Schematic Material Editor NodeJoe 1.0 released - free Demo version available!

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: watzlaff
Post Time: 04-01-2008 at 09:35 PM
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Hi Folks,

I can proudly announce today, that NodeJoe 1.0 (commercial) was released - AND a brand new free 30 days Demo Version is available for download on the NodeJoe site.

As some of you may have noticed, NodeJoe is a schematic material editor for 3dsmax, that uses every material or texture, that 3dsmax can handle, including third party plugins (NodeJoe is kind of a meta-plugin).
NodeJoe helps you to make your work with material trees simpler, clearer and faster. It is a more intuitive and creative workflow compared to the common 3dsmax material editor.

The first public beta of NodeJoe was announced on cgtalk nearly one year ago - and, thanks to your input and comments, NodeJoe has evolved during this year to the professional grade tool (that allows the you to create materials beyond your imagination ). Looking back one year and comparing the first public NodeJoe beta with the NodeJoe 1.0 release version, it seems that our baby has grown well!

Some main features:

- intuitive, fast and fun to work with (like drawing lines between materials)
- seamless 3dsmax integration (as external window or internal viewport)
- full drag'n'drop support between NodeJoe and 3dsmax
- fully customizable material pool
- unlimited zoomable and draggable views
- automatic layout
- support for materials, textures, controllers (including all animatiable, wireable parameters, MR-Connection, ... )
- support for any 3dsmax-compatible renderer
- (goodlooking ) docking window system
- well scaling performance (trys to let rendering not slow your workflow too much)
- customizable shortcuts
- support for multiple dockable/floating preview windows
- context-menu-based linking (the maya style )
- 3dsmax files with NodeJoe data inside can be used (and rendered) on systems/rendernodes without NodeJoe installed.
- no limitation concerning the number of material, views, ...
- and, and, and ....

For further information, comments, a full feature list, reading the NodeJoe forum, viewing online video tutorials - and to download the demo version - checkout http://www.nodejoe.net

Thanks,

watzlaff
NodeJoe Development Team

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