What app to use to TWEEK low-res cage onto high-res control surface ?

February 24, 2012, 9:54 am

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What app to use to TWEEK low-res cage onto high-res control surface ?

I want to "DECIMATE" a character and then TWEEK-REENGINER it but keep
tweeked verts on control surface which should be a smoothed out version
of a control mesh.

Something like taking a well modelled 20,000 poly character ...
and smooth it once or twice ... and then bring in another
low res version of same model ... and move it's vert around keeping them on the
smoothed surface.

Anyone got an app for that ?

Please advise.

3DCoat is maybe close in the AutoRetopo workflow ... but not doing exactly what I said ...
I don't think.

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February 27, 2012, 1:30 pm

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rest in peace, Moebius

March 10, 2012, 3:03 pm

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Jean Giraud (1938-2012)

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messiahStudio5 PRO EDITION (Looking for recommendations)

March 17, 2012, 5:34 pm

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messiahStudio5 PRO EDITION ( (Looking for recommendations)

Is this a good product ? I know all you guys jumped on some $10.00 sale version
a year or two ago. I probably should have jumped in. I got burned on Hexagon 2.0 for
$25.00 ages ago, so I'm paranoid.

I would like a simple POINT and SHOOT app for doing TURN-TABLES with good lighting
and shaders and such and other features I can grow into and play with ... all for a cheap price.

I see the price is still at a homeowner/consumer level and still seems to be on sale even if not
a great price like $10.00

Anyone got any feedback ?

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Madsie Freestyle...

April 3, 2012, 6:47 am

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Did you notice this? It is an abandoned undertaking as it seems but it looks like a dedicated task from its very neat overall appearance. Having a very affordable simple voxel modeller wich can transform the voxel sculpts into a polygon mesh is a most needed thing still to this day. This here has a very clear cut working way on voxels but it seems that has not a way of unifying two or many different voxels and it has not a way of transforming the voxel shapes in polygons either... something that makes working on voxels useless in it somehow.

http://www.madsie.com/index.html

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Games development softwares

April 7, 2012, 7:17 am

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I dont have specific game interests, but since my kid entered an age in which "games" became part of his life,
i am considering the possibility to learn some 3d game engine, but this is completely new to me...

1. Since years i had interest in learning Director (previously Macromedia, now Adobe product)
because of the possibility to build graphical interactive products, not specifically games.
Someone can give me an idea about which are the products that rival Director?
Who are Director public, users universe? And if Diretor still lives strongly or if its future is not right?

2. Just last week (!) i saw for the first time the Unity 3d interface and i am impressed.
Someone can help me to know about its learning curve difficults? And about its consistence? The 3d characters put on it
should be rig or the software offers tools for that? I have many doubts and maybe there is some user around ODF...

3. What are the game development...

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3D content viewer

April 17, 2012, 7:52 pm

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Which one would be best option to visualize OBJ (and 3DS, LWO etc) files in windows explorer
without have to load them in any specific modelling app?
Thanks for suggestions.

ps: maybe someone could remember/indicate some VRML (*.wrl) viewer too... tks

ps2: i could find some light (not-heavy) ones at a first search, but i'm not sure about all those:

http://www.aweapp.com/obj_viewer/

http://www.senosoft.com/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/objloader/

http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/pfrep.html

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Blender 2.63 (BMesh - ngon support) released

April 29, 2012, 7:46 am

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http://www.blender.org

Blender 2.63 Official is released.
This is the long-awaited BMesh release which adds ngon support.
Also, render passes, AO, and Shadow passes added to the Cycles render engine.
And over 150 bug-fixes, as well.

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RigMesh - a new sketch modeling & rigging tool

May 13, 2012, 5:38 am

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lazilly copy-pasted :

Dear artists,

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inspiring video to wings coders

May 22, 2012, 10:18 am

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This guy, Marius Silaghi, is doing a great work by coding (C++) a 3ds max plugin to implement chamfer functions.
At the begining, it was just a script, destructive one (http://www.mariussilaghi.com/qchamfer.htm), but now he built it as a modifier,
ie, user can adjust what was already applied.
Imo, considering the speed Silaghi codes, this will be part of a future 3ds max release.

Very inspiring to coders around.

http://www.mariussilaghi.com/qchamfermod.htm

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3d ball music machine

June 1, 2012, 10:17 pm

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Anyone still remember this? I'm trying to find some info about this old project...

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Line or ray through polyhedral centroid ?

June 2, 2012, 9:24 pm

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Line or ray through polyhedral centroid ?

Does such a beast have a simple name ?

My chord would not be to abusive ... but a chord
usually stops at perimeter.

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New Version of OpenFX Available

June 8, 2012, 12:45 am

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If there are any OpenFX fans out there, an updated version is available for download. The last release was near the end of 2010 so this is a happy surprise.

No, it does not have all the power available in Blender but it is much easier to work with....
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Classic Character Modeller some of us might remember.

June 8, 2012, 5:33 pm

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Classic Character Modeller some of us might remember.
Just happened to think about him and his models and
googled something up that's not too crazy old.

I always love watching his modelling doodle sessions.

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New Pixar's hair simulator

June 23, 2012, 4:44 pm

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"Pixar developed and internally released a new simulator, which is multi-threaded."

Brave New ...
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Albatross 3D new version...

June 29, 2012, 1:28 pm

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With very significant new features as chunks producing option in its 'plane cut' tool, a new 'stick vertices on an object's surface' retopo tool, which can unify even different intersected objects, and many other improvements...

Albatross is a free...
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