DogWaffle - PD Pro 3.5

[bupaje]

I am a fan of DogWaffle and their newest version - PD Pro 3.5- has lots of goodies. I am taking the liberty of posting the news release here for those who want to check it out. I'm not sure if any interaction is possible with Moho thanks to the new Lua scripting ability but maybe one of the brainier types here will tell us.

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Press Release - for Immediate Release

Title:
TheBest3D.com announces PD Pro Digital Painter 3.5



*** FX artist Dan Ritchie invites you to paint with force fields.


Santa Clarita, California, October 6, 2005 - Dan Ritchie, author of PD Pro
Digital Painter and Project Dogwaffle Paint and Animation software,
announced today the availability of his newest release - PD Pro version 3.5

"I'm very pleased with this release", said Ritchie, "we've worked hard for
several months to add new features and improve existing ones. We've been
pushing the idea of realtime filters and tools for quite a while now,
because realtime is simply more intuitive. Realtime
lets artist do their work not only faster, but also better. Plus, we've
been able to add some fun through a Mod/Med music player (ModDog) and other
gadgets courtesy of our new scripting capability."


Version 3.5 of PD Pro Digital Painter includes many enhancements and new
features, many of which were developed over the last 3-4 months:

* Significant speed enhancements through MMX support for real-time effects
* Bug fixes (yes, there were just a few)
* more helpful tooltips for and even shorter learning curve
* Improved animation capabilities such as retiming
* Working with separate color channels
* preparing for compositing by premultiplying with Alpha
* improved brush transparency control
* Many more new filters & existing filters with new options.
* Internal support for the 3rd party Lua scripting language
* For developers, a programmable and scriptable GUI (Gui Server)
* Particle brushes that change size over time, great for thick shrubbery
* drawing particles with alpha for 3D compositing and game sprites
* Force fields, based on images, which affect the particles.


"We've also made logical choices to improve our tools", added Ritchie. "For
example, giving a preview window to the Raw file loader makes it so much simpler
to get the correct results without a hassle. We've also listened to our users,
such as game art developers. There's a new style to let particles render into
the Alpha channel, which is perfect for creating lush foliage textures."


Would you like to know more?
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/whatsnew/3_5



**** Optipustics: Painting with Force fields

Painting with particle brushes under the influence of force fields opens up
a whole new universe of possibilities.

Particles (Optipustics) have been part of Dogwaffle for years. Now, in addition to
Gravity, mouse speed and other parameters, they can be subject to force fields which
are generated from an image's contours and value- or color gradients. This can result
in new types of art from psychedelic to surreally abstract, not to mention cool and
realistic. Adds natural flow to particles in motion. Looks great animated too.


There are also new color options such as tinting the particle's color gradient
against the primary brush color, or affecting it with a Fog color. There are
also new styles that include a mode whereby a particle starts with a user-
defined size and gradually shrink to disappear into oblivion at the end of the
particle's lifespan.

Would you like to know more?
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/what ... field.html




**** DogLua - Lua scripting for Dogwaffle

Another relationship that has formed over the last few months has been with
Italian software developer Marco Pontello who has created DogLua - a plugin which
adds a great scriptable interface for Lua scripting to Dogwaffle. His fast
implementation, based on a Jit (just in time) compiler, adds great new capabilities
to the already feature-rich paint and animation system. New special FX filters have
already emerged, scripted in Lua.

PD Pro 3.5 now has built-in support for Lua with a tab in the Plugins window
to execute scripts, and a browser to aid in developement. These features are
also made available to users of the freeware version of Dogwaffle.

Would you like to know more?
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/lua




**** Pricing & Availability

PD Pro 3.5 replaces the prior 3.2 release and sells for only $97, making it
a very affordable companion for any visual artist on the PC. It is now
available on the BMT store and will soon be at Renderosity, Regnow and others.


Would you like to know more?
http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/sales

Current users of version 3.x will be able to update to 3.5 for free. In the near
future an updater will be made available for current users of version 3.x.




**** About Dan Ritchie and PD Pro Digital Painter

Dan Ritchie lives in Southern California and is the author of a novel,
"Silver Squirrel". He is also a 3D animator and special FX artist. PD Pro
and Project Dogwaffle are the results of 8 years of software development and code
optimizations. It has grown into a very fast tool for painting on stills
and animations, for post-production and much more.

Would you like to know more?
http://www.squirreldome.com



*** About TheBest3D.com

Based in San Diego, California, TheBest3D.com is partnered with Dan Ritchie
to market Project Dogwaffle and PD Pro Digital Painter. It is the website
host for many resources including patches, galleries, brushes, scripts and reviews.



*** Press Contact

Philip Staiger
email: dogwaffle (at) thebest3d (dot) com
web: http://www.thebest3d.com/dogwaffle/presszone
phone: +1-858-208-7377



© Copyright Dan Ritchie 1997-2005. Project Dogwaffle, PD Pro Digital Painter and
Silver Squirrel are trademarks of Dan Ritchie. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners and only used for identification purposes.

[mr. blaaa]

jepp dogwaffle is really great.
I have the limited FREE version of it, it is ver. 1.2.1 and it offers really great goodies for the one who like to REALLY paint on their computer.
Even Paintshop is nothing compared to dogwaffle.

[Banterfield]

Thanks for posting this, Bupaje. I've got version 2 of the software, but would someday like to upgrade.

The optipustics with alpha sounds really cool. I've tried to figure out what to do in version 2 to get that. Sounds like it's a no brainer in the new version.

It's nice that they've updated the website so that it has more prominent navigation buttons at the top of the page. I always found it to be a real maze.

Regards,