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Subject: free 3D proggie

bonestructure opened this issue on Jan 14, 2005 · 15 posts
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bonestructure ( ) posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 7:33 AM · edited Sat, 23 November 2024 at 3:09 PM

Attached Link: http://www.ppmodeler.com/

New program that looks to be pretty snazzy. Still in progress

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pauljs75 ( ) posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 7:51 AM

Looks like an interesting program. Never heard of this one before, yet it appears to have been around a while. Dunno why it's called ppmodeler though. (Maybe its an abbreviation for something in French, but in English pp might have some connotations. LOL.)

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bonestructure ( ) posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 8:12 AM

I dunno. I have this weird habit of trying any 3D proggie I can get my hands on. I'd never heard of it before, and it's pretty sophisticated for a freeware proggie. I wouldn't have found it at all except I was looking through the downloads at the Computer Arts website and it was on there. I was particularly impressed that one of the features was projected textures. My MAX 3D doesn't have that. I don't think lol. Or if it does I've never found it, and I could have used it a few times. Course, I use MAX 3, newer versions probably have projection. My friend David has the newest version of Cinema 4D, and the hair and cloth features in it make me horribly jealous lol. And I still need to learn Xfrog. It's very confusing.

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pakled ( ) posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 9:19 AM · edited Fri, 14 January 2005 at 9:21 AM

sounds familiar.. but I'll go check anyway
back, yeah, it's been around for a couple years in my records, but you can't have too many free programs..;)

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pauljs75 ( ) posted Fri, 14 January 2005 at 10:18 AM

Attached Link: Arbaro - tree generation for povray

Speaking of free programs, this cool one showed up at the Bryce forum not too long ago. A Java based tree generator. A sort of cheap alternative to Xfrog.

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Also feel free to browse my freebies at ShareCG.
There might be something worth downloading.

Dann-O ( ) posted Sun, 16 January 2005 at 9:12 AM

Ok I'll bite. I am downloading it now. I just picked up wings pretty good overall. I　will still use metaseqoia for some things that being a splind modeller . I will also get the manual.

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bonestructure ( ) posted Sun, 16 January 2005 at 2:27 PM

another couple of freebies are OpenFX, which i haven't downloaded yet, and Virtuallight, which is a render program, standalone, similar to Brazil I suppose, or Renderman. Haven't tried it yet but it looks good.

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kenmo ( ) posted Thu, 20 January 2005 at 12:37 PM

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saunier ( ) posted Thu, 03 February 2005 at 4:47 AM

if you try something, try the beta (availabale on the homer page) at: http://www.ppmodeler.com/ppmodeler/download_act.php?code=WIN_BETA_DOWNLOAD

danamo ( ) posted Thu, 17 February 2005 at 5:41 PM

Hey, good recommendation Paul! That Arbaro is a terrific app!

ysvry ( ) posted Sat, 19 February 2005 at 10:24 AM

can it export in other formats then pov?

for some free stuff i made
and for almost daily fotos

danamo ( ) posted Sat, 19 February 2005 at 1:11 PM

Yes, it can also export in .obj and .dxf formats. Only the POV format will export with UVmapping, but the models export with the leaves and Trunk/stems as separate parts so you can give them different textures. I have to say that the output looks quite nice. There are 20 preset trees and plants. Most of them look better than Bryce trees, and you have quite a bit of control over the appearance of the finished model.

nruddock ( ) posted Sat, 19 February 2005 at 3:15 PM

Looks easy enough to alter the OBJ export to output the UVs.
I'll send in a patch once I've tidied up my code additions.

danamo ( ) posted Sat, 19 February 2005 at 4:38 PM

Great! Thanks nruddock! I can't write code to save my life,lol, so it is wonderful that there are folks in the Modeling Forum who also have that talent. The only other prob I've run into with the prog is that the preset willow tree tends to get stuck at around 7% when it is exporting the model file in any of the formats available.The black oak is a little problematic too as it is so poly heavy that I haven't been able to import it into any rendering app.:-)

nruddock ( ) posted Sat, 19 February 2005 at 5:05 PM

Probably needs to be run with higher memory settings.
Try running with

java -Xmx256M ....

If still hangs, increase the 256 to 512 or more (assuming you've got that much memory).
The output will be massive as I guess there must be a lot of little leaves.

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