[Water]

The Caligari.com site seems to be saying TS7.6 is free.

http://www.caligari.com/

[karajorma]

Where? I see a lot of posts but no download link.

[Water]

http://www.caligari.com/store/trueSpace/default.asp?SubCate=S2truespace&Cate=STtrueSpace

[shiv]

Hmmm... Downloading
Maye it's better than old ****space 3.2

[Herra Tohtori]

Hmmm... Downloading
Maye it's better than old ****space 3.2

That isn't very hard to achieve, but you'll notice that it seems to be a trial version... [of 7.5, silly me] whether it's functionally or temporally limited one, I don't know.

Also, it remains to be seen if this can even make COB's that are convertable to POFS... are the later versions of COB compatible with PCS/2 in the first place?


EDIT2: apparently you "need" to register to get to the download links, so I took the direct links off from here. If an admin says they're okay I'll put them back, but for now, go to Caligari's pages, try to navigate to appropriate registration and get the files via official pathways.

The fact that the files are on a directly accessable format would suggest to me that they don't really care if someone gets to them directly, but better safe than sorry...

[Nuke]

woah cool, i had expected them to make a version likw 5 or 6 free but not 7.6. since 7.6 has a complete uv mapper i bet this will open modeling up to of people, even though ts is not the best mesher out there.

[chief1983]

For anyone who does use this seriously, you may want to help with the Collada Converter for PCS2.  Maybe help generate some test cases in ts7.6 and use its Collada exporter, and submit the files for testing on that thread.  Granted COB to POF is already implemented, but who knows, maybe the Collada support could be even better.

[KewlToyZ]

I am downloading it now.
I'll try some models giving me problems tonight and see what I end up with.

[Droid803]

Do you still get spammed?

[KewlToyZ]

?? is that a trick question?   
I use a hotmail account with Live Mail Desktop.
Hotmail has enough spam filters to make it wortwhile to use for online registration purposes.

[Droid803]

No, its cause TrueSpace 3.2 registration sends ****loads of spam (or so I've heard) to whatever email you use.
I was wondering if the registration for 7.6 doest he same thing.

[Herra Tohtori]

No, its cause TrueSpace 3.2 registration sends ****loads of spam (or so I've heard) to whatever email you use.
I was wondering if the registration for 7.6 doest he same thing.

It's irrelevant anyway; if you don't want spam, use a bogus e-mail or a junkmail address like I use for the mundane registration e-mail stuff... At any rate, the registration form is little more than a portal to download link page; it doesn't need a functional e-mail to work, you don't need to click confirmation links posted to your e-mail or anything - it doesn't even have a CAPTCHA (not that it would be needed anyway since there's nothing to spam). If you don't want to disclose personal information, you can even get the program directly from the download links if you can aquire them from.. somewhere. Or just feed imaginary information to the required fields, it doesn't seem to check them at all. The legality of feeding false information is another thing, you might be violating an EULA, but that's your business and your decision.

It's not like they seem to be caring too much, hosting the files on a directly accessable form on their servers they must have pretty much known that the registration will not really mean much at all.

[Water]

The most likely reason for this is that Microsoft acquired Caligari in Feburary.  (Virtual Earth)

[KewlToyZ]

Free still has its prices, I don't mind either way 

[chief1983]

Yeah, it appears they intend for Truespace to be used as a free tool to model for Virtual Earth (Sketchup/Google Earth anyone?)

Whatever the reason, it seems a bit overkill, Caligari put a lot into it to see it being given away for free now.

[WeatherOp]

Just got the email myself and downloading. Lets see if this old Truespace 3.2 fart can learn a new trick.

[chief1983]

Hopefully any experienced TS users will post their experiences here once they've given it a good run with their models.  Maybe it could be the best free modeler since Blender?

[Herra Tohtori]

Hopefully any experienced TS users will post their experiences here once they've given it a good run with their models.  Maybe it could be the best free modeler since Blender?

...Wings3D is still out there as well.

Although, tS 7.6 is supposed to be commercial quality 3D program while Blender and Wings are open source programs, so aside from the retarded user interface idea to hide buttons over each other instead in menus (wtf is wrong with real menus... it didn't seem quite as bad as 3.2 but still...) it should be a contester for seriously takeable free 3D applications. Not that Blender's user interface would be much better in terms of intuitive usability, but anyways... I figure if two modelling programs are comparative in stability and features, the betterness is mostly a matter of preference and practice.

Wings and Blender are also native multiplatform applications, that alone makes them attractive... and being OpenSource too.

[Getter Robo G]

will quality of conversions be better with 7.6 over 3.2, if you've gotten them form an outside source?

[Water]

will quality of conversions be better with 7.6 over 3.2, if you've gotten them form an outside source?

No.. It may have better tools for fault finding (hopefully) but it won't magically turn render models into game models. People making render models don't really care about bad geometry. Blender has a tool to find messed up geometry called select Non-Manifold. Hopefully a Truespace7 user can point you to a similar TS tool.