modo keeps messing up my imported Rhino meshes

I was up all night trying to figure this out. But I'm too tired, so I'll just leave it for now.

July 3rd and no sign of Railworks (boxed DVD)

I was hoping to buy Railworks (boxed DVD) at Fry's Electronics today. They didn't have it. Someone at Railsimulator.com forgot about California store buyers.

Getting a loco model from 3D Canvas into Rail Simulator

This may be an old item to some, but it does look interesting if one has Rail Simulator that they've been wanting to model their own engines for. Read the PDF on it.

Sculpting & Retopologizing a Human Bust in 3D Coat with Javis Jones

Saturday, June 27, 2009 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CDT

This Live class will be between 2-3 hours long and is designed to show you advanced techniques in Pilgway's, 3D Coat. In this session Javis will cover voxel sculpting a human bust. Javis will take you through 3D Coats work flow as well as showing you time saving tips and techniques. Then he will show you how to create those fine details in 3D Coat that makes your work look so real. Lastly, Javis will take this high poly model and show you how to use 3D Coats advanced retopology tools to lower the poly count while keeping the details.

Creating micro planets in Vue Infinite 7.5

While waiting for the Vue Infinite 7.5 service pack to be put online, I watched a quick five minute Geekatplay Studio tutorial on how to create "micro" planets.

On the lookout for a modo 401 guidebook

The first two official modo guidebooks were great (201 and 301). I'm hoping there is a 401 book coming. They're late.

MAXON cuts Cinema 4D prices in half

It's the beginning of SIGGRAPH season again. That means new 3D software being released. It also means the economy recently paid a visit to MAXON to remind them of their rather high-priced software that's been collecting dust.

So to move some boxes, MAXON is offering 50% off for customers using other 3D apps. But beware the Protection Plan they want to offer you.

RailSimulator is sporting a new look

www.railsimulator.com has a new look now for it's new RailWorks title being released. On sale at Steam and in stores later in July.

No plans in the works for Hexagon

DAZ3D announced that there is no plan still to fix or update Hexagon. Mac users who bought the modeling program are still not able to use it on Mac OS 10.5. Windows users have been waiting since 2006 for bugs to be fixed. Though, not show-stoppers, work-arounds have to be used to get past the bugs.

Go-Z will improve your ZBrush workflow with modo!

Pixologic shows off their new Go-Z feature for ZBrush 4, which will be released hopefully this fall.

The demo reminded me of how DAZ Studio and DAZ Hexagon were supposed to work together at one time. It's good to see real 3D app developers making this workflow actually work now. And better.