Download

3DCoat latest  demo versions can be downloaded from:

http://3d-coat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6634

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The code (volumetric rendering, the rest (fluid from particles) is WIP and will be handed over to Janne Karhu, father of the particle system)  is built upon the blender sources. It is already integrated in Blender 2.5

The sources can be retrieved through a subversion client (no password required) at the following address

https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/trunk/blender/

You can directly download blender builds with volumetric rendering (named blender 2.5) from graphicall

Its licence is naturally GPL one:

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,

Inc., 59 Temple Place – Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

The Original Code is Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by NaN Holding BV.

All rights reserved.

Contributor(s) to the volumetric renderer:

Initial contributor for the volumetric code: Raúl Fernández Hernández aka Farsthary

New volumetric renderer: Matt Ebb aka Broken, hired by Promotion Studio/Red cartel

Light cache based multiple scattering approximation, initial voxeldata texture code, Depth cutoff threshold: Farsthary

BVH range lookup addition: André Susano Pinto aka Jaguarandi

Trilinear interpolation adapted from PBRT

Tricubic interpolation from libtricubic

VFX integration and optimization: Daniel Genrich aka Genscher (smoke simulator) and Janne Karhu aka Jahka (particle system)

VFX original algorithms: Niels Thuerey et al.

NOTE:

for learning from the current manual, (blender 2.5 has a revamped interface), used instead: https://svn.blender.org/svnroot/bf-blender/branches/sim_physics/

builds

* for windows

* for mac (intel processor, OSX 10.4, python 2.5 required)