App: ShapeScript
Developer: Charcoal Design
Genres: Graphics & Design, Developer Tools

ShapeScript is a 3D modeling program for people who don’t like 3D modeling programs.

Instead of dragging polygons and vertices around in a GUI, ShapeScript lets you define your models precisely using code. No artistic skills are required - ShapeScript does all the drawing for you.

The ShapeScript app includes a parser for a simple language (also called “ShapeScript”). ShapeScript (the language) is a cross between a markup language and a programming language.

You don’t need to be a programmer to use ShapeScript. If you have ever worked with any kind of structured text like JSON or HTML then it should come naturally. But if you do have experience with programming, then you can apply those skills to create even more complex models by using loops, functions and variables to procedurally generate geometry.

Release notes:
• Syntax — Added switch/case statements.
• Syntax — Added subscripting support for objects and tuples.
• Syntax — Added object constructor command.
• Syntax — Added text.string, font, color and linespacing members.
• Syntax — You can now use import statements in expressions.
• Materials — The opacity property can now be set to a texture for variable opacity.
• Materials — Textures now use nearest-neighbor filtering for upscaling instead of linear.
• Materials — Added normals command for setting variable surface normals using a texture.
• Materials — Added roughness and metallicity properties for physically based rendering (PBR).
• Materials — Added material command for storing and setting all material properties at once.
• Lighting — Added light.shadow property to control shadow casting.