Sceda: Scene Editor/Animator

Description

Sceda is, like sced, an X-based, constraint-oriented three dimensional modeller. It also provides support for splined keyframe animation. Animated objects have their position, rotation and scale smoothly interpolated across multiple keyframes via a (modified) spline function.

It naturally requires X, and a sufficiently Unix-like environment. I develop on a Linux system, so I know it works there, but most other platforms should also work, modulo messed up keysyms. This version of sceda is based on sced 0.81.

This software is beta: generally speaking, it works pretty well, but there are still bugs to be found. If you try it out and something breaks, please drop me a line.

Sceda allows you to:

• Create and design single scenes, the same as in vanilla sced.
• Clone or copy a single scene to create multiple scenes. These multiple scenes are used as keyframes for animating.
• View and edit each keyframe individually.
• Control the number of interpolated frames between each keyframe pair in various ways.
• Perform wireframe animations from within sced, in which the position, rotation and scaling of the objects, the position and orientation of the camera in the keyframes, and the zoom factor are smoothly interpolated across the frames.
• Export scene description files for all frames (keyframe and interpolated) to the usual sced array of formats (POVray, Renderman, Radiance, etc). A script file, for performing all the renders, is also exported.
• Save and load keyframe sequences from files.
• Clone sets of objects within and across keyframes.
• Delete sets of objects within and across keyframes.
• Propagate views and attributes of objects across keyframes.
• Use various keyboard shortcuts for things like editing, zooming, view recall and viewpoint manipulation.

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