Attached Link: http://mirye.net/news/1-latest/1706-legacy-upgrade-to-shade-10

They have released SHADE v14, which is backwards compatible to SHADE 10.

Any previous versions are "busted" so they are offering a free upgrade to Version 10.

You do have to be registered with Mirye.

Just thought I'd give a heads up in case you missed the e-mail.

http://mirye.net/news/1-latest/1706-legacy-upgrade-to-shade-10

What is it Shade is again? I think I vaguely remember getting it with P7. but it's been so long. And I havbent' got any email about it (might just have been filtered as spam though)

Modeling program Trekkie ;).

Laurie

Shade's a modeling app from Japan. E frontier makes it and apparently Mirye is now the western publisher. I never much cared for the interface of the application but it's nice that they're offering an upgrade to users of the old versions e frontier America used to sell and gave away with Poser.

I don't even know where my shade serial number is.

Thanks for the heads up. :)

Attached Link: Shade Comparison Chart

Three big ones between 9 - 10:

• Hair/Fur Editor
• Toon Rendering / Multi-Pass Rendering
• Physics System

This is a limited time offer.

I thought Shade 7 came with Poser 6???

Laurie

Laurie, I can't actually remember that far back, but I found my Poser6 and Shade7 serial numbers saved together in the same text file, so I'm sure you're correct.

It's funny, my compulsion to collect and try out 3D software is matched only by my aversion to registration forms. I started the process of upgrading, got to the register page, and thought "meh".

I think I've been on the interwebs too long.

Hehe....you got farther than I did ;). I can't even find my Poser 6 installers. Of course, I moved recently (again) so that's no surprise. I sacrifice something to the moving gods every time. LOL.

Laurie

Hi chikako,

do you use Shade for your modeling projects?  

Pappy

Here's a full, free copy of Shade 8.5 pro archived on the internet archive from a 3dWorld magazine cover disc freebie (windows and mac versions), issue 123_

http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%223D+World%22

Attached Link: Almacan's Gallery

Pappy! At Meshbox, we use Shade for some things, 3DS MAX for others.

Shade 10.X was sort of the beginning of the "new era" in Shade. Shade 9 was actually almost ready to ship but it was mostly worked on during the E Frontier America days. I translated and localized a lot of Shade 10 from Japanese to English.

A lot of new technology went into Shade 10, but it still has much of the old style interface. Shade 12 introduced a new interface. If you love the Shade 10 UI, its possible to create a workspace in later versions of Shade that is almost the same (all the key commands are the same still).

Shade has multiple modeling paradigms, including its own curved surface tools as well as more traditional polygon tools. If you are going to keep what you are doing in Shade, curved surfaces work really well. If you need output that will work in other applications (like making props for Poser), then polygons are the way to go. It is possible to translate Curved Surfaces -> Polygon Mesh easily enough.

If you'd like to see some really cool things that can be done in Shade 10.5, check out the gallery... and a sample here:

Quote - Here's a full, free copy of Shade 8.5 pro archived on the internet archive from a 3dWorld magazine cover disc freebie (windows and mac versions), issue 123_

http://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%223D+World%22

...but no license. Mirye gave that away some time ago, but it does not include a legal license.