Free Software that Makes Life Easier

magaremoto

sure but it could be interesting to find what is capable of doing on normal and color maps. I'll give it a try

Philemo_Carrara

magaremoto said:

did anyone tested this free tool? It looks useful

https://plus.google.com/+PixaFlux/posts

http://www.pixaflux.com/videos.php

It looks like it's very close to MapZone, which is free. I can't find it anymore on Allegorithmic website, but it's still available in software download websites.

You also have neoTextureEdit http://neotextureedit.sourceforge.net/index.html wich is similar, FxGen https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxgen, powerfull but less user friendly,

Taoz

mjc1016 said:

FifthElement said:

head wax said:

thanks for those :)

 

here's a beta for a drawing program that makes meshes from drawings, dont know what happens when it is out of beta

 

http://polybrush.org/

Looks very interesting (similar to ZBrush dynamesh system ?), just beware, there is plenty of people who detected malware in 3rd party software he is using to protect the beta (in the forums) ...

I'll wait till he gets that sorted out, if price is good, I will most likely buy it if he sells it through proper channels 

Running the file through the Jotti online scanner, 20 of the 21 antimalware scanners used found nothing.  Fprot was the only one that 'found' something...and it was different than the 2 others that were reported on the forum.  In all likelyhood, it is a 'packed' executable and the scanners that complain about it don't like the packing method.   There are reports of the same 'malware' in several different games...on Steam.

I regularly have problems with that too when obfuscating my code with Skater, it often generates false positives in AV programs. Their support says it's normal. Bad for developers though who often get accused of spreading viruses.

magaremoto

Philemo said:

magaremoto said:

did anyone tested this free tool? It looks useful

https://plus.google.com/+PixaFlux/posts

http://www.pixaflux.com/videos.php

It looks like it's very close to MapZone, which is free. I can't find it anymore on Allegorithmic website, but it's still available in software download websites.

You also have neoTextureEdit http://neotextureedit.sourceforge.net/index.html wich is similar, FxGen https://sourceforge.net/projects/fxgen, powerfull but less user friendly,

thank you Philemo I wlll take a close look to them

 

mjc1016

Taozen said:

I regularly have problems with that too when obfuscating my code with Skater, it often generates false positives in AV programs. Their support says it's normal. Bad for developers though who often get accused of spreading viruses.

Try to find a hexeditor that 'passes' every AV/antimalware around...or any of several dozen other dev tools.  Try to find 'forensics' software or network analysis tools...

Basically, if something isn't geared to 'end user' use, at one point in time, or even mostly, it will be 'flagged' as dangerous by security software.

One that I found most amusing...a special 'kill' tool, put out by a major AV maker for a particularly nasty piece of malware...that was flagged by said AV as malicious...and quarrantined on download.

Stezza

Perfect Exposure - free

The perfect plug-in to fix exposure problems, add depth, contrast, and soft light to any scene.

Link

Philemo_Carrara

magaremoto said:

thank you Philemo I wlll take a close look to them

 

MapZone is a long time favorite of mine. I've been using it mainly as a substitute for CrazyBump.

Headwax

tanks for all the links

EddyMI3D

Like to add this one  :

http://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/78986/mc6-to-pz2-batch-converter#latest

mindsong

thanks for your work on that! big time saver! ms

Headwax

this looks interesting , free Nik collection for postwork

 

https://plus.google.com/+NikCollection/posts/AFGsG2Di7EK

magaremoto

very useful head wax, I use it a lot jointly with another freeware, photoscape

for hdr and exr I've been using xnconvert, a freebie that can manage and tweak many other formats; it works fine with hdr shop to get an useable hdr in carrara

rk66

HitFilm 4 Express is out: https://hitfilm.com/express/

ProPose

Cool!! thanks for that.  Love Hitfilm

WendyLuvsCatz

Mari noncommercial

https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/non-commercial/mari-non-commercial/

FifthElement

forsaken said:

Mari noncommercial

https://www.thefoundry.co.uk/products/non-commercial/mari-non-commercial/

Oh, wow, that was unexpected, that limit of six UV texture patches per object will require some careful planing though 

TangoAlpha

I have the Indie version of Mari (bundled with the Indie version of Modo, for a couple of quid a month more). Haven't used it in anger yet though - got rather enamoured with Substance painter!

3DAGE

http://www.videocopilot.net/blog/2016/05/free-star-wars-model-pack/

This is a free model pack for users of the "Element 3D" Plugin, for Adobe After Effects,  (available from Videocopilot.net)

The models are supplied in e3d format, and the textures in DDS ,.(for use in Element 3D)

but the models are also supplied as OBJ's and there is a link on that page for "alternative texture files" . in Jpeg format.

 

 

Headwax

thanks Andy :)

WendyLuvsCatz

http://www.manuelbastioni.com/index.php

Blender is getting its customisable base figures too.

ProPose

A Great Free-bee,  at least for me it is.  A gift from Rendo, a free copy of Poser 10.  Got it via e-mail from them.

 

Edit to add:

Turns out that I won the software.  Either way it's a great free-bee

 

DUDU

Congratulation ! And it seems you can use Genesis3 in Poser for free: https://www.renderosity.com/render-daz-genesis-3-in-poser-cms-18144?&AID=408

How to come back in Carrara ???

Mistara

was there a tool to record video tutorials and narrate?

i need something will work offline.  

many free tools wants internet  

 

thanks.  

theres a few things i dont do often enuf to remember 
thinking about making, a making of movie lol

cdordoni

MistyMist said:

was there a tool to record video tutorials and narrate?

i need something will work offline.

Flashback Express (free) does basic recording with sound. Also works as a great all purpose screen recorder. There are 2 paid for versions with additional functions, like editing and annotating.

Dartanbeck

Sad said:

http://www.manuelbastioni.com/index.php

Blender is getting its customisable base figures too.

Wow!

Milo

http://camstudio.org/ (I haven't used it)
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/win-screen-recording-softwares/ list of some apps to do that.

 

I have helped some patreon folx post process their screen recordings going from upwards of two gigs to a very nice size and you can't see the difference.  Get Handbrake from handbrake.fr

cdordoni

Milo said:

I have helped some patreon folx post process their screen recordings going from upwards of two gigs to a very nice size and you can't see the difference.  Get Handbrake from handbrake.fr

Awesome, forgot about Handbrake. Does a nice job with 2 pass encoding to MP4. Tested it on a WMV file that was already compressed and did not introduce any significant, new compression artifacts.

I was hoping to buy 3ivx someday to convert stuff to MP4 with good quality. Guess I wont need to after all. And Handbrake is 64bit, 3ivx is still a 32bit app.

Milo

Glad it rang a bell and it works for you :) the constant quality is mostly what I played around with to test different sizes, the FPS and such really didn't make much of a difference. 

WendyLuvsCatz

free retopology program not tried
 

Dartanbeck

Sad said:

free retopology program not tried

I got it now, but haven't tried it yet. This looks abso-freaking-lutely fan-freaking-tastic!!!