Giant, flocking and interlocking exploration-habitat vehicles. For Antarctica. Presumably they’d basically drive themselves, like the Google Car. A cool concept, visualised in 3D by Henry McKenzie and Artur Kupriichuk.
Category Archives: Spotted in the News
iClone 6 Pro released
iClone 6 Pro is now available via Reallusion (not the DAZ Store, yet). The cheaper Standard version is due in Jan 2015. I see a $109 price for the new Pro 6 version, when I’m logged in to my iClone dashboard.
A 3D Christmas Party
3D Art Live, online Xmas Party!
Reality 4 released
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The new Reality 4 is now available in both the DAZ Studio Edition and the Poser Edition. Reality is the high-end LuxRender rendering plugin, and comes in 32 or 64 bit format.
Mastering Magnets in Poser
New Daz Studio 4.7 – out now
The newest Daz Studio Pro 4.7 is out now.
There seem to be some quite interesting and possibly important new features, which include among others…
* UI interface and navigation streamlining
* Interactive Progressive Rendering (IPR)… “see near real-time camera, light and material modifications”. Even moderately accurate WYSIWYG previews of the final render lighting would be a 1000% improvement on the old versions.
* “Back to Base”… an easy way to safely strip out all the modifications you made to a base character/figure.
* Render Settings Pane overhaul… an improved layout for this important panel
* Extended Texture Format Support… “Added support for using .EXR, .HDR, .PSD, and various others directly as textures.”
* Render Engine Update… “3Delight render engine to 11.0.105”. But this just seems to be a bugfix advance. The last important speed change was back in August with 11.0.101, which added… “Ray-traced subsurface scattering now uses much less memory and is 5% to 7% faster”.
Still free (for now), and still including…
Genesis Starter Essentials
Genesis 2 Starter Essentials
FBX Plug-in for DAZ Studio
Texture Atlas for DAZ Studio
GoZ for DAZ Studio (ZBrush connector)
3D Bridge for Photoshop
Subsurface Shader Base
Content Creator Toolkit
Though those installing for the first time will find the above extras are separate downloads.
DeviantArt
DeviantArt is getting very tiresome. For weeks now it’s been either unreachable, or loads slightly and then stalls. The problem happens in multiple browsers, and so seems to be a major problem with the servers…
Poser Pro 2014 is now half-price
Poser Pro 2014 is now half-price at Smith Micro, until 23rd November 2014. Upgrades are also heavily discounted.
DAZ Store gets a big makeover
The DAZ Store just got a tablet-tastic makeover. I wasn’t sure about the new design at first, but after a few minutes I saw how much more logical it is. It also works well on a big desktop monitor. The only problem is that the Freebies page isn’t on one of the static menus. Freebies is actually still there, you just need to bookmark the page if you visit it regularly. And, what’s more, it now actually has genuine freebies on it — as it used to!
New 3D OBJs from the British Museum
The British Museum has just released a nice set of 3D scanned objects from antiquity, as 3D models in .obj, and with Creative Commons Attribution licences. You have to login with Google or Facebook in order to download.
Poser Expo 3 – full weekend schedule
Elite ships
David Braben, on the ship design for Elite and the forthcoming Elite: Dangerous…
Potty
Equip some drones with LED lights, make them go really fast, and they can draw a… erm… teapot. On the sky, in 3D, during Ars Electronica. Boring. They could at least have made it a classic UFO.
Poser Expo 3 – tickets now on sale
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Poser Expo 3, the online conference, now has the event registration open. Eight live webinars, with experienced content developers and Eric VanDycke of the Runtime DNA store, and the opportunity to interact and ask questions. Ir runs 18th-19th October 2014.
Poster artwork by Syyd of Runtime DNA.
Octane 2.0 for DAZ Carrara, released!
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The long-awaited Octane 2.0 for DAZ Carrara 8 or 8.5 has just been released. The Manual is here.
And if Octane/Carrara users find a new need to get the lighting tweaked just right, there’s a new Carrara: Realism Rendering Training Video from Infinite Skills…
