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Dogwaffler of the Moment newsletter.
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Here are some topics we present in this issue:
- Foliage Brushes: adding trees
to your painted/rendered scene
- Erosion evolved: Free update
of DRMisc.dll for Howler 9.5
- Howler 9.5 Available at DAZ
- For Users of Lightwave 3D -
free Plugins
- Cybermonday promotion at
Squirreldome.com
- The River Canyon Tutorials
continue - exploring more
Foliage Brushes: adding
trees to your painted/rendered scene
Foliage
brushes were first introduced
in Howler 8.2 - and in version
9.5 they got an extra boost of realism: with
self shading, ambient occlusion style. This
video tutorial is part of the River Canyon
series. See the end of this newsletter and earlier newsletters
for many more tutorials in that series.
Watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs7j41eu68E
Erosion evolved: Free
update of DRMisc.dll for Howler 9.5
One of
the many new features introduced in PD Howler
9.5 was an erosion filter. You can see the
presence of it and access its features in two
places:
- Filter > Stylize >
Erosion
and of course more integrated:
- Filter > Transform
> 3D Designer
For animations, the latter
lives of course also in Animation > Timeline
> Filters > Transform > 3D Designer, as
we've seen in many recent tutorials where we fly
across a mountain or landscape of hills.
Erosion supports several
options, which affect in one way or another how
much erosion appears on the terrain. Some might
carve the eroded gullies a little deeper, others
might change the number of 'attack points' where
erosion starts occurring, by adjusting the
amount of rainfall. There is also the length of
the eroded paths. However, there was also a
slight bug in v9.5: the erosion was not
uniformly applied around all sides of a
mountain. This would cause about 75% of the hill
to appear eroded, while a bare 25% (upper left
quadrant) remained unaffected by erosion.
Imagine looking down on a smooth mountain like
an egg.
Here is an example: (click each
image to see it at its original size)
The first image shows the old mode, straight from
v9.5 - each bump appears only partly eroded. The
upper left quadrant of each bump seems smooth,
without erosion. In the second image, this has
been fixed. That's but this free update (patch)
does.
You can read more and grab it here:
http://www.thebest3d.com/howler/download/update-erosion-spread-for-v9.5/index.html
Howler 9.5 Available at DAZ
As announced earlier, Howler 9.5 is now
available at Daz, and still on sale at last
check with 30% off, but this launch intro
discount will expire soon. It is also a slightly
lower regular price. Take advantage of it while
it lasts. Find it here:
http://www.daz3d.com/pd-howler-9-5-purely-ballistic-powered-by-project-dogwaffle
For Users of Lightwave 3D -
free Plugins
We have just
released Newtonian Follower for Lightwave,
free for single seat users, along with
several other plugins for Lightwave. If
you're not familiar with the latest
developments of Lightwave, check out their
new version here:
http://www.lightwave3d.com
With Newtonian
Follower, you can link one object to another
and have the sibling react with Newtonian
physics, which can be great in bone chains
for creating secondary motion in a character
rig.
Also released for free is a horizontal
slider custom object plugin that visualizes
a value between 0-1 in a way similar to a
horizontal scroll bar or slider control.
Learn more here, from Dan RItchie, the author of
Howler himself:
http://squirreldome.com/Newtonian.htm
Cybermonday promotion at
Squirreldome
Here's another chance to
save big on Howler 9.5, new or upgrade:
http://dan-ritchie.wix.com/howlerpromotion
This is directly from Dan Ritchie, the author of
Project Dogwaffle / Howler.
Learn more about all his tools, music, books and
other passions and products at www.Squirreldome.com
Check his gallery too,
showing off great artwork created by artists who
use Dogwaffle, including himself of course:
http://squirreldome.com/Gallery.htm
The River Canyon Tutorials
continue - exploring more
Here are a few more videos and
tutorials, expanding on the river canyon. We're
adding trees in the foreground. We're adding
another layer of hills up close. We're adding
gradient skies.... and we're adding animated
skies.
That's it for now. Thanks for
reading.
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