Introduction
Breeze Designer is a 3D modelling and design tool for Windows. The program has been written to primarily interface with the Persistance of Vision raytracer (POV-Ray version 2.0 & 3.0), there is also support to export to a number of other popular renderers including Pixars's RenderMan(TM).
Features
- Modelling primitives; cube, sphere, cone, cylinder, torus, bicubic "Bezier" patches
- Text objects using TrueType fonts
- Heightfields, spline paths and extruded shapes
- Iso-surfaces; blobs (metaballs).
- Surfaces of revolution (sweeps).
- Multiple model views and zoom factors.
- Inbuilt texture builder.
- Inbuilt shaded preview.
- Object grouping with CSG support.
- Keyframe animation support, with tween function and spline paths.
- Transition position, scale and rotation between frames.
- Import Autodesk 3D-Studio(TM) 3DS format models.
- Import AutoCAD(TM) 2D and 3D DXF files.
- Export POV Raytracer, RenderMan RIB, VRML scene, Polyray, AutoCAD DXF.
- Inbuilt in macro language.
- Third party plug-in module support.
- Render and view from within program.
- No program limit to the number of objects.
- Support for OpenGL with texture mapping for Windows NT, Windows 95/98
- On-line help & tool tips support.
Getting Breeze Designer ...
- Retrieve the Breeze Designer program archive (4Mb).
- Retrieve the Breeze Designer SDK archive (640k).
For other ray tracing files see the POV-Ray FTP site, ftp.povray.org.