Announcement thread:
http://forums1.caligari.com/truespace/showthread.php?t=893&page=5

Features:
http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS75/Brochure/Intro.asp

Download:
http://www.caligari.com/Products/trueSpace/tS75/tS7order_redirect.asp

They've made it free, evidently. I don't know how long it will last, or 
even if you will find much use for it. It's always good to have another 
modeler at hand, and the real-time rendering features look pretty cool.

On a side note, it would appear Wilbur is still being updated:

http://www.ridgecrest.ca.us/~jslayton/wilbur.html

For those of you who don't already know, it's a height field painting 
program which can export 16-bit grayscale images. It's come a long way 
since I last tried it... back in 1998.

Happy rendering~

Sam

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Hey thanks Sam. I downloaded it all, but after playing around with it I 
kinda just sat there in front of the screen and thought: "Why?"

   I have too many graphic programs installed and I use probably 3% of them. 
Heh, I even have my original copy of sPatch (from 8 years ago)here and ready 
to go, but I know I'll never use it again. That one's kind of hard to delete 
because I used it quite a lot in my first endeavours of 3D images in 
conjunction with pov 3.1g.

    ~Steve~

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St. wrote:
> Hey thanks Sam. I downloaded it all, but after playing around with it I 
> kinda just sat there in front of the screen and thought: "Why?"

Yeah, I know what you mean. After posting this message, I started 
reading more about TS. It looked pretty good at first, but then started 
seeming... not worth it. Why waste time downloading something I won't use?

>    I have too many graphic programs installed and I use probably 3% of them. 

Once again, I can relate. Too many times I have thought to myself how 
cool this or that program will be, only to be disappointed later on.

Out of all the myriad 3d programs I have tried, only three remain in 
constant use to this day: LightWave, POV-Ray, and Blender. I still have 
yet to finish a project with Blender, though I get close sometimes.

> Heh, I even have my original copy of sPatch (from 8 years ago)here and ready 
> to go, but I know I'll never use it again. That one's kind of hard to delete 
> because I used it quite a lot in my first endeavours of 3D images in 
> conjunction with pov 3.1g.

Wow, sPatch. I downloaded that years back too, but it's probably on the 
computer I upgraded from 166 to 500mhz back in '00. I think I posted one 
image of a wooden head modeled in sPatch a few years back... So that's 
makes one finished project with that app. :/

Sam

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