as of today TrueSpace is free because microsoft bought some month´s before it and thinks it has to compete with google or do the same things others do ^^ (poor copycats) because as you know sketchup is also available as a almost complete free download initially intended to support google Earth. Microsoft wants the very…
I've been using speedtree for a little while now and I thought I had a hang of it. I made some trees and exported them yada yada and I reopened the file today and the previously 2k~ tri trees I made are now at a whopping 13k tris. Upon closer inspection I see that there are smaller versions of the trees within my trees. I…
Blender is entirely capable, although there's a learning curve from the artist chair if they haven't used Blender before, since it's been slow and stubborn in coming around to some of the industry standard UI and user workflow conventions (it's gradually getting better). The native Blender community is big on "just…
Not knowing the software is not the same as the software lacking something. Off the top of my head I can think of several ways to re-top it in max with minimal effort. It gets even easier if you use some free and or not free scripts but it is very easy to do without them they just save a bit of time and are very useful for…
I made a website dedicated to truly free textures some time ago, maybe some people here have a use for that: https://duion.com/art/main Click on the categories on the left for the pictures. All textures are licensed under Creative Commons Zero license which is basically public domain, which does not even require…
The fine chaps at Eat3D have slipped a note under the door of the newsroom that they have a couple of things you might be interested in. Some of it is even free, like candy. The first is that they are offering a nice "Summer Madness" sale on their entire stock of tutorial videos and DVD's. Everything is 25% off and if you…
[ame=" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SksljyTz8LM"]Autumnal Nature Pack - Unity 3.5 - YouTube[/ame] Watched this and I have to say I like the graphics and it doesn't have that plastic look like UE. I checked out the license comparisons between pro and free and I am a little bit disappointed with the absence of realtime…
Hey All, The Hard Reset free artbook thread inspired me to ask this question, I've come across the Bioshock and Hard Reset free artbooks, I also have the Mass Effect 2 Digital Artbook that I would be willing to share with anyone that needs it. Can you guys throw up some links to free digital art books? Lets all share! :D
another alternative method is to use a basic normal map shader - paint into the map with photoshop (rtt a sphere to a plane normal map gives a good palette picker) or a 3d paint app (to give you your "real time" interface) then do a map to map channel (IIRC there a free plug that does this) then do a map channel to normals…