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Ptex released as free open source


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  • 2 months later...

3D Coat supports it from their recent version 3.2. I guess the debate out there right now is: is this better than the new ZBrush poly paint, or not?

At any rate 3D Coat is starting to look more and more attractive to my eyes.

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It's an interesting business model to be a commercial development department for more and more studios:

http://www.thefoundry.co.uk/articles/2010/07/20/98/the-foundry-gain-access-to-paint-3d-technology/

(DD, Weta, Sony, Disney, who's next?)

If SESI could gain access to some of sims tools out there(unlikely)... wait, isn't ODE DOP solver from Sony? :)

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I like it, for the most part. Except their education license policy - for Nuke its $1700 for a student license. FXPHD is the cheapest way to use/learn Nuke for demo reel purposes and still be able to eat.

All the same, it's good to see some of the studios' excellent tools released into the wild.

Oh, and Mari doesn't support Ptex yet. They plan to get it in there soon, and with Disney Feature adopting Mari, I'm sure that will only expedite the whole process.

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I like it, for the most part. Except their education license policy - for Nuke its $1700 for a student license. FXPHD is the cheapest way to use/learn Nuke for demo reel purposes and still be able to eat.

All the same, it's good to see some of the studios' excellent tools released into the wild.

Oh, and Mari doesn't support Ptex yet. They plan to get it in there soon, and with Disney Feature adopting Mari, I'm sure that will only expedite the whole process.

Me like it too. Very much. Just little intrigued how relatively new company was able to impact industry so much. Aren't they partly owned by the same investors/producers who has bought DD? Maybe this is a reason why they built connections so quickly. Anyhow, great products they have there.

Don't get close to Mari without decent nvidia, our Quadros fail or work miserably slow.

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