Loewald New Media

Cheetah 3D Stuff

C3D Render Buddy

This is a simple utility for managing your rendered image cache. It shows you thumbnails of everything in the directory, and allows you to open, reveal, or trash the items via the toolbar or the obvious keystrokes (return to open and delete to move to trash).

Download C3D Render Buddy (3MB)

10 Lighting Setups

Here's a quick collection of lighting setups, including four "product shots" that you might find useful if you're new to Cheetah 3D.

Download the Lighting Setups (419kB)

25 Free Textures

Some people have complained about a lack of "out of the box" textures for Cheetah 3d, so I thought I'd put together a set of 25 textures based on a set of texture photos I've made available for free elsewhere.

You should feel free to use these textures as you see fit, but please don't redistribute the textures on their own without my permission. In other words -- feel free to render images with these textures, but do not distribute the textures themselves (either as textures or as part of another product) without my permission.

Download the textures v1.1 (7.24MB)

If you have the old texture archive, you can just download the JAS files.

Download the new presets v1.1 (863kB)

Tweaking the Presets

I ended up tweaking both the text model and the material presets for normal and image-based lighting (IBL). The former use specular highlights while the latter are almost entirely reflection-based.

This shows the specular gold test rendered with the new geometry.