology. AGEIA's PhysX software is widely adopted with more than 140 PhysX-based games shipping or in development on Sony Playstation3, Microsoft XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii and Gaming PCs. AGEIA physics software is pervasive with over 10,000 registered and active users of the PhysX SDK
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 Hello and welcome to the big 3-0: Issue 30! We’re not quite collecting our pensions just yet, and don’t worry, we have plenty still left in us yet! Quite fittingly, this month’s issue is a ‘biggy’, too – and I mean BIG! Our car modelling tutorial artists have been going all-out modelling crazy on the second part of the Bugatti Veyron tutorial series this month, so they’ve given us plenty to keep you all busy with throughout February, whether you use 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D, LightWave of Softimage XSI. And just so all of you lovely ZBrush users don’t feel left out, and for those of you who want to take up ZBrush but just haven’t quite had the nudge you need yet, then we begin this month the first of a seven-part tutorial series: Beginner’s Guide to ZBrush, by Wayne Robson. Wayne’s written a few ZBrush tutorials for us recently, so we thought we’d put him to the test with the creation of this big series for ZBrush, so we hope this will create many more happy ZBrush users in the future, as we know you’re all out there! Anyway, whilst we’re carrying ourselves away with tutorials this month, we thought we’d also throw in another great little tutorial series for all those budding animators out there: "Animation: General Tips and Techniques". On a different note, our interviews this month are with two fantastic character artists: Daniel Moreno and Francois Rimasson.Be first to comment this article | Views: 2282 |
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 Autodesk has announced the new version releases of its popular design and modeling software products such as Autodesk 3ds Max, its Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools of Revit and the Autocad 2009 versions. These were among the prominent product releases made during the World Press Day of the company here.
A company statement said the AutoCAD 2009 includes a host of new user interfaces in a computer-aided design (CAD) applications. These features will enhance the design efficiency for users and some of these new tools could be even used by professional who do not have design background.
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 Dryad lets you intuitively create beautiful trees for your virtual world or game. In Dryad, you create a tree by visually navigating to it through a design space: the space of all trees. This space has close to a hundred dimensions and Dryad lets you move around it as if it were a city map. To help you find your way, Dryads around the world communicate to share which trees were picked in the past. A collaborative mapping of the tree space emerges, which your Dryad uses to gently steer you towards high-quality finds. We call this collaborative design space exploration.
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 Вышел новый номер PDF журнала Render Magazine. В этом номере Вы найдете: новости CG индустрии, эксклюзивную статью: "Хотите быть специалистом. Вы уверены?", урок Adobe Photoshop: "Vista Style", урок 3ds Max: "Изучаем систему анимации CAT", обучение общим принципам: "Бумажные фонарики для интерьера" и "Визуализация экстерьера в MODO", галерею Выбор RM: "Рисуем на скорость", "Конкурс 3D лига", "Галерея 2D", "Галерея 3D", "Галерея АВТО", "Галерея Matte", "Галерея Архитектура", "Галерея 2D Award".Be first to comment this article | Views: 2194 |
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