This project was created by Dan Lynch and Barry Martin.

Below is a list of some of the features of vim3d:

• orthogonal snapping for drawing curves

• undo/redo command history

• insert commands and watch geometry recook

• input and output

  • read & write scene files

  • read & write obj files

  • write out framebuffer to image file

    • can set up renders to generate animation sequences

• computational geometry

  • sweep

  • hallway

  • revolve

  • extrude faces

  • extend lines

  • circle/ellipse faces

  • cubes

  • grid meshes

  • perlin noise

    • generating terrain

• history

  • undo and redo commands

  • allows you to go back and insert a command

    • for example, you revolve, and wanted to do a bspline interpolate before

• normals

  • computes normals

  • also smooth normals computations when vertices are shared

• textures

  • custom commands for s and t values

  • procedural objects fully texture mapped

• relative references

  • control attributes/parameters of one object based on another

  • allows switching between camera

  • look at objects

  • follow path objects

• animations

  • channels

  • read music files to control objects

  • generate sinusoidal functions for animation

• windows

  • splitting windows horizontally or vertically

• geometry

  • diffuse

  • specular

  • ambient

  • emission

  • shininess

• lights

  • spot

    • spot cutoff angle

    • direction

    • spot exponent

  • directional

  • point lights

  • linear, constant, quadratic attenuation

• objects

  • object groups

  • object hierarchies

    • ability to write out a combined obj of nested objects

• display lists

  • display lists are enabled by default, but can be toggled off

Here are a list of some of the keyboard commands (not vim3d commands) to toggle various features

a: toggle lights display
t: toggle textures
s: smooth shading
u: undo
v: redo
w: wireframe
o: orthogrid
2: top view
i: insert new curve
j: select previous object
l: select next object
n: display lights as geometry
p: points display
5: toggle display lists on/off
6: toggle terminal display on/off
9: capture current frame buffer to disk
8: toggle orthogonal snapping for drawing
0: toggle display mode

There are many commands, so only a few will be listed here. To enter command mode, type ':'

bezier <lod>
bezier2 <lod>
bspline <lod>

add cam
add grid <divisionsX> <divisionsZ> <step> <dx> <dz>
add sphere
add channel
file some.obj
o cat.obj

name <somename>

load <sceneName>

load channel <Channelfile>

register <object> <param> <channel> [<freqScalar> <scalar> <offset><timeShift> <start> <end>]

write some.obj

sweep <crossSection> [<hallway>, <onpath>]

reference <refObject> <refParam> <object> <param> [<freqScalar> <scalar><offset> <timeShift> <start> <end>]

poly <centoid|zmin|zmax|...|texture> [<s> <t>]

path <target> <path> [<dx> <dy> <dz> <freqscalar> <timeShift> <start> <end>]

timeline <play|stop|set> [<arg>]

view <model|channel>

Vexplore

Sexplore

poly st <s> <t>

poly texture <s> <t>

poly ymin
poly zmax
poly centroid

compute
compute smooth

obj group <obj1> <obj2> ... <objn>
obj child <parentObj> <childObj>

copy <object>
copy <object> <templatePoints> [<align> <geo>]

geo write <somelobj>