Mrchristopher3d's 3D Blog

Well folks, I have been just unusually swamped this summer. I’ve totally let the ball drop on my blog but I’ve had a lot going on and had to let a few things slide to keep from being overwhelmed. Luckily I should be back in the swing of things here soon and have some material planned.

Thanks for your patience.

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• New and improved Replicate dialog.
• Collada import and export. Some fixes relating to the StrataCafe forum and beta list discussions.
• OBJ import and export. Some fixes relating the the StrataCafe forum and beta list discussions.
• Added back into the program, FBX import (Universal) support. We did this particularly for opening old files from CX 4.x that have OBJ entity types (OBJ imported objects that are dependent on the FBX functionality).
• Added back support for opening old StudioPro 1.x files. Also updated to support Intel Macs.
• Fix for OpenGL texture display problem.  Description of issue:  Texture(s) on an object displaying as a different texture when a selection was made.
• Numerous other fixes encountered during the development process.
• Fix for crashes when applying scale and rotation to spotlights and cameras.
• Fix for issue with animated subdivided skeleton deformed meshes not updating properly.
• Fix for Burn UV subdivided UVs distortion issue. Burn UV now does a better job of welding UVs and subdivision now checks for unwelded UVs.
• Changed the default light total falloff distance to 1000 and set the default regular polygon sides count to 12. To have these changes take affect you may need to reset the Strata Design 3D CX 6 preferences.
• 1, 2, 3 keys on numeric keypad now working to select the move, rotate, and scale tools.
• Image texture dialog – Default for secondary values in Diffuse and Ambient channels set to 100%.

I goofed on the initial tutorial #61 so I had taken it down. I’ve now replaced it with a new version.

Tutorial #61 deals with some resolution limitations of Enfold3D and how to effectively work around them.

Tutorial #60 is a quick discussion covering mirroring, specifically the difference between using the mirror function inside the modeler, and the object level mirror tool.