With my ongoing conversion to OSX I am now in need of a new 3D solution that will enable me to develop for both Unity3D and XNA (still cannot leave the MS grip), thus my initial thoughts are of Blender.
However whilst browsing some XNA resources I discovered that the guys over at Caligari have Released trueSpace 7.6 for Free download. All you have to do is register for an account, then download the software.
trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth.
An entirely re-written X format exporter lets you save your trueSpace creations to load into game engines such as XNA to develop games for Windows or the Xbox 360.
A real-time scene with several lighting set-ups (by Marcel Barthel).
trueSpace also supports import from a wide variety of formats, letting you take existing objects and use them in Virtual Earth. Read..
Sorting out my archives today and found one of the very first animations (over 10 years old) that I ever did. A few years later it gave birth to one of my first Shockwave 3D games I too… ahh the memories.
Looking at it now there are more than a few issues (hey was a newbi back then) mainly environmental however still has a special place in my heart (am still chuffed with the pace of the animation flow, think fluke/tosh/otto) if only I could find the source files…
I’m thinking unity3d online aquatic adventures ahoy….ah new project…
Unity has evolved to be the perfect MMO and virtual world client, both in the browser and stand-alone. Stream in limitless landscapes as your users travel your universe, customize characters, and load infinite locations and virtual items on demand.
Fig 1:unity tropical paradise demo
When Funcom, makers of Anarchy Online and Age of Conan, decide to use Unity for their upcoming browser based MMO project, you know it has to be good.
Paradox is developed by the same guy who did 3d pathfinding in as3. Developed in the flash format Paradox seems to be a high quality 3d engine full of promise.
To Jump straight to the demos click on the images, controls e, s, d and f keys + mouse and click.
Here are a few screenshots from the I Care Project which is currently taking up most of my time. Lighting still needs to be addressed and I am hoping to do a bit of texture baking to achieve some nice effects.
