MNG-supporting 3D Applications

3D Applications with MNG Support

3D applications, from real-time VRML to high-end modeling apps to ray-tracers, often use image formats such as PNG and MNG for textures and sometimes for screen and "movie" captures.

All known MNG-supporting 3D apps are listed here, but Greg doesn't always hear about new ones right away. So if you don't see something here, also check Gerard Juyn's MNG application pages, particularly these:

generic MNG-supporting applications
Japanese MNG-supporting applications (and advocacy sites)
applications that use MNG peripherally

As with the PNG-applications pages, links to home WWW sites or to downloadable versions are provided where known. But if a link is broken, check the location and see if the page moved or if an updated version is available (and please tell Greg!). Relevant operating systems are printed in (parenthesized italics).

These are listed alphabetically, more or less:

3D Studio MAX /3ds Max [Kinetix / Autodesk] (Win32) - version 9 and later (JNG support only) with Tassilo Philipp's free JNG importer; read-only; commercial. (This is a 3D modeler/animator.)
Crystal Space [Jorrit Tyberghein and the Crystal Space Team] (Unix/X, DOS, OS/2, Win32, BeOS, NeXTStep/OpenStep, Rhapsody, Mac OS, Amiga) - version 0.96(?) and later; read-only? uses libpng, zlib and optionally libmng; freeware (LGPL) with source. (This is an open-source 3D game engine written in C++ that compiles on multiple platforms; it also includes a number of demo levels. MNG support is optional.)
Maya [Autodesk] (Win32, Mac OS X) - version 8.5 and later (JNG support only) with Tassilo Philipp's free JNG importer; read-only; commercial.

Here are some related MNG pages at this site:

Last modified 31 October 2012.