 In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Service Pack 2, which fixes or addresses a variety of issues discovered by customers and by Autodesk's internal testing team.
This service pack includes all fixes previously included with AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 Service Pack 1. Please see the Readme for additional information. This Service Pack is intended for all versions of AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008 including those that already have Service Pack 1 installed. Be first to comment this article | Views: 2640
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Autodesk University is the world's largest annual gathering of working professionals, industry experts, and Autodesk executives. The four-day event combines a comprehensive learning environment with a trade show and a mix of business and social activities - all designed to help attendees learn new skills and build valuable business relationships.
The people you meet at AU are as important as the training - the camaraderie among fellow professionals is an exciting aspect of the AU experience. Many attendees are the most well-informed Autodesk product users and they're not shy about sharing their knowledge.
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 BMW M3 GTR render in V-Ray. All lighting and rendering, textures are included. Light - VRayLight.
File size: 2.68 mB
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 SplutterFish, developers of the award-winning, fully-integrated rendering suite for Autodesk's top-selling animation software, 3ds Max and Autodesk VIZ, today announced the worldwide availability of Brazil r/s version 2.0. Super-stable, packed with powerful features, Brazil r/s v2 provides incredible speed and performance and offers a natural, accessible workflow, without sacrificing the high-end quality that today's CG artists demand. Whether a professional working in film, broadcast, architectural and other visualization industries, or simply a hobbyist or student looking to improve your own toolkit, Brazil r/s v2 empowers you to create new, compelling, and superior-quality imagery.
In addition, SplutterFish is also pleased to announce the immediate availability of its first Professional-Edition beta version (2.1 Pro-Beta), which introduces even more new features, and is available exclusively to Brazil r/s v2 Professional Edition clients. Be first to comment this article | Views: 2138 |
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 NEW! Now the IKEA Kitchen Planner is also featuring the news from the ’07 catalogue!
Preview and furnish your room in both 2D and 3D view, get a detailed price list and print both your drawing and your shopping list.
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 RTTGroup plug-in replaces and extends the render to texture functionality built-in into 3ds Max.
Render to texture (sometimes called texture baking) is a process of creating new materials (textures) for selected objects based on the objects' appearance in the scene with the respect to the lighting, shadow casting, opacity settings, materials and any other parameters affecting the final rendered appearance of a surface of object. The resulting textures can be later used for texturing the same objects in real-time simulations (like 3D games or architecture visualisations), which can't afford for complex operations necessary for achieving many visual effects like lighting and shadowing with many light sources and objects' self illumination and light casting.
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 Polygon Cruncher is a plugin for 3D Photo Browser (included in 3D Photo Browser package), Lightwave, 3DS Max 4-9 and 3DS VIZ. Polygon Cruncher reduces the number of polygons of your objects without changing their appearance. You keep all details even at high optimization ratio. You also keep texture information, vertex colors. You can also optimized taking care of the symmetry of your objects. Polygon Cruncher has an OpenGL view which allows controlling optimization results whenever you want.
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 3D Brush - 3D model texturing and sculpting in one interface!
We are glad to inform you that 3D-Brush 2.01 has been released! New features are: Adaptive subdivision, integrated LWO import/export, Offset tool has been implemented, Navigation icons got implemented, Light source adjusting, hints system has been improved, a new option "less quality of shaders" available, ...
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 Next Limit Technologies is proud to announce the release of an update for its revolutionary rendering software: Maxwell Render 1.6. Extensively tested, Next Limit is confident that this update will be well-received by Maxwell Render users around the world.
Version 1.6 – available today for existing customers – brings new features and improvements, including the much-anticipated Maxwell Displacement, Instances, multithreading voxelization, new plug-ins, network improvements and much, much more.
Maxwell Render 1.6 also includes a free pack of Dosch Design HDR images, exclusively for Maxwell Render license holders. This HDRI pack will be made available for download soon after the 1.6 release, and all customers will be notified by email.
Maxwell Render 1.6 and the updated plug-ins are available for download from the usual customer download area. The public release of Maxwell Render 1.6 will take place some days after the client release, when the demo will be re-enabled so that non-clients can test drive the new version.
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 Crysis - the most anticipated DirectX® 10 title of the year—is here! Since the summer of 2006, NVIDIA has been working closely with Crytek, the developers of Crysis. Crysis was developed on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs and plays best on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs.
Graphically stunning, tactically challenging and always intensely immersive, Crysis sets player choice at the heart of its gameplay, with customisable tactical weaponry and adaptable armour allowing instant response to changing conditions.
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Project Draw is a new feature-rich web-based vector drawing application built by the Autodesk Labs team. Use it to create simple floor plans, electronic-circuit diagrams, network diagrams, user interface mock-ups, and more. Save your work in a variety of formats on our server or yours. No plug-ins or downloads required - if you have a JavaScript-enabled Internet Explorer or Firefox browser, you’re good to go. If you've registered with Autodesk Labs, logon and try Project Draw out now! Be first to comment this article | Views: 1718 |
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 Pixologic is now offering a 30 day trial version of its flagship digital sculpting and painting application - ZBrush 3.1.
ZBrush 3.1 continues authors mission of creating innovative and powerful tools for digital artists. ZMapper and Displacement Exporter have been ported for ZBrush 3.1 to allow more flexibility for exporting your sculpt. Using Smart Resym technology, ZBrush 3.1 now includes Poseable Symmetry.
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 Stereographer Max - stereo rendering script for 3ds Max 3-9. Now you can download a fully functional version. Stereographer Max will create anaglyph, JPS (side by side) and interlaced output.
Stereoscopy, stereoscopic imaging or 3-D (three-dimensional) imaging is any technique capable of recording three-dimensional visual information or creating the illusion of depth in an image. The illusion of depth in a photograph, movie, or other two-dimensional image is created by presenting a slightly different image to each eye.Comments (2) | Views: 2309 |
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 Ever wanted the UV coverage of several objects to be in proportion with their polygon area? Now you CAN! UVAutoRatio automatically scales the UVs of polygon meshes to give a consistent ratio between surface area and UV area across several meshes.
Artists generally want a consistent UV to surface area ratio, otherwise one area of the model might get too much detail and another might be too blurry. This is a waste of texture space and also can be an eye-catching mistake. Another area where it is useful to have UVs in the right scale is when you want to have a common texture mapped across many different objects.Be first to comment this article | Views: 1748 |
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 CrazyBump creates displacement, normal and even fake occlusion maps from 2D images. It's free, fast, sports a nice and clean interface, and makes an excellent tool to quickly take your textures to the next level.Be first to comment this article | Views: 2475 |
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