Welcome to Gloss3D project page

Gloss3D is an open-source 3D modeler tool with some texturing, animation and rendering capacities for both Linux and Windows. Even better, it’s free !

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History

Gloss3D had its first line of code written in October 2012 and is originally inspired by Maxon Cinema4D. The current version is 0.5.1, released in January 2022.

Download

Download source code or prebuilt packages for Ubuntu, CentOS or Windows here

Features

Modeling

• Polygonal modeling tools (cut, extrude …)
• Catmull-clark subdivision.
• Free-From Deformer cage

Texturing

• Draw your own texture, use a random image or generate procedural ones.

Animation

• Skeletal animation
• Weight painting
• Key loops

Rendering

Multithreaded Raytracer with motion blur, fog, wireframe rendering and a few other things. This is still under development and misses many features, but still renders !

Supported File format :

• G3D file format import / export
• 3DS import (partial support)
• OBJ import / export (partial support)
• DAE (Collada) import (experimental)

Building from sources

configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-gtk3
make
make install
gloss3d-gtk3

Special thanks

Gloss3D is written with Nedit, the Nirvana Editor version 5.7. Get it here !

Contact

Feel free to contact us