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3D Creator (Free - Windows) - allows you to create your own complex 3D objects by defining simple polygons (triangles or quads) with the polgyoneditor (see the right side of the snapshots below). In the polygoneditor you can choose a color or texture for each polygon
3D Explorer Plug-in (Free to Try, $150 to Buy - Windows) - is a Treuspace eXtension that allows you to setup all the options relative to the 3D world you are creating.
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3D Photo Builder (Free to Try, $50 to Buy - Windows) - Program is equipped with a wide range of tools allowing the user easy and convenient to carry out selection, storage, viewing, processing and WEB publication of various kind of graphic information.
3DField (Free to Try, $59 to Buy - Windows) - is a contouring surface plotting program that runs under Microsoft Windows 98/2000/XP. 3DField quickly and easily converts your data into contour maps and surface plots. Virtually all aspects of your maps can be customized to produce exactly the presentation you want.
3D Kernel (Free to Try - Windows) - an independent, affordable friendly modeler and a proven solution
3D Shop ModelDesign (Free to Try - Windows) - to create your own 3D model or complete imported 3D models.
3D Shop ModelFix (Free to Try - Windows) - to repair 3D models.
3D Shop ModelScan (Free to Try - Windows) - to analyze and view 3D models.
3D Shop ModelTranscript (Free to Try - Windows) - to translate other data formats.
3D Shop Xpert (Free to Try, Windows) Use 2D Shop Expert to develop your 3D application.
3DVektor (Free - Windows) - This piece of Software was coded with Delphi 4.0. With the EDITOR you can enter data for a 3D-object: Simply define some points (Px) by entering coordinates (x,y,z) for each point. Then describe which 2 points you want to connect with a line (Lx)
ArBa3d - A modeling software that allows to recreate a 3D-model from a pair of digital photos. The 3D-model that can then be exported to different 3d formats and displayed on the web with ActiveX or Java plugins.
AC3D (Free to Try, $50 to Buy - Windows) - View, Edit and Create 3D graphics with this popular 3D object/scene modeller available for Windows and Linux (previous versions for SGI, Solaris and HP also available). AC3D is very easy to use but powerful too.
Alambik Pro Exporter (Free Version up to $249) - is the ideal solution for professionals. It supports preview and export of all relevant 3D objects, animation tracks, parent-child hierarchical relations, skeletal animations, and full scenes produced with Discreet's 3D Studio Max version 3 and 4.
Alteros3D (Free to Try, $30 to Buy - Windows)- is a 3D and 2D graphic viewer with customizable interface. The program allows viewing any 3D files (3DS, MAX, VRML, TrueSpace, LightWave and many other formats), as well as 2D graphical files (PSD, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, GIF and many others).
Amorphium (Free to Try, $149 to Buy - Mac / Windows) - You can master the creative power of Amorphium and create your own unique digital effects and art!
Anark
Studio (Free to Try, $995 to Buy - Windows)
- multimedia software that gives you the power to create
the most captivating real-time interactive and 3D experience.
Browz
3D (Free - Windows (not Windows NT 4))
- Very fast 3D model browser for Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
displaying real-time animated preview of 3DS, ASC, DXF,
LWO, OBJ and T3D files.
CtrlView (Free to Try, $30 to Buy, Windows) - is a fast, compact, powerful viewer/converter for different 2D/3D raster/vector file formats with the format recognition system. It means that CtrlView analyses content of the file and defines its format.
Cybermotion 3D-Designer (Free to Try, $119 to Buy - Windows) - 3D-design, raytracing and animation. CyberMotion features integrated 3D modeling and design tools, hierarchical animation, a raytrace renderer, and a host of special effects.
Deep Exploration™ (Free to Try, $249 to Buy - Windows) - Speed through work by viewing, translating and publishing all your 2D graphics and 3D models. A powerful tool, Deep Exploration also provides high quality renderings of 3D objects and scenes and lets you create interactive 3D content and animations for web-based presentation.
Deep Paint 3D™ (Free to Try, $995 to Buy - Windows) - Gives 3D artists an intuitive, easy to use tool to paint and texture 3D models interactively in 3D. It uses textures or natural medium that can be brushed directly or projected onto 3D models and scenes.
Deep UV™ (Free to Try, $795 to Buy - Windows) - A breakthrough in UV mapping technology. Using unique new mathematical techniques Deep UV offers a superior application for the creation and modification of UV mapping for n-polygonal models within an interactive 2D and 3D UV mapping environment.
Easypano Batch Wizard (Free to Try, $500 to buy - Mac / Windows) - provides an extremely easy way to have batch stitching spherical and cubic panoramas from fisheye images. Just add your fisheye image pairs and click Publish.
Ecoviewer (Free to Try - Windows) - converts all aspects of geographic and forestry attribute data directly into viewable 3D virtual reality scenes.
FaceAce (for 3dsMax™) - (Free to Try, $595 to Buy - Windows) - Creating expressive, realistic faces in 3D Studio Max™ calls for specialized facial animation tools. With FaceAce you can create specially designed deformation clusters with an easy-to-use interface.
Famous3DMeNow (Free to Try, $350 to Buy - Windows) -allows high quality photo realistic head models to be created from either one or two simple photographs within minutes. famous3DMeNow is easy to learn and fully compatible with famous3D netFACE[text], netFACE[voice] and netFACE[complete].
GenesisIV Professional (Free to Try, $100 to Buy - Windows) - Photorealistic landscape visualization for GIS and other professional users.
HexaSuper2 pick (Free to Try, $54 to Buy - Mac) - Try this 3D software that sports all the major features without the high price.
ImpactPlus ($70 to Buy - Windows - Software - Not Shareware) - contains a massive range of sophisticated 3D design features allowing anyone to create designs to be proud of.
Insta3D Pro (Free to Try - Windows) - Insta3D Pro is 3D scene authoring and animation software. It is easy to use and the price is very affordable while it can create stunning 3D effects.
Insta3D Std (Free to Try, $140 to Buy - Windows) - 3D scene authoring tool for creating 3D text and true 3D charts. Text features include bevels, size, ratio, italics, depth, 2-byte character sets. 3D graph types include bar, line, area and pie charts.
Internet Space Builder (Free to Try, $79 to Buy - Windows) - a 3D tool that allows you to create impressive 3D worlds from scratch! Design objects, add textures and sounds, and Web links to them - and publish the final 3D scenes on the Web!
Landscape Explorer 2000 (Free to Try, $50 to Buy - Windows) - is our new map and landscape rendering program. Focused on accurate rendition rather than photorealism, Landscape Explorer offers realtime manipulation and rendering of landscapes.
Maya (Free for Personal Learning Edition, $2000 for Maya Complete, $7000 for Maya Unlimited, Mac / PC) is the first choice of digital content creators producing award-winning games, 3D animation and visual effects. Maya 4.5 offers a unique, affordable combination of ground-breaking tools and features, important workflow improvements, and platform choice.
Meshwork Meshwork (Free to Try, $30 to Buy - Mac) -is a 3D modeling program, used to build and edit triangle meshes. Outputs to 3DMF and POV-Ray.
MeshX (Free to Try, $20 to Buy - Windows) - is a 3D modelling program, for creating, viewing, editing, and saving DirectX X files. It can be used to create and edit models for 3D programming, or just to create great 3D art.
MojoWorld Generator (Free to Try, $249 to Buy - Mac / Windows) - is the software you need to do it all: create new planets from scratch and modify existing planets to suit your whims, plus unlimited exploration and imaging, even Imax size video rendering—if you have the computer horsepower.
MojoWorld Transporter (Free - Mac / Windows) - gives you the freedom to explore and the power to create spectacular images of the places you find. You become a shuttle captain zooming down to planets from space, flying over the surface, and stepping out to walk around.
MojoWorld Transporter Pro™ ($50 to Buy - Mac / Windows) - gives you the freedom to explore and the power to create spectacular images of the places you find. You become a shuttle captain zooming down to planets from space, flying over the surface, and stepping out to walk around. Transporter Pro simply removes rendering resolution limits and the watermark in the corner of the image
Mystica (Free to Try, $15 to Buy - Windows) - is a versatile image generator capable of creating custom images for a variety of projects. Rather than designing standard still images, the program allows you to produce actual artwork. In addition to basic 2D designs, Mystica features a built-in 3D engine. You can render an image at any size, export it as a graphic and optionally post it to an on-line gallery.
Pandemonium (For Workstations) - Pandemonium is the ultimate image processing engine for design professionals using SGI workstations. An essential complement for 3D animation programs such as Wavefront and SOFTIMAGE
Panoweaver (Free to Try, $100 to Buy, Mac / Windows)- is an easy-to-use and powerful panorama software which can stitch prefect 360*180 spherical and cubic panoramas from fisheye images.
Photovista 3D Objects (Free to Try, $150 to Buy - Windows) - lets you quickly create detailed, photo-realistic, 3D image objects that visitors to your Web site can pick up and rotate at the click of a mouse.
Pixel 3D (Free to Try, $40 to Buy - Windows) - is the easiest way possible to create high quality 3D graphics for web site construction or imaging work. A powerful but easy to use feature set makes the task of creating 3D graphics a quick and easy one. (Note: Pixel 3D and 3D Magic are functionally identical. Different names are used for different markets.)
PlantStudioTM Botanical (Free to Try, $40 to Buy - Windows) - Illustration Software draws 3D pictures of herbaceous (non-tree) plants such as wildflowers and herbs using a parameterized simulation model.
proFACE[voice] - (Free to Try, $995 to Buy - Windows) - proFACE[voice] provides an intuitive interface for animating faces using a system that converts an audio file into facial animations. As well as the easy clustering of models, proFACE[voice] also allows you to create facial animation using text as an input (synchronizing facial movement with synthetically generated audio).
Qavatar MA (Modeler and Animaker) (Free to Try, $120 to Buy - Windows) -is a powerful 3D authoring tool from Qtelsoft that allows you to create easily one's own 3D avatars and animations at the click of a mouse without any specialized knowledge of 3D graphics.
RayArtTan (Free to Try, $20 to Buy - Windows) - is a raytracing software. It allows 3D fractals objects rendering by using algebras based on quaternions. Various textures are also proposed and a graphic interface to easely used the software to create beautiful pictures.
Rhino (Free to Try, $895 to Buy - Windows) - provides the tools to accurately model your designs ready for rendering, animation, drafting, engineering, analysis, and manufacturing.
SpinImage DV Object Imaging Kit (Free to Try, $400 to Buy - Mac/Windows) - is a complete 3-D object capture solution that utilizes a Kaidan Motorized PiXi™-M turntable and the Autolycus SpinImage DV™ software.
SpinImage Basic Bundle (Free to Try, $300 to Buy - Mac/Windows) - is a highly affordable way to begin imaging products in 3-D. It includes the SpinImage DV Software and the TT-20 turntable.
Terragen (Free - Windows, Mac is in Beta) -is a work-in-progress scenery generator for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000 and XP. At this stage of its development, Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use.
TerraPainter (Free - Windows) - is a program I wrote to paint terrains for Terragen.
Ulead COOL 3D 3.5 (Free to Try, $45 to Buy - Windows) - Instant 3D titles and graphics with eye-catching effects
Ulead COOL 3D™ Studio (Free to Try, $119 to Buy - Windows) - Professional 3D Text and Graphics for Video
Ultimate Unwrap3D (Free to Try, $29 to Buy - Windows) - is the ultimate Windows tool for unwrapping 3D models.
Universe (Free to Try, $349 to Buy - Mac / Windows) -continues to grow and adapt into one of the fastest and most powerful 3D programs on the market!
Vizup Optimizer (Free - Windows) - Optimize your complex 3D models with VIZup
VRML Beans 2.0 (Try for Free, $3 to Buy, Windows) - We proudly reintroduce our VRML tool. Find out how easy it is to create online virtual reality worlds that anyone can view.
XMidi (Free to Try, $25 to Buy - Mac ) - By allowing you to send and receive MIDI from within your Director movie, XMidi allows you to turn Macromedia Director into an interactive multimedia environment.
Xpressionist (Free to Try, $249 to Buy - Windows / Mac ) - works like the fill tools — it creates custom frames. You can imagine Xpressionist as a sophisticated pocket calculator inside of Electric Image Universe.
ZBrush (Free to Try, $399 to Buy - Mac / Windows) - is an award-winning 2D and 3D image creation and processing tool, powered by a real-time rendering engine. Based on unique "Pixol" rendering technology, ZBrush enables artists to paint an image with depth -- applying both 2D and 3D effects in one integrated, real-time workspace
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