Free 3d software for linux

EiffelMedia is a multimedia library for Eiffel. The library allows you to use 2D and 3D graphics, sound, networking, and input via joystick and keyboard. EiffelMedia has many smaller frameworks that make life easier for a multimedia or game programmer.

Moonlight|3D program strives to become a free modern, flexible, feature-rich and extensible modelling and animation tool. Our goal is to provide a tool that is capapble of turning even the most advanced and challenging projects of artists and technical artists into reality.
We understand that this project is by its very nature a huge undertaking which takes large amounts of time and effort to get started. However, this does not scare us off.
We have chosen to make clean design, good usability and solid implementation of features our highest priority goals and we have already successfully, albeit slowly pursued that road for several years.
In order to speed up the progress of our development efforts we open up the project to the general public and we hope to attract the support of many developers and users, bringing the project forward faster.
Main features:
- plugin-based architecture
- all user actions on the 3D scene remain editable
- complete support for automation through python scripts
- completely configurable user interface layout
- basic mesh editing functionality
Enhancements:
- This new preview version is available in binary form for Linux/x86, Linux/x86_64, and Windows.
- The focus of this release is on improving support for Win32.
- The different transformation and extrude tools were unified.
- The light source types spherical and spot light were added.
- Tools for mesh triangulation and Catmull-Clark subdivision and importers and exporters for Wavefront .OBJ and Ogre XML mesh formats were added.

Misfit Model 3D is an OpenGL-based 3D model editor that works with triangle-based models. Misfit Model 3D supports multi-level undo, skeletal animations, simple texturing, scripting, command-line batch processing, and a plugin system for adding new model and image filters.
Complete online help is included. It is designed to be easy to use and easy to extend with plugins and scripts.
Misfit Model 3D was written and tested on Linux (2.4 and 2.6 kernels) and has been compiled and tested on most major Linux distributions.
It is not endian-safe so it is unlikely to run on non-x86 hardware platforms--this will probably not change soon unless I get requests for a version thats usable on big-endian archs.
Enhancements:
- The menus have been re-organized. There is a new command to make normals face outward. The texture coordinate window now has a rotate tool. Material support for COB has been improved. Many animation bugs have been fixed. A "File | Export" command has been added to indicate which formats have less reliable write support.

SimDock project is a fast and fully configurable dock bar for Linux. It is written in C++ and wxWidgets, and does not require 3D acceleration to run.

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc.(SGI). However, the author does not possess an OpenGL license from SGI, and makes no claim that Mesa is in any way a compatible replacement for OpenGL or associated with SGI. Those who want a licensed implementation of OpenGL should contact a licensed vendor.
Please do not refer to the library as MesaGL (for legal reasons). Its just Mesa or The Mesa 3-D graphics libraryand thats all.
Enhancements:
New features
- OpenGL 2.0 and 2.1 API support.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a few fog-related bugs.
- Fixed broken GLSL mix() function.
- Fixed broken GLSL exp() functions.
- Fixed GLSL mod4(vec4, vec4) bug.
- Implemented GLSL asin(), acos(), atan() functions.
- Fixed an R300 driver bug that caused Xorg composite manager to crash
- Fixed R300 vertex program/matrix bug (10848)
- GLSL dFdx() and dFdy() work for fragment program inputs now (texcoords)
- Specifying an invalid texture unit as a sampler could lead to a crash
- The GLX protocol request for glXDestroyPBuffer() was incorrect (bug 10983)
- ARB vp state.light[n].half value was incorrect (bug 10987)
- Fixed a positional light source bug (bug 11009)
- Fixed point size attenuation problem (bug 11042)
- glPopAttrib didnt restore texture objects LOD bias (bug 11049)
- Fixed a TLS / TEXTREL problem (bug 7459)
Internal code changes
- Some texture code consolidation and simplifiction (Ian Romanick)
- R300 driver clean-ups.
Driver Status
- Driver Status
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- DRI drivers varies with the driver
- XMesa/GLX (on Xlib) implements OpenGL 2.1
- OSMesa (off-screen) implements OpenGL 2.1
- Windows/Win32 implements OpenGL 2.1
- Glide (3dfx Voodoo1/2) implements OpenGL 1.3
- SVGA unsupported
- Wind River UGL unsupported
- DJGPP unsupported
- GGI unsupported
- BeOS unsupported
- Allegro unsupported
- D3D unsupported