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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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