Caligari’s trueSpace 3d is now free (as in beer, reg-ware) - AKA You need to watch “This Week on Channel 9” so you can amaze your friends and family with your cutting edge view of the Dev world…

This Week On Channel 9 - This Week on C9: Free 3D tools, "Mojave", Cool Visualizations, and VS 10

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Caligari's TrueSpace 3D Modeling tools are now available to download for free. You can even export to DirectX or use a converter to convert the models into XAML 3D for WPF. Check out the training videos for more info. (2:38 - 4:32)

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Caligari - trueSpace 7

“trueSpace7.6 is a fully-featured 3D authoring package that will let you model, texture, light, animate and render 3D content. As well as traditional images and movies, you can also make 3D content for online shared spaces, and for Virtual Earth.

An entirely re-written X format exporter lets you save your trueSpace creations to load into game engines such as XNA to develop games for Windows or the Xbox 360.

Also included is an export to Virtual Earth which will let you place your 3D creations straight into Virtual Earth from trueSpace. Now you can place whatever you make into real world locations in Virtual Earth and share them with others!

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You guys are watching This Week on Channel 9, right? Well if you like the stuff I blog about, then you need to catch this weekly cast. Dan and Brian provide a great view of what’s happening in the dev/Microsoft/cool stuff space. Any team that has roman candle battles, well I want to party with those guys…! lol

In today’s cast, they mentioned the above, that trueSpace is now free (reg-ware)! That is officially cool (and now downloaded ;) I’ve heard allot about trueSpace over the years and now that it’s free I’m going to have to see just how bad I can mess up a 3d space with it… ;)

If you’re doing WPF, XAML, XNA, Virtual Earth, 3D development, then you might want to check this out…