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K-3D

K-3D

K-3D is a freely distributable 3D modeling, animation and rendering system. K-3D is a procedural modeler, meaning that the entire history of user modifications are stored when creating a model.

K-3D is designed to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan render engines. K-3D allows you to create and edit documents in multiple realtime OpenGL solid, shaded, texture-mapped views. Unlike Blender, third-party render engines (such as Aqsis, PRman, BMRT etc) can be easily integrated into K-3D.

 K-3D 0.6.7

Price
Free to download

Size
5 MB

License
GNU General Public License

Developer
Tim Shead and contributors

Website
www.k3d.org

System Requirements
(Recommended)
400 MHz CPU
256 MB RAM
150MB Hard disk space
OpenGL Graphics card 

Support Sites:
Sourceforge.netMailing ListK-3D Plugins, The K3D SiteTutorials, K-3D Forum

Selected Reviews:

Features include:

  • Record interactive tutorials and macros
  • Unlimited undos / redos
  • Create and edit documents in multiple realtime OpenGL solid, shaded, texture-mapped views
  • Scripting interface supports K3DScript and Python, with an open API for other scripting languages
  • Model, animate, and interact with animations while they play back for maximum productivity
  • Architecture allows complete extensibility at runtime through third-party plugins
  • Animated geometric procedural effects
  • Control-spline based animation in a uniform interface
  • Uses the Pixar Renderman Interface to render motion-picture-quality images with a wide variety of rendering engines.
  • Supports Renderman Subdivision Mesh output
  • Background rendering and batch rendering
  • Full RenderMan Support: Aqsis, Pixie, BMRT, PRman, 3Delight, Render Dot C
  • Geometry Formats: Wavefront OBJ, GTS and a raw format are fully supported, other ones are optional and depend on PLIB installation
  • Experimental plugins include OpenFX, OFF, RIB and X formats
  • Image Formats: JPEG, PNG, TIFF, OpenEXR, BMP, and SUN

K-3D has been accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code 2007, a program providing $4500 summer stipends to students contributing to Free and Open Source Software. 

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Last Updated Wednesday, April 23 2008 @ 03:33 PM EDT


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