The GT FontMaker is a useful tool that creates fonts and exports them in a bitmap and saves uv coordinate information.

Shows the uv Index at Lauder, Otago, New Zealand (~120 km NW of Otago) as measured by NIWA.

According to NIWA, uv Index for other places will be avaliable at a later date.

Based on ISS locator by Max Emerson.

The New Zealand uv Index Widget shows the current uv Index forecast for a particular location in New Zealand.

New Zealand has one of the highest melanoma (skin cancer) death rates in the world. Protect yourself: Slip, slop, slap, and wrap!

The uv Index information comes from the metservice.co.nz web site.

The LionSnake Modeler is designed for creating subdivision surface models for use with the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer.

Here are some key features of "The LionSnake Modeler":

· Posable models - The models can be built around a linked skeleton.
· UV-mapping - You can create uv-mapped meshes.
· POV-Ray Export - The models can be exported to an include file readable by the Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer. The files are designed to work with my New Surface Subdivision Suite to produce smooth, organic shapes.
· OBJ file export - The modeler can export Alias/Wavefront OBJ files.
· OpenGL for rendering - I would have used DirectX, but Microsoft made DirectX more difficult to program than was necessary.

Wings 3D is a subdivision modeler that can assign textures, uv coordinates, vertex color and materials, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0.

Baker is a texture baking tool.

Using the uv mapping of an object, it can extract flat texture maps from any Carrara shader, giving then the possibility to rework it in other traditional 2D software.

You can now start shading an object with any Carrara procedural shader, either 2D (UV mapped shaders) or 3D (solid shaders) and then add details to it in your favorite 2D software.

Baker can also bake lightmaps and normal maps: rendering time can be dramaticaly lowered by using these technics usually used in real time rendering applications. These maps will also be very useful to enhance 3D characters modeled for video games.

Surface Baking, sometimes call skinning, is the transformation of an object procedural texture, lighting or surface definition into a traditional texture map. Baker adds these possibilities to Carrara.

To bake an object shader, select first the object in the scene, then choose the menu item Edit->Baking or press Ctrl+F. Note that several objects can be selected at the same time: Baker will generate as many maps as therere selected objects.

3 map types can be exported. The first one, the Texture Map, transforms one of the shader channels into a texture map. Look for example at this vase model.

Its shader is a 3D solid texture, both in the diffuse channel and in the bump channel. To transform the channel shaders into a texture map, first be sure that the uv mapping of the object is an accurate one. Baker uses the uv map to transform 3D shaders into 2D texture maps, so if the uv mapping has flaws, like overlapping triangles, these will be visible in the baked map.

This free program plots in realtime the CPU processor speed as a percentage over time - On-line or as a uv Meter (peak meter) like on a stereo.

Logical game based on operating the light. Using various devices in this game, you direct laser beams with the purpose of illuminating all absorbers on the level. The absorbers are to be illuminated by a beam of the corresponding color or by several beams, if a mix of their primary colors gives the required color. If you simultaneously illuminate all absorbers on the level, you destroy them and move on to a more complicated level. The main features of the game: 1. Complete freedom of operating the light. 2. Up-to-date visual effects. 3. Challenging levels. 4. Possibility of experimenting with light in Level Editor.