Software

Shaper 1.11

New shareware 3d application called Shaper from Inverse Software - currently version 1.11.

Boasting a reasonable range of features for $35 dollars - including modeling, texturing and animation support. Some of the highlights also include direct DTS/DSQ import for the Torque Community.

For a full listing of features please click here.

Inkscape 0.46 Released!

Latest version of Inkscape 0.46 was released on April the 10th featuring fully integrated PDF support, improved performance and enhanced GUI along with an extensive tool set updates including new brush features, custom path repetition and online collaborative whiteboard support.

For more details & downloads head over to the official website.

Inkscape is a open source vector art project comparable to other currently available commercial equivalents (Illustrator, CorelDraw, Xara X), using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics file format (SVG).

Modo 302 - free upgrade

Luxology has just released their highly anticipated free upgrade to Modo (302) available for download too all existing 301 owners. Featuring an extensive range of improvements, bug fixes and the new developer's SDK.

  • feature > Implemented Physical Sky and Physical Sun rendering options. Sun position is based on its time and place channel values (sun position defaults to Luxology world headquarters). A custom luminal function allows sunlight to use solar intensity and color from Physical Sky model when sun position is enabled. The size of solar disc (when viewing the sun itself) is adjustable. Sky haze can be set. A “north” channel is provided to change orientation of physical world in relation
    to physical sun.
  • feature > modo is now location aware. Locate your model’s locations in latitude-longitude and modo will use this plus your timezone/day/time of day for automatic calculations of sun position.
  • feature > A new modo File I/O SDK is available to facilitate reading and writing of data to/from modo. Source code samples for loaders and savers are provided for developers.

Torque RGB Converter

Just received news from Ironfoot Dev they have just released a free small applet to convert RGB values into Torque colour format. Can be downloaded from their website.

http://www.dev.ironfoot.co.uk

Grome Modeler Version 1.2 Released!

The people over at Quad Software have just released the new Grome 1.2 upgrade for the professional & standard edition - Boasting a hefty range of new features, improvements & bug fixes.

Additions:
1. Massive speed improvements (up to 10 times faster) due to internal optimizations at various tools: fractal tools (mountains, dunes, hills, fractal noise), shadowmap generation.
2. Added a new tools: fractal hills, mountains, dunes and noise brushes.
3. Introduced new Grome scripting language to automate tasks.
4. Added a new exporter........

For the full change log please click "Read More...".