Re: Yet another bizarre move in the world of 3D - Truespace now FREE, as in air - forever!

2008-07-28 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Aidan O Driscoll schrieb: Hi Wolfram. this is the thread I think - http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=131041 I only have this 2nd hand - it was being talked of over at the Caligari Forums. Yes, this more specific URL did the job. Thanx. Yes - the real investment in the

Re: Yet another bizarre move in the world of 3D - Truespace now FREE, as in air - forever!

2008-07-27 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Aidan O Driscoll schrieb: Hi Guys, I suppose you all know by now, TRUESPACE ( originally by Caligari, but who recently got taken over by MICROSOFT ) is now FREE - forever. This is the latest version too - last week it would have cost you $595 or so:

Torus, CSG RPL

2007-11-08 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Hi, Just trying to realize a macro I did in POVray in Realsoft3D. I simply want to intersect a Torus with a Cylinder and cut off the upper and lower surface of the resulting ring to make it plain. I looked in vain into the online manual as well as in the old Real 3D User Manual (for Version 3)

Re: Torus, CSG RPL

2007-11-08 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Arjo Rozendaal schrieb: Wolfram Schwenzer wrote Hi Wolfram, First of all, is this the kind of object you want to achieve? Not quite; your object has to be cut additionally with a Cylinder at the outer rim (so it ain't symmetrical). And I don't want to model it with nurbs

Re: Why? - And they say their is no such thing as a free lunch ... hmph!

2006-08-24 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Frank BrĂ¼bach wrote: Hi Aidan, I cannot believe it! I have downloaded the bryce 5 package. But why it's for free Bought the upgrade to Bryce 5.0 a while ago. The tool is quite effective in its own right (landscapes), but connectivity is lousy as you can't export the structures into

Elephants dream or character animation revisited

2006-05-12 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Today I received my 2 disk set of Elephants dream from the blendershop (by buying the item i.e.ordering paying for it in advance one could finance part of the open animation movie project of the orange team who did the film). Excellent work which could serve as a measuring stick for the

Re: Realsoft Character Animation - Has RS been outstripped by BLENDER ..

2006-05-06 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Ville Tirronen wrote: Who cares about Blender when there is Art Of Illusion made with Java :). http://www.artofillusion.org/ It can do all the usual tricks Just visited the page (did some experiments with AoI when it was still in its infancy) liked what I saw (good renderer, though with

Re: Realsoft Character Animation - Has RS been outstripped by BLENDER ..

2006-05-04 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Aidan O Driscoll wrote: Hi Guys, I have been keeping an eye on the following: http://orange.blender.org/ This is a full 3D Movie called Elephant Dreams made completely in BLENDER. It is now complete [ 7 months or so ] and has been shown in Theatres already. It is now available under the

Re: VRML city

2006-05-03 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Arjo Rozendaal wrote: Hi Wolfram, If anybody in the group knows of any WORKING plugin/standalone player for Linux I'd be glad to hear about it try my hands on it. Did you try FreeWRL http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/index.html ? This should be a working X3D/VRML player for OSX and Linux

Re: CHARACTER ANIMATION STUFF and RS ....

2005-12-29 Thread Wolfram Schwenzer
Russell Jones wrote: Uh oh. This is some serious s**t! The user interface is a bit strange at first, but this is no fly-by-night enterprise: These guys mean business! I know RS has some tricks coming up for v6, but we'll have to wait more than 6 months to find out what it is... Should be