Autodesk released a Service Pack 1 for the new release of 3DsMax 2012 and 3DsMax 2012 Design. So far is the Service Pack available only in English so other users have to wait for some time. This Service Pack fixes several futures, 110fixes in all, and bugs in Animation, Cat, Environment, modeling Tools and much more. The release is compatible with Windows platforms and also Mac OS. A list of some the fixes are below:
Andrew Finch posted on 3D Total his making of. He was inspired by a reference photo on internet. Andrew as a game creator created this during his lunch breaks in one week. He is interested in lighting and texturing, so we sure recommend focusing primarily on this part. He explained how he managed a lightning setting, which can be useful by similar modelling.
This contest is powered by Nvidia and The CGSociety. The topic of this competition is to stimulate the creativity of everyone. What is now impossible, in the near future may be a reality. This is not science fiction. This is the reality of today. If you want to win, your “entry” has to be creative, aesthetic, innovative and of course useful. But not sci-fi, just amazingly creative.
Indigo Renderer is an unbiased, physically based and photorealistic renderer which simulates the physics of light to achieve near-perfect image realism. With an advanced physical camera model, a super-realistic materials system and the ability to simulate complex lighting situations through Metropolis Light Transport, Indigo Renderer is capable of producing the highest levels of realism demanded by architectural and product visualization.
Blender Quickstart is useful tool which can help to each user, specially to beginners. This tool presents in a nutshell the basics of Blender 2.5, e.g. Blender`s interface, Mesh modelling, rendering or managing 3D objects. Blender Quickstart was made by one of Blender`s teacher, who’s updated previous version.
