Castle Model Viewer is an interactive viewer for inspecting 3D and 2D assets supported by Castle Game Engine on Linux.
It’s designed for artists, developers, and anyone who needs to open scene files, examine them in real time, navigate around virtual environments, and work with rendering features such as animations, shaders, shadows, and mirrors. The application also includes practical tooling for screenshots, movie capture, and model conversion workflows.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Lets you examine scenes using mouse and keyboard controls, with support for inspect, walk, and fly style navigation.
- Can render engine features including collisions, gravity, animations, X3D sensors, shadows, mirrors, and shaders.
- Supports viewing scenes from multiple cameras at the same time.
- Can capture screenshots from the command line, including transparent background output and image sequences for movie creation.
- Can convert supported models to X3D or STL, and is distributed alongside the castle-model-converter command-line utility for conversion and validation tasks.
Website: github.com/castle-engine/castle-model-viewer
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Developer: Castle Game Engine Team
License: GNU General Public License v2.0
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