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3D Modelling and animation applications

Blender

"Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.""

• Homepage: http://www.blender.org/
• Community: http://www.blender3d.org/
• License: GNU-GPL
• Operating system: "Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X."

Wings 3D

Wings 3D is a polygon mesh modeler inspired by Nendo from Izware. Wings real strength is in modeling." Texturing&co is construction, but does support UV mapping and even automated it.

• Homepage: http://www.wings3d.com
• License: BSD-style license: read license.terms
• Operating system: Linux, Windows, Mac
• Plugins
  • See Links:Converters for Vegastrike XMESH Plugin.

POV-Ray

POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) is a high-quality, totally free tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports. With its unique scripting approach and through a large base of available texture, pigment, and material functions there are almost unlimited possibilities to creating any kind of graphics.

A terragen clone for POV-Ray can be found here: Project Tierra

• Homepage: http://www.povray.org
• License: POV-Ray Licence
• Operating system: Linux, Windows, Mac

Terragen

Terragen is a free (for non-commercial use) scenery rendering software capable of creating photo-realistic results for landscape visualization, special effects, art and recreation.

• Homepage: http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/
• License: Commercial, free for personal non-commercial use.
• Operating system: Windows, Macintosh

K3D

• Homepage http://k3d.sourceforge.net/new/index.php

Truevision

• Homepage: http://truevision.sourceforge.net/

AC3D

3D Graphics Modeller

• Homepage: http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/andy/ac3d.html

Anim8or

Free 3D Animation Software

• Homepage: http://www.anim8or.com/

Pretty Poly Editor (PPE)

• Homepage: http://prettypoly.sourceforge.net/

WolfPack Entertainment

• Homepage: http://wolfpack.twu.net/
• http://wolfpack.twu.net/Vertex/index.html

3D Canvas

3D Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling.
The free version exports to POVRay only.

• Homepage: http://www.amabilis.com/

Panorama home page

• Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/panorama/panorama.html

gSculpt

• Homepage: http://gsculpt.sourceforge.net/

G3D

• Homepage: http://condor.stcloudstate.edu/%7Ehebl9901/g3d/

Giram

• Homepage: http://www.giram.org/

Innovation3D

• Homepage: http://innovation3d.sourceforge.net/
• Index of /roam

EQUINOX 3D

• Homepage: http://www.equinox3d.com/

Behemot

• Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/behemot/

MagicLight

• Mikaels Aronssons MagicLight page: http://magiclight.sourceforge.net/

Ayam

• Homepage: http://ayam.sourceforge.net/

GooseEgg 3D

• Homepage: http://gooseegg.sourceforge.net/

Dive

• Homepage: http://www.sics.se/dce/dive/dive.html

FAMP

Free Animation and Modeling Project

• Homepage: http://famp.sourceforge.net/
• SourceForge: Project Info: http://sourceforge.net/projects/famp

3dom

3dom - A3D Object Modeler

• Homepage: http://threedom.sourceforge.net/

Aztec

• SourceForge: Project Info: http://sourceforge.net/projects/aztec/

NURBS++

• Homepage: http://yukon.genie.uottawa.ca/%7Elavoie/software/nurbs/

Art of Illusion

"free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio." Easy to learn. Its main strength is in the procedural side (generated objects, boolean modelling, procedural textures and materials), so it's most useful for creating primary models and converting them into tri- or quad- meshes or making effect animations. Conversely, least useful for editing meshes. If you want to do it anyway, backup the source OBJ and check the result, you may need to change rounding value.

• Homepage: http://www.artofillusion.org/
• SourceForge: Project Info: http://aoi.sourceforge.net/
• Community: http://www.artofillusion.org/forums
• License: GNU-GPL
• Operating system: "Java Virtual Machine (cross-platform, including Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X)."
• Extras: Well-tagged plugin repository (http://aoisp.sourceforge.net/) accessible from "Script and Plugin Manager" in menu (for 2.9, see bugfix here).

Addons and helper applications

• Links:Graphic Applications

Crafter

"The visual, procedural and structural way to create complex materials."

• Homepage: http://www.funnyfarm.tv/crafter/research.htm

G3DViewer

Lightweight 3D viewer. Allows to preview models in many formats, usually much faster than loading or importing them into modeler.

• Homepage: http://automagically.de/g3dviewer/
• License: GNU-GPL
• Operating system: POSIX. Present in some Linux package repositories.

MakeHuman

"...software for the modelling of 3-Dimensional humanoid characters. Features [...] highly intuitive GUI and a high quality mesh, optimized to work in subdivision surface mode (for example, Zbrush). Using MakeHuman, a photorealistic character can be modeled in less than 2 minutes"

• Homepage: http://www.makehuman.org/ (has extensive documentation section)
• License: GNU AGPL (code) / special (MakeHuman mesh) / CC0 (content derived from its data)
• Operating systems: "32-bit and 64-bit for Windows, Linux, and Mac (Intel & PPC)"
• Extras: MakeTarget -- "a new development tool to create morph targets libraries for MakeHuman".

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See also

• Why Notepad is superior to Lightwave

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