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Product Description:
Cheetah3D is a lean, fast and elegant 3D modeling, rendering and animation package for Mac OS X with an easy learning curve. It offers many tools from polygon editing over advanced subdivision modeling to boolean operations and Beziere splines. The Javascript support allows you to extend Cheetah3D by yourself with custom file loaders, exporters, tools and so on. It also offers many common file loaders and exportes like .fbx, .3ds, .dxf, .obj, .3dmf, .sia etc.
What's new in this version:
- added Auto-Saving (can be enabled in the preferences window)
- added support for rendering movies with arbitraty frames per second rate
- added support for importing NURBS and Patches form FBX files (triangulated)
- improved lightmap baking renderer
- shared file loaders (saves RAM)
- Javascript API: PolyCore.setUVCoord now also works with Vec4D
- Javascript API: PolyCore.uvCoord return Vec4D
- tiff export uses LZW compression
- fixed redraw bug in material browser
- fixed drawing bug of creases and seams
- fixed drawing behaviour of Boolean creator object
- fixed bug in take manager (locked during aniamtion rendering job)
- fixed bug when rendering fog (fog start value didn't work)
- fixed render manager display bug (disabled in menu when no open document)
- fixed crashing bug when rendering animations (when no active camera)
- fixed bug in sky light (south is now in +Z axis)
- fixed bug in paint tool
- fixed bug in update checker
- fixed redraw bug in take manager
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- G4/G5/Intel
- 1 GB RAM
- 16 MB VRAM
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Could be a nice program... BUT: - Version: 3.6.1, 2/15/2007 07:01AM PST
steeley
At first this looks like a nice program, but the interface is very, very modal.
This makes it incredibly difficult to do the simplest things, like selecting a group of objects. ( yes, I have read the manual!)
At least it is low cost, so hopefully things will improve in the future.
This makes it incredibly difficult to do the simplest things, like selecting a group of objects. ( yes, I have read the manual!)
At least it is low cost, so hopefully things will improve in the future.
Amazingly powerful for the price 
- Version: 3.6.1, 1/4/2007 07:51PM PST
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Daniel Lurie
In response to the previous poster, while I've not found a group command per se, you can drop all the objects in a folder object and achieve the same effect.
I've found the developer quite responsive. I wouldn't rail on a man because he doesn't/wont implement every feature under the sun.
I've found the developer quite responsive. I wouldn't rail on a man because he doesn't/wont implement every feature under the sun.
Since buying Cheetah, I've shown it to quite a few people, and they're amazed at the quality of renders that it creates. Even people who use 3D Studio Max have commented on the power and render quality that it offers.
Probably the only one thing Cheetah3D is lacking at this stage is simply support. There are only a handful of tutorials out there at present.
That said, I would recommend this application to anyone looking for a 3d solution on the mac. For the price, you simply cannot go wrong.