Blender Blender (also Blunder) is a greatly [1]complex "[2]open-source" 3D modeling and [3]rendering [4]software -- one of the most powerful and "feature-rich" ones, even compared to [5]proprietary competition -- used not only by the [6]FOSS community, but also the industry (commercial [7]games, movies etc.), which is an impressive achievement in itself, however Blender is also a [8]capitalist software suffering from many not-so-nice features such as [9]bloat, [10]update culture, [11]hardware discrimination and centralized control. After version 2.76 Blender started REQUIRING [12]OpenGL 2.1 due to its "[13]modern" [14]EEVEE renderer, deprecating old machines and giving a huge fuck you to all users with incompatible hardware (for example the users of [15]RYF laptops). This new version also stopped working with the [16]free [17]Nouveau driver, forcing the users to use NVidia's proprietary drivers. Blender of course doesn't at all care about this. { I've been forced to use the extremely low FPS [18]software GL version of Blender after 2.8. ~drummyfish } Are there good alternatives to Blender? Some programs to check out are [19]wings3d (seems like the best candidate), [20]k3d, [21]meshlab and [22]mm3d (looks like bloat), also for some things possibly [23]FreeCAD. Remember you can also make models manually :-) Formats like obj can be hand-written. See Also * [24]3D modeling Links: 1. bloat.md 2. open_source.md 3. rendering.md 4. software.md 5. proprietary.md 6. foss.md 7. game.md 8. capitalist.md 9. bloat.md 10. update_culture.md 11. hw_discrimination.md 12. opengl.md 13. modern.md 14. eevee.md 15. ryf.md 16. free_software.md 17. nouvea.md 18. sw_rendering.md 19. wings3d.md 20. k3d.md 21. meshlab.md 22. mm3d.md 23. freecad.md 24. 3d_modeling.md