He co-wrote all the tracks here with fellow heavy-hitters, and the tunes reflect a wide range of topics, from country living and drinking to weightier themes. 1s, “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” with Carly Pearce, and “One of Them Girls.” For the casual fan, Brice’s “everyman” appeal hides his superpower as one of Nashville’s top songwriters. It’s arresting in its honesty.īrice‘s new set has already spawned two No. “Somebody’s Problem” is an acoustic charmer about realizing you’re happily about to take on someone else’s problems as you fall in love and “Still Goin’ Down” hits all the usual tropes about pride in small-town life, but the real winner for Wallen here, lyrically and musically, is the dark “Livin’ the Dream,” which gives insight into the isolating and often corrosive effects of stardom (all the more illuminating given Wallen’s issues earlier this fall that led to his losing his SNL musical guest spot). The newly crowned CMA new artist of the year drops three tracks from his forthcoming 30-track set, Dangerous: The Double Album. Brooks’ fans know he always reserves the last spot on the album for his favorite song and “(Sometimes You’ve Got to Die To) Live Again,” a dramatic, piano- and string-based ballad featuring Brooks’ supple vocals soaring from falsetto to arena rocker with ease, will likely be a listener favorite as well. Lovers of such songs as “The Change” will likely champion “The Courage of Love,” a lush, anthemic turn about finding the strength to do what’s right, and fans of his wife, Trisha Yearwood, will eat up their cover of A Star Is Born’s “Shallow,” where she holds a powerful command.
Brooks shows off his underrated soulful side on the gospel-tinged, rollicking “Amen” (which is about anything but heavenly pursuits), and he and Charley Pride are beautifully simpatico on “Where the Cross Don’t Burn,” a duet about the enduring friendship between a young white boy and older black man, despite racist times. Many of the oft-delayed Fun’s 15 songs, including previous singles “The Road I’m On,” “All Day Long” and “Dive Bar” with Blake Shelton, live up to the upbeat title, as does Cajun twister “Party Gras (The Mardi Gras Song),” but there’s a lot more going on in this diverse set. But when you’re the top-selling solo artist in the U.S., calling your own shots is not only your prerogative, it’s mandatory. He’s never paid attention to trends or fads to curry radio’s favor.
Read a full list of new features in Unwrella 3.(Only available to Amazon Music subscribers, but listeners can sample the album here)įrom his self-titled debut album 31 years ago, Brooks has always known his strength: not trying to be anyone but himself, not even his hero George Strait (though “That’s What Cowboys Do” sounds like it fell off a Strait album). A new licence of either edition costs €149 (around $160).
Unwrella 3.10 is available for 3ds Max 2010 and above and Maya and above, running on Windows only. The announcement also mentions Unwrella’s ability to create and pack UV tile sets suitable for use with tools like Mari, Mudbox or ZBrush – although, since the wording is identical to that used for Unwrella 3.0, back in 2014, we’re not sure what, if anything, has changed this time round.Īside from that, there are fixes for issues with unwrapping objects with very large UV charts or specific mesh topologies and the 3ds Max version has a number of performance improvements. The main new feature in Unwrella 3.10 is a new flatten unwrap mode, described on 3d-io’s website as a “special fast unwrapping mode hard surfaces”. New in 3.10: new fast flatten unwrap mode for hard-surface objects
UV seams are naturally generated along features of the model where they will be less noticeable, like grooves or ridges, but can also be placed manually for finer control.ģd-io describes the plugin as “excellent for all kinds of models”, including both organic and hard-surface assets, and the UV layouts generated are designed for use with game engines as well as in offline work.
Tools developer 3d-io has released Unwrella 3.10, the latest update to its UV unwrapping plugin for 3ds Max and Maya, adding a new Flatten Unwrap mode, and improving speed stability and performance.Ī well-established UV unwrapping solutionĪlthough 3d-io describes version 3.10 as a “minor update”, we thought it was worth featuring here as, amazingly, we’ve never covered Unwrella on CG Channel before, although it’s been around since 2008.ĭesigned as a one-click solution for unfolding 3D models with “exact pixel to model surface aspect ratio”, the plugin is designed to create an efficient, user-customisable UV layout, with minimal texture stretching. Version 3.10, which shipped earlier this month, adds a fast new flatten unwrap mode for hard-surface models to the UV unfolding plugin. Unwrella in action, in a video recorded for the release of Unwrella 3.0 in 2014.