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  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227

    sure but it could be interesting to find what is capable of doing on normal and color maps. I'll give it a try

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175
    magaremoto said:

    did anyone tested this free tool? It looks useful

    https://plus.google.com/+PixaFlux/posts

    http://www.pixaflux.com/videos.php

    It looks like it's very close to MapZone, which is free. I can't find it anymore on Allegorithmic website, but it's still available in software download websites.

    You also have neoTextureEdit http://neotextureedit.sourceforge.net/index.html wich is similar, FxGen https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxgen, powerfull but less user friendly,

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 9,940
    mjc1016 said:
    FifthElement said:
    head wax said:

    thanks for those :)

     

    here's a beta for a drawing program that makes meshes from drawings, dont know what happens when it is out of beta

     

    http://polybrush.org/

    Looks very interesting (similar to ZBrush dynamesh system ?), just beware, there is plenty of people who detected malware in 3rd party software he is using to protect the beta (in the forums) ...

    I'll wait till he gets that sorted out, if price is good, I will most likely buy it if he sells it through proper channels smiley

    Running the file through the Jotti online scanner, 20 of the 21 antimalware scanners used found nothing.  Fprot was the only one that 'found' something...and it was different than the 2 others that were reported on the forum.  In all likelyhood, it is a 'packed' executable and the scanners that complain about it don't like the packing method.   There are reports of the same 'malware' in several different games...on Steam.

    I regularly have problems with that too when obfuscating my code with Skater, it often generates false positives in AV programs. Their support says it's normal. Bad for developers though who often get accused of spreading viruses.

  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227
    Philemo said:
    magaremoto said:

    did anyone tested this free tool? It looks useful

    https://plus.google.com/+PixaFlux/posts

    http://www.pixaflux.com/videos.php

    It looks like it's very close to MapZone, which is free. I can't find it anymore on Allegorithmic website, but it's still available in software download websites.

    You also have neoTextureEdit http://neotextureedit.sourceforge.net/index.html wich is similar, FxGen https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxgen, powerfull but less user friendly,

    thank you Philemo I wlll take a close look to them

     

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    Taozen said:

    I regularly have problems with that too when obfuscating my code with Skater, it often generates false positives in AV programs. Their support says it's normal. Bad for developers though who often get accused of spreading viruses.

    Try to find a hexeditor that 'passes' every AV/antimalware around...or any of several dozen other dev tools.  Try to find 'forensics' software or network analysis tools...

    Basically, if something isn't geared to 'end user' use, at one point in time, or even mostly, it will be 'flagged' as dangerous by security software.

    One that I found most amusing...a special 'kill' tool, put out by a major AV maker for a particularly nasty piece of malware...that was flagged by said AV as malicious...and quarrantined on download.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,050

    Perfect Exposure - free

    The perfect plug-in to fix exposure problems, add depth, contrast, and soft light to any scene.

    Link

  • Philemo_CarraraPhilemo_Carrara Posts: 1,175
    magaremoto said:

    thank you Philemo I wlll take a close look to them

     

    MapZone is a long time favorite of mine. I've been using it mainly as a substitute for CrazyBump.

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    tanks for all the links

  • EddyMI3DEddyMI3D Posts: 365

    Like to add this one wink :

    http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/78986/mc6-to-pz2-batch-converter#latest

  • mindsongmindsong Posts: 1,701
    thanks for your work on that! big time saver! ms
  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    this looks interesting , free Nik collection for postwork

     

    https://plus.google.com/+NikCollection/posts/AFGsG2Di7EK

  • magaremotomagaremoto Posts: 1,227

    very useful head wax, I use it a lot jointly with another freeware, photoscape

    for hdr and exr I've been using xnconvert, a freebie that can manage and tweak many other formats; it works fine with hdr shop to get an useable hdr in carrara smiley

  • rk66rk66 Posts: 438

    HitFilm 4 Express is out: https://hitfilm.com/express/

  • ProPoseProPose Posts: 527

    Cool!! thanks for that.  Love Hitfilm

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200

    Mari noncommercial

    https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/non-commercial/mari-non-commercial/

  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569
    forsaken said:

    Mari noncommercial

    https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/non-commercial/mari-non-commercial/

    Oh, wow, that was unexpected, that limit of six UV texture patches per object will require some careful planing though smiley

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    I have the Indie version of Mari (bundled with the Indie version of Modo, for a couple of quid a month more). Haven't used it in anger yet though - got rather enamoured with Substance painter!

  • 3DAGE3DAGE Posts: 3,311
    edited May 2016

    http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/05/free-star-wars-model-pack/

    This is a free model pack for users of the "Element 3D" Plugin, for Adobe After Effects,  (available from Videocopilot.net)

    The models are supplied in e3d format, and the textures in DDS ,.(for use in Element 3D)

    but the models are also supplied as OBJ's and there is a link on that page for "alternative texture files" . in Jpeg format.

     

     

    SWBBG2F_.jpg
    1280 x 720 - 308K
    X_Fighterpas3_0048.png
    1280 x 720 - 650K
    Post edited by 3DAGE on
  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,987

    thanks Andy :)

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200

    http://www.manuelbastioni.com/index.php

    Blender is getting its customisable base figures too.

  • ProPoseProPose Posts: 527
    edited July 2016

    A Great Free-bee,  at least for me it is.  A gift from Rendo, a free copy of Poser 10.  Got it via e-mail from them.

     

    Edit to add:

    Turns out that I won the software.  Either way it's a great free-bee

     

    Post edited by ProPose on
  • DUDUDUDU Posts: 1,945

    Congratulation ! And it seems you can use Genesis3 in Poser for free: https://www.renderosity.com/render-daz-genesis-3-in-poser-cms-18144?&AID=408

    How to come back in Carrara ???

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    was there a tool to record video tutorials and narrate?

    i need something will work offline.  

    many free tools wants internet  

     

    thanks.  

    theres a few things i dont do often enuf to remember 
    thinking about making, a making of movie lol

  • cdordonicdordoni Posts: 583
    MistyMist said:

    was there a tool to record video tutorials and narrate?

    i need something will work offline.

    Flashback Express (free) does basic recording with sound. Also works as a great all purpose screen recorder. There are 2 paid for versions with additional functions, like editing and annotating.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,549
    Sad said:

    http://www.manuelbastioni.com/index.php

    Blender is getting its customisable base figures too.

    Wow!

  • MiloMilo Posts: 511

    http://camstudio.org/ (I haven't used it)
    http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/win-screen-recording-softwares/ list of some apps to do that.

     

    I have helped some patreon folx post process their screen recordings going from upwards of two gigs to a very nice size and you can't see the difference.  Get Handbrake from handbrake.fr

  • cdordonicdordoni Posts: 583
    edited July 2016
    Milo said:
    I have helped some patreon folx post process their screen recordings going from upwards of two gigs to a very nice size and you can't see the difference.  Get Handbrake from handbrake.fr

    Awesome, forgot about Handbrake. Does a nice job with 2 pass encoding to MP4. Tested it on a WMV file that was already compressed and did not introduce any significant, new compression artifacts.

    I was hoping to buy 3ivx someday to convert stuff to MP4 with good quality. Guess I wont need to after all. And Handbrake is 64bit, 3ivx is still a 32bit app.

    Post edited by cdordoni on
  • MiloMilo Posts: 511

    Glad it rang a bell and it works for you :) the constant quality is mostly what I played around with to test different sizes, the FPS and such really didn't make much of a difference. 

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,200

    free retopology program not tried
     

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,549
    Sad said:

    free retopology program not tried

    I got it now, but haven't tried it yet. This looks abso-freaking-lutely fan-freaking-tastic!!!

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