Thanks to a post on The Area forums, I found out about these procedural textures. They are open source, free, and great. Supported renderers include scanline, VRay, and Brazil (Mental Ray is not supported at the moment – if someone ports them, let the author know!).
I don’t use procedurals very often, and my current main render engine is in fact Mental Ray… so I don’t have much else to say about these. But they look awesome, and I thought I’d share!!
Ever have a client deliver photocopies of a document with lots of data that you’d love to be able to use in your project, but don’t want to re-type it all out (or have a data entry clerk type it out)? I have a couple times. I first used this service about a year and a half ago, and need it again. I searched my emails and Google for a while until I found it again. I really like the quality of the OCR, and the final (useful!) output format of the document – even spreadsheets/excel/XLS files!!!
This blog gets visited daily with traffic related towards performance of 3DS Max with Radeon HD4870 or FirePro v4800 – as I’ve done a few comparisons and benchmarks of both. And Thanks to daniel1Z from YouTube for asking about it – I decided to share with the world.
I no longer have the 4870 card to compare, but thought I’d throw up a new scene for you all to test and compare with (full of primitives which are a little bit random), to see if this card is right for you.
Like I said in the original benchmark – overall performance between the two cards is roughly the same – but the FirePro v4800 shines in wireframe mode, as well as shaded + edges mode, vs. the radeon.
So I decided that I will be adding Alibre Design to Loklo’s workflow in the New Year. It won’t get used much, but at $99 for the entry level package, it will offer some additional modeling capabilities. If you’ve never used a parametric modeler like Alibre, Solidworks, ProE, Inventor, etc, all modeling is defined mathematically, instead of with verts and faces. So I would create a circle, with a given radius, then extrude it a given amount, then chamfer the edges by a small amount. All of these numbers (parameters) are accessible down the modeling process – making it easy to get exact parts modeled, as well as the ability to change the dimensions afterwards.
I’m currently using the Pro trial for a little testing and freelance job – but it’s easy to get hooked on the Pro features (compare $699).
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I no longer have the 4870 card to compare, but thought I’d throw up a new scene for you all to test and compare with (full of primitives which are a little bit random), to see if this card is right for you.
