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Forgive my total noobulosity as I'm just starting out with Truespace 7.61. First off, wow...I can't believe such a feature-packed app like this is free. I was trying to decide between learning Blender or Truespace, and opted for Truespace as Blender is about to undergo a major update (2.5) with major GUI changes and there will undoubtedly be a long period of bug-fixes and waiting for documentation. Truespace seems to have everything needed to create amazing stills and professional animations in a single package, and personally, I find the fact that it is no longer being developed to be a plus, as it's finished, it's documentation is finished and there's no keeping up with new releases and new documentations.

Anyways, I'm trying to find all the free plugins I can in order to max out its features, and I was intrigued by Darktree's Simbiont plugin. However, I can't, for the life of me, figure out how to get it to show up in Truespace 7.61's materials library. I've installed it properly (I think) and the appropriate files are in the right locations in the Truespace directory, and I've placed a bunch of Simbiont shaders in the "Library" folder as instructed, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get those shaders to show up in the materials library.

Can anyone provide step-by-steps detailing how to get the Simbiont material to show up in TS7.61?

And also, I'd love to hear about any other ultra-cool plugins that work with V7.61.

Welcome to the U3DA forums truespacecadet!

I believe the SimbiontTS plugin works only for the Model side (version 6.6) side of trueSpace.
The "7.61" side is called the Workspace.

Just about all the plugins developed are for the Model (version 6.6) side of trueSpace.
There are some free plugins for the workspace side. Check out clintonman's website:

clintons3d.com


He has some free plugins there.

There are also a BOATLOAD of free scripts for use on the Workspace side, posted here on these forums,
as well as on the original caligari forums: http://www.caligari.com"

Note though, that caligari will be taking down the downloads of truespace 7.61 Full (this is workspace + Model) November 25. So get all the downloads there while you can. Including the trueserve and trueplay apps, and documentation.

TrueSpace is a great application to work with, but bear in mind that 7.61 was still in development when it was ceased.

Regarding plugins, I wrote a Workspace side OBJ Import/Export package, as well as a Blender fluid simulator importer package.
Fun stuff. Just a headsup.

Again, welcome to the forums and looking forward to seeing your artwork!

This is a very friendly group so please feel free to ask questions.

Thanks Froo. I've managed to figure it out and apply a Simbiont texture to a primitive so it's working. Now I just need to figure out why Truespace periodically hangs on me, heh heh. Sometimes, after playing with it for a while, it just stops responding altogether (can't even shut it down and need to use task-manager to close it) and sometimes only parts of it stop responding (ie. I can spin the view around in the model window, but can't switch views or insert models or shut down etc..). It must be something I just need to figure out.

Thanks for the words of encouragement! Time to dig in to those humongous pdf manuals!

Have a good one!