Free 3ds max tutorial software for mac

Cocoa 3D Tutorial will provide a Cocoa framework to interface the OpenGL library in a more OO-fashioned style. It is not meant to be the fastest code possible, nor to leverage all the power of OpenGL, but to give developers a easy way to start working in 3D.
NOTE: Cocoa 3D Tutorial is licensed and distributed under the terms of the Artistic License.

Main features:
- A scene tree, with cameras (one for each view) that can be easily positioned and oriented, and lights.
- Object picking, that allows an interactive manipulation of the scene.
- Factory classes for common objects (cube, sphere, cylinder, ...), groups and transformations.
- Basic OpenGL optimizations (e.g. display lists)
- Full support for OpenGL colors and materials.
- Static textures (read from a graphic file or generated from a styled text), animated textures (read from movies), procedural fixed and animated textures (using configurable Perlin 2 & 3D noise).
- Full support for ARB_vertex_program extension, seen as a special type of texture.
- An animator class, that allows to easily add dynamic components to a scene.

Enhancements
- Added StringTexture class
- Added AnimatedProcTexture class
- Added PlainSurface class
- Added InteractiveView class
- Corrected and updated some class behavior
- Updated Tutorials to use new classes

Sbooth Max 0.9.1 is launched to be a helpful program which helps with creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files. When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.

Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg (Vorbis), FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.

If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. For many popular formats the artist and album metadata is transferred seamlessly between the old and new files. Max can even split a single audio file into multiple tracks using a cue sheet.

Max leverages open source components and the resources of Mac OS X to provide extremely high-quality output. For example, MP3 encoding is accomplished with LAME, Ogg Vorbis encoding with aoTuV, FLAC encoding with libFLAC, and AAC and Apple Lossless encoding with Core Audio. Many PCM conversions are also possible using Core Audio and libsndfile.

Max is integrated with MusicBrainz to permit automatic retrieval of compact disc information. For MP3, FLAC, Ogg (FLAC), Ogg (Vorbis), Monkey's Audio, WavPack, AAC and Apple Lossless files Max will write this metadata to the output.

Max allows full control over where output files are placed and what they are named. If desired, Max will even add the encoded files to your iTunes library in a playlist of your choice.

For advanced users, Max allows control over how many threads are used for encoding, what type of error correction is used for audio extraction, and what parameters are used for each of the various encoders.

Max is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).