 truespace (styled as truespace) was a commercial 3d computer graphics and animation software developed by caligari corporation, bought-out by microsoft. as of may 2009, it has been officially discontinued, but with some 'unofficial support' up to february 2010, at least. == history == the company was founded in 1985 by roman ormandy. a prototype 3d video animation package for the amiga computer led to the incorporation of octree software in 1986. from 1988 to 1992, octree released several software packages including caligari1, caligari2, caligari broadcast, and caligari 24. caligari wanted to provide inexpensive yet professional, industrial video and corporate presentation software. in 1993 octree software moved from new york to california and became known as caligari corporation. in 1994 truespace 1.0 was introduced on the windows platform. in early 2008, the company was acquired by microsoft and truespace 7.6 was released for free. as of may 19, 2009, ormandy announced that truespace had been discontinued:  elsewhere he thanks everyone, urges people to download all the free software as soon as possible. == overview == truespace is a modeling/animation/rendering package. it features a plug-in architecture that allows the user to create tools to enhance the core package. truespace is currently at rel
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