2014 has been a great year for VIZPARK with tremendous growth, new partners, products and events. This timeline is a summary of the most important things that happened throughout the year.
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Facebook Likes hit 10.000
January 09, 2014
10.000 is a landmark in terms of Facebook Likes and in January the number was surpassed. Thanks to all our fans!
HDRI Skydomes II and HDRI Complete
January 22, 2014
HDRI Skydomes II added 10 more high quality sky domes to the existing Skydomes I collection and HDRI Complete included both sets for a better price.
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Automap and Automaterial 1.0
February 12, 2014
The 1.0 release of Automap included the Automaterial script to automatically create a complete material based on only one bitmap. The Automaterial script also batch converts a complete folder with bitmaps for even more automation.
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Walls & Tiles 1.3 update
March 13, 2014
The 1.3 update of Walls & Tiles added more features like diagonal mirroring, vray displacement modifier automation, automatic sizing and more.
Casa Navona Scene
March 19, 2014
The FREE Casa Navona Scene is the first scene from VP to showcase the use of Crossmap and Walls & Tiles in a real project. The scene includes free textures, models and a HDRI sky domes from the VIZPARK range of products.
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FMX Convention Stuttgart
April 22, 2014
We have exhibited at the fmx convention in Stuttgart with our own VIZPARK booth, showing our complete product range and announcing 4 new products to be released later throughout the year.
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Mosaic 1.0
May 13, 2014
Finally the long announced plugin MOSAIC was released as version 1.0. Mosaic is a modified version of Walls & Tiles to create mosaic patterns based on background source maps.
Max 2015 updates for all plugins
May 14, 2014
Autodesk has again introduced some changes in the SDK for 3ds Max, so we updated all our plugins for compatibility with 3ds Max 2015.
Corner displacement tutorial
May 22, 2014
Many times vray displacement on corners create holes on the corners. This tutorial shows how to avoid these corners and create seamless displacement with vray.
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Interior Plants 2.0
June 23, 2014
INTERIOR PLANTS 2.0 introduced new formats for CINEMA 4D, MODO, LIGHTWAVE and support for more renderers (Corona, mental ray, vray).
HDRI Skydomes III
May 27, 2014
Not long after HDRI Skydomes II, the third volume HDRI Skydomes III was released with 10 more skies. HDRI Complete was updated to include all 30 HDRIs.
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Real Grass
July 22, 2014
The second plant library REAL GRASS was released for 3ds max, including 122 realistic grass models and grass fields.
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HDRI updates and new tutorials
August 06, 2014
All HDRI Skydomes have been updated with scenes for formats, including Sketchup, CINEMA 4D, MODO and more renderers. In addition, more HDRI tutorials have been published.
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Omnitiles Work in progress
September 08, 2014
Since the development of OMNITILES takes longer than expected, due to some feature additions and unplanned changes, Sneak Peaks were published, showing the progress of Omnitiles.
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Animago conference and exhibit
October 16, 2014
Every year in October, the animago convention takes place in Germany – Potsdam Babelsberg. VIZPARK exhibited at the convention together with the Medianet partner network.
Real Trees and PLANTS Complete
October 28, 2014
In October, REAL TREES with 60 realistic GrowFX 3d tree models and 6 forests has been released. In addition, all plant bundles have been released as PLANTS COMPLETE.
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Mastering CGI partnership
November 10, 2014
Grant Warwick and VIZPARK started a partnership where customers of both partners benefit with great discounts.
Real Trees for MODO, CINEMA4D and LIGHTWAVE
November 29, 2014
REAL TREES for CINEMA 4D, MODO and LIGHTWAVE has been released.
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Facebook Likes hit 15.000
December 08, 2014
The fan base grows … Thanks to all our fans!
FREE Winter Scene give-away
December 21, 2014
As every year, VIZPARK gives away a free gift to our loyal customers and fans. This year a WINTER SCENE for 3ds Max has been published.