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It used to sell at a price around $600 before Microsoft acquired the parent company Caligari some time back.
TrueSpace, which is now actually a Microsoft product, is available for download at www.caligari.com (free registration required).
Different people have come up with different opinions about this relatively surprising news - to set free a $600 product. But the general opinion is that Microsoft has taken this step to compete with Google's SketchUp - which is also available for free - and allows you to upload content to Google Earth directly.
Here is an excerpt from the official blog posting:
As you'll recall, several months ago we acquired Caligari because of their advanced 3D toolset - trueSpace (among other assets). I've always felt sketchy about other 3D freeware, so starting today trueSpace 7.6 is now available for download.....FOR FREE! And, there is a direct connection into Live Search Maps so you can create SUPER high resolution 3D models using trueSpace, then right from the environment upload the model into Live Search Maps as a collection item. Once you've created your collection, you can import your collection into your Virtual Earth application and BAM you have your own custom 3D models in your Virtual Earth application. We'll host the models right in our 3D collections cloud! This is going to be a long post - get some coffee and make it diesel.
TrueSpace is way ahead in terms of features and power when it comes to comparison with SketchUp - so time will tell how the audience react to this.
I personally use Blender 3D, but choice is always good.
I, for one, had lately become a language purist complaining why PHP doesn't have a much more organized structure for some of the things. And in this article, Rusmus seems to have read my mind. He answers those questions beautifully and emphasizes that PHP was never meant to be the Goddes of beautiful code structure, it was just a mistress that solved the Web problem.
Here is an extract from article that would make the point clear:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/php_experts/rasmus_php.html
The interesting thing to note is that he answered this very question of mine about the lack of formalized structure to some of the things in PHP quite a while ago (somewhere in 2004 to be precise). A genius isn't a genius for no reason and mashaAllah Rasmus is definitely one of them. Looking at the amount of stuff he has written, it seems to me that he is not much of a talker, which reminds me of the line I once read in the beautiful PHP Manual: Those who talk don't know and those who know don't talk!
Oh. I know, the world is short of good people, but please, I'm not one of those who lose hope easily. So if you are one of those who happen to:
- be smart enough
- know how to code
- have an eye for design and have basic 2d image manipulation skills (knowledge of vector stuff is a big +)
- pretty relaxed with html
- somewhat relaxed with css and javascript
- preferebly relaxed with any server technology such as php or asp.net
In a nutshell, relaxed enough to do real world web work.
Find yourself in? cool! read on:
What you get? a nice friend (me), freedom to ignore the previous point, exciting cool projects (web 2.0 mostly and then some boring ones), handsome amount of money if that matters and yeah, many opportunities to relax (read learn) with time.
So, send me your stuff, your work, or.. URLs.. or anything that shows you're good at my email address (found in the 'About Me' page).
The better you are, the better the chances to get the coolest projects with great bounties.
The time has come that we submit our course projects and I am kinda lost in these ajkal. I have to deliver this Computer Graphics project on Monday and I haven't started animation process. I had started working on this one way back but then left it as I had so much of everything else to handle :)
Now when the time has arrived, I have no choice but to move on the path of 'jaan churaaying'... that's the art of just getting things done as soon as possible!
So, the model is ready, and now I am going to start animating it, during which I have to setup lighting, and then after all this, editing and composition of the final thing. It's been done entirely in Blender 3D, an open source 3d production package. So, thanks to them! :)
Prayers needed! I am also kinda slow on the Network Programming project.
Monkeys can't be serious, I know. But I need them. I need a few really cool web monkeys who can work primarily with:
- HTML/XHTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- PHP
- MySQL
So if you're one of those who are lucky enough to know any or all of above in the list, you can contact me. The amount of projects you'll be getting depends upon how high you can jump (that basically means how skilled and experienced you are) and how many projects do I have at any given time.
I cannot promise work coming in all the time, so this is only supposed to be a freelance deal. Ideally for those professionals who are already working at some boring place and want to do some exciting work when they get back home. Students who feel they're smart enough to know what usability and security is are encouraged to get in touch as well.
If you're a reader who knows some cheetahs, uh sorry, some monkeys who're serious when it comes to quality driven web work, do let them know.
P.S. This offer is for people living in Pakistan only.
P.P.S. 'Serious' means 'serious' - I'm serious! So, no bacha party please.
