Features

Truevision is a 3D modeler for GNOME. It is still in developement, so be carefull and save often. The current version (0.5.5) can:

• create some objects:
  • finite solid primitives: blob, box, sphere, cone, cylinder, torus, heightfield, superellipsoid, lathe, prism, julia fractal, sphere sweep
  • finite patch primitive: disc, bicubic patch
  • infinite solid primitive: plane
  • lights: point, cylindrical, spot, area, light groups
  • csg operators: union, merge, intersection, difference
  • athmospherics: background, skysphere, media, fog
  • misc. : link object, group object, light group, isosurface, parametric surface, povrau script
• manipulate them (rotate, scale, translate ...)
• manipulate and edit the camera.
• render the scene with the multithreaded povray frontend.
• create and edit materials , with preview in editor.
• output the scene to povray (generates both pov and ini files ).
• save and load scenes, objects, and materials.
• save materials with preview in material library.
• extend Truevision with python plugins.

License

Truevision is distributed under the terms of the GNU Public License. You can get the latest version here.

The Truevision team & contributors

• Vincent Le Prince, developer
• Raymond Ostertag, material designer
• Christian Spoer, disc, superellispoid, fog objects.
• Kent Gustavson, heightfield object.
• Cyril "KiBi" Brulebois, debian i386 packages, website renewal.

If you're interested in contributing to this open source software see the "Contribute" page.

Credits

• Thanks to the sourceforge team for hosting the project.