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Game developers looking for a solution for creating low-poly 3D assets
About picoCAD
picoCAD is a program to build and texture low-poly 3D models. Where many programs for modeling and texturing are bloated and overly complicated, picoCAD aims to make it fun, easy, and accessible by focusing on the bare essentials. It is built on the PICO-8 platform and comes rich with constraints. Experiment to find your own workflow and anything is possible. picoCAD is a standalone application and you don't need PICO-8 to run it. Features include a streamlined and easy-to-use editor, the ability to place and modify meshes to create amazing things, live manipulation of textures and UV coordinates, a unique look with picoCAD's dithered shading, rendering in wireframe, solid fill, or textured modes, and it ships with a manual that is worth reading. You can save files in an easy-to-read text format, export Twitter-friendly GIFs, and export to OBJ/MTL for import into Blender, Unity, etc. A Steam key is included with every purchase.
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$5.95 one-time payment
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Johan Peitz
johanpeitz.itch.io/picocad
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