Date Added: 12/14/2004
Updated: 20080701153539
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Metacreations:

OBJ file importer / exporter - A free extension that imports and exports geometry and UV texture data in the Wavefront OBJ format.

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Metastream:

Metastream exporter - A free extension that exports models in the Metastream format, which is designed to send model geometry and texture information over the web. The models can be view using a WWW browser plug-in (also available for free at the Metasteam site). Follow this link and then select 'Just for Developers' to download this and the other 2 plugins on this site.

OBJ file importer - A free extension that imports models in the Wavefront OBJ format.

3DS file importer - A free extension that imports models in 3D Studio format.

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RAYflect:

Four Elements - Includes a terrain modeller that creates 3D terrain from a greyscale bitmap (and speeds rendering of the landscape), a shader which automatically creates the bump channel for waves, a background generator that makes skies, and a fire shader.

Blubble - A meatball modeller.

ABuffer - New (faster) adaptive renderer.

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Zenstar Software:

Supermesh - Takes a greyscale image and converts it to a 3D heightfield object. The heightfield can be flat or wrapped around a cylinder or a sphere.

CloneIt - Automates placement of multiple copies of objects. Greyscale images can be used to position the clones and there are various options to add randomness to the position and orientation of the cloned objects.

Quadrix - Extrudes superellipsoids and supertoroids based on greyscale image maps. These objects resemble boxes with rounded corners (superellipsoids) and squarish toroids (supertoroids).

Digits - Shader extension with digital numbers.

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Autonomous Effects:

Furrific - Generates animatable hair, fur, grass on models. Models effects of gravity, wind and collision avoidance.

Bone Bender - Deforms meshes by bending them based on control 'bone' objects. Very useful for animating human and animal movement.

Face Shifter - Morphs between different objects, allowing for easy facial animation.

Hot Lips - Synchronizes animations with sound information.

Poser Importer - Imports Poser models into Raydream while maintaining texture map information.

TV Tweaker - Adjusts animations before sending them to TV conversion hardware.

AniMarker - A free extension that allows messages to be added to the animation timeline.

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Hutchinson Avenue Software Corporation:

Tree Druid - A procedural modeller plug-in for the generation and animation of botanical trees.

Thor - A procedural modeller plug-in for the generation and animation of electrical effects.

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Eric Winemiller - has written several free extensions (PC only):

Squares shader - Slightly different values in a square pattern. Use in as a mix operator to get a shader that can look like the ship hulls of Federation starships.

Bricks shader - Makes great brick walls.

Caution shader - Creates diagonal lines like those on 'Caution' signs.

Noise shader - Random noise in a 'bumpy' pattern - think of multiple ripples interfering on the surface of a pond.

Turbulence shader - Random noise in a 'lacy' pattern - think of a grass quad with many trails worn into it from people cutting across the grass.

Elevation shader - Creates a boundary based on elevation with controllable blur and unevenness. Can be used to shade Grand Canyon-like terrain.

Slope shader - Creates a boundary based on the slope of the object with controllable blur. Can be used to put snow on mountains or sand on beaches in terrain objects.

Tile 1.01 - An enhanced version of the built-in Tile shader. Fixes the 'bump offset' problem that some machines have, allows for more than 30 tiles in each direction, plus other enhancements.

Tube light - Lights that are long tubes like fluorescent lights, also good for science fiction beam weapon effects.

Panel light - Lights that are rectangular, elliptical or torus-shaped patches.

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Evelio Perez-Albuerne:

Starfield - The beta version of an extension I wrote that creates a procedural starfield.