Overview
K-3D is 3D modeling and animation rendering software. It combines flexible plugins with a visualization pipeline architecture, making K-3D a versatile and powerful tool for artists.
It 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.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.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.
Animation
Visualization Pipeline 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
Rendering
Aqsis, Pixie, BMRT, PRman, 3Delight, Render Dot C support
Support for alternative render engines and models like Yafray Render openGL previews directly to disk
Interface Unlimited redo or undo Interactive tutorials Procedural modeling and animation This software will come on a plain CD in accordance with the GNU regulations
Items contained on this CD are distributed freely and globally under the terms of the GNU Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and SOME may be available on the public domain
Modeling
- Powerful scene graph Procedural Modeling with complete modeling history
- Selection: Objects, meshes, faces, edges, patched, curves, point groups, points
- Geometry types: Polygon, NURBS, subdivision, blobby
- 3D Primitives: Cone, circle, cushion, cylinder, disk, grid, paraboloid, polyhedron, sphere, torus
- Boolean modeling operations (using GTS library)
- FreeType2 support to text
- Instantiation: Create duplicates without adding geometry to the scene
All Software is compatible with the following Operating systems:
