marvelous, absolutely loved it. Great music choice too.

Attached Link: http://www.curvy3d.com/

Curvy 3D comes to mind. Made by a game developer, aartformgames.com

http://www.curvy3d.com/

not sure if that's it, but sounds like you're grabbing it at an axis that is pointing straight at you and a single pixel movement sideways with the mouse can mean a huge distance towards you.

very usable stuff indeed when you need something quick and don't have time to create it yourself. Thanks for sharing

If it's in a video format, I don't know that you can get much more compression as a zip, and that be a problem, I dunno. I'd just upload it to YouTube and place a link to it from here. Assuming that's cool with the R&R

Awesome, congrats. This has revived my interest in going back to 3D programming. I might just dig in, buy the book, learn and start creating web apps wth 3D. I'm sure there's some use for Dogwaffle in it too.

Congrats!

-Philip

thebest3d.com - beyond dgital painting

By-the-way, perhaps you can explain wat you want to do? Photoshop has evolved into such a do-it-all and so much more tool that you can't assume you want to work with a Photo. You might want to paint colormaps in 3D. Or work on Video. A lot of things can be done. Ditto with Dogwaffle, where 3D in the GPU is reality and fast.

Tell us a bit about your needs. There is a free version Photoshop 2 you can find that is old but might cover your needs. Not my recommendation, but still worth mentioning. Likewise, there are free trial or home learning editions of many other tools that, amongst other things, let you work on images.

Do you do digital painting? DO you need particle brushes for foliage effects? Do you want pigment lifting (or even know what that means?). There are many aspects to imaging and painting.

Do you like to work with filters?

Do you like to code your own filters (e.g. with Lua scripting)?

Quote - Look at IrfanView. It is free.

Irfanview is awesome. Free for home use indeed, I recommend you sponsor Skiljan Irfan for the good he's done :-), www.irfanview.com - Irfanview is primarily an image Viewer (!), not so much an alternative to Photoshop when it comes to working with selections and masks and layers but there are many many things you can do with Irfanview much faster and conveniently. Definitely a must have even if you use PS. Or for me with PD.

Attached Link: Not the latest, these are samples from v8 - check v9 too

It's based on v8.2, the latest is v9

It also does some animation, lots of visual effects.

The top price is $89.

It's PC/Windows only.

It does layers but not opaque layers. Layers can be used for many things other than hiding other leyers behind it.

There's a free program called Paint.net that has layers.

There's also Pixarra Twisted brush, by Ken Carlino. His and PD Howler 8 are also in a www.CoolCreativeBundle.com bundle

Howler 9.1 is available here at Rendo.

Artrage is also a good contender. Good painting, not much in filters and 3D. Howler does have 3D for elevation map based terrains and other.

This one has md2 viewing capability:

http://jsc3d.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/jsc3d/demos/md2viewer.html

Here's one from Google, and because it's from the big G I'd say it might have a future. In theory.

https://code.google.com/p/jsc3d/

More interesting options here:

http://www.html5code.com/gallery/javascript-3d-model-viewer/

 and there are many more.

the trick is to find something that will do what you need and that will easily play on mobile platforms too, and stay around for years to come.

Quote - > Quote - do a Google search for web3d player, you'll find Unity and others from the game industry.

http://unity3d.com/webplayer

Some of these might have the ability to play your formats.

This is interesting and sends me on a whole new thought pattern on this. Honestly, my possible client is not very realistic about what can and can't be done. He wants to run his own animation in MD3 after I design his clothing and why I was looking for a simple way to convert it. If he let me do it then I would do the animation in another program all together.

However this really has me thinking of embeding a 3d OBJ veiwer in my store. I'm working one a new set of obj's to sell as starter kits.

Thank you so much for your help

There are likely a bunch more viewers available that will use a static OBJ with materials, or certainly VRML1/VRML2 files. Yes, that should allow to give the user a more interactive experience than a pre-rendered video or 3D view. There are 3D viewers that can work from a single large image or image sequence, similar to Quicktime3D. There may be some that are standards based to the point that most browsers may load and run them well enough. Look under web3d.org or similar resources.

If you want to incorporate a more sophisticated walk sequence though, that's where a game engine that is well tuned to work with 3DS Max or Maya in the first place could work the magic. Wth any luck, there's a viewer that just loads your file and playes it.

by the way I like http://imaginative3d.com/  -  very cool

I'm learning how to add your own textures from Dogwaffle back into MD3. Super fun. Works well also with PNG that have transparency.

Here's a demo usingthe Unity3D player. Works nicely in my Firefox on Windows 8.

http://unity3d.com/gallery/demos/live-demos#character-customization

You will need the Unity player installed in the browser. Did't take long.

The question now is wether Unity player can easily play your animation files.

do you have a sample file with a short animation sequence that you can share? I'd love to see it in all those formats, in fact, to see if there are importers for Carrara Pro or other tools that can handle it.