Gloss3D for Linux

Hello Guyz,

I have just spent the last 2 years working on a 3D modeling / animation / rendering package, written in C and called Gloss3D. It is inspired by Cinema 4D that I used in the past, but it was not available on Linux and not free, so … :slight_smile:

Here is a small feature list. The software lacks features of course as it is still in the early stages of its history :

Modeling :

  • extrude
  • cut
  • untriangulate / triangulate
  • catmull-clark subdivision, incremental and adaptive (adaptive mode is experimental)
  • Free-From Deformer cage
  • Symmetry modifier

Texturing :

  • Color, specular and displacement channel. JPG file only. No procedural textures yet. Displacement works in subdivided mode. No bump / alpha channels yet.

Animation:

  • Skeletal animation
  • Weight painting
  • Key loops

Render

  • Multithreaded Raytracer : ugly an still has a lot of artefacts and missing features as you will notice in the below screenshots.

Supported File format :

  • own G3D file format import / export
  • .3DS import (partial support)
  • .OBJ import / export (partial support)
  • .DAE (Collada) import (experimental)
  • I even wrote a .C4D file format importer (geometry data only), but I don’t know about the legal issues, so it is not provided with the source code. It is based on Cinema4D Melange SDK, does anyone know if it would be ok to includeit in an open source software ?

Dependencies :

  • You’ll need OpenMotif 2.x. Don’t hit me, I like Motif :evilgrin: and it has little dependencies, that’s why I chose it (plus, I wanted to learn it). I’m not against a future GTK frontend though but I will still work on the Motif one.
  • You’ll need libjpeg and libpng
  • You’ll need libexpat for Collada support
  • that’s pretty it.

Anyways, here are the screenshots :


Animation :

Weight painting :


You can get it there :

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gloss3d/files/

I made a small tutorial some times ago. It might be a little outdated but it gives some hints :

http://gloss3d.sourceforge.net/using.html

Enjoy :evilgrin:

Gary.

Hello. Thanks for the software.

I do not know much about 3D software, so I just reported here that the compilation on Kubuntu 14.04 was successful.
Up there are mentioned the dependencies to compile, I mention here some of the required packages for Ubuntu users:

libglw1-mesa-dev
libxpm-dev
libmotif-dev

Hi Yafu, hi guys,

Gloss3D release 0.2.36 is out ! The big change is that there now is a gtk3 front-end. The Motif front-end in incomplete and should be used until the next release.


To compile Gloss3d :

tar -xvzf gloss3d-dev-0.2.36.tar.gz
cd gloss3d-dev-0.2.36
./configure --with-gtk3
make
make install

run : gloss3d-gtk3

or download a pre-compiled .deb package for Ubuntu 12 or 14 there : http://sourceforge.net/projects/gloss3d/files/

Gary.

any plans for a Windows version??

Hi Robertltuxx,

Yes there will be a Windows version. The gtk3 front-end was written for the reason actually. I still have to work on a few parts of the software that work for Linux but won’t work for Windows, then I’ll build a Windows package, probably before the end of March 2015.

Bye.

Gary.

Hi guyz,

Gloss3D 2.5 is now available for Windows systems.


I precise that this is a Beta version. The “rendering engine” is an alpha version. Don’t expect anyting from it :slight_smile: for now.

Get Gloss3D on sourceforge :

See you :D,

Gary.

Hi guys.

For those who had a bug with Dual screens and right click, this is now fixed.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/gloss3d/files/?source=navbar

Regards,

Gary.

nice! Keep it going!