Anim8or
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| Maintainer | Steve Glanville |
| Current version | 0.98 (November 28, 2013) |
| operating system | Microsoft Windows |
| category | 3D computer graphics |
| License | Freeware |
| German speaking | No |
| http://www.anim8or.com/ | |
Anim8or is a free 3D modeling program for creating 3D computer animation for Windows 32 (Microsoft Windows 95 to XP).
The current version 0.98 of November 28, 2013 can at best be described as the basis for an animation program. The program is able to enable simple rendering . The specialty and the strength of the program is the function to equip and animate figures with a movable skeleton.
Anim8or itself is written in English. The approximately 100-page documentation for the program is available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
author
Anim8or was programmed by Steve Glanville . He works as a software developer at Nvidia , where he partly worked on the development of device drivers for OpenGL .
Anim8or was licensed as freeware by the author : Anim8or is free and can be used by anyone, but the source code is not publicly available.
technology
OpenGL is used as the basis for the 3D graphics ; OpenGL-compatible hardware and software is a system requirement for this reason.
To render video files and then compress them, Anim8or uses the video codecs installed on the computer .
The differences to the commercial competition (e.g. Maya , Cinema 4D , 3ds Max ) are in particular a simpler installation and a smaller range of functions, since Anim8or only consists of an approx. 2.5 MB application file. Anim8or is therefore stand-alone software.
Anim8or masters some of the file formats that are frequently used in 3D modeling and animation, but also has its own file format (file name extension: ".an8"). This format does not reproduce texture data, it only saves mesh and animation data. Since the contents of the .an8 files are in plain text , they can easily be changed using text editors. This also enables external programs such as Terranim8or to change objects and scenes and thus to expand Anim8or with functions such as particle effects and terrain generation.