OpenFX

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OpenFX
Design by	Dr. Stuart Ferguson
OS	Windows
License	GNU General Public License
Website	http://www.openfx.org/

OpenFX is an Open-Source, free modeling and animation studio, distributed under the GNU General Public License, created by Dr. Stuart Ferguson. He made the decision to release the source code to the public in the middle of 1999 and released a stable version a year and a half later. The product, formerly named SoftF/X, was renamed to OpenFX.

The OpenFX featureset includes a full renderer and raytracing engine, NURBS support, kinematics-based animation, morphing, and an extensive plugin API. Plugin capabilities include image post processor effects such as lens flare, fog and depth of field. Animation effects such as explosions, waves and dissolves add to the flexibility of the program. Version 2.0 also features support for modern graphics cards with hardware GPU acceleration.

OpenFX supports the Win32 platform, including Windows 95, NT, 98, ME, 2000 and XP. It can run under Unix-based platforms by using the Wine compatibility layer.

[edit] Release History

Version	Release Date	Changes
Beta	January 15, 2001	First Public Beta
1.0	February 9, 2001	Initial Release
1.1	July 22, 2004	Stereo hardware support Stand Alone Model Viewer (OFXVIEW.exe) A Stereo Movie Viewer (GGPLAY.exe) A fullscreen flc and avi player (DDPLAY.EXE)
1.5	September 22, 2005	Better Wave Simulation Plugin Cubic Environment Support Removed vertex cap Bug fixes
1.7	November 3, 2006	Fixed anti-aliasing problems
2.0	September 15, 2007	Hardware rendering support