TrueSpace Visualization

Competition is great, isn't it? This is especially the case when big companies are fighting over a market segment. As I speculated earlier, Microsoft is now following Google's lead and is releasing Caligari's TrueSpace 7.6 for free.

I am installing TrueSpace right now and will post some examples soon, but for now the capabilities seem quite promising:

• VirtualEarth Export - That's why Microsoft bought it after all
• Parametric objects, NURBS, Subdivision surfaces
• Interactive booleans - See example on right
• Real-time lighting, reflection and refractions - Sweet, I must see this for myself
• Real-time trees and plants and even cloth behaviour
• UV Painting
• Animation and characters

Altogether quite promising... especially for a free software. Now the ball is in Google's court. Do I hear "SketchUp 7"?