3D utilities
Here are some utilities for viewing VRML 3D worlds, our favourite 3D screen savers and some useful drivers to make the most of your computer's 3D hardware.
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3D utilities Here are some utilities for viewing VRML 3D worlds, our favourite 3D screen savers and some useful drivers to make the most of your computer's 3D hardware. |
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| 3D Terrain Flight | ||||||
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| Description: | 3D screen saver showing a fighter plane flying around through mountainous terrain. Unlike a real fighter, somehow it never crashes into a mountain. | |||||
| Requirements: | Shareware. | |||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | |||||
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| Animated 3D Objects Screen Saver | ||||||
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| Description: | Award-winning and popular screen saver, which uses OpenGL to animate 3D objects. Lots of options to control and play around with. | |||||
| Requirements: | Shareware. | |||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | |||||
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http://www.vianova.com | |||||
| Direct Control | ||||||
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| Description: | Powerful utility to control your DirectX drivers. Includes the ability to choose which 3D driver Direct3D uses, which is extremely handy if you have more than one 3D accelerator card. | |||||
| Requirements: | Shareware. Isn't very useful unless you have DirectX. | |||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | |||||
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| GL View | ||||||
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| Description: | Standalone VRML browser, 3D and 2D image viewer. Supports a wide variety of 3D and 2D file formats and has intelligent and easy-to-use controls. There is also an OpenGL version available from the author's website. | |||||
| Requirements: | Direct3D version requires DirectX. | |||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | |||||
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http://www.snafu.de/~hg/ | |||||
| The Kinemorphic 3D Screen Saver 2.1 | ||||||
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| Description: | This screen saver uses OpenGL to draw 3D objects into mind-boggling psychedelic patterns, shapes and colours. It can also synchronise itself with your audio CDs for a truly trippy experience. Large monitor recommended. | |||||
| Requirements: | Shareware | |||||
| Install instructions: | Download to your local drive, then unzip it (for help click here) and run the setup.exe file. | |||||
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http://www.synthesoft.com/ | |||||
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