Schedule: K-3D: 3D modeling and animation package
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Bart Janssens |
| Schedule | |
| Day | Sunday |
| Room | Ferrer |
| Start time | 14:40 |
| End time | 14:55 |
| Duration | 00:15 |
| Info | |
| Event type | Lightning-Talk |
| Track | Lightning Talks |
| Language | English |
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| Slides (PDF) | |
| Video (Ogg/Theora) | |
My presentation will give a brief overview of the K-3D architecture, and show how to write and use a simple plugin. The idea is to demonstrate how easy it is to write a plugin, and how the visual programming system allows any plugin to immediately work together with the rest of K-3D to allow new, powerful combinations. Hopefully, this will be convincing enough to attract new developers.
K-3D is a free 3D modeling and animation package, written by Timothy M. Shead, who released the project under the GPL in 1999. The main features that set K-3D apart from other FOSS modelers are its object-oriented design, its "visual programming" system and the extremely modular architecture. A solid framework and many modeling tools are currently in place, as well as support for several external rendering engines. K-3D also participated in the Google Summer of Code 2007 with two students, one of whom successfully finished his project.