G3DVIEWER(1)

📦 version 0.2.99.5~svn130, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the G3DVIEWER manual — she lives in the General Commands Manual section and she's literally called g3dviewer. She's a program to display and inspect 3D models, and she's serving looks the whole time. 👑

✨ SYNOPIS ✨

not me keeping the typo fr fr — the original page spells it "SYNOPIS" and I refuse to gaslight you about it. iconic behavior. 🫶
g3dviewer [options] [<filename>]

So yeah — options, then optionally a filename, and she's off. 🌸

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

After loading a valid model it should appear on the screen. that's it. that's the whole vibe. it shows up. slay. ✨

Use the left mouse button to rotate the model. 💅

To move the view, hold down the SHIFT key and use the left mouse button. 🫶

To zoom the model, use the scroll wheel, or hold the middle mouse button and move the mouse up or down. lowkey two whole ways to do the same thing and I respect it.

The right mouse button opens a context menu, and that's where you can:

  • open the model information dialog 🎀
  • set some options ⭐
  • change the background color 🌈

💜 OPTIONS 💜

  • --help — Show summary of options. she tells you about herself. main character energy. 👑

🙈 UNDOCUMENTED" OPTIONS 🙈

yes the stray quote mark is literally in the original heading, I'm not fixing it, it's part of her now. 💀

There are also some options which are just for development. like, dev-only, iykyk. 🔥

  • --parse-only — Just parse the model and exit. no rendering, no screen time, she just reads it and dips. ✌️

🌸 SUPPORTED FILE TYPES 🌸

she's a polyglot, no cap. here's everything she'll open:

  • .3mf, .3dmf — 3D Metafiles. 💖
  • .3ds, .prj — 3D Studio objects. 🎀
  • .b3d — unknown, but 3D Metafile format. (not me being mysterious about it 🫣)
  • .cob — Caligary TrueSpace objects.
  • .dxf — AutoCAD models. 📐
  • .iob — Impulse Turbo Silver / Imagine objects.
  • .lw, .lwo, .lwb — LightWave objects. ✨
  • .md2 — Quake 2 models. 🔥
  • .nff — Neutral File Format objects.
  • .obj — Wavefront objects.
  • .q3o, .q3s — Quick3D objects and scenes.
  • .wrl — VRML worlds. 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

Most import plugins are incomplete. 😭

The goal is not to crash on broken input but it is not always reached. so like — the ambition is immaculate, the follow-through is a work in progress, and we're all just living with that. ngl.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

g3dviewer was written by Markus Dahms <mad@automagically.de> — shoutout to the founder of the whole aesthetic. 👑

🎀 one last thing 🎀

this page is from the General Commands Manual, source G3DVIEWER(1), dated july 22nd 2005, and she's still out here doing her thing. love that for her. bye bestie, go rotate a model. 💖✨🦋💅

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