Free scene software for linux

view3dscene project is a viewer for 3D scene files.
Main features:
- Two navigation methods are available: Walk (walking like in FPS (Doom, Quake) games, with collision detection, gravity and related features available) and Examine (this allows you to easily rotate and scale the whole model).
- Convertion of 3DS, OBJ and GEO files to VRML 1.0
- You can also simply open and save any VRML 1.0 or 2.0 file and in effect view3dscene will work as a "pretty-printer" for VRML files.
- Built-in ray-tracer (that is also available as a separate command-line program, rayhunter) to generate nice views of the scene (with shadows, mirrors, and transmittance). Classic ray-tracer implements exactly VRML 97 lighting equations.
Supported file formats:
- VRML 1.0 and 2.0. Almost complete VRML 1.0 support is ready. VRML 2.0 (aka VRML 97) support is also done, although some advanced features are missing right now (like prototypes, scripting, interpolators, sensors). VRML files usually have WRL extension.
- See VRML implementation status for detailed list of supported features. See also my extensions to VRML, my VRML test suite, and finally the official VRML specifications.
- Also many OpenInventors 1.0 ASCII files (extension IV) are handled. Mainly its because Inventor 1.0 and VRML 1.0 are very similar formats, but view3dscene handles also some additional Inventor-specific nodes.
- 3d Studio 3DS format. Not every information in 3DS is handled by view3dscene but most important things, like materials, texture coordinates and texture filenames are supported.
- Wavefront OBJ files. Only very basic support : geometry and texture coords. Texture named default_obj_texture.png in the current directory will be used if texture coords are specified in the file.
- GEO. Some simple format; I dont even know what program writes files in this format, it just happened that I had a few files in this format. No, its not Videoscape GEO and its not Houdini GEO.

Scenic is a 2-dimensional scene based graphics library. Scenic stores graphics in a tree-like structure (scene). Scenic also handles user input (mouse and keyboard).
Main features:
- Affine transformations
- Polygons
- Lines
- Cubic Bezier curves
- Antialiased text
- Images
- Clipping
- Alpha transparency
- Edge antialiasing
- OpenGL primitives
- Conservative garbage collection

Cinelerra is a complete audio and video production environment for Linux. Cinelerra replaces Broadcast 2000.

Heroine Virtual Ltd. presents an advanced content creation system for Linux. Cinelerra takes what normally is a boring server operating system - studied in computer science classrooms, hidden in back offices - and turns it into a 50,000 watt flamethrower of multimedia editing power.

Thats right kids. Unlike most of the Linux solutions out there, Cinelerra requires no emulation of proprietary operating systems, no commercial add-ons, no banner advertizements, no corporate dependancies, no terrorists, just a boring old Linux box.

Cinelerra does primarily 3 main things: capturing, compositing, and editing audio and video with sample level accuracy. Its a seemless integration of audio, video, and still photos rarely experienced on a web server.

If you want to make movies, you just want to defy the establishment, you want the same kind of compositing and editing suite that the big boys use, on the worlds most efficient UNIX operating system, its time for Cinelerra.

What youll find here is the heroinewarrior version of Cinelerra. This is the version that supports what we need to do at Heroine Virtual Ltd. and is the same tree that was started in 1997. As time passes and new students come and go from the Linux scene, new forks of Cinelerra emerge that are more suited to the community. Today youll probably find the cinelerra.org fork more useful.

They moderate what parts of our fork get into their fork while contributing anything they want while we moderate what parts of their fork get into our fork while putting in anything we want, which makes it pretty much even.

Light Speed! project is an interactive relativistic simulator.
Light Speed! is an OpenGL-based program which illustrates the effects of special relativity on the appearance of moving objects.
When an object accelerates past a few million meters per second, these effects begin to grow noticeable, becoming more and more pronounced as the speed of light is approached.
These relativistic effects are viewpoint-dependent, and include shifts in length, object hue, brightness and shape.
Main features:
- Real-time interactive viewing
- 3D object importer
- Snapshot exporter
- Special Relativity Scene (SRS) exporter
- Reference geometry
- Independent toggles for the four relativistic effects
- Numerical camera location + target readout and input
- Switchable background color

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance realtime 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages.
Irrlicht Engine is completely cross-platform, using D3D, OpenGL and its own software renderer, and has all of the state-of-the-art features which can be found in commercial 3d engines.
Weve got a huge active community, and there are lots of projects in development that use the engine.
You can find enhancements for Irrlicht all over the web, like alternative terrain renderers, portal renderers, exporters, world layers, tutorials, editors, language bindings for java, perl, ruby, basic, python, lua, and so on. And best of all: Its completely free.
Main features:
- High performance realtime 3D rendering using Direct3D and OpenGL [more]
- Platform independent. Runs on Windows95, 98, NT, 2000, XP and Linux.[more]
- Huge built-in and extensible material library with vertex and pixel shader support [more].
- Seamless indoor and outdoor mixing through highly customizeable scene mangagment. [more]
- Character animation system with skeletal and morph target animation. [more]
- Particle effects, billboards, light maps, environment mapping, stencil buffer shadows, and lots of other special effects. [more]
- .NET language binding which makes the engine available to all .NET languages like C#, VisualBasic, and Delphi.NET.
- Platform and driver independent fast software renderer included. It features z-buffer, gouraud shading, alpha-blending and transparency, fast 2D drawing.
- Powerful, customizeable and easy to use 2D GUI System with Buttons, Lists, Edit boxes, ..
- 2D drawing functions like alpha blending, color key based blitting, font drawing and mixing 3D with 2D graphics.
- Clean, easy to understand and well documentated API with lots of examples and tutorials.
- Written in pure C++ and totally object orientated.
- Direct import of common mesh file formats: Maya (.obj), 3DStudio (.3ds), COLLADA (.dae), DeleD (.dmf), Milkshape (.ms3d), Quake 3 levels (.bsp), Quake2 models (.md2), Microsoft DirectX (.X)... [more]
- Direct import of Textures: Windows Bitmap (.bmp), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Adobe Photoshop (.psd), JPEG File Interchange Format (.jpg), Truevision Targa (.tga), ZSoft Painbrush (.pcx)... [more]
- Fast and easy collision detection and response.
- Optimized fast 3D math and container template libraries.
- Directly reading from (compressed) archives. (.zip)
- Integrated fast XML parser.
- Unicode support for easy localisation.
- Works with Microsofts VisualStudio6.0?, VisualStudio.NET 7.0-8.0?, Metrowerks Codewarrior, and Bloodshed Dev-C++ with g++3.2-4.0.
- The engine is open source and totally free. You can debug it, fix bugs and even change things you do not like. And you do not have to publish your changes: The engine is licensed under the zlib licence, not the GPL or the LGPL.

KShaderDesigner is an Intergrated Development Environment (IDE) for graphic vertex and fragment shaders. It supports the Cg programming language.
- It interfaces the NVIDIA Cg Compiler
- It allows to block Cg parameters from the scene and set them manually for debugging purpose
- Its architecture allows graphic developpers to add new complex OpenGL scenes to the program, and apply shaders on them
- It supports the latest hardware profiles, like VP40 et FP40 for GeForce 6 GPUs.
The released version is only a preview, it is not really usable. I would like testers to try compilation, project loading, and basic OpenGL rendering. An FX-class Nvidia card is needed for fragment shaders. Project creation and saving is not implemented yet.
An example project is also provided, it implements a shadow mapping algorithm as well as bump mapping.
Please report all compilation errors, feedback or whatever by email.
You will need the Nvidia Cg Toolkit (URL given in configure script).
Enhancements:
- Updated the build system to the latest bksys development version, using the new modules system
- The rendering window now redraws even when no project is running
- Added a per-pixel lighting example. This is an unoptimized implementation of the Blinn-Phong lighting model, using per-pixel calculation. Usefull for benchmarking.

Sticker Book is a project which allows you to place stickers on a background scene.

Sticker Book is a childrens program which lets you place stickers on a background scene.

You can resize, recolour and reorient the stickers that you use, and you never run out. You can even paint with them.

The program is intended for the 3-7 year olds, but its even fun for adults.

It is flexible enough to make sophisticated pictures without being as complex as drawing/painting program.

SMHelper provides Web-based tools to speed up the process of keeping paperwork for each show.
Stage Managers Helper is a set of PHP scripts to assist the Stage Managers of the world in keeping all the minutiae and paperwork which is associated with live entertainment under control. Rather than have to recreate the form for each show you use, or open a heavy application like a word processor, I find it much easier to just let the scripts generate the layout, and then fill in the blanks and click away. This should hopefully automate show management to some degree, and in so doing, ease the load on web Stage Managers servers.
Hopefully, by having the forms available via a web browser, the SM need only have a computer with access to the server and need not worry whether s/he remembered to pack their computer. In addition, since the data is stored on the server, the other members of a production team need only visit the website to see the days report, should they lose their paper copy or simply not desire more paper in their lives.
That said, I cant create this software alone. I need feedback. I want to know what you need or want from this software. If I can get it done in any sane way, Ill put it in the works. Currently planned:
Collation: Collect all data for one person/department into a single page,automatically,over a range of dates.
Currently included [and at least semi-working] in the package are pages for:
Generating Daily Reports
Viewing Daily Reports [Soon with print view]
Basic Show Info Setup
Props list generation and maintenance
Collation and summarization
French Scene Setup and Tables Generation
Enhancements:
- Added actual_sections.php. Script for setting up the breakdown of your show. *Fixed up french_scener.php to display entered data, at least rudimentarily. *Cosmetic fixes: Unified title blocks, interface consistency where possible