Wings 3D is a open-source polygon mesh modeller inspired by Nendo from Nichimen/Izware. It is relased under a BSD style license.

Wings is written in Erlang.

The Wings project page at SourceForge.

What Wings 3D is NOT

• Wings is not a ray-tracer. Models created in Wings can be exported to the 3DS or OBJ formats and rendered in another 3D application.
• Wings is not an animator.
• Wings is not a texturer (yet).

Documentation and Tutorials

• Tutorial: A look at Wings.
• Wings 3D User Guide (draft).
• Tutorial: Filling a Hole.

Nendo tutorials at www.webreference.com:

• Lesson 51
• Lesson 52
• Lesson 53

Pre-built Windows Version

For Windows, you must download and install both of the packages below. Both come with their own installers.

To use the Windows version, you must first download and install the R8B-0 release of Erlang/OTP.

Changes compared to previous release

Download Wings 3D 0.86 for Windows

You might also want to download the plugins.

Source Code Package

System requirements:

• A computer and operating system that can run Erlang/OTP.
• OpenGL/Mesa drivers.

• The R8B-0 release of Erlang/OTP.
• ESDL including SDL.

Changes compared to previous release

Download Wings 3D 0.86 source code package

News

• Updated link to ESDL. [Nov 26, 2001]
• Released version 0.86. Major new features are improved selection functionality and a material editor. Also many bug fixes, such as for the Maya camera emulation mode. [Nov 26, 2001]
• Released version 0.85. The major new feature is shaded model view. There is also camera emulation modes (rotating, zooming, and panning) for Nendo, 3ds max, and Maya. [Nov 19, 2001]
• Released version 0.84.02 with mostly bug fixes. [Nov 15, 2001]
• Released version 0.84.01 with many small improvments. [Nov 9, 2001]
• Released version 0.84, which can import Nendo 1.1 files. [Nov 5, 2001]
• Released version 0.83. [Oct 24, 2001]

Links

There is a new forum for Nendo & Wings users.

Lately, there have been a lot of Wings discussion in the Nendo forum at IZWARE.

Anthony D'Agostino's Python Scripts for Blender

LithUnwrap

Import of NDO files for 3ds max4 and gmax 1

Author Credits

The people who developed/is developing Wings.

Awards

From "Roadtoad", operator of the Nendo & Wings forum. (Nov 20, 2001)