Wood and Bark Maker for NOMAD SCULPT
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NEW product: Wood and Bark Maker for NOMAD SCULPT
Get it here: https://www.artstation.com/a/56503421
Save 50% with COUPON: NOMADWOOD
Nomad Sculpt is the new trending software for 3D modeling. Its price is low, and allows you to model and sculpt in a computer, an iPad, a tablet or even in a smartphone. It works in a similar way to ZBrush. It's easy and intuitive.
Monster Eye Maker: 140 Eyes and ZBrush Plugin
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Our new product at Artstation: Monster Eye Maker for ZBrush is a fast way of adding eyes to your monsters, fantasy creatures, sci-fi characters, and night breeds. Includes 140 textures for many kinds of monsters, and a ZBrush plugin for quickly adding them!
https://www.artstation.com/a/14668276
Easy Materials ZBrush Plugin, and toon monster modeling tutorial
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Our new product released in Cybermonday sale at ArtStation : Easy Materials is a plugin for ZBrush that adds 5 custom palettes for storing your favorite materials, quick restore of ZBrush shader bases and startup mats, and helps you work faster & safer!
Get it here: https://www.artstation.com/a/11034150
Watch this video with the demo of the product, plus the complete modeling process of a toon monster!
Power Paint color and palette maker for ZBrush and all your apps
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Power Paint is a suite of color tools for choosing and building color palettes, to be used inside ZBrush for polypaint, and with any other 2D or 3D app.
It's a standalone application that you can run independently and use it with any program. We also include a ZBrush plugin so you can run it from ZBrush anytime.
Get it here: https://www.artstation.com/a/10451664
REQUIREMENTS: Windows 10, 32 or 64 bits. If used for ZBrush, Windows 10, 64 bits, and ZBrush 2021.6 and above.
FEATURES:
A must have for any 2D or 3D artist, and for Zbrush polypainters!
Our store at Gumroad with more than 400 products for Daz Studio and Poser
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If you use DAZ Studio or Poser, at our Gumroad store you can find female and male characters, hair, outfits, expressions, poses, morphs, props, shaders, merchant resources, 2D content, scripts, and almost all the kinds of contents. From V4/M4 to Genesis 8 Male and Female, you can find more than 400 products of high quality.
This is a video tutorial on how to browse, apply coupons, search, and subscribe to our store at Gumroad:
Matcaps Megapack: 100 Colored Glass for ZBrush
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Our new product for our Artstation store: "Matcaps Megapack: 100 Colored Glass" is a collection of matcaps for ZBrush, with great variety of smoked and colored glass that you can use for glass models, for sculpting or showing off your models!
Blender Alpha Brushes Tutorial - Blender From Scratch Series
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This is our new product for our Artstation store released today in the Tutorials Sale. The "Blender Alpha Brushes Tutorial" is part of our "Blender From Scratch Series", a series of Blender tutorials explaining the basics for using its features.
In this tutorial you will learn the basics on how to make sculpting brushes with alphas.
https://www.artstation.com/a/6491392
Power Shapes ZBrush Plugin at Artstation
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Easy Curves ZBrush Plugin and Curves Tutorial
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We did a new product at Artstation: Easy Curves ZBrush Plugin and Curves Tutorial .
Power Image Browser: Reference image browser for artists
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This is our new product for our Artstation store: Power Image Browser: Reference image browser for artists. Power Image Browser is a reference image tabbed browser for artists. It is based on folders, so each tab shows the images that are inside a folder. You can open as many tabs as you need, so you can browse your reference images for each part of your work easier than ever.
Top 20 Sellers at Artstation: Artistic Squad
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VRML/X3D Return: Put your VRML worlds online again
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Among the 3, I recommend Awardspace, for its simplicity, speed and reliability
Once up, create a website. This website you are on was created with Typesetter CMS. Typesetter doesn't use databases or anything complex, installation is very easy. If not, use one of the software that the server you have chosen has. Or make a simple web page. Of all these options, the simplest is to use Typesetter.
At this point, you will have:
We need a bridge between the two. The way to do it is to create an .html document with this content:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://create3000.github.io/code/x_ite/4.6.16/dist/x_ite.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://create3000.github.io/code/x_ite/4.6.16/dist/x_ite.min.js"></script>
<style>
X3DCanvas {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<X3DCanvas src="folder/world.wrl">
<p>Your browser may not support all features required by X_ITE!</p>
</X3DCanvas>
</body>
</html>
As you can see, there are two parts to copy. The first one is put in the head section, and it is the load of the VRML / X3D viewer called X_ite. X_ite can be downloaded, it's just a couple of files, and use it from your own server if you prefer. If not, just paste these yellow lines inside the head section.
In X3DCanvas, you can see that the width and height of the frame displayed by the VRML is expressed. The width and height as it is in our example is for full window in your browser or mobile. You can specify a size as usual in html, but also remove the "position: absolute;" line if you do.
In the body part you have to paste the code that specifies which world to load. The first line is:
<X3DCanvas src="folder/world.wrl">
In this line, "folder" is the folder on your server that contains the VRML file. If there is no such folder, because the world is in the root, do not put anything, and directly put the name of the .wrl file for example:
<X3DCanvas src="world.wrl">
Complete Unity Developer Course For 10 euro 95% off
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Hurry! Udemy is making a huge sale on their Complete Unity Developer Course, 95% off, so it is only 10 euros. It is a limmited offer than you can't miss!
Get Unity Course for 10 euro
3D Hobby Magazine Releases Their New Issue
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Want to improve your 3D skills? Want to achieve more in less time? You really can with 3D Hobby Magazine.
3D Hobby Magazine is packed full of fantastic articles, renders and quality insider info about the world we all love - 3D!
This is what you’ll find in this new issue:
- Over 85 Pages of Quality Articles and Stunning Images
- PINUPS! - The most Glamorous 3D Girls on the web. (As request by our readers) (Mild artistic nudity may not be suitable for all ages)
- A FREE Dynamic Dress (worth $10)
- Great information about Genetica, the best all round texture solution available today.
- Our usual unique tip's to boost your 3D skills
- Sharing our reader's artwork including this fantastic Augustcover!
Purchase the magazine and join in the discussions on the forum at
Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
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Some books tell you how to program in some language. "Code Craft" tells you how to do it well in all computer languages.
This time, this is a computers programming book, "Code Craft", that is not focused to a specific discipline or computer language. All that you learn from it can be applied to any language, let it be Pascal, Java, C, or whatever.
The author, Pete Goodliffe, is an expert developer with many years of experience at many positions in the chain of software development. His book is then written from a practical point of view and from all that he learned in his professional career.
The book assumes that you have a solid knowledge of programming. It doesn't want to tell you how to program, but it will tell you how to do it well.
This means: make bug-less software, and that is robust, and gives you satisfaction and no problems.
"Code Craft" also tells you something that you couldn't learn in your studies: how to efficiently work in the software industry. Skills like working in a team, making code that is documented in a way that others can understand... These skills will help you, as the book says, to "survive in the software factory".
Even the human factor has its own chapters in this book, when it tells you how to recognize some kinds of programmers in your team, and what you can learn from them. And if you feel that you belong to one or more of these groups, it tells you how to improve and take advantage from your virtues, and how to avoid your flaws.
Not only an instructive book, its pages are also full of sense of humor, with some comic strips that programmers will enjoy.
Reading "Code Craft" you will learn the practical side of programming into the real world of a team. All phases and facets of application programming are described: comments, documentation, optimization, design patterns and disciplines, team organization, development tools...
This book is for you if you want to work as a professional programmer in the software industry. It will save you from being fired or being a pain for your team, or at least will help you to avoid that.
It is also good if you are part of an open source development team, to learn how to work together with others, reduce bugs in your code, and make code that can be easily understood by an always changing and huge team of programmers.
Even if you are a "lone wolf" programmer, this book is also for you, because it will reduce your headaches: it will tell you how to spend more time developing and less time fixing bugs and security holes.
Find "Code Craft" in the No Starch Press website, both in paper and in e-book, and have also a look to their catalog. You will find many titles about computer programming.
"Code Craft" is also available on Amazon. It is a BIG book, 580 pages including the indexes.
3D Printing Your Spore Characters
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In case you missed it, have a look how Shapeways Blog tells how one of their users (Eric Finley) is exporting his characters from the game Spore and tweaks them to be printed in 3D with Shapeways.
Photo by darkripper
This is because Spore can export to COLLADA, a file format that Shapeways can use.
Read the article and see the video to get an idea on how was this done.
3D Tutorials And News From DZone
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3D Tutorials and cool 3D articles, good for developers. This is a selection of links to articles in blogs that are in Dzone. If you use Dzone, give them some votes.
Away3D Basics 6 - Bitmap materials
Demo of Away3D to set materials
Walks through the making of a 3D engine using JavaScript and jQuery.
Ever wanted your tag cloud to resemble a ball? Of course you did. This tutorial will walk you through how to create a Sphere in jQuery.
O3D Programming Tutorials - Primitives and Materials
This free tutorial shows you how to work with primitive 3D objects and apply a simple bitmap material. Demo and source code included.
O3D Programming Tutorials - Terrain Demo
Learn how to create 3D terrain with the Google O3D plugin and this free tutorial. Demo and source code included.
Flash Papervision 3D - 3D Animation Using Cube Class | Part 1
Its a nice 3D rotation type of effect, you can say it a sort of 3D animation. The cube will rotate around the camera according to your mouse movements, to give an illusion of 3D rotation.
3D in Flash taken to the next level!
Five3D Programming Tutorials - Drawing
Learn how to draw Five3D 3D shapes at runtime. Demo and source code included.
Photo-Tutorial: How To Get The Step UP! Pack
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This is a visual guide on how to wear the orange ribbon to help the Step UP! campaign.
I was unable to get the pack in-world, so better get it at XStreet.
The easiest way is to go to XStreet, login with your Second Life name and password and then enter Second Life to take what you purchased.
Get it for free at XStreet here: tinyurl.com/ydlpely
Then, enter Second Life and you'll get a message similar to this:
Drop it, click it, and select "Open".
Inside it, you'll find text documents to read, a logo for you to use in objects as texture, and the ribbon.
In this photo, I wear it on the chest and used the orange texture of Step UP! for my shirt:
The Blender Gamekit Book: Make 3D Games With Blender
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What many people may not know is that Blender includes a game creation kit. You don't need to program to create games with Blender, just this book and some time playing with the CD that comes included with it.
To create games, you just need to build your 3D objects with Blender, and then use the game engine of Blender to make your 3D game. This is done by clicks and pull-down menus, with no coding at all.
The Blender Gamekit is a book published by "No starch press" and written by several authors. When you have the book in your hands, you can see the neat design of the cover and the quality of impression. It has lots of illustrations and reading it is like following a series of tutorials, where you see what you must do in every step.
The way you should read it is just like you follow a tutorial: from the beginning to the end, following all the steps. That way you will soon be creating games with Blender. Of course, you can always go to Blender forums and wikis, to widen your knowledge.
The CD contains lots of examples that are referenced in the book, and also the game "Yo Frankie!", a huge project of game based on the Blender game kit. You can copy all these games to your hard drive and alter them to learn how to do games, and create games based on them.
The games in the CD are playable. Pay special attention to "Yo Frankie!" that was developed since 2008 by many people from the Blender community. In chapter 12, the book explains how many effects of this game are done, including things like dual-player split screen, physics, animations, and all kind of things that will show you how Blender has a real gaming engine.
On chapter 9 the book even tells you the basics on doing network games, multiuser games with Blender and Python. This needs some code but the author of this chapter tells you how it works and what you must do, being the only part in the book that shows code.
Other interesting chapter are, for example, chapter 10, where you are told how to create bones and animate your 3D meshes, and 11, where you can see that with Blender you can not only create arcade games but also intelligence games in 3D like the memory game that illustrates this chapter.
Chapter 13 is a reference to the Blender Game Engine, containing things like multi-texture materials, GLSL shaders, sensors for time, keyboard, mouse... This chapter is very extensive. You will appreciate it once you have mastered all the previous chapters.
You can get the book at the editor's site, or in Amazon (that may offer some discounts like now they're doing).
"The Blender GameKit" is the book for you if you want to go beyond modeling and turn yourself or your team into game developers at no cost.
Video: The New Second Life
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Second Life have rebuilt their website and the best and fastest way to see what has changed is to watch this video by Torley Linden.
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