Category Archives: General

cg textures for free

another place to get some free cg textures. made available by some dutch guy who’s taking photos around the netherlands and belgium. some of the textures look they’d come from planet mars – browser through his expanding free texture …

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ofusion for a better viewport

doing low resolution models for a game and want to have a better viewport? use ofusion. it works especially good together with ogre, an open source real time 3d engine.

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poseray – a swiss army knife tool

i friend of mine just pointed me out to some neat freeware called poseray which i never heard of before and definitely should be mentioned as a little swiss army knife 3d tool: if you don’t need it for …

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pixar’s library

pixar offers a great ressource for animators and cg-artists, but also for explorers in 3d math. let’s hope this library will be constantly maintained by its authors.

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free ezine at cgarena

a nice and free monthly ezine (pdf) can be downloaded at cgarena. the general topics are: postproduction, 3d content creation, challenges and several other cg related stuff. nice read to look what others are doing and how they’re doing …

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genetica: a giant leap forward

spiral graphics recently updated their texture lab tool genetica to 2.5 featuring extremely useful tools which make the heart of any 3d graphics designer pond louder: effect maps, normal maps support and color renders are only a some of …

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the wide horizon of landscape generation

from time to time i’m looking into various landscape generation packages to find an ideal solution for the creation of impressive backgrounds for image compositions. the market is covered with a lot of tools which all have their specific …

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3d environment competition 2006

e-on software, creators of the fabulous vue d’esprit software, just launched an interesting competition which a think i want to contribute something to. where’s my sketchbook? i already have some neat ideas.

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massive 3d plants repository

3dplants.com offers a huge repository of textured plant models for most 3d packages available on the market. very low price, medium to good quality – worth the buy if you’re in a hurry modelling a nature scene.

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plants from greenworks

neat plant materials (models, generating software, textures) from greenworks. some of them have been featured in pixar’s ‘the incredibles’. they also provide a free plugin for 3dsmax (although they’re still talking about the integration their xfrog into 3dsmax version …

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