Today we released a few new features and bug fixes. Keep the feature requests and bug reports coming. New Features: Customers can now get a nicely formatted invoice, instead of just a sales receipt. There is a new “Invoice” option under the “more” pulldown in My Purchased Products and Purchase History folders. You can enter a PO#, Company Address, VAT, …
TurboSquid Sighting: Ship Model on “House”
An episode in the seventh season of House, a popular American TV show, begins with a large sailing ship tossing on the waves during a violent storm as cannonballs explode around her. That sailing ship is a 3D model of the Golden Hind, a 16th century English galleon that is best known as the ship in which Sir Francis Drake …
Best Practices: Texture References
When a customer loads up your model for the first time, it’s frustrating for them if the first thing they see is an error message about textures. But this is exactly what they’ll see if you don’t take care in packaging your model before upload. To make sure your customers don’t see this kind of message, you’ll need to package …
TurboSquid Sighting: Robopocalypse
A model purchased on TurboSquid dominates the cover of the new science-fiction novel, Robopocalypse, published by Doubleday and scheduled for a June release. The novel by Daniel H. Wilson takes place in the not-so-distant future where robots and other machines have turned against humans in a massive, worldwide uprising. A few entertainment industry blogs and newspapers are reporting that film …
Shift-Select multiple files in Add Files and more
One of the main things that helps TurboSquid keep improving is feedback from our artists and customers. This week we added a nice feature to the Publisher suggested by an artist, along with a few handfuls of bug fixes and upgrades. In the past, if you had uploaded a bunch of files in the Publisher in preparation for publishing, it …
3D Modeling Standards: Scene Organization
When you’re creating a 3D model to sell at TurboSquid, you give the topology and textures a great deal of thought, making the model as clean and professional as you can. With these important things to think about, you might not be considering exactly how the customer is going to experience the model in his/her workflow. We’ve already discussed naming …