and so focuses on providing features for creating simple 3D scenes. Its selection of features is narrow but focused to add in its usefulness and simplicity. For example, it supports a variety of geometric primitives, including polygon meshes and Bezier curves.
Its features also allow for box modeling with subdivision surfaces In addition, it has some simple animation support, including spline-based camera paths and targeted objects. It also supports skeletal deformations, morph targets, and subdivision surfaces, making its character animation effective.
The program uses many of the common 3D file formats, including 3ds, obj, sia, and FBX. Media produced by the program can also be used in Unity, which is a game development tool.
Cheetah3D provides the most useful features you need to get the job done, and organises them within a beautifully elegant user interface that's powerful, intuitive and quick to work with. Performing truly advanced operations in Cheetah3D will seem like second nature very rapidly. Cheetah3D packs a terrific punch for it's tiny price. A free demo version is available, without the ability to save or export models.
Cheetah3D also supports the latest hardware innovations on the Mac platform, like the new Intel Macs or the trend toward multiple-processor machines. On May, 24 2011 Cheetah3D 5.7. has been released. The biggest change in this latest version is undoubtedly the completely rewritten preferences window. The new preferences window now supports a Cocoa toolbar, binding of almost 200 commands and custom Javascripts to hotkeys, customizing many of the user interface colors, and much more. Version 5.7 also extends Cheetah 3D's Collada support, by introducing the export of animations and skinned characters. Many small improvements, bug fixes and optimizations like the SSE optimized subdivision surfaces round off the new features. Cheetah3D 5.7 is a free update for all registered Cheetah3D 5.x users.