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3D Crafter description
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A real-time 3D modeling and animation tool
3D Crafter is a real-time 3D modeling and animation program that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Crafter's Object Building Tools. Modeling tools are provided to deform, sculpt, and paint 3D objects.
Creating an animated scene is as simple as positioning the objects within your scene for each point in time in your animation. 3D Crafter will ensure that the resulting animation runs smoothly. Your animation can be stepped through a frame at a time, viewed in real-time, or recorded to a Video (AVI) file so that you can distribute your creation.
Tool roll-up groups allow you to customize the 3D Crafter interface so that only those items you use most frequently are visible. And if you need access to a less frequently used feature, the tool roll-up is always one click away.
The standard version of 3D Crafter is a fully functional product provided as freeware. Upgrades are available for those who require additional features either for game development or for rendering photo-realistic images. Here are some key features of "3D Crafter":
· Hardware Accelerated Rendering using Microsoft's Direct3D
· Real-Time rendering
· Animation with Spline-Based Interpolation
· Material Palette that allows you to mix color, texture, texture wrap orientation, Ambient, Specular, Diffuse and Transparency, as paint for objects
· Nearly thirty 3D primitives including Cube, Sphere, Cone, Cylinder and Torus
· An assortment of lights including Ambient, Directional, Point, Area and Spot lights
· Lathe Object Building Tool using B-Spline curves
· Extrude Object Building Tool using B-Spline curves
· Skeletal Animation
· Inverse Kinematics
· 3D True Type Fonts
· Painting Tools
· Object Face and Point Editing
· Smooth, Flat and Wireframe Rendering
· Fog, including Linear, Exponential and Exponential Squared
· Scene Background Images
· Undo/Redo of all modeling operations
· Library storage of commonly used Textures, Materials and objects
· Scene Hierarchy that permits the creation of complex objects made of multiple parts that behave as a single entity
· Cut, Copy and Paste of objects
· Simulated Shadows
· Import of DirectX (x) 3D objects
· Export of POVRay (pov)
· Constrain Operations by Axis
· Object Merge
· Snap To Grid
· Deform Tool
· Smooth Operation
· Extrude Operation
· Bend Operation
· Material Operation
· Crease Operation
· Taper Operation
· Divide Operation
· Edge Operation
· Invert Operation
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New View Options:
· Each scene view now provides quick access to common view options via auto-expanding option buttons. Immediate previews of the options are applied to the scene via hover-over previews.
View Options Saved:
· Options for a particular view are now saved to allow swapping back and forth between view modes without losing view position, orientation, grid mode, or view mode.
Auto-Aligning Edit Control:
· The Edit Control can now be aligned to the current selection, to reduce the amount of mouse movement required to complete common tasks.
Enhanced Selection Box:
· The selection box that outlines shapes, now includes a color-coded direction indicator to show what direction each of the Edit Control functions will affect.
In-View Quick Access Operation Buttons:
· Quick access to operations can now be displayed in-view.
Improved World and Component Coordinate Modes:
· These modes now take into consideration the current viewpoint to simplify the use of the Edit...
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