Sweet Home 3D 3.7 released

Sweet Home 3D 3.7 was released.

New in Version 3.7:

• Displayed groups in the furniture table as expandable / collapsible tree nodes.
• Used antialiasing in the 3D view when possible.
• Fixed a bug that could create invalid SH3D files after the importation of a 3D model file containing non ASCII characters (like accentuated letters).
• Fixed the management of multiple holes in polygons defined in imported DAE files.
• Forbade window resizing while a SH3D file is opened under Mac OS X, to avoid program freezing.
• Saved in a SH3D file only the textures of the SH3T file used by the home.
• Released the version 1.0 (670 kB) of the Textures Library Editor, a separate tool that lets the user create and edit easily SH3T files.
• Updated the new portable version of Sweet Home 3D (version 3.7, 116 MB) et Furniture Library Editor (version 1.9, 5 Mo).
• Replaced JRE 6u35 by JRE 6u37 in Sweet Home 3D installers bundled with Java.
• Other minor bugs fixes and enhancements.

Sweet Home 3D is Open Source and available for Windows, OS X, Linux and Solaris

More info and download at www.sweethome3d.com

Blender 2.64 released

The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.64 aka the VFX release, which was developed and used for the short-film Tear of Steel.

New in 2.64 are additions in:

• Mask Editor
• Compositing
• Motion Tracker
• Color
• Green Screen
• Cycles Render
• Mesh Tools
• Sequencer
• Sculpting
• Collada
• Skin Modifier
• Game Engine

More infos here
and download here

MeshMixer 07 Update 5

An update of the free Autodesk MeshMixer has been released.

New in MeshMixer 07 Update 5:

• new Close Cracks tool for welding together existing seams
• Hide selected objects with ctrl+h (ctrl+shift+H to show all)
• Combine now supports arbitrary number of objects
• smarter handling of importing objects with very different sizes
• tweaks for Face Selections (expand/contract, optimize)
• Add(shift) / Remove(ctrl) for slice-lasso in Face Selection
• improved Face Selection rendering
• huge cleanup of memory leaks
• many, many bug fixes

More info and download on www.meshmixer.com

Nick Gizelis: 50 mechanical brushes for free

On the website of Nick Gizelis you can get a free pack of 50 mechanical brushes for ZBrush or as alphamaps for other sculpting applications.

More info and download at www.noisyknuckles.com

Shade Standard 10 free on July 4th 2012

Get Shade Standard 10 free today (4th July 2012):

Shade Standard Key Benefits:

• Create professional 3D artwork and animation
• Build more kinds of models for art, animation, games
• Design more realistic looking characters
• More 3D options for working with Photoshop and Illustrator
• Extend Shade with new capabilities for your projects
• Deliver 3D movies with 3D audio, Poser integration

The special offer begins January 4, 2012 and ends July 5, 2012.
Shade is compatible with Windows and OS X

More info at http://miryestore.com

"Epic"-Trailer

See the Trailer of "Epic" by 20th Century Fox Animation:

Jeff Patton: 11 free HDRI´s

You can get 11 free HDRI´s on the website of Jeff Patton.
The resolution ist 4k x 4k.

More info and download at http://jeffpatton.net