Beaverton, Oregon – Mirye Software publisher and developer e Frontier announce the availability of free Shade 3D for Unity for OS X 10.9, bringing compatibility to Shade 3D for Unity for the latest version of the Apple Mac OS X operating system.

Shade 3D for Unity is a free, powerful 3d modeling and animation tool for 3D game developers and designers. You can import standard 3D file formats such as FBX, Wavefront OBJ, SketchUp skp and Shade shd files, modify and transform them so they can be easily imported into your next Unity based game. You also have access to most of the modeling tools found on the Shade 3D product line of commercial 3D modeling, rendering and animation tools, so you can also build completely new models.

Shade 3D ver 14 Basic, a paid for version of Shade 3D costs only $99, with Standard and Professional at a discounted price of $249 and $499.

“It’s really great that Shade 3D is reinventing itself as a tool with great relevance for the game industry. And that Shade 3D also has a free app for the Unity community is just wonderful. We hope that many people will learn game development and game art design using Unity and Shade 3D together!” – David Helgason, CEO of Unity 3D.

Shade 3D for Unity for Mac OS X includes the following features:
* Rig Support with Inverse Kinematics
* Paintable Bone Weight Mapping Tool
* Advanced 3D Polygon Mesh Editing
* Bezier Spline Modeling
* Simple Spring Motion Simulator, including Baked Simulator
* Key Frame Animation, including Baked Key Frame
* Material and Shader Editing
* UV Editor and Texture Map Management
* Draft Raytrace Rendering for Preview Rendering
* Shade Loader Unity Script to allow easy model exchange between Shade and Unity 3D

Shade 3D for Unity isn’t limited to only working with Unity 3D either, but supports export formats that work with most game development systems and other 3D suites. A special utility for use with Shade 3D for Unity called Shade 3D Loader is already available for download from the Unity Asset Store.

Unity 3D is a powerful, visual game development tool for building games for the desktop, mobile and console games. Chances are, if you have a 3D game on your iPhone or iPad it was made with Unity. Perhaps best of all, if you are just starting out in game development – Unity 3D won’t cost you a thing to get started either.

Shade 3D for Unity for Mac OS X users can also get a $50 discount on purchasing Shade 3D commercial products by following a specific set of feedback directions on the Mirye Software website. A free Windows version of Shade 3D for Unity is also available through the Mirye Software website.

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Mirye Software is the software publishing arm of Proactive International. Mirye Software publishes multi-platform software titles for professional developers and designers. Mirye Software publishes Shade 3D, a broadcast ready 3D modeling, animation and rendering suite of tools for Windows and Mac OS X. Shade is originally developed in Japanese by E Frontier Corporation in Japan. In addition, Mirye Software also provides the Mori Shade 3D collections and Meshbox 3D model libraries for licensing. Copyright (C) 2013 Mirye Software. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh and Mac OS X are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries.