Thanks for all the responses - one of the great things about the Open
Source world is all the resources. I'd come across the package while
looking for something else, and now there's a bunch of other stuff to
look at.
jeff
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Thomas Charron wrote:
>
> Quoting Jeffry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > This is a followup to Cole's presentation of a 3D modeling sw at the
> > May SLUG meeting. I just found Geomview, which has restarted
> > development, apparently (thanks to the power of GPL when the original
> > developers abandoned it):
> > http://www.geomview.org/
> > I'm still working on getting it to actually work, since it appears to
> > currently use Motif, and it doesn't use autoconf, so you have to do
> > lots of editing of makefiles to match your system. Looks promising,
> > from the screenshots.
>
> I missed that meeting, but as a note, http://www.linux3d.org/ has many
> reviews/links to 3D modeling packages available for Linux, many under the GPL.
> One of the more promising ones is mindseye.sourceforge.net. Blender is also a
> *VERY* nice package, if you have time to master the obfuscated UI that it
> uses. Blender is the inhouse modeler used/written by/for NeoGeo, which they
> opened up several years ago. For a while, it was free, but limited in
> features, aka, you had to 'buy' additional features, but since June 21st, it's
> all 100% open, as well as some parts being open sourced. A short list
> of 'features' is located at http://www.blender.nl/complete/index.html This is
> a perfect case of a situation where a commercial entity opened up an in house
> application, and reaped the rewards from doing so, in the way of plugins, etc.
>
> They also sell a full color printed manual for it.
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