FREE high Poly Modeller !! (great for normal maps)

>CB Model Pro is free!!!



Joy!

Very promising. I could learn very fast alot of the tools. But I still do not know how to model with it. I would love to see a little tutorial for organic modelling.

Hi again!
for (Inestical ): Just register your email again on our site, and it will send you a Key! no worries :-)

as far as poly limit, I wouldn't say it's verts you need worry about it's faces... so here's the deal, if it's something you also want to paint in our system then I would keep it around 30 poly's. If you don't want to paint and just want to model, I would keep it around 100 poly's max...This is because of the way we build a texture map when we export a model you've imported.. Usually you model the high-res stuff in pieces anyway, then you import into something like 3DS Max, or Maya etc. and include all the pieces in your "render to texture" map of the low poly surface, then all you'll need to worry about is just cleaning up some seams in photoshop, if you have any. Here's a really great tutorial on this using Max:
http://poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/normal_workflow.htm

As far as modeling in our engine goes, I will build a video tutorial soon, so everyone can get a grasp on the organic modelling idea. For the meantime I'll say it's almost exactly like working with a ball of clay, you push and pull and use the sliders at the bottom to control your range of affect on the surface. I usually start in "Med" or medium-res, and do most of the shaping there since it's the fastest, then I click over to "Hi" or High-res, and model all my details (veins, scars etc..). anyway, I hope this helps in the meantime. We will get a tutorial up soon.

:-) - Jim

I tried to register but after sending the form , I get an error page.

I get an error page as well and no email afterwards.

sounds like a nice program! how many polygons can it handle on an average pc?

blender also has multi level sculpting in recent development builds and on my pc (a2500+, 1gb, gf6600) i can go up to about 500.000 polys before it starts to get too slow (looks like i run out of ram then). not really zbrush levels but nevertheless it's very useful already for creating normal maps.

OK i've tested it !

i have played a lot with Zbrush in the past : here is my opinion :

your tool have a eye candy interface, but buttons should have symbols.

-where are the essential simple tool to push pull areas in the model ?
here is a slider to adjust it's size ?
this is the main tool of Zbrush when you scultp like with terrain tools !

-have it a smooth funtcion to resmooth your model once you have
sculpted it a little ?

-where is a symetry button to sculpt in simetry ?

etc ... etc ...

your tool is not good for me at all ; and far far away beyond Zbrush 1 !

Don't take it bad , that's just my opinion after playing with it,aftr 5 min i was very disappoiinted and didn't found expected tools like Zbrush.

when i took Zbrush , in 2 min i was already sculpting like i wanted.

Perhaps within one year you'll have time to enhance and complete the tool ?
eye candy interface don't make the tool
(see 3DSMAX : not eye candy interface and incredible powerfull tool)

Good luck !

Ok i misunderstood how the tool wroks.
i've not read the docs, buttons are not as intuitive as icons like in Zbrush.
I'll give another try at it

Hey! Sorry guys, we had a registration error the other day, but it's fixed now! just re-enter your info and the page will generate you a Key! Again sorry about that... on a side note, I've been working on this character for about a week, I've been building a texturing him in chunks, to keep my machine from trying to hurt me
but here he is, I'm building the entire thing textures and everything in CB Model Pro:



You Guys Rock! Thanks for all the support!

That looks pretty darn cool!!!

wow - fantastic. Could you please record such a session and create a video tutorial? I am really interested in seeing how you guys work with this tool.

Regards,
Frank

freak
yeah, a vid about how you textured it would be gr8

I cant figure out how to "paint" model. Like drawing on the mesh, like zbrush. A video would be excellent right now.

Hey everyone,
I will put together a video for next week, in the meantime, I'll say that this is not really like Zbrush, with this technology, you push and pull on the surface via the ball and cone tool that appear when you click on the surface after clicking a tool button(ex. point pull). As a visual person, I can understand the confusion
... don't worry, it will all become clear when I finish up a video. thanks for all the positive comments!

Hi all,
I am working on the tutorial, I also wanted to Note that I finished my warrior in Cb Model Pro... he's done and ready for viewing on pg. 3 of this post!thanks alot, I will update with the tutorial movie as soon as it's ready!
thanks so much.

wow, you are crazy!! its just too good to be true?!?

meep... the registration page doesn't work anymore.. i'm too late, right?

Hmm...we registered a few time ago but we still got no password or even any reply

Hi everyone,
I would like to apologize first that the registration key system got messed up. We actually tried to fix it this week and fried our servers. While there being rebuilt I will happily send anyone a key that drops me a PM. I'm also working on a tutorial video that I will put up next week. I'm on vacation till tuesday, but after that I will send them out to all of you.
Thank you for all your patience....

Hey great news!
I've got a serial key from a co-worker!!! Please PM me for it!!!
Thanks for your support :-) and be sure to spread the word!

Thanks for your service!
Now we can go on playing round with it, can´t wait for your tutorial

Looks very interesting. Blender has a simillar tool... Bbrush I think its called. Tho Ive never really figured it out so hopefully Ill be able to figure this one out So deffinately will be looking forward to the key and tutorial Thanks alot.

UPDATE!!!!Our website registration is back up!!!! HOORAY!!!! this means you can get a keycode sent to your email from our site.... that's all for now, the tutorial is still in the works I promise.

Hi,

at first I have to say: This tool looks really good.

Will it be free after the beta period?

Hi!
It will be Free for quite some time! If it does go to market, I think it will be extremely affordable! Thank you for your nice comment, we do our best...
- Jim

You probably know of this already but the transitions between low, medium, and high rez don't always go back to their origional positions if you cycle through them, that means if you don't undo you can perminantly deform your model by just going to low rez and pushing it back up to high rez.

Also another thing I noticed is that I couldn't find any sort of merge tool. But you might already have one, I'm not sure.

On the other foot, I love the modeler so far, it is very easy to pick up and go. Very user friendly excelent job.

Hi!
Yes, the idea is that no matter what the resolution, your always affecting the mesh! A great feature when you want to do tons of details and don't want to bog down the system in High-Res. of course this is also dependent on your computer specs, but it's nice. To answer your other question, we did have a merge tool along time ago, but the results could be very ugly considering the is is a very tough algorithm to get right. Lastly, thank you! for supporting us!
- Jim

In fact you don't need support :

If you can make a solid tool ,that do some things like ZBRush ,
fix bugs , give improvments by new versions , for a affordable price like inDie Tools not comparable to ZBrush price , then
you can be sure people will buy it !
And your tool will becom as popular as Unwrap3D.

This is a really awesome contribution , thnx .

I forgot : you'll have a very big concurrent that will allow mesh sculpting in the next version : BLENDER

and Blender is free

you'll have to give more options or things to really make people buy your tool.

TheExpert , your the lamest hermi on this boards , should be thanking the guy for giving everyone here a free copy of their program , instead of just writing negative nonsense , since ur first post where u were just attacking the program and was then pointed out by another board member everything u were sujjesting the program should have it already did , and in plain sight, caught u with ur foot in ur mouth , and u backpedalled like a tranny saying u didnt read the docs. I always see you here giving negative feednback on everything , yet all your work i've seem posted is garbage , so why dont you focus your attention on making some decent stuff with gamestudio instead of looking for negative things to say about other's projects.

btw , blender IS free , but it's also a piece of crap.

Hi everyone,
Sorry I haven't got around to building the Tutorial yet, I have been insanely busy on UI ideas for SolidWorks 2008... I'd like to take a moment to ask that you guys not be at each others throats :-) If you don't like Blender or CB Model Pro than that's fine, it's free and the software is out there so that you can form opinions if you wish to. But we do hope that when things are said it's constructive, after all we build tools for you, not for ourselves, anyway, I'm just happy that we were able to release it to all of you. As always thanks for your support!
- Jim