Cheetah3D 5.0

Cheetah3D 5.0 is designed to be a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeling, rendering and animation package for Mac OS X which consists an easy learning curve. It offers many tools from polygon editing over advanced subdivision modeling to boolean operations and Beziere splines.

The Javascript support allows you to extend Cheetah3D by yourself with custom file loaders, exporters, tools and so on. It also offers many common file loaders and exportes like .fbx, .3ds, .dxf, .obj, .3dmf, .sia etc.

Major Features:

1. Written from the ground-up in Cocoa!
2. Universal Binary application
3. Highly intuitive, thoroughly Macintosh-like user interface
4. OpenGL preview
5. Quad 3D view
6. Customisable UI layout
7. Almost all parameters can be animated
8. Polygons can have any number of edges (ngons)
9. Full set of object, polygon and point selection tools
10. Full transformation hierarchy
11. Additional features can be assigned to objects using tags
12. Intuitive editors for objects, materials and properties
13. Up to 16 different materials per mesh
14. A Fully integrated, multi-threaded renderer
15. Drag and drop materials onto your polygon selections
16. Link external 3D files into the scene
17. Multi object selection
18. Character animation tools
19. Snapping
20. Customisable hot keys
21. Customisable mouse controls
22. Customisable toolbar
23. And much more
    

Enhancements:

• Rendering
• • New node based material system
  • Support for up to 16 threads
  • New irradiance cache
  • Material defs can be saved (with embedded textures)
  • Many new 2D, 3D or 4D procedural textures (and more to come)
  • New shaders (toon, shadow, optimized dielectric and metal etc.)
  • Blurred refraction
  • Renderer stops much faster
• Modeling
• • Bend modifier
  • Bevel tool
  • Better edge delete
  • Support for pivot points
  • Other small enhancemnets
• UI
• • New node editor
  • Tag selector
  • Automatic texture reload
  • Script menu update menu item
  • Object history in properties editor
  • Material name editing in material browser
  • Jump to linked objects if you double click a link property
  • text field un-selection when moving mouse over 3D or UV editor
• File IO
• • Collada export (only static scenes)
  • FBX loader supports pivot point
  • improved .sia loader/exporter
• New German localization
• Many small enhancements, optimizations and bug fixes