http://www.caligari.com/News/news_200905/LetterFromTheFounder.html

It was inevitable, and perhaps overdue, but still a shame to see another product of the Amiga-era disappear.

wow really we are in a mundial crisis
need to back to the farms and fishing

Well another bites the dust, shame!

but if you want a copy of the free version (nothing else with it because I cant be bothered downloading them) I can upload it, it just wont have any support material with it and without your own user info you ned to rely on public good will to get the them.

Not a real problem.

Go for Blender : alwas evolving, open source , free,
adn really complete and powerfull.

No!!

Better don't even think about this. trueSpace is still owned by Microsoft. Mirroring not allowed.

trueSpace is still available for download. I heard rumours about torrents when the page vanishes. But time will tell.



The problem here is Blender though. It evolves at the wrong ends since years. Still no human UI ...

Not everybody is made to work with Blender. Nuff said.

Well, the trueSpace UI is a class of its own, too.

If there is a big community they can try to get it as open source project. The blender community knows what I am talking about, because they did this already some years ago.

For the heck of it, I installed Truespace 7.6 yesterday and the UI almost made my eyes bleed. It's so ironic that the software evolved this way. When it was first introduced on the Amiga, it was incredibly elegant and clean. I'm amazed that anyone at Microsoft could have decided that Truespace would compete effectively with Google SketchUp.

That was no competition. trueSpace is a completely package, including animation. Sketchup is a limited Modeler

But yes, trueSpace is the other extreme to Blender. While Blender is too much hotkeys, tS is too much icons. But i am able to setup 6.6 to work like Blender. Heck, i can even customize the hotkeys! But i could never setup Blender to work like trueSpace

Keep in mind that tS 7.6 is made of two softwares. That's why it's a bit confusing to learn. You need to learn both sides, Modeler and Workspace. Modeler is in fact trueSpace6.6 as a big plugin, while the Workspace is the new tS.

The Workspace was a clear step towards a less iconized UI. That's why there is the Stack. You can turn all toolbars into pure text. And you can customize the UI in lots of ways.

Microsoft was and is more interested in the underlying architecture than in trueSpace itself. And i guess we will find this architecture in some future 3D appps ...

It evolves at the wrong ends since years

Well , Blender evolves in the best direction possible in fact
It as retopology paint : not all tools have that, normal mapping from higt mesh to low generation , sculpting etc ...
For a free tool : it's outstanding.

I recognise, use it ask you to follow all tutorials you can find. I don't use any shortcuts, only the buttons of interface.
The only key shortuts i use are :
Extrude, Loop Select and Loop Cut , the rest i use context menu or buttons.
The problem is that the menu is confusing, after years using it, i even sometimes search how to bring back the UV menu

But it has all yu need and even more.

Now i use Silo for the modeling phase , with a pen tablet , and some good shortcuts (select and cut loop) you modelise at incredible speed !
For 99 or 150$ it's a relly valuable tool also.