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K-3D description
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Easy to use, powerful animation and rendering system
K-3D is the free-as-in-freedom 3D modelling, animation and rendering solution.
K-3D features a robust, object-oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed from-the-ground-up to generate motion-picture-quality animation using RenderMan-compliant render engines. We strongly recommend the Aqsis render engine for use with K-3D.
K-3D's innovative interactive tutorial system will introduce you to basic use of the program. New tutorials can easily be recorded and shared with the rest of the community.
K-3D allows you to create and edit documents in multiple realtime OpenGL solid, shaded, texture-mapped views. You can even model, animate, and interact with animations while they play back for maximum productivity! Here are some key features of "K-3D":
Workflow:
· Procedual modeling and animation.
· Interactive tutorials.
· Unlimited hierarchical undo/redo.
Viewing:
· Camera: pan/tilt, zoom, dolly, modeling and tripod modes.
· Viewing Modes: Detailed selection of visible features.
· Hide / unhide geometry.
Modeling:
· Powerful scene graph procedual modeling with complete modeling history.
· Selection: Objects, meshes, faces, edges, patched, curves, point groups, point.
· Geometry types: Polygon, NURBS, subdivision, blobby.
· 3D Primitives: Cone, circle, cushion, cylinder, disk, grid, paraboloid, polyhedon, sphere, torus.
· Boolean modeling operations.
· Text: FreeType support.
· Instantiation: Create duplicates without adding gemometry to the scene.
Animation:
· Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) allows arbitrary dataflow - any object property can be connected to any other compatible property.
· Animate any value.
· Unlimited number of animation channels.
· Bezier curve channels.
· Animate modeling operations.
Materials and Textures:
· Textures with 16-bit float bitdepth.
· Procedual RenderMan shaders.
· Rendering
· Full RenderMan Support: Aqsis, Pixie, BMRT, PRman, 3Delight, Render Dot C.
· Extensible support for alternate render engines and models: YafRay.
· Render OpenGL previews to disk.
Scripting:
· Python engine (preferred for new script development).
· K3DScript engine (minimal scripting engine for tutorials / macros).
· JavaScript engine (legacy script engine).
· Support for alternate script engine plugins and environments.
Compositing:
· Basic 2D compositing.
· Bitdepth 16-bit float per channel.
Supported Formats:
· Geometry Formats: AC3D, ASCII Scene Export, Apple QuickDraw?3D, AutoCad, Ayam, DirectX?, GNU Triangulated Surfaces, Quake II, PDB, RenderMan Interface Bytestream, VRML, Wavefront ... (some of them depend on PLIB installation)
· Image Formats: JPEG (all platforms), PNG (all platforms), TIFF (all platforms).
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Comes with all necessary software (python, python packages, aqsis...) to make K-3D work under Windows.
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 | | Softpedia guarantees that K-3D 0.8.0.1 is 100% FREE, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >] |
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