OFFER!!!... N-Sided Argile 1.1.2 - The Oddball Paradox of Model Sculptors-Painters>>>

TalkOrBell

N-Sided was a French company been gone many years now... They made Argile & Quidam (pronounced 'Key-Dam') Quidam was more like Poser with library & such whilst Argile was advertised as a '3D Touch-up Solution'. Sounds like they were conflicted on how to classify it...

Well, It's a 3D sculptor & painter for sure with an emphasis on using it with Poser or DAZ Studio for modification or morphing as well as painting custom textures...

I like the way the wireframe lights up where your brush is... Has some 'Jelly Brushes' as well as conventional. Sub-D levels up to 4 but that high one you can't even hardly move the model around...

Paint on Color, Transparency, Bump and Normal Maps... There seems to be no way of showing normal paint in the viewport as to what you are actually producing... There is a render but just a bit more of an OpenGL render...

The real proof would be to export out & back into original app & see what horrors transpire, which is the proper test... I have not tried that yet....

This version 1 has no special graphics requires should work on most anything...

I guess I'll have to try a serious project in it soon...





Pass is WinWorld

https://workupload.com/start/r4mK4seA4rn

OR

https://send.cm/d/hJZM

OR

https://ufile.io/1fgdacj9

Garcia

amazing how you find this stuff!
cool, I'll download it and have a look see

TalkOrBell

Well... 97% of the stuff I put on here I already had from many years ago & most cannot be found anymore sadly. Things were different 10-15 years ago as far as available 'warez' to collect up... I saw this all coming so grabbed much & burned to disc have about 40 bins in all...

Garcia

I just installed this, it looks pretty good, its like a low poly mud box... I like the defaults controls
Left, action
Mid, pan
Right, rotate

Still playing with it and reading the doc.

TalkOrBell

Cool, You 'hooked it' then... Let me know how normal map painting goes... Yeah I agree on that...

So we are 'in sync'... Like these two guys-

Garcia

The manual says it does normal map painting, I didn't try it.
I think Mud box is too good compared to this... It's a shame but for me it's too high poly for low poly, and without the low poly texture baking I wouldn't find a use.

I just found their youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@Nsided/videos

Also noticed they have an animation program:
https://evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7906/quidam-studio-3 (archive.org doesnt have the images either)

I'm not asking for quidam studio 3, but have you heard of it before?

TalkOrBell

Of Course... I have it as well as Argile 2... Maybe Argile 2 has better feature set... Quidam is alot like Poser but with Argile integrated...

Looks like I have Quidam 3.5 on this machine...


It has an 'advanced skeleton edit room' as well as pose, combine & others...

Came with a limited amount of content but some in the opening page are listed as 'coming soon' LOL...

Garcia

Very cool! I wonder how it compares to poser, I think Poser is getting too big but it out puts perfect files (FXB, DEA).

I noticed "animeeple" unity3D, so I would guess it's also has good exports, probably FBX.

If you have the installs handy, can I ask for a request? I wouldn't mind trying it out

https://web.archive.org/web/20080811164917/http://www.n-sided.com/

TalkOrBell

Sure, But Quidam is not 'handy' I'll hafta parse through some discs to find it again...

It's just a library like poser with integrated argile... Not animation probably best to import stuff to do what needs done then export out...

Exports 3DM, OBJ, DAE, STL I exported in curious rhino 3DM format then opened up in rhino 2-


In pose room bones light up when you are close I like that as well-


Here's a direct link for Animeeple they were trying to do like Quidam-

https://web.archive.org/web/20111213071108/http://www.animeeple.com/download/files/Animeeple.exe

Garcia

your right, I had a look at the Animeeple, looks like a store front for 3D parts, where you put them together but not much else.

Quidam 3.5 looks great, does it do animation? I wouldn't mind trying it out.
Edit: Posted request.

TalkOrBell

No animation just bones to use for posing & other stuff... DOES have auto-UV mapping including Mercator & Implicit...Might try importing to UV map just for fun see how good it is...