OpenFX 3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering package released! ============================================================== The OpenFX Development Team (core@openfx.org) is pleased to announce the first release of OpenFX under the terms of the GNU Public License. It is available for download from our website (http://openfx.org) FEATURES -------- OpenFX consists of a suite of applications that provide advanced 3D modelling, animation, and rendering capabilities. The feature set ranges from a full rendering and raytracing engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, procedural textures, an extensive output plugin API for post-processing of effects, and so forth. A complete modelling and animation environment is provided, and imports/exports from other popular 3D packages are also present. Some screenshots and example outputs are available from the OpenFX gallery (http://openfx.org/gallery). The full binary release also bundles a large number of example models, animations and textures. PLATFORMS --------- Currently, OpenFX works under the Win32 platform. Portions of OpenFX, such as the renderer, are already easily portable to other platforms, such as Linux, *BSD, or Solaris. CONTACT ------- We provide a set of mailing lists for users and interested developers to contact each other. Full details have been posted to our website (http://openfx.org/mail) CREDITS ------- OpenFX was authored by Dr. Stuart Ferguson (stuart@openfx.org), from the Queen's University of Belfast, and he made the decision to release the code under the terms of the GNU Public License. Anil Madhavapeddy (anil@recoil.org) and Dominic Ludlam (dom@openfx.org) helped to test and prepare this release.