Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 PC Demo

Here you can download a Pro Evolution Socceer 2009 (PES 2009) Demo for PC.

Has written on the website, the demo includes:
"Players are able to select fully licensed Manchester United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, and Barcelona club teams, or the licensed Italian or French national sides. All new visuals with completely remodeled players and animations, and new physics routines to ensure the ball behaves more realistically have been included, while the AI of the CPU sides has been enhanced to provide an ever evolving challenge."

Demo size: 1 Gb circa.
I'm awaintg this new PES 2009... :P

Adobe CS4 available for preorder

Today Adobe has released the new Creative Suite 4 (CS4).
Adobe offers 6 different packages with different prices / applications included.

More info on Adobe Creative Suite CS4 page.

Fantamercato 2008/2009

This reply to notify my new mobile application: Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with flashlite player 2.1 or better.

With Fantamercato you can manage your Fanta football with all Serie A team lists and statistics of previous season.
Additionally, you can create your fanta football team and manage your expenses.

This new version was improved with many new functionalities and bug fixes, to better manage your fanta football season.
Fantamercato is updated with all Serie A scores and statistics in the previous season.

Fantamercato 2008/2009 is available only in italian.

Purchase Fantamercato 2008/2009 for just 3.99 EUR.

More info about Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with Flashlite (english version)

More info about Fantamercato 2008/2009 for mobile phones with Flashlite (italian version)

NewTek Announces Free LightWave 3D Trial Edition Available for Download

Great News from Newtek!

NewTek Announces Free LightWave 3D Trial Edition Available for Download.

New LightWave Trial Edition features 24 hours of free online training


The software is fully functional with no restrictions or watermarks for a full 30-day period and has 24 hours of video training on many topics to enable quick use of LightWave's powerful tools.

In addition, the complete manuals in PDF format are available for download, allowing users to reference tools and features. 130 MB of royalty-free content is also provided, which can continue to be loaded and studied even after the 30-day trial period is over.

Pricing and Availability

The LightWave Trial Edition is available for free download immediately. LightWave® v9 is available now at suggested retail price of $895US. LightWave v9.5 will be available as a free update to registered LightWave v9 owners. Registered owners of LightWave 3D® [8] or earlier are eligible to purchase an upgrade to LightWave v9 for $395US.
For more information or to purchase, please visit www.lightwave3d.com or call NewTek Sales at 1-800-368-5441, for international inquiries dial +1-210-370-8000.

Newtek announces Lightwave 9.5 !

Publishing this press release on its website, NewTek Announces Fourth Major Update to LightWave 3D® v9.

LightWave v9.5 Update Includes:

Character Animation Enhancements
New Hair and Fur System
Enhanced IK and Animation Systems

• New Collada, FBX and OBJ I/O
• New IK Calculation Options for Faster Performance
• New Bone Type - Joints
• New Objective Options for IK
• IK/FK blending
• Multi-threaded Mesh Deformation Evaluation

Modeler

• UV Unwrap/UV Relax
• Symmetry Tolerance

Lighting, Rendering and Surfacing Enhancements
All New Lighting System

• New Light API
• IES Lights
• New Spherical Light
• Area and Linear Lights Enhanced

Renderer

• Faster Sampling System for GI
• Improved GI Quality
• New GI Controls to Customize the Render
• Disk-Based GI Cache

Node Editor Enhancements

• Interpolated Soft Reflections/Refractions
• Support for New Light API Functions
• Oren-Nayar Shading Option for Many Materials
• Optimizations for Materials and Shaders

SDK and LScript Improvements

• New Light Plug-in Class for third Party Lights and Light Plug-ins
• SDK Support for New GI Functions and Disk Cache
• SDK Support for New IK and Animation Capabilities
• Set Surface Properties Through the Surface Global

UI and Workflow Enhancements

• Enhanced Scene Limits
• Updated Scene File Format
• EXIF Metadata Support
• OpenGL GLSL Enhanced for New Lighting System
• Image Viewer Consolidation

Pricing and Availability
LightWave® v9 is available now at suggested retail price of $895US. LightWave v9.5 will be available as a free update to registered LightWave v9 owners. Registered owners of LightWave 3D® [8] or earlier are eligible to purchase an upgrade to LightWave v9 for $395US. For more information or to purchase, please visit www.lightwave3d.com or call NewTek Sales at 1-800-368-5441, for international inquiries dial +1-210-370-8000.

Iron Man Movie Trailer

Via Youtube, an interesting movie trailer about Iron Man, the newest superhero (marvel side) movie coming soon in cinemas around the world.
Obviously, great special effects are guarantee! :)

New week, new Lightwave Tutorials (part 5)

Another week, another set of (very good) videos by William Vaughan for Newtek's Lightwave3d modeler and layout. This week William published 35 new video tutorials! WOW!

Modeling and animating a basketball net

Introduction to the Surfaces Tab in the Scene Editor

Introduction to the Items Tab in the Scene Editor:

Introduction to Motion Blur

Introduction to the Limited Region and Mask options

How to create custom shadows or have surfaces not cast shadows at all

Introduction to the Standard Material Node

Introduction to the BRDF shader

Introduction to the Surface Mixer shader

Introduction to the Weave shader

Introduction to the Occlusion shaders in the Node Editor

Introduction to FX MetaLink Morph

Introduction to Dynamics Effect and Record Motion

Introduction to the Text tool

Maintaining proportions when creating a UV map

Introduction to Bone Split, Bone Connect, Bone Fuse and UnParent Bone

Introduction to Sticky and Sticky Surface

Creating a Slug using Hypervoxels

Introduction to Make UVs

Creating a UV map for a Head

Customizing Modeler's Workspace Viewports

Creating an eye setup for animating eyes with ease

Introducing the 4 point triangle

Adding thickness to single-sided geometry

Creating an animation of a crowd of people

Introduction to the UV Spider command

Introduction to the Jolt Motion Modifier

Creating a 2D Cel Shade look with the Node Editor

Introduction to Edit Skelegons

Introduction to the Weld, Unweld and Weld Average commands

Introduction to the Set Value command
Note: Not to be confused with the Set Map Value command

Animating a basic walk cycle:
Note:If your new to animation and setting key frames this could be a good quick start for you.

These 3 new videos pushes the collection over 19 hours now:

Introduction to the Schematic View

Introduction to the Target Item option

Introduction to the power of Powergons:

Voodoo Camera Tracking

In these weeks I'm working hard, It's time to improve my skills and back to all my old passions.
So, searching about newer versions for some 3d Camera Tracking softwares, I found this very interesting 3d camera tracker: Voodoo.

Voodoo Camera Tracker is a FREE software and seems to works very well. It can export for most 3d applications. Taken from Vodoo website:

"The Voodoo Camera Tracker estimates camera parameters and reconstructs a 3D scene from image sequences. The estimation algorithm offers a full automatic and robust solution to estimate camera parameters for video sequences. The results are useful for many applications like film production, 3D reconstruction, or video coding. The estimated parameters can be exported to the 3D animation packages: 3D Studio Max, Blender, Lightwave, Maya, and Softimage.

The Voodoo Camera Tracker works very alike to commercial available camera trackers (also called match movers), e.g. 3D-Equalizer by Science-D-Visions, boujou by 2d3, Matchmover by RealViz , PFTrack by The Pixel Farm, SynthEyes by Andersson Technologies. Please consider buying a commercial product, if you need a camera tracker with professional support."

Voodoo Camera is available for Windows and Linux systems; actually you can download the release 0.9.4 beta.

New Lightwave 3d tutorials (post #4)

William Vaughan continues his great work publishing lots of video tutorials for Newtek's Lightwave3d.
I hope my posts in this blog don't disturb Newtek neither William... I just want publish this great work and support the entire Lightwave3d community...

So, these are the newer videotutorials, enjoy! ... :)

Introduction to the Bevel Tool

Introduction to the Pivot Tool and Center Pivot Command

Introduction to Proxy Pick

Introduction to Sketch Color

Introduction to the Rail Bevel Tool

Introduction to the Hide options

Introduction to Color Selection

Randomly placing surface voxels on an object

Introduction to the Julienne tool

Introduction to the Make Pole tool

Introduction to the Helix tool

Introduction to the Sea Shell tool

Introduction to the Triple Tools (Triple, Fast Triple Fan and Fast Triple Traverse)

Introduction to the Collapse Polygons command

Introduction to the Image Control Panel for the Image Viewer

Introduction to the Scale and Rotate Morph Tools

Introduction to the Grid and Grid Square Size

*Creating a Clothespin*
This two part video tutorial walks through the creation of an everyday
clothespin while exploring various techniques and tools along the way.

*Part 01*

*Part 02

*Reference Images*

Introduction to the Reduce Points and Polygons commands

Taking a closer look at Input Fields
*Using LightWave's input fields to calculate and convert units of measure.

Introduction to the Absolute Measure tool

Introduction to the Use Global option

Introduction to Bones and Character Rigging

Introduction to IK: Inverse Kinematics

Building a Reverse Foot Rig

Introduction to Remove Polygons and Remove Vertices from Polygons Commands

Creating a cartoon elbow joint

Check it out in action here

Introduction to Band Glue

Introduction to the Band Saw and Band Saw Pro Tools

Introduction to Fix 3-5

Introduction to Align Polygons

Introduction to Magic Bevel

Introduction to Add Edges

Introduction to Light Exclusion

Introduction to working with Foreground Images in the Compositing tab

Introduction to the RIG format

Lightwave Plugins: Sumatra

Sumatra is a new very interesting plugin for Lightwave 3d, designed by LWToolbox to help the user quickly create vegetations.
Currently the package consists of four plugins working in 32 and 64bit, two for layout, and two for modeler.

It seems to be really easy to use: you can "paint" vegetations directly on your models.
This plugin also includes a objects with different LOD (level of detail) so you can set it to place low polygon version instead of those in high details, depending by the distance between camera-objects.

Regarding vegetations, objects aren't clip maps as Archvison's plugins and libraries, but effective 3d models with polygons.

Sumatra is a commercial plugin, but its cost is so cheap (only 65 EUR for the PRO version) to be your perfect plugin - for example - for architecture rendering and animations.

You can also test the plugin, download the LITE version.

Limitations of the Light Version:
most additional options inactive, painting reduced to 50 polygons.

Sumatra is available for both Windows and Macintosh systems.

Romantic Prague and Super deformed Jeeg screensavers and wallpapers for mobile

I updated my website with 2 new screensavers and wallpapers for mobiles with Flashlite player:

Romantic Prague Screensaver Wallpaper
An amazing slideshow with 29 beautiful Prague photos: you can use it as screensaver or wallpaper for your mobile phone. For devices with Flashlite player 1.1 or better.
You can buy it from panebianco3d.com Store for only EUR 2.39


SuperDeformed Jeeg Screensaver Wallpaper
A funny (but also simple) screensaver / wallpaper for devices with Flashlite player 1.1 or better

Updated my curriculum...

Finally in these days I updated my curriculum vitae. I uploaded them in my website panebianco3d.com where you can connect to download.

There are 2 languages available:

MY CURRICULUM IN ITALIAN and MY CURRICULUM IN ENGLISH

Can I help you? ;-)

Terragen 2: The chepest Realistic Virtual 3d Worlds creator

Some years ago I worked a lot with Terragen, a fantastic virtual 3d world creator shareware by Planetside.
Now the authors have updated their software with a new version, Terragen 2 (TG 2).
Clouds, mountains, seas and lakes, deserts and so on are an incredible look. Additionally, now you can also add vegetations for impressive renderings.

You can download it and test (with some limitations applied), let's go to download!

Taken from Planetside website about Terragen 2:

Terragen 2 (TG2) is now the primary development focus of Planetside Software. TG2 is a complete rewrite of Terragen from scratch, and is a significant advance beyond the capabilities of Terragen v0.9. Apart from being a much more powerful renderer, TG2 has a much more flexible architecture which will allow development to proceed at a considerably greater pace.

Terragen 2 features an advanced hybrid micropolygon renderer with powerful multi-angle displacement capabilities. It has a versatile procedural engine that can be utilised to apply subpixel-level detail to almost any aspect of a scene. Terragen 2 is capable of rendering billions of polygons in a single scene.

Core Features

Terragen 2 features the following as part of its core architecture :

• Cutting-edge adaptive subdivision renderer.
• Modular, plugin-based architecture.
• Render entire planets, sweeping vistas, tiny rock gardens, or anything in between.
• Import 3D objects for rendering. Export high resolution objects.
• Render millions of boulders or trees using "instancing".
• Add multiple heightfields to your scene. Use procedural terrains that can span an entire planet.
• Apply almost "infinite" fractal detail to terrain and other objects.
• Overhanging terrain using procedural displacements, image-based displacements, or imported geometry.
• Volumetric clouds or fast "2.5D" clouds.
• Production quality anti-aliasing and motion blur.
• Node graph editor for ultimate control over shaders and textures.

Great job, Planetside! :-)

New Blueprints to download for free

I updated my websites with some new blueprints to download for free, to create easier your 3d models.
New blueprints are:

• Zaku II MS06F from Gundam Anime Series;
• Citroen C1;
• Ferrari Formula one F1-89;
• Lancia Ypsilon;
• Hyundai Getz;
• F16 Fighting Falcon;
• F117 Stealth Fighter;
• Fiat Brava.

You can download them on my "official" website: www.panebianco3d.com and select the blueprints page. Hope you like it.