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PNG-supporting 3D Applications
``realtime terrain-creation'' plugin for trueSpace 4 or later [see below] that ``allows you to
interactively sculpt terrains by drawing directly on the interface of the tsx.'' PNG and other image
formats may be imported and exported as height maps.)
● trueSpace [Caligari] (Win32) - version 4.0 and later; read/write; commercial. (This is a 3D
modeler/renderer with support for radiosity, NURBS, VRML 1.0 import and VRML 2.0 export,
etc.; PNG support is apparently limited to textures and may not include alpha transparency.)
● VERA [Steve Marthouse / vrml3d.com] (Win32) - all versions? read/write; freeware. (This is a
VRML 1.0/2.0 editor with partial support for reading and rendering VRML97 worlds--including
PNG textures--and support for converting SFImage nodes [the data part of PixelTextures] to
PNG, optionally with alpha transparency added on.)
● Viscape Universal [Superscape] (Win32) - version 5.60 and later; read-only; partial alpha
support; freeware. (This is a VRML browser/plug-in. See the VRML browsers page for details.)
● Visual Nature Studio [3D Nature] (Win32, Mac OS) - version 2.0 and later; read-only?
commercial. (This is a 3D landscape modeling tool geared toward geographical information
systems [GIS]. VRML and 3DSMax export support is available via a separate Scene Express
add-on, which also includes the NatureView Express standalone 3D viewer.)
● Visual Sun Chart [3-D Software] (Windows 2k/XP) - all versions? write-only; uses Victor
Image Processing Library and zlib; commercial. (This is "solar geometry software," a
modelling tool to visualize shading from trees or buildings at various times of day or of the year.
It can export rendered images in PNG format.)
● VRMLView [Systems in Motion] (Win32, Linux/X, Irix/X, HP-UX/X, BeOS) - version 2.0 and
later; read-only; partial alpha support; freeware. (This is a VRML browser/plug-in. See the
VRML browsers page for details.)
● white_dune [Stephen F. White / Joerg "MUFTI" Scheurich] (Unix/Motif) - version 0.16 and
later; read-only? full alpha support? requires libpng and zlib; freeware (GPL) with source. (This
is a ``graphical VRML97 editor and animation tool.'' It uses code from OpenVRML for its PNG
texture support.)
● World Construction Set [3D Nature] (Win32, Mac OS) - version 6.0 and later; read-only?
commercial. (This is a 3D landscape modeling tool. VRML and 3DSMax export support is
available via a separate Scene Express add-on, which also includes the NatureView Express
standalone 3D viewer.)
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