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POVLAB - Free 3D Modelling

POVLAB is a full 3D graphic modeller,which models 3D objects for the photo-realistic © povteam Persistence Of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).

Material & texture preview, library management, add your own.
Lights : omni, spot, area light/spot, cylinder light (color, shadows, on/off, 3D view).
Deformation (matrix scale, translate and rotate based).
Selection (rotation, scale, translate, copy, ...).
Normal/fast/boxed display, freezed and ignored objects.
Raw objects, box, cone, cylinder, blob, disc, tube, torus, plane, sphere, lathe, bezier patches, spline, automap, extruder, superellipsoid...
CSG (copy, merge, difference, union).
Procedures (rotate and copy, translate and copy, align, extruder).
Use a real camera, based on the FOV in POV-Ray.
NEW AND VERY GOOD. Plugins, allow you to program your own external procedures like object generators, linking directly with POVLAB's interface (graphic and object creation). See it, give your old programs a new life ! See documentation for more details.
Mesh precision control for height-fields and torus.
Up to 20000 objects.
Automatic texture to interface palette converter with dithering.

3D CANVAS - Free 3D Modelling and Animation

3D Canvas is a freeware real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling. Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Canvas' Object Building Tools. Modeling tools are provided to deform, sculpt, and paint 3D objects.Creating an animated scene is as simple as positioning the objects within your scene for each point in time in your animation. 3D Canvas will ensure that the resulting animation runs smoothly. Your animation can be stepped through a frame at a time, viewed in real-time, or recorded to a Video (AVI) file so that you can distribute your creation.

3D Canvas is freeware, no registration is required. Also available are 3D Canvas LP and 3D Canvas Pro which include all of the features of 3D Canvas plus many additional features.

System Requirements for 3D Canvas

Microsoft Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000 or XP
Pentium Processor or equivalent
64 MB of RAM
8 MB Video card, with a minimum resolution of 800x600 @ 16 bit color.

BREEZE DESIGNER - Free 3D Modelling and Animation

Breeze Designer is a freeware 32-bit 3D modelling and design tool for Windows NT and Windows 95. The program has been written to primarily interface with the Persistance of Vision (POV) raytracer, although there is support to export to a number of other popular renderers including Pixars's RenderMan.

Modelling primitives; cube, sphere, cone, cylinder, torus, bicubic "Bezier" patches
Text objects using TrueType fonts
Heightfields, spline paths and extruded shapes
Iso-surfaces; blobs (metaballs)
Surfaces of revolution (sweeps)
Multiple model views and zoom factors
Inbuilt texture builder
Inbuilt shaded preview & render viewer
Object grouping with CSG support
Keyframe animation support, with tween function and spline paths
Transition position, scale and rotation between frames
Import Autodesk 3D-Studio 3DS format models
Import AutoCAD 2D and 3D DXF files
Export POV Raytracer, RenderMan RIB, VRML scene, Polyray, AutoCAD DXF
Inbuilt in macro language
Third party plug-in module support
Render and view from within program
No program limit to the number of objects
Support for OpenGL with texture mapping for Windows NT & Windows 95
Support for the Intel 3DR rendering library
Support for OLE-Automation to allow access for Visual BASIC, Python etc