Other free applications discussion thread

[justadeletedguy]

Yes, 3DRad is Good fun! for those wanting to try .. here's some tips...
Get Lithunwrap from www.ShareCG.com .. you can convert the standard cars and roads from DirectX (.x) to .obj to import to Wings3d or Blender for Scaling.
Get Wings3d ... exports straight to DirectX .... Triangulate your mesh.
Even Sculptris models can be imported ... Normal Maps too ... but try keeping it Low-Poly (10K or less)
3DRad is DirectX based .... you can animate in Fragmotion or CharacterFX ... or try your luck with Blender.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Homestyler

[Frenchy Pilou]

... with Nurbs ray tracing render in it!
BRL CAD

[Frenchy Pilou]

Salome

Easy to Create/modify, import/export (IGES, STEP, BREP), repair/clean CAD models
Supports interoperability between CAD modeling and computation software (CAD-CAE link).
Mesh CAD models, edit mesh, check mesh quality, import/export mesh (MED, UNV, DAT, STL)
Makes easier the integration of new components into heterogeneous systems for numerical computation.
Easy to Handle physical properties and quantities attached to geometrical items
Display computation results (scalar, vectorial)
Provides a generic user-friendly and efficient user interface, which helps to reduce the costs and delays of carrying out the studies.
Reduces training time to the specific time for learning the software solution based on this platform
Manage studies (create, save, reload)
Provides access to all functionalities via the integrated Python console.

[ancomic]

Sizer 3.34
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/
New Version Sizer 3.4
http://www.brianapps.net/sizer/sizer34.html

GIMP 2.82
http://portableapps.com/apps/graphic.../gimp_portable
GIMP GPS 2.0
http://code.google.com/p/gps-gimp-paint-studio/
GIMP 2.81 PhotoComixLab
http://www.gimpchat.com/viewtopic.ph...t=4986&p=62083
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-packagers/files/
GIMP 2.81 Partha
http://www.partha.com/

[ancomic]

PoseRay 3.13.16 Beta
https://sites.google.com/site/poseray/

[michalis]

equirectangular hdri's ?
Here's a powerful free cross platform app.
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

[Fantasio]

Really great apps and links here!

I really wonder why such a powerful tool as Cheetah3d http://www.cheetah3d.com/ isn´t listed so far, its really easy to use, free for personal use and has excellent render options especially useful for Sculptris and other OBJ-files.


Although it has to be mentioned it is just for OSX.

[MentalFrog]

Really great apps and links here!

I really wonder why such a powerful tool as Cheetah3d http://www.cheetah3d.com/ isn´t listed so far, its really easy to use, free for personal use and has excellent render options especially useful for Sculptris and other OBJ-files.

It doesn't look like it's free anymore.

[Fantasio]

No, its still free, just hit the download page.

But I forgot to mention that any scene can´t be saved in the free version, but if a render is all you need, that is not a problem.
I also had not a problem to keep one scene open for 2 weeks to tweak and change, so not a problem on a mac

And if you need to save, I guess $99 is not that big investment compared to other packages if it turns out to be used often.

[MentalFrog]

No, its still free, just hit the download page.

But I forgot to mention that any scene can´t be saved in the free version, but if a render is all you need, that is not a problem.
I also had not a problem to keep one scene open for 2 weeks to tweak and change, so not a problem on a mac

And if you need to save, I guess $99 is not that big investment compared to other packages if it turns out to be used often.

No that doesn't make it free, that makes it a trial. I don't have a problem with listing the software as long as people are aware of what it really is, and free it's not. Even if it is a cheap option.

[michalis]

cheetah isn't a good app. No need to spend your time with it.
These from a mac user.

[Fantasio]

... good apps are rare to find. I also don´t say this or that app is crap (although the most free ones posted here are) and the ones which are not, like Sketchup, Sculptris and Cheetah3d limited to a certain point -> update at a cost.

If someone has not the time to get into blender will find cheetah useful, at least I did.

[trggff]

Is not really a soft but is about 3D content and i think that could be interesting in the future, is about the use and running of games and 3D content directly in the web brownser, Firefox has released her version 15, that is heavily implemented for this kind of task. For showing the capabilityes they have made a game demo that runs directly from the brownser whitout no plugin, only HTML5 and java.
you can download firefox 15 and try the game here
I think that this is a easy demo and really dont show all the brownser capabilyties, i was thinking to in how it could change the look and even the concept of today webshops, changuin the usual collection of pics of shoes and cars for detailed 3d models.

[michalis]

@Fantasio
Sculptris... update at a cost?? You don't mean buying zbrush, right?
SketchUp...? The majority of the good plugins are free and run on the free version. Sometimes, free plugins like the obj exporter are superior to the paid build in ones.