Free .3ds software for mac

Wings 3D 1.1.8 is an astonishingly potent and easy to use 3d subdivision modeler which will bring users much convenience.

It is possible to assign materials, vertex color, UV coordinates and textures, but there will be improvements in those features before Wings goes 1.0. There is no support in Wings for doing animations.

Major Features:

1. Export Formats
   • Nendo (NDO)
   • 3D Studio (3DS)
   • Wavefront (OBJ)
   • VRML (WRL)
   • Renderware (RWX)
   • FBX (on Windows and Mac OS X)
   • Yafray
   • Toxic
   • Povray
2. Import Formats
   • Nendo (NDO)
   • 3D Studio (3DS)
   • Wavefront (OBJ)
   • FBX (on Windows and Mac OS X)
   • Adobe Illustrator 8 (AI)

Requirements:

• Mac OS X: From 0.98.35: 10.4 ("Tiger") or higher required. From 0.98.26 (Nov 2004): 10.3 ("Panther") or higher required. Earlier releases run on 10.2 or higher. There is no Mac OS 9 version.
• Other Unix: OpenGL required; you'll need to build from source.

3DMF Workshop is able to import 3D models in OBJ or 3DS format and to export 3DMF files suitable for use with Rb3D. Features various mesh optimizing techniques plus a texture & surface attribute editor.

3DMF Workshop converts 3D models in OBJ or 3DS format to 3DMF. It also contains a material editor for applying textures and colors to individual meshes within a model.

Display3DS is a Free Software application demonstrating how programmers using Visual C++ and MFC can easily decode 3D Studio MAX (.3DS) mesh files and display the result using the OpenGL 3D Graphics API.

Complete source code is offered freely and without warranties or restrictions to help others seeking a minimal MFC compliant codebase onto which your own features and functionality can be added.

Display3DS is made up of only three components:
• Display3DS - a small, legible mainline which handles the Windows graphics user interface environment including window creation and management, keyboard interface, timer event handling, etc.
• Okudagram - a small class to handle all aspects of the OpenGL 3D graphics API including Rendering Context creation, Perspective and Orthographic view projection management, Display Lists, etc.
• Mesh3DS - is my object-oriented translation of David Farrells old View3DS code which performs basic 3DS mesh file decoding to internal data structures as needed by the Okudagram class. This class is not small, but using Mesh3DS is painfully easy.

Quesa is a cross-platform, open-source project to re-implement QD3Dunder the LGPL license. The primary goal is to provide API and binary compatibility with Apples QD3D 1.6, but at the same time,Quesa has surpassed its predecessor in several ways.

Its clean,portable code currently runs on Mac OS 8-9, Mac OS X, Windows, BeOS,and Linux; and it features an extensible file I/O architecture whichenables it to read 3DMF and 3DS files, with other formats easily added.

Cheetah3D 5.0.2 is created as a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeling, rendering and animation package for Mac OS X with an easy learning curve, which offers you with 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 more

Requirements:

• Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6
• G4/G5/Intel
• 1024 MByte RAM
• 16 MByte VRAM
• Internet connection (just during registration)

The Oolong Engine is written in C++ with some help from Objective-C. It will help you to create new games and port existing games to the iPhone and the iPod touch.
Main features:
- OpenGL ES 1.1 support with extension handling
- Math library that supports fixed-point and floating-point calculations with an interface very similar to the D3D math library
- Support for numerous texture formats including the PowerVR 2-bit, 4-bit and normal map compression formats
- Support for PowerVRs POD (Scene and Meshes) and the 3DS files formats
- Oolong Engine also offers support for the touch screen.
- Accelerometer support
- Text rendering to support a basic UI
- Timing: several functions that can replace rdstc, QueryPerformance etc.
- Profiler: industry proven in-game profiler
- Resources streaming system
- Bullet SDK support (for 3D Physics)
System requirements:
- iPhone or iPod Touch

MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extendible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes.
MeshLab is a software aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.
The project is supported by the European Network of Excellence Epoch and AimShape
The system is heavily based on the VCG library developed at the Visual Computing Lab of ISTI - CNR, for all the core mesh processing tasks and it is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
The MeshLab system started in late 2005 as a part of the FGT course of the Computer Science department of University of Pisa and most of the code (~15k lines) of the first versions was written by a handful of students.
Also this year FGT students has continued to work to this project implementing new features. The proud MeshLab developers are listed below.
Main features:
- Interactive selection and deletion of portion of the mesh. Even for large models.
- Painting interface for selecting, smoothing and coloring meshes.
- Input/output in many formats: import:PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, PTX, export:PLY, STL, OFF, OBJ, 3DS, COLLADA, VRML, DXF
- Mesh Cleaning Filters: removal of duplicated, unreferenced vertices, null faces, removal of small isolated components, coherent normal unification and flipping, erasing of non manifold faces, automatic filling of holes
- Remeshing filters: High quality edge collapse simplfication (even meshes with texture coords preservation), Surface reconstruction from points (a ball pivoting variant), Subdivision surfaces (loop and butterfly), Feature preserving smoothing and fairing filters
- Various Colorization/Inspection filters: Gaussian and mean curvature, Border edges, Non two-manifold edges, Self intersecting faces
- Interactive Mesh Painting: Color Painting, Selection paint, Smoothing
- OpenGL Shader based rendering (write your own shader!) compatible with Typhoon Labs Shader Designer
- Large rendering (up to 16k x 16k) for high quality printing
- The history of the all performed cleaning/editing actions can be re-played on different meshes or saved and for archival purposes.
- Extendible plugins based architecture, writing new mesh processing functions, colorization filters and support for different file formats is quite easy! Look at Filter-PlugIn Sample or MeshIO-PlugIn Sample
Enhancements:
New:
- Painting plugin: color, selection and smoothing directly interactively onto the mesh (thanks to gfrei)
- Simplification of textured Mesh with preservation of texture coords (thanks to pirosu)
- Automatic vertex unification when loading stl files
- More user-definable parameters in quadric simplification and in hole filling
- Improved filtering and support for compressed depthimage in the Epoch import tool
- New generic dialog mechanism, easier for developer add/change/document filter parameters
- Selection handling improved in many filters
- Added wiki based online help
- Restored on screen help
- Added online bug submission using Sourceforge tracking system
- Reformatted info bar (Added number of selected faces and fixed size fonts)
Corrected Bugs
- Snapshots do not crash MeshLab any more.
- Improved OpenGL shader compatibilities.
- Corrected bug in quadrics simplification about target number of selected faces
- Corrected bug of wrong loading ply with per face color (was save a 3ds and reload as a ply)
- Corrected bug on trackball hanging (if you released a modifier before mouse)