MapZone 2.6 becomes free to use!
Many people are familiar with the image processing software created by Allegorithmic's Sebastién Deguy.
If you haven't seen it, you're either new - or it's slipped under your
radar. Either way, now is your chance to become familiar with it for
free. MaPZone 2.6 is available for free for a limited time. Find out
how to get yours here...
Currently, the software is available for Windows only. (And you can be sure that I'll be trying it out..... on my Windows machine).
?The freeware version of MaPZone allows all artists to benefit from a powerful production-proven tool that is designed to help simplify the day-to-day task of creating and editing textures,? said Dr. Sebastien Deguy, president and founder of Allegorithmic. ?Offering the software for free has also fostered the growth of our MaPZone user community which has grown to more that 25,000 people since the release of MaPZone 2.5. With MaPZone 2.6 we hope to see that number increase as the user community continues to expand and share resources.?
MaPZone is an authoring tool designed specifically for editing and managing textures. Based on Allegorithmic's patented FXMaps technology, MaPZone is the only tool that allows users to locally edit procedural textures to create diffuse, specular and normal maps that are resolution independent, match up perfectly and seamlessly tile automatically.
Some of MaPZone 2.6?s new and improved features include:
· New bitmap image input node (similar to existing SVG input node) allows users to mix bitmaps and procedural noises making it easier to add details and matter to texture creations
· New feature automatically flags normal maps for usage in DirectX or OpenGL
· New functionality allows nodes of the graph to be realigned horizontally or vertically; existing connections between nodes in the graph can be modified by simple drag and drop
· Reposition camera and object in 3DEdit panel to their default positions
· Quicker access to Filter Menu by hitting [SPACE] key
Other products by Allegorithmic include ImageSynth which is featured as part of Luxology's modo and can be used as a Photoshop Plugin as well.
Check out how
Imagesynth works in Photoshop..... so much better than the standard tiling tool.
Posted at 02:16PM Aug 02, 2007
by ko maruyama in Software |
