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Blender 3D

Friday, April 2, 2010


Software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback.



Features

Blender is the first and only fully integrated 3D graphics creation suite allowing modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, realtime interactive 3D and game creation and playback with cross-platform compatibility - all in one tidy, easily and free downloadable package!

"Blender is quickly being transformed from an impressive 3D creativity tool to a full-blown games and new media design application."

- Garrick Webster, Editor, Computer Arts Magazine


Modeling

* A range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts (TrueType, PostScript, OpenType)
* "Smooth proxy" style catmull-clark subdivision surfaces
* Boolean mesh functions
* Editing functions such as extrude, bevel, cut, spin, screw, warp, subdivide, noise, smooth Soft selection editing tools for organic modeling
* Python scripting access for custom tools

Animation

* Armature (skeleton) deformation with forward/inverse kinematics, auto skinning and interactive 3D paint for vertex weighting
* Non-linear animation mixer with automated walkcycles along paths
* Constraint system
* Vertex key framing for morphing, with controlling sliders
* Character animation pose editor
* Animatable lattice deformation
* "Ipo" system integrates both motion curve and traditional key-frame editing
* Audio playback, mixing and editing support for sound synchronisation
* Python scripting access for custom and procedural animation effects

Realtime 3D/game creation

* Graphical editor for defining interactive behavior without programming
* Collision detection and dynamics simulation
* Python scripting API for sophisticated control and AI, fully defined advanced game logic
* Supports all OpenGL™ lighting modes, including transparencies, Animated and reflection-mapped textures
* Playback of games and interactive 3D content without compiling or pre-processing
* Audio, using the fmod toolkit
* Multi-layering of Scenes for overlay interfaces

Rendering

* Very fast inbuilt raytracer
* Integral support for the famous Yafray render engine
* Oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels
* Environment maps, halos, lens flares, fog
* Various surface shaders such as Lambert, Phong, Oren-nayar, Blinn, Toon
* Edge rendering for toon shading
* Procedural Textures
* Ambient Occlusion
* Radiosity solver
* Export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman (RIB), Povray, Virtualight
* UV texture editor with various mesh unwrap modes

Interface

* Flexible user configurable window layout
* Powerful object-oriented data system
* Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support
* Windows for animation curves/keys, schematic scene diagram, non-linear video sequence editing, character animation action editor, non-linear animation mixer, image/UV editing, file/image selection and file management
* Inbuilt text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts
* Consistent interface across multiple platforms

Files

* Save all scene data in a single .blend file
* .blend format supports compression, digital signatures, encryption, forwards/backwards compatibility and can be used as a library to link to from other .blend files
* Read / Write TGA, JPG, PNG, Iris, SGI Movie, IFF, AVI and Quicktime GIF, TIFF, PSD, MOV (Windows and Mac OS X)
* Native import and export for DXF, Inventor and VRML files, with python scripts available for many other 3D formats
* Create stand-alone executables containing interactive 3D content or play back with the 3d web browser plugin.

For more information : www.blender.org
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