Commercial 3D Editors - Martin Baker

These programs allow you to build and view 3D models of the world. In some cases they can produce animations and some have scripting but they are are not really programming environment.

I don't claim to have a lot of experience using commercial editors. I list them here to show what is available on the market.

Adobe Dimensions 3.0 Win

Cinema 4D GO 5.0 Win - A 3D modelling tool

Cinema 4D ART 6.0 Win

The Cinema 4d R8 Handbook (Graphics Series) - Book about how to use Cinema 4D software

EOVIA Carrara Studio 2 (Windows) - This is a commercial 3D modelling tool with some Physics simulation. I think it is aimed at games and animations, not for accurate physics simulation. Eovia (http://www.eovia.com).

See carrara site for information about version 3 launch in Sept 2003.

Carrara 3D Basics - A simpler low cost version

Amapi 3-D 5

Amorphium Pro 1.1

My 3D Animator

Strata 3D 3.0 Strata 3D Pro

CAD 3D / Landscape Design 3D

Simply 3D 3.0

trueSpace 5 - Caligari (http://www.caligari.com) have announced version 6 to be released in July 2002 so you may want to wait for that.

Do 3D

Human Animation

Poser 7 - Allows you to animate the provided human / animal models

Landscape

Bryce 5 - allows you to build landscapes.

The Bryce 5 Handbook (Graphic Series) - Shows how to build landscapes using Bryce

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By: nobody ( Nobody/Anonymous )
Commercial 3d software
2002-09-25 07:15

Maybe u want to add
ac3d, a 3d Modeler with good import export filters
http://www.ac3d.org
to your list of Commercial 3d software

I was looking and testing 3d modeler for linux a whole week.
As it costs only 40$ and is one of the few programs for linux,
i recommed it greatly!

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