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K-3D

Free 3D modeling, animation, and rendering system.

K-3DOverview

K-3D is free-as-in-freedom 3D modeling and animation software. It combines flexible plugins with a visualization pipeline architecture, making K-3D a versatile and powerful tool for artists.

Easy
K-3D's interface uses your platform's look-and-feel, and it's consistent with the applications you already know. New artists will find K-3D easy to understand, and professionals feel right at home. K-3D is intuitive, consistent, and discoverable.

Powerful
K-3D features procedural and parametric workflows. Properties can be adjusted interactively and results appear immediately. The powerful, node-based visualization pipeline allows more possibilities than traditional modifier stacks or histories. Selection flows from one modifier to the next.
An advanced undo/redo system ensures you can always go back, and the pioneering undo tree means you can always go forward, even where other programs lose the ability to redo.
Industrial-strength standards form the foundation on which K-3D builds - including native RenderMan(TM) support that integrates tightly with the K-3D user interface.

Flexible
Get all the power of a node-based visualization pipeline: connect anything to anything else. K-3D gives you the freedom to create combinations never before seen.
Work on one side of a model, show the other side mirrored, and see the end result welded together as a subdivision surface in realtime. Using K-3D, complex workflows are easy to create and understand. Go back, modify the beginning of a workflow, and watch as changes propagate automatically to the end.

Free
K-3D is Free Software. Run it on your choice of platform. Adapt it for any purpose. Receive it at no cost. Share it with your friends. All of the K-3D source code is available under the GNU General Public License.

NEW

  • Completely rewritten data storage for geometric meshes - capable of rendering one million polygons at interactive rates.
  • Introductory support for the LuxRender render engine.
  • Experimental support for CSG operations on polyhedra, using either CGAL or CARVE Introductory support for NURBS.
  • New / rewritten support for 3DS, Collada, OBJ, MD2, Ogre, PLY, STL, and SVG files.
  • Interactive Python Shell
  • New CMake-based cross-platform build system.
  • Over 300 regression tests run every night.
  • Nightly coverage testing.
  • New Mercurial-based version control.
  • New website.
  • New time-based release schedule

K-3DInformation

Version
0.8.0.1
Date
08.21.14
License
Free
Language
English
File Size
29.1MB
Developer
Category
SubCategory
Operating Systems
Mac OS X
System Requirements

OS X 10.5 or later

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