Dust3D

Dust3D is a cross-platform 3D modeling software that makes it easy to create low poly 3D models for video games, 3D printing, and more.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the Dust3D up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.

Prerequisites

In order to build and run Dust3D, you will need the following software and tools:

• Qt
• Visual Studio 2019 (Windows only)
• GCC (Linux only)

Windows

1. Download and install the Qt Online Installer
2. Run the installer and choose the Qt archives you want to install (required: qtbase, qtsvg)
3. Install Visual Studio 2019

Linux

1. Install Qt using your distribution's package manager (e.g. apt-get install qt5-default libqt5svg5-dev on Ubuntu)

Building

A step by step series of examples that tell you how to get a development environment running

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/huxingyi/dust3d.git

2. Build using qmake

Windows

1. Open the Qt Creator IDE
2. Select "Open Project" from the File menu
3. Navigate to the project directory dust3d/application and open the .pro file
4. Select the desired build configuration (e.g. Debug or Release) from the dropdown menu at the bottom left of the window
5. Click the "Run" button to build and run the project

Linux

1. Change to the project directory dust3d/application
2. Run qmake to generate a Makefile
3. Build the project using make

Releasing

1. Make sure all changes are merged to master branch including CHANGELOGS update
2. Run git tag 1.0.0-rc.<number>
3. Run git push origin 1.0.0-rc.<number>
4. Wait Actions/release finish and download all the Artifacts
5. Goto Tags/1.0.0-rc.<number> and create release from tag
6. Title the release as 1.0.0-rc.<number>
7. Copy description from CHANGELOGS
8. Drag the Artifacts: dust3d-1.0.0-rc.<number>.zip, dust3d-1.0.0-rc.<number>.AppImage (Extracted), dust3d-1.0.0-rc.<number>.dmg (Extracted) to binaries.
9. Publish release

License

Dust3D is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Sponsors

The list shown represent active sponsors on GitHub and a full list can be viewed at SUPPORTERS.