Nugget starter kits - new to cg? READ THIS FIRST

[Hundred]

YafRay (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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Indigo (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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POV-Ray (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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[Hundred]

Good idea XRaiderV1.7, I didn't think of that.

[Hundred]

Animator-9 3.6 (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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AniS 1.0 (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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Jumpwel 5.05.005 (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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[Hundred]

Cyberdelia 4.6 (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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FreeCAD 8.0
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Gmax (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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Special Effects 3.2 (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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TouchArt Sampler 017 (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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Anim8or (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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Serif 3D Plus (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

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NOTE: With Serif 3D Plus, version 2 is free, version 4 however costs about ten dollars (U.S.)

[ns_exile]

Another good freeware audio editor is Audacity:

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

[Hundred]

Thank you ns_exile, !!! I actually have that one, and I've been looking for the site for the past few hours. Another good one, but I think there's also a pay version, if I'm not mistaken, for about five dollars (U.S.).

[spudmonkey]

Originally Posted by Hundred

To spudmonkey: I never saw SPatch before this morning either, what's it like?

EDIT: Wow, just saw some SPatch renders. Not bad. Good one spudmonkey.

I must admit that I haven't used it in a long, long time, but I remembered it being a great little tool for mesh creation, though it's probably more of a complementary modeler than one you would use completely on its own. Also, SPatch will run on pretty much anything!

[Hundred]

To spudmonkey: ....cool.

Also, for you Star Trek, Star Wars, and BSG fans, if you haven't heard of it alreay, there's another application out there by the name of 3D Sci-Fi Movie Maker. It's been around for a few years, I think the latest release is version 2.09. In any case it is by no means free, about $50.00 (U.S.) in fact. Where as the oldest version of it, that I know of (2.02), runs for about $45.00 (U.S.). So they're pretty reasonably priced. I'll just go ahead and post the links. But please, do not quote me on the prices.

From what I understand of 3D Sci-Fi Movie Maker, mostly from screen-shots and video tutorials, it's mainly geared towards Star Trek, Star Wars, and BSG-style animation.

EDIT: It's not the best quality CG I've ever seen, but on the other hand it's not too terrible. For a Nugget project or a just beginner, it's ideal, It's simple, it's reasonably priced, and it's easy to use.

3D Sci-Fi Movie Maker (Please read all advisories, follow all instructions and observe all terms and conditions of the download site.)

EDIT: (01/23/08) Now that I've seen a few more animations made by 3D Sci-Fi Movie Maker, I can honestly say that, if there were a way to increase the output resolution, and if you were to run it through a decent movie editor, you could probably get some pretty nice results. It has potential.

Rating: 4/5 (Based solely upon animations that I've seen, and not upon personal use.)

[Mach Crit]

I clicked on a link in the sPatch site (one of the main nav links across the top, like news, download, etc, not an ad link)and it went to a page that tried to autoinstall something. My Antivirus went nuts and I closed out the second page that was opened. Be careful looking around that sPatch site.

[Hundred]

Thank you Mach Crit.

Everyone, please follow Mach Crit's advise in the post above, and be extremely careful of the SPatch site.

EDIT: It's an advertisement pop-up for a website called ----, the site seems to be some kind of Xtreme, in your face, kid thing. I didn't see or notice any harmful or offensive content on the site itself, but still, please be careful, .

EDIT: Forget my last edit, the afore mentioned site is not for the average viewer.