K-3D features a robust, object oriented plugin architecture, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists, and is designed from the ground up to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan compliant render engines.
Alternative Windows software: None
Software requirements: * expat or libxml2 - XML parsers (expat is preferred, because its API provides better error output during parsing).
* gtkmm elegant C++ wrapping for the GTK2 graphical user interface toolkit (gtkmm 2.4 required).
* gtkglext - a binding between GTK2 and OpenGL.
* OpenGL / GLU - portable, hardware accelerated 3D graphics.
* libsigc++ - type-safe C++ callback system (libsigc++ 2.0 required for gtkmm 2.4)
Optimal:
* FreeType 2 - text plugin.
* PLIB - 3D file import / export plugin.
* Python - Python scripting engine.
* Ruby - Ruby scripting engine.
* Open Dynamics Engine - physical simulation plugin.
* OpenEXR - writing high-dynamic range images.
* LibTIFF - writing TIFF images.
* ImageMagick - writing whole range of image formats (recomended).
* Graphviz - Graph Visualization Softwate
* xsltproc
* GTS - GNU Triangulated Surface library
Hardware requirements: None
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