Free Canoma
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:10 am
This was one of a bunch of cool products that Metacreations spawned, was sold to Adobe but apparently was not developed any further. There is an old version available for free at the following url and I recommend getting it while it is available as I find it might be useful for creating simple 3D objects for Moho. Make sure you get the update and the serial number as well.
http://forums.auran.com/TRS2004/forum/s ... ght=Canoma
The product is dead but still a few users. Check here http://www.canoma.com a few free lessons are here http://www.computer-training-software.com/meta1.htm and some forums here http://www.tilman.com/forum/
While it has a few quirks it is very useful. You can add a single texture, select primitives like cubes, stairs, roofs, arch, table individually or you can stack them. Once you apply this texture then you can use the paintbrush icon to click each side and open them in your 2D paint program. (There was a minor quirk here as I had to close and open PSP after I modiefied each side but what the heck.) You edit the texture and you save and you see it instantly applied in Canoma. You can then stack other objects and change the textures and when you export Moho opens them up perfectly except that the origin seems to be too far away -still can't figure why.
Just quickly pasted some textures on a few shapes to see how it is done and brought them into Moho. The table with the triangle on top is one stacked object. There are roofs and so on in Canoma and while I found it a bit of a job to line them up this is really the first time I really sit down to figure it out (though I found this links almost a year ago).
![Image](http://stormvisions.com/moho/canoma9.jpg)
I like the fact that it is easy enough for even brain dead guy like me.
You can build simple building shapes and then use your 2D editor to make vector style art, heck even draw it in Moho and then resize to match the texture size it your paint program, and you will have 3D objects that match the look of your scene -also can't beat the price. ![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Play with it , you might find it useful and I'm guessing it may disappear some day.![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
http://forums.auran.com/TRS2004/forum/s ... ght=Canoma
The product is dead but still a few users. Check here http://www.canoma.com a few free lessons are here http://www.computer-training-software.com/meta1.htm and some forums here http://www.tilman.com/forum/
While it has a few quirks it is very useful. You can add a single texture, select primitives like cubes, stairs, roofs, arch, table individually or you can stack them. Once you apply this texture then you can use the paintbrush icon to click each side and open them in your 2D paint program. (There was a minor quirk here as I had to close and open PSP after I modiefied each side but what the heck.) You edit the texture and you save and you see it instantly applied in Canoma. You can then stack other objects and change the textures and when you export Moho opens them up perfectly except that the origin seems to be too far away -still can't figure why.
Just quickly pasted some textures on a few shapes to see how it is done and brought them into Moho. The table with the triangle on top is one stacked object. There are roofs and so on in Canoma and while I found it a bit of a job to line them up this is really the first time I really sit down to figure it out (though I found this links almost a year ago).
![Image](http://stormvisions.com/moho/canoma9.jpg)
I like the fact that it is easy enough for even brain dead guy like me.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Play with it , you might find it useful and I'm guessing it may disappear some day.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)