Moonlight|3D

Moonlight|3D is a free modern, flexible and extensible modelling and animation tool developed by a small but dedicated team. Moonlight|3D 0.2.0 has the following...

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moonlight|3d is a free modern, flexible and extensible modelling and animation tool developed by a small but dedicated team.

moonlight|3d 0.2.0 has the following features:

modelling

* unique historybased approach * support for nonmanifold meshes, including polygons with arbitrary vertex counts * 3d manipulators * object instancing * fully editable object history at any time

materials, lighting and rendering

* fully integrated sunflow, a renderer with support for modern lighting features like ambient occlusions, global illumination and caustics * omnidirectional, spherical and spot light sources * hdr image output * glsl support including glsl shader editor

animation

* multiple animations of scenes * virtually all parameters in the construction history are animateable separately * rendering of animations

other

* flexible user interface that can be adapted to the user's needs * flexible and extensible plugin based architecture * full python scripting capability * headless batch mode * integrated script editor

supported file formats

* images: png, hdr, exr * geometry: ogre .mesh.xml, wavefront .obj

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