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Post by drBouvierLeduc » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:16 am

A very cool vegetation creator.
It works perfectly well, very veryyy intersting.
Thanks for the link.
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Post by Kram1032 » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:17 am

nice^^
Have those leafes thickness? If so, you could try to do an SSS test :D

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Post by drBouvierLeduc » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:28 am

Nope, they are flat...
I guess for architectural renders, the lake of ss shouldn't matter that much.

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It's LISTED!!

Post by DaveC » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:30 am

Some lovely fella has compiled all of these pieces of software into a list. What a nice chap.

Have a look...
http://thebigdavec.googlepages.com/coolfreeprogs

just wanted to move this post up a bit as I didn't want it to get lost on the previous page as it's of so much benefit to everyone
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Post by Stur » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:49 am

Oooh, what a lovely fella we have here !

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Thx DaveC :)

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Post by mrCarnivore » Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:47 pm

@drBouvierLeduc: How did you set the materials? After I imported the result from ivy as an .obj to blender there are a few materials preset but they don't have any properties set. They don't have any colour or changed ref or so...

And if that would be the case they would only be in blender and not in blendigo. :(

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Post by joegiampaoli » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:41 pm

Well I saw in the lovely fellah's site the list and saw VMware, so here is a real free OS virtualization package that works almost as good as VMware, looks promising.

http://www.virtualbox.org/
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Post by drBouvierLeduc » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:27 pm

mrCarnivore wrote:@drBouvierLeduc: How did you set the materials? After I imported the result from ivy as an .obj to blender there are a few materials preset but they don't have any properties set. They don't have any colour or changed ref or so...
And if that would be the case they would only be in blender and not in blendigo. :(
I don't get it, in blendigo, you always have to set up the materials manually right ?
Once you imported the *.obj in blender, you've got three different meshes : the trunc, the adult and young leaves. They are already uv mapped, all you've got to do is to create a b&w alpha map for the leaves, and save all the textures as *.jpg files.
After, set up the material the usual way in blendigo.
If this is not clear I can send you the *.blend file.

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Post by mrCarnivore » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:46 pm

Oh, I didn't kow they were already textured with .JPGs thx for the tip.

I will try this tonight. If I'm not succesful I will come back to your offer of the blend. Thx for the help.

Yes, you alway have to set the materials in blendigo manually. Hope sometime blendigo can get the rough settings at least from the blender materials.

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Post by Koba » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:41 pm

Great GPL Screenshot utility (open source)

http://smartision-sc.sourceforge.net/

Nice list on the site! I would suggest you separate opensource from freeware. Most of the softwares I have suggested are open source. Occasionally, freeware has its place (like indigo!) but I would be annoyed to find non-open source software in a list of mostly OSS items.

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Post by DaveC » Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:23 pm

Koba wrote:I would suggest you separate opensource from freeware. Most of the softwares I have suggested are open source. Occasionally, freeware has its place (like indigo!) but I would be annoyed to find non-open source software in a list of mostly OSS items.
Koba, do you think you could look at my list, here and email which are open source and which are freeware? Then I'll update the list. Cheers.
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Post by joegiampaoli » Sun Mar 25, 2007 7:08 am

yeah, I've seen some that are like only demos....
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Post by DaveC » Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:15 am

Well, I've done my best to categorize them into different licenses. Go to my website and check out the cool free progs link and let me know if there are any that are wrong. I'll add all the new ones from here in to the right place whenever they're posted.
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Post by Kram1032 » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:32 am

well done ;)

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Post by tungee » Sun Mar 25, 2007 10:41 am

over 5000 views! :shock: 8) :lol:
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