Cryengine 3 free finally available

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PlayUp Alpha 0.9.8.5 Released!

Long-awaited master material feature is finally here! In short: this is an extremely crucial feature for making asset sets (e.g. a dozen of modular railway components, vegetation sets, various props utilizing same textures, and so on), for buildings separated into several .cgf files (e.g. cases with separated indoor/outdoor, modular buildings, buildings separated to deal with FP16 artifacts, and so on), and for any other cases where you need to have one multi-material for multiple models.

Previously you received a separate material for every model you've exported, and while sometimes it wasn't an issue, many times it was extremely inconvenient. Now there is an option to generate just one - for every object you'll export from SketchUp file. Why would you need that?

For example, you've made a set of 10 similar small building models, each is using 3 materials. And naturally, your SketchUp scene contains 3 materials. Previously, upon exporting these models, you've faced 10 multi-materials with 3 submaterials each. And you've had to spend tons of time configuring each of these 30 little bastards, not to mention that it was extremely hard to keep all of them configured in the same way (matching diffuse, specular, glossiness, tiling, etc. values).

Now you will only have to spend a minute on configuring one multi-material - derived from material configuration in your SketchUp file. Then you can apply it on the whole object set and forget about it forever. And if you'll need to tune some values, you'll be able to do that in a matter of seconds, with changes properly synchronized for every object in a set. Neat, right?

So download it right now.

Also, some pics to attract attention.