3D synthetic environment software.

Irrlicht 3D engine

Suggestion came from Martyn Pittuck's interesting web site at http://ruchallenge.com/

The next information is from http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/

- from http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/images/projects/blaze3.jpg

The Irrlicht Engine is an open source high performance real time 3D engine written and usable in C++ and also available for .NET languages. It 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.

We've 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: It's completely free.

30 November 2007 Irrlicht Version 1.4 is released

We just released Irrlicht 1.4. It includes all features from the beta version such as

A rewritten unified skeletal animation system with some more sophisticated long awaited features such as manual joint animation.
Irrlicht's own file format: .irrmesh, for static meshes.
Mesh writing support: Write collada, .stl and .irrmesh files. Irrlicht now can also read .stl files and be used to convert any file it can read into these file formats.
Enhanced Particle System reintegrated from the irrSpintz fork
Improved GUI: Keyboard control support (tab, shift etc), SpinBox,
PointSprite support
Improved collada, .obj, .my3d and loaders
Tons of bug fixes and other feature enhancements

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Plug-in 3D objects

Royalty free 3D models: the RQ-7 Shadow 200 Tactical UAV

- from http://www.the3dstudio.com/product_details.aspx?id_product=48490

3ds max (.max) - Version: 7.0 @ 227Kb
Lightwave (.lwo, .lw, .lws) - Version: 7.5 @ 165Kb
Maya (.ma, .mb) - Version: 6.5 @ 522Kb
3D Studio (.3ds) - 199Kb
trueSpace (.cob, .scn) - 154Kb
DXF (.dxf) - 289Kb
Electric Image (.eim, .fac) - 222Kb
Other (see description) - Version: grp @ 445Kb
3ds max (.max) - 400Kb
Object (.obj) - 285Kb
Renderman (.rib, .slc, .sl, .slo) - 237Kb
DirectX (.x) - 289Kb
Softimage (.hrc, .xsi) - 298Kb

One purchase for $ 85.00 gives you all files listed above. Download after you checkout or have your purchased shipped on DVD.

Details

Geometry	Polygonal
Polygons	8575
Vertices	n/a
Textures	Yes
Materials	Yes
Animated	Yes
Jointed	Yes

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