I'm still trying to find if this is true or not. I got the email about 10 minutes ago and am reading the forums now.
From what I gather Truespace 7.6 is free for anyone (I think).
If this is true then I spent a hell of a lot of money on 7.1 for nothing. Also if it's true then Caligari being bought out by Microsoft has done wonders.
Can someone in the know please confirm if Truespace 7.6 is free for everyone or just to existing customers?
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Just waiting for confirmation on the Caligari forums but from what I've read it's totally free so anyone who was looking for a professional 3d dev tool can have Truespace 7.6, free. :)
If you're still seeing 7.5 here in the uk on the caligari website I've read on the Caligari forums that it is a DNS issue.
[edit 2] It's free. Here's a letter from Roman Ormandy, Caligari's CEO
From what I gather Truespace 7.6 is free for anyone (I think).
If this is true then I spent a hell of a lot of money on 7.1 for nothing. Also if it's true then Caligari being bought out by Microsoft has done wonders.
Can someone in the know please confirm if Truespace 7.6 is free for everyone or just to existing customers?
[edit]
Just waiting for confirmation on the Caligari forums but from what I've read it's totally free so anyone who was looking for a professional 3d dev tool can have Truespace 7.6, free. :)
If you're still seeing 7.5 here in the uk on the caligari website I've read on the Caligari forums that it is a DNS issue.
[edit 2] It's free. Here's a letter from Roman Ormandy, Caligari's CEO
Dear Caligari community member,
Today is an important day in the 23 year history of trueSpace. We are
releasing a major upgrade to our flagship product with trueSpace7.6,
bringing significant improvements in modeling, animation, rendering and
workflows, plus new direct export to Virtual Earth.Most of these you might
already expect if you’ve been following my regular Captain’s Blog posts at
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespac...read.php?t=893.
What you may not expect is that we are making trueSpace7.6 available to
everyone at no charge, in a giant step forward to bring high-end 3D
authoring tools to all who want them!
trueSpace7.6 is far more than a SketchUp-style 3D architectural modeling
tool. Instead, it provides a complete 3D authoring environment for any
type of 3D content creation, whether that’s images, animations, objects
for games, or content or worlds for online interactive shared spaces.
trueSpace7.6's modeling tools feature a variety of surface representations
including full polygonal editing, subdivision surface modeling, NURBS,
metaballs, and implicit surfaces. Those are supported by400+ modeling
tools like real-time Boolean operations with full construction history so
you can move subtracted parts of your design at any time during your work,
or even change a subtraction to an intersection.
trueSpace 7.6 also provides advanced surfacing tools like layered
materials, texture maps, normal maps, procedural materials, UVE
projections, real-time DX9 pixel shaders that include shaders to simulate
subsurface scattering, reflection, refraction, smoke, fire, water,
anisotropicshader, metallic paint, glass – and those are just the
real-time shaders!
The animation capabilities are even more impressive.trueSpace7.6 supports
key-frame and motion capture animation on fully hierarchical objects.
Key-frame animations can be seamlessly blended with procedural animations
and physical simulations, all of which can fully interact with each other.
This means you can have a walking character animated by key-frames getting
hit by a procedurally animated car and fly away in response to the
collision thanks to physical simulation.
In trueSpace7.6 you can also create fully articulated characters and
interact with them using full body IK with editable direct manipulation
widgets for joints (including physical stiffness), and apply physics
oranimated morphs for facial expressions.
If you want to create a photorealisticimagesor a video, then the built-in
Lightworks high quality offline renderer will give you spectacular
rendering results including soft shadows, raytracing, global illumination
in form of hybrid radiosity, image based lighting, caustics, tone mapping,
HDRI, anisotropic reflectance,multi-pass rendering to Photoshop layers,
motion blur, depth of field, lens flares etc.
trueSpace’s award-winning direct manipulation interface with its
easy-to-use 2D controls and 3D widgets has always been highly praised by
users and press alike.For version 7.6 we have streamlined many workflows
in extensive collaboration with our Beta testers. The UI is context-based
and fully configurable, including toolbars, panels, widgets, layouts and
projects. With universal drag-and-drop you can simply drop your model from
the 3D workspace directly into an e-mail, written document, etc, and vice
versa, clicking on the object in an e-mail will automatically open it in
trueSpace.
There are also a series of advanced editors. In addition to the 3D
workspace and modeling editors, there are a universal 2D node link editor,
a script editor,a non-linear animation editor, a material editor, a UV
editor, and more. Plug-ins are now accessible from the real-time 3D
workspace and we expect to release truly amazing plug-ins for trueSpace7.6
in the near future, as well as stimulate 3rd party creation of independent
products both free and commercial thanks to the availability of an SDK.
Finally, trueSpace7.6 is the only 3D authoring tool on the market which
will allow you do all of the above in real-time shared 3D collaborative
spaces where members of the design or animation team can maintain
real-time interaction from anywhere in the world.
We are taking the unprecedented step of making these tools available to
everyone for free in order to stimulate content creation for the present
and future online 3D environments, and so that any artist out there with a
dream can fulfill their vision without finding themselves trapped by
budget limitations. This is particularly true if their vision includes
emerging 3D online worlds, where free and unrestricted communities of web
artists can collaborate on 3D projects and even establish new kinds of
communities the likes of which the world has never seen before, way beyond
simple chats in isolated 3D rooms or 3D islands.
Above all, trueSpace7.6 will empower you to create anything you dream up,
whether you want to make illustrations for National Geographic, design
products for Rolls-Royce, create buildings for Virtual Earth, make
advertising or training videos, architectural walkthroughs, innovative
video games, or animated films.All of these possibilities are now open to
you simply by downloading trueSpace7.6 and learning what its powerful 3D
authoring tools can do for you!
To download trueSpace7.6, visit the link below:
http://cart1.caligari.com/web/Truespacemainreg.aspx
Also, to aid in your learning process we have made all of our video
courses, previously $79 each, available at no charge, and you can download
those courses here.
Another good way to learn is to join our active user community on our
forums: (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/index.php).
At a time when other companies are removing their low cost products to
make it even tougher to get started in 3D, it gives us great pleasure to
enable all artists regardless of age or income to create 3D in whatever
field they dream of. We hope you enjoy your copy of trueSpace7.6.
Roman Ormandy
Founder
Caligari Corp
Today is an important day in the 23 year history of trueSpace. We are
releasing a major upgrade to our flagship product with trueSpace7.6,
bringing significant improvements in modeling, animation, rendering and
workflows, plus new direct export to Virtual Earth.Most of these you might
already expect if you’ve been following my regular Captain’s Blog posts at
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespac...read.php?t=893.
What you may not expect is that we are making trueSpace7.6 available to
everyone at no charge, in a giant step forward to bring high-end 3D
authoring tools to all who want them!
trueSpace7.6 is far more than a SketchUp-style 3D architectural modeling
tool. Instead, it provides a complete 3D authoring environment for any
type of 3D content creation, whether that’s images, animations, objects
for games, or content or worlds for online interactive shared spaces.
trueSpace7.6's modeling tools feature a variety of surface representations
including full polygonal editing, subdivision surface modeling, NURBS,
metaballs, and implicit surfaces. Those are supported by400+ modeling
tools like real-time Boolean operations with full construction history so
you can move subtracted parts of your design at any time during your work,
or even change a subtraction to an intersection.
trueSpace 7.6 also provides advanced surfacing tools like layered
materials, texture maps, normal maps, procedural materials, UVE
projections, real-time DX9 pixel shaders that include shaders to simulate
subsurface scattering, reflection, refraction, smoke, fire, water,
anisotropicshader, metallic paint, glass – and those are just the
real-time shaders!
The animation capabilities are even more impressive.trueSpace7.6 supports
key-frame and motion capture animation on fully hierarchical objects.
Key-frame animations can be seamlessly blended with procedural animations
and physical simulations, all of which can fully interact with each other.
This means you can have a walking character animated by key-frames getting
hit by a procedurally animated car and fly away in response to the
collision thanks to physical simulation.
In trueSpace7.6 you can also create fully articulated characters and
interact with them using full body IK with editable direct manipulation
widgets for joints (including physical stiffness), and apply physics
oranimated morphs for facial expressions.
If you want to create a photorealisticimagesor a video, then the built-in
Lightworks high quality offline renderer will give you spectacular
rendering results including soft shadows, raytracing, global illumination
in form of hybrid radiosity, image based lighting, caustics, tone mapping,
HDRI, anisotropic reflectance,multi-pass rendering to Photoshop layers,
motion blur, depth of field, lens flares etc.
trueSpace’s award-winning direct manipulation interface with its
easy-to-use 2D controls and 3D widgets has always been highly praised by
users and press alike.For version 7.6 we have streamlined many workflows
in extensive collaboration with our Beta testers. The UI is context-based
and fully configurable, including toolbars, panels, widgets, layouts and
projects. With universal drag-and-drop you can simply drop your model from
the 3D workspace directly into an e-mail, written document, etc, and vice
versa, clicking on the object in an e-mail will automatically open it in
trueSpace.
There are also a series of advanced editors. In addition to the 3D
workspace and modeling editors, there are a universal 2D node link editor,
a script editor,a non-linear animation editor, a material editor, a UV
editor, and more. Plug-ins are now accessible from the real-time 3D
workspace and we expect to release truly amazing plug-ins for trueSpace7.6
in the near future, as well as stimulate 3rd party creation of independent
products both free and commercial thanks to the availability of an SDK.
Finally, trueSpace7.6 is the only 3D authoring tool on the market which
will allow you do all of the above in real-time shared 3D collaborative
spaces where members of the design or animation team can maintain
real-time interaction from anywhere in the world.
We are taking the unprecedented step of making these tools available to
everyone for free in order to stimulate content creation for the present
and future online 3D environments, and so that any artist out there with a
dream can fulfill their vision without finding themselves trapped by
budget limitations. This is particularly true if their vision includes
emerging 3D online worlds, where free and unrestricted communities of web
artists can collaborate on 3D projects and even establish new kinds of
communities the likes of which the world has never seen before, way beyond
simple chats in isolated 3D rooms or 3D islands.
Above all, trueSpace7.6 will empower you to create anything you dream up,
whether you want to make illustrations for National Geographic, design
products for Rolls-Royce, create buildings for Virtual Earth, make
advertising or training videos, architectural walkthroughs, innovative
video games, or animated films.All of these possibilities are now open to
you simply by downloading trueSpace7.6 and learning what its powerful 3D
authoring tools can do for you!
To download trueSpace7.6, visit the link below:
http://cart1.caligari.com/web/Truespacemainreg.aspx
Also, to aid in your learning process we have made all of our video
courses, previously $79 each, available at no charge, and you can download
those courses here.
Another good way to learn is to join our active user community on our
forums: (http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/index.php).
At a time when other companies are removing their low cost products to
make it even tougher to get started in 3D, it gives us great pleasure to
enable all artists regardless of age or income to create 3D in whatever
field they dream of. We hope you enjoy your copy of trueSpace7.6.
Roman Ormandy
Founder
Caligari Corp