Download Size Description Date

9.00 beta 3.5 Viewer 7 MB Free standalone Windows 32-bit and 64-bit preview program for OBJ, MTL, 3DS, IFS, OFF, PLY, PLY2, MD2, MD3, BSP, MP4, MOV, OGG, PNG, JPG, BMP, ICO, ICN, DDS, PPM, PBM, PGM, GIF, PCX, TGA, FNT, and GTM data files. 2012-01-01

9.00 beta 3 Windows 799 MB Win32 + 64 .libs for VC10, manual, all sample data, and demos. See installation instructions in manual/index.html inside file 2011-11-14

9.00 beta 3 OS X 1.2 GB OS X .a files for gcc/Xcode/llvm, manual, all sample data, and demos. See installation instructions in manual/index.html inside file 2011-11-14

9.00 beta 3 Source 364 MB Source tree for Win32, Win64, OS X, and Linux. Does not include the optional data module. Type "buildg3d --install update" to install on all platforms. 2011-11-14

9.00 beta 2 Data 440 MB Optional data module for use with the source download. 2011-03-25

8.01 Win32 494 MB Win32 .libs for VC9, manual, all sample data, and demos. See installation instructions in manual/index.html inside file 2010-12-19

8.01 OS X 544 MB OS X .a files for gcc/Xcode/llvm, manual, all sample data, and demos. See installation instructions in manual/index.html inside file 2010-12-19

8.01 Source 57 MB Source tree for Win32, Win64, OS X, and Linux. Does not include the optional data module. Type "buildg3d --install update" to install on all platforms. 2010-12-19

8.00 Data 456 MB Optional data module for use with the source download. 2010-08-07

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The Windows G3D distribution includes zlib, libpng, libjpeg, FFmpeg, and libzip. You do not need to install those libraries separately.

The backwards-incompatible, unstable 9.xx branch is currently under development. You can browse it or download with:

svn co https://g3d.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/g3d g3d
On Windows, we recommend TortoiseSVN.

Recommended Tools

G3D is distributed as both source code and as precompiled libraries. If you want to build G3D yourself from source code, you need at least Python. To generate the G3D documentation from source you'll also need the files listed in BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS.TXT

Below are other open source tools that we recommend for use with G3D when creating your own 3D applications. These are not supported by the G3D team and are not required to use G3D.

Doxygen documentation generation tool
Python scripting language
Ghostscript document language
Latex typesetting language
SDL windowing layer
Lua scripting language
Blender 3D modeling program
COLLADA open 3D model format
Inkscape SVG editor
Pixie RenderMan renderer
ODE continuous physics
Bullet continuous physics
wxWidgets GUI library
OpenCV Computer vision library

CVS (Obsolete)

You can browse and search the unstable, unsupported latest CVS sources for the obsolete 8.xx branch. CVS is divided into two modules. The G3D module contains the source tree and the data module contains optional supplemental 3D data files for use with G3D. To check out the CVS tree, use the command:

cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@g3d.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/g3d co -P G3D
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@g3d.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/g3d co -P data
On Windows, we recommend TortoiseCVS, which can download G3D from :pserver:anonymous@g3d.cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/g3d.