OpenFX 3D Modelling, Animation and Rendering package released!
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The OpenFX Development Team (core@openfx.org) is pleased to announce
the first release of OpenFX under the terms of the GNU Public
License.  It is available for download from our website (http://openfx.org)

FEATURES
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OpenFX consists of a suite of applications that provide advanced
3D modelling, animation, and rendering capabilities.

The feature set ranges from a full rendering and raytracing engine,
NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, procedural
textures, an extensive output plugin API for post-processing of
effects, and so forth.  A complete modelling and animation environment
is provided, and imports/exports from other popular 3D packages are
also present.

Some screenshots and example outputs are available from the OpenFX
gallery (http://openfx.org/gallery).  The full binary release also
bundles a large number of example models, animations and textures.

PLATFORMS
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Currently, OpenFX works under the Win32 platform. Portions of OpenFX,
such as the renderer, are already easily portable to other platforms,
such as Linux, *BSD, or Solaris.

CONTACT
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We provide a set of mailing lists for users and interested developers
to contact each other.  Full details have been posted to our website
(http://openfx.org/mail)

CREDITS
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OpenFX was authored by Dr. Stuart Ferguson (stuart@openfx.org),
from the Queen's University of Belfast, and he made the decision
to release the code under the terms of the GNU Public License. Anil
Madhavapeddy (anil@recoil.org) and Dominic Ludlam (dom@openfx.org)
helped to test and prepare this release.