Download
Free - Build your own screensaver with your own 3D designs. (Windows only)
Renderers
AC3D is easily configured to render images with
external ray tracers. Inivis recommends PovRay from www.povray.org.
Renderman is the renderer used by Pixar. AC3D exports Renderman RIB files and Renderman is now available free for non-commercial use - see Renderman free
AC3D
file loader/viewer source code - C source code for an AC3D
file loader/viewer. Requires Opengl and Glut. Windows exe, VC++ project
files and unix makefile included.
If you have a simple file format that you want to
visualize in AC3D, it's relatively easy to turn it into an AC3D file
with a script. Scott Nelson wrote this unix
shell-script to convert a file of 3D points (X, Y, Z) into an
AC3D line/polyline
Andreas Paul wrote a small program that displays a
triangle file (.tri) in OpenGL (or Mesa). You need to have glut
installed to compile this - tri_view.tgz
Steve Baker wrote a program that parses an AC3D file
and generates C++/OpenGL code that displays the file - see ac2gl.
Dennis Hawthorne's SuperColdMilk site is a great reference for developing with AC3D. Most of the AC3D plugins have the source code available. SuperColdMilk Archive
As an introduction to programming for AC3D, we recommend Dennis's AC3D plugin tutorials
