Announcing NEX v1.5 -- free trial and videos!

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: akeissami
Post Time: 09-16-2008 at 12:23 AM
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Hello everyone,

We're happy to announce the immediate availability of NEX v1.5. This is our first major update to NEX since the v1.0 launch, and it's a free upgrade. This free update is our way of saying thank you to all of our colleagues for helping support our development. This update will use your existing license, so you don't need to do anything other than to simply download and install it! NEX v1.5 is compatible for Maya 7, 8, 8.5, and 2008 on Windows XP and Vista .

Among the may refinements we've made to NEX, here's a list of the major new features
I'll be posting more videos in this thread as I create them later tonight.
http://dRaster.com/nex-1.5/

Quicktime and Youtube video links included (with audio):

Connect tool:
http://draster.com/videos/downloadable/NEX-Connect.mp4 45MB


Introducing the world's first Connect tool that will let you connect vertices, edges, polygons, or any combination of the three! The Connect tool also seamlessly integrates with the new NEX Symmetry feature. You can make single edge connections or multiple using the Connect tool's custom options.

Multi-Cut:
http://draster.com/videos/downloada...X-Multi-Cut.mp4 34MB


The Multi-Cut tool integrates three similar tools into one powerful tool. You get a much more reliable and interactive Polygon Split Tool, Cut Faces Tool, and Insert Edge Loop Tool. The powerful NEX pre-selection highlighting engine is fully integrated into the Multi-Cut tool, so you'll know exactly what will happen before you make it happen.

Symmetry:
http://draster.com/videos/downloadable/NEX-Symmetry.mp4 73MB


The NEX Symmetry feature unleashes the power of the NEX toolset onto both sides of your mesh. In addition to mirroring all the mesh editing tools within NEX, your selections will be automatically mirrored. This allows you to apply mirroring with most native Maya commands and custom scripts you create or download. Even transformationally-asymmetric meshes can be used with the new NEX Symmetry feature.

Also, for a limited time, we're offering an exclusive discount towards "cgtalkers". Until the end of this month, please use the following coupon code upon checkout to receive an automatic 20% discount. Coupon code: CGTALK

For more information, please visit dRaster.com. From there you can download and install the latest release of NEX.
Please feel free to give the 60 day trial a spin, we're very interested to hear any and all feedback. If you need help with any support issues, please don't hesitate to shoot us an email or post in our support forums.

A very special thanks to Raveen "AdmiralRa "Rajadorai and Peter Zoppi for providing the 3d models that were used in the demo videos! Also, thank you to everyone that participated in the beta, and sorry for not getting everyone in it.

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