AC3D is an easy-to-use, powerful and affordable 3D modelling package. Perfectly suited to creating in-game objects and characters.

Feature Summary

• Simple, intuitive 'click and drag' user interface
• Truetype font 2D and 3D text generator
• Integrated graphical texture coordinate editor
• Fast subdivision surface modeling
• Many 3D file formats supported

Specification

• Fast real-time OpenGL graphics views (2D and 3D)
• Multipoint polygon and line editing down to vertex level
• No polygon limits
• Extrusion and surface revolution
• Software development kit and plugin interface
• Fast and memory efficient, compact program binary
• Built-in fast OpenGL 3D renderer with adjustable field-of-view - instantly see results of your actions in 3D. Spin the model or switch into 'walk mode' for Quake-style control
• Edit at different granularity - groups, objects, surfaces, vertices
• Full polygon editing. e.g create a sphere and easily move the points (vertices) to deform the shape
• Create and edit multi-point polygons and lines - not just triangles
• Manipulate individual surfaces
• insert/remove vertices
• make holes
• spike
• spline
• bevel
• triangulate
• flip
• subdivide
• Texture mapping support with real-time rendering
• Texture/background image file formats supported:
• GIF
• JPG
• PNG
• BMP
• DDS
• PPM
• TGA (Targa)
• TIF
• Graphical Texture Coordinate Editor (UV Mapper)
• Assemble surfaces into new objects
• 4 views - 3 orthographic and one 3D. All at once or individually
• Named objects can be searched for within a scene
• Navigate/Zoom around the 2d views with cursor keys and other single key presses
• Hierarchical view window
• Hide/unhide objects for easier/faster editing of complicated scenes
• Headlight and up to 7 other positionable lights
• 24-bit colour palette with adjustable diffuse; ambient; emissive; specular; shininess and transparency
• Adjustable 2D and 3D grid guide lines with grid-snap function
• Create new surfaces/objects around any selection (Convex hull)
• Configurable to use external renderers such as Povray and BMRT - just select Tools->Render to start.
• Multi platform program - AC3D file format compatible across platforms
• Attach URLs to objects for use in VRML files
• Attach string data to objects to be used as scripting in Dive or special directives for POV or renderman
• Supports many output/input formats including:
• 3D-studio 3DS
• Lightwave LWO
• Alias triangle
• DXF
• VRML1 and 2 and Inventor
• Povray
• Renderman RIB
• Triangles
• Direct X
• Milkshape
• Quake 3 bsp
• MD2
• Wavefront OBJ
• OFF
• stl (ascii)
• sof (airfoil)
• SMF
• T3D
• LDRAW .ldr (Lego)
• Collada
• Extrude and revolve 2D lines to make 3D shapes
• Scale a selection to a specific size
• Flip a selection (mirror) about X, Y or Z axis
• Remove duplicate vertices and surfaces ('optimize')
• Simple documented file formats allow easy conversion from other forms of data - ideal for visualizing your own data in 3D.
• Developer SDK

Requirements

• Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4, 2000, XP, Vista, Win 7, Win 8 or Linux x86
• Pentium 120 (or equiv) minimum
• 64 MB RAM minimum
• 10 MB free hard disk space
• Preferable, but not necessary - 3D accelerated video card with OpenGL drivers