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CG-Source.com is a site dedicated to deliver the highest quality textures possible. The quality and resolution is unmatched by any other site. The current average resolution is 101 megapixels per texture.


Futher more free tools like the FloorGenerator and MultiTexture Map is given away for free to help improve your renderings.

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Bullet 2.71 Physics SDK released: Disney Maya Plugin, CUDA experiments

Bullet 2.71 Physics SDK has been released.

Walt Disney Studios contributed their in-house Dynamica Maya Plugin for Bullet physics simulation. This Dynamica plugin has been used for their 3D animated movie Bolt. Furthermore some initial work on integrating a btCudaBroadphase has been introduced, to accelerate Bullet performance using CUDA on NVidia GPUs. So expect some more performance increases in upcoming releases.


Download the compiled releases here.

Maya and NVIDIA Cards

Working on Maya scene and it would start flickering and jumping around the scene whenever you try to interact with the 3d view? Here's a simple fix. Go to your Nvidia display properties tab and turn OFF the Threaded Optimization setting.


If you are usinge Nvidia GeForce graphics cards/drivers and find that the Maya scene view does not refresh correctly, you can set the following environment variable in the Maya.env file to reduce flickering/stale view that may occur:

MAYA_GEFORCE_SKIP_OVERLAY=1

Enjoy.