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For those of us who might not yet have any 3d modelling application, here is one that Ziff Davis has arranged to give away for FREE this week ;p Run get it boys and girls and enjoy... havent a clue if it is good or not, but hey, it is free :) And Ziff Davis gives it 5 stars out of 5 :) Lets all hit them at once and show them how much 48,000 starving 3d artists love Ziff Davis.

Ohhh this is a better app than I thought, at least in features. Here is a copy of their whats new text :) go get it kiddies :) ============================================================ What's new in 3D Canvas 3.3 --------------------------- o) The Surface Object Building Tool has been extensively revised to support: NURBS surfaces Surface merging Surface cloning Surface division Individual surface scaling, shifting and rotating Display of control point cages Also, the Mirror function has improved to mirror an entire object in one step. o) Support for B-Spline Curves in all Object Building Tools and Operations o) Refined and simplified Navigation Control and Edit Control o) Quick access to Texture, Material and Object Libraries What's new in 3D Canvas 3.2 --------------------------- o) 3D Canvas is now freeware o) The Animation Camera can now be set to track the movement of an object o) A bone's range of effect can now vary over the length of the bone o) The Merge Operation has been improved to retain material information o) Exporting and Importing have been improved o) Animation Key-Frame Ghosting has been added o) Inverse Kinematics now display range of movement constraints o) Inverse Kinematics Joints can be set to a fixed position o) The Crease Operation has been improved to produce sharper creases and more consistent smoothness o) Roll-up groups are now more compact What's new in 3D Canvas 3.1a ---------------------------- o) improved support for NVIDIA based video cards What's new in 3D Canvas 3.1 --------------------------- o) Skeletal Animation o) Inverse Kinematics What's new in 3D Canvas 3.0c ---------------------------- o) Improved POV-Ray export function What's new in 3D Canvas 3.0b ---------------------------- o) More configuration options for the Construction Panels. (Material Panel, Component Panel, Operation Panel and Hierarchy Panel) o) Faster and more accurate importing of 3DS, DXF and COB models. What's new in 3D Canvas 3.0/3.0a -------------------------------- o) 3D True Type Fonts o) Plug-ins o) Animated Object Deformations. Virtually any operation applied to an object can be animated. o) Embedded Objects. Double-clicking an object opens its source which can then be altered. o) Compound-Object selection. Groups of objects can be selected as though they were a single object, then scaled, added to an object library, copied to the clipboard etc. o) Animation Time Line o) Animation Time Frame Shifting and Scaling o) Continuously Repeating Animated Objects o) Trim Operation o) Tip Operation o) Point Split Operation o) Shear Operation o) Burst Operation o) Swirl Operation o) Flatten Operation o) Extrude/Bevel Operation o) Material Sampling Tool (Eye Dropper) copies the sampled material to the Material Palette. o) Custom sizes for Videos and Snapshots o) Simulated Shadows o) Texture Cropping o) Object Duplication o) Easier selection of multiple faces and points o) Multiple face painting with the Paint Tool o) Rotation of Faces with the Edit Control o) Scaling of Faces with the Edit Control o) The viewing camera can be selected on a view by view basis. o) Chrome texture wrapping o) Camera relative texture wrapping o) Bend, Taper and Twist operation now support custom effect orientations. o) Animation Camera Field of View o) Object Blend Tool o) Object Bridge Tool o) Object Merge Tool o) Ability to Hide objects from view while modelling What's New in 3D Canvas 2.0 Revision 1 -------------------------------------- o) Improved Support for 4MB video cards. o) Undo/Redo for animations. o) Import/Export of 3D Canvas Scenes in POVRay Format. What's New in 3D Canvas 2.0 --------------------------- o) New Highly Customizable Interface All toolbars and panels can now be hidden if desired. Three new view configurations have been added. View projections and orientation can be selected on a view by view basis by right clicking on the view and selecting an alternative from the pop-up menu. Dividers between view panels can now be dragged to adjust the size of each individual view. o) Animation sub-paths are now provided which permit mixing of Spline and Linear object movement within one animation path. o) Pauses within animations paths are now available. Adding a pause is as simple as clicking on the Add Pause button. o) The new Crease Tool allows you to increase or decrease the amount of creasing visible on objects. o) Animation key-frame ranges can now be played and recorded by shift-selecting a range on the animation slider. o) The Group Selection Tool may now select either forward facing faces or all faces within the selection rectangle. o) The range of effect for the Deform Tool can now be set. o) The Divide Smooth Tool can now be configured to smooth all edges, or selected edges based on a condition. o) The extrude amount can now be set for the Face Extrude operation. o) Undo/Redo are now available for Object Building Tools. o) Animations can now be previewed through the through Layout Camera. o) A new Status Bar provides feedback on the the progress of operations by indicating how much an object has been moved, scaled or rotated. o) The time position within an Animation can now be directly entered. o) Performance of the Surface Building Tool has been dramatically improved. o) Enhanced support for 800x600 mode. Toolbars have been re-configured to work better in 800x600 mode. o) Memory requirements have been reduced. For the latest information on 3D Canvas(tm) see www.amabilis.com. Copyright (c) 2000 Amabilis