Cooking On Gas

Posted by Jamie Gwilliam on Tuesday 24th February 2009 at 4:38pm | Comments (0)

As many of you were inconsolably upset and distraught about not having a pointless theme running through my last blog post, I have made the ground breaking decision to bring it back for this one. So let’s go with a completely obscure and non-3d related ‘Cooking’ theme….

Hot in the Kitchen

We recently released a hotfix for a few issues in 3ds Max/Design 2009. If you want to know what ingredients they add to the mix, then look below:

Improve memory management to reduce loss of the undo stack.
Improve Network render time for some scenes
Backburner was not working correctly with a limited user account.

As always this hotfix is cumulative, so it includes service pack 1 and all previous hotfixes. Make sure to download the relevant hotfix for your version of 3ds Max or 3ds Max Design.

To download the appropriate hotfixes then click here.

Cut It Out

The guys over at Vyonyx continue to spread the design vis love by adding to their collection of cookie cut-outs for commercial use. In case your not aware, Vyonyx are a creative des vis studio, who have a very distinct style to their melting pot of work. I would recommend that whilst you’re there grabbing as much from their free cupboards as possible, you also mince on over to their gallery of work. To download the freebies then click here now.

Feel free to email me any links to free libraries of work you may wish to share also…

Dinner Gong

Axyz-Design have released a collection of royalty-free ambience sound effects to add your pot of creativity, and hopefully earn more dough* (add groan here). These cover indoor and outdoor public places.

Axyz-design say that “Each track in the library is digitally recorded and is three to four minutes long to reduce the need for looping and editing. If you’re involved in Architectural Visualization video production, this premier collection is an indispensable creative tool that will save you time and money!”

To download the g(O)ng Sounds collections click here.

Don’t forget that with the ‘Creativity extension’ (Exclusively for subscription customers) you can now have 100 audio channels running inside of 3ds Max/Design. If you haven’t downloaded this yet, then make sure you hurry over to the subs web-portal and download now.

Registration is required for the axyz content.

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As many of you know I’m a die-hard mental ray fan. However, in principle of all thats fair, let’s have a look at a new renderer on the block for 3ds Max/Design - Indigo - and see what new ingredients it brings to the mixing pot.

Indigo’s marketing claims are:

Metropolis Light Transport
Spectral light simulation
a virtual camera model
Physical sky and more
Indigo Renderer can achieve much more realistic results than traditional global illumination ray-tracers.

Indigo is free for commercial and non-commercial use. More information about Indigo renderer can be found here.

To view their gallery of work then click here.

Chrysler Makes Tasty Site

Chrysler have been good enough to upload a few complete dishy car models to the below online resource, dedicated to promoting CGI within the automotive industry.