Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Render
Saturday, February 20th, 2010

As was announced today, the new, second beta of Podium 2 had just been released. This build represents a stable code base where all features are working, although some may need some modification before final release. There will be additional features as well. V2 uses a new, higher-quality render engine. As a result, scenes set [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Competition Blogs, Render
Friday, February 19th, 2010

Render Plus is launching a new IRender nXt rendering contest. It starts on Feb 15, 2010, and will run until March 15, 2010. Results will be announced on March 30, 2010. You do not need to own IRender nXt, Render Plus will provide a free copy during the contest. This years contest is designed to [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Competition Blogs, SketchUcation Community Forums
Friday, February 19th, 2010

The winner of the latest Speed Modelling Challenge was Kostas (“kostas_designer”) with the above entry (see larger version in his original forum post). Well deserved glory, congratulations!
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Applications
Friday, February 19th, 2010

As developer Jernej Vidmar has just announced, a new version of Modelur, a revolutionary 3D application for parametric urban design, has been released. Version 0.2.2 brings some serious performance optimizations (i.e. 10-50 times faster opening of large models) and fixes some minor issues. It is also available in Chinese now, thank to Huaqiao Wang. Modelur [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
Render
Sunday, February 14th, 2010

A new version (1.8) of LighUp, the realtime rendering plugin for SketchUp, was released as developer Adam Billyard has just announced in the SketchUcation Community Forums. The new version that introduces the first in a series of GPU-based features like adjusting Exposure, Contrast, Saturation and Temperature all inside SketchUp during realtime navigation. Other features include: [...]
Posted by Csaba Pozsárkó
3D Warehouse, Google Earth, SketchUcation Community Forums
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Not even a fortnight ago, forum member Jack B. Erhart – aka “Jax” or “Jaxcoffee” after his Coffee House and Roastery in Paso Robles CA – started a project; to model all existing Carnegie Libraries in the US. As a first step, he started with his home sate of California and already three members of [...]
Posted by Mike Lucey
Architecture Art, Render
Monday, February 8th, 2010

Piranesi 2010 Pro and Piranesi 2010 Lite aren’t just painting tools – they are difference makers.