Snowed Under With News
Today’s post follows a week of very exciting news.
Yes, I know what your all thinking and saying - “its incredible”, “amazing news”, “astounding”, “wow” and “this news rocks” are all some of things I’ve heard people say recently. You never thought it would happen…... yes, that’s right. It has actually snowed in London!
So from this amazing news, let’s move onwards with a spring in our step:
An Essential Book for your Bookshelf
I luckily managed to get my hands on a pre-release of this book. As always, Darren has invested a huge amount of time, reworking the tutorials and large sections of this edition to keep up with the ever changing world of 3d. Past versions of this book have been extremely informative and packed full of essential information for any 3d studio that wants to take advantage of the full potential of 3ds Max and its powerful lighting systems.
This book is based around Darren’s wealth of real-world production experience for many of the top production houses. Cosgrove hall and Redvision to name a few.
Follow this link to view the sample pages.
Viewcube Magic
If only I could have a viewcube in my every day life I hear you say, well today is your lucky day.
The video link below shows how this tangible prototype could improve your 3d navigation. This technology is currently being previewed on Autodesk Labs. Click here for more information.
More goings on in the labs of Autodesk
If the above wasn’t enough we have also released a plugin for Autodesk’s Design Review. This plugin allows you to plug your Wii Remote(tm) into the viewer and use this as your trusty navigation device.
This can be used on any computer with a blue-tooth connection, and there is no need for the infrared sensor bar.
Download and install the viewer from this link. The service pack can be found here.
The navigation add-in can be downloaded here
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Ivy League
The next time you need to make some ivy for your 3ds Max animation, then use this plugin to ‘grow’ the ivy around the 3ds Max object. This new version by our friends at guruware is based off of Thomas Luft’s Ivy generator. Its worth viewing his site to see what is possible via the example images found here.
As always, anything by guruware is rock solid, so I highly recommend you download the plugin. This can be downloaded here.
As some of you may know, in the latest release of 3ds Max/Design we have updated the OBJ importer/exporter to provide a much happier user experience when importing this type of data from multiple 3d applications including Autodesk’s Mudbox. It’s worth noting that his also came from those clever people at Guruware.
Please note these are my personal opinions and may not be the recommendations of Autodesk. Until next time, Happy Max’ing.
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