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VoxelShop is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
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Pros
Pro Cross-platform
VoxelShop is available for Windows, OS X and Linux.
Pro Free
VoxelShop is Open Source. You can download and use the software for free, but donations are encouraged to support the project.
Pro Great for game-dev
Exported .dae files are optimized to lowest possible amount of polygons. Despite lack of animation support .dae files can be imported to Blender and animated.
Pro Layers
Pro Export to COLLADA
Pro Exports optimized meshes
The export (to DAE files) removes unnecessary geometry, creating an optimized model.
Pro Palettes
Easy to go with a theme.
Pro Textured voxels
Pro Exports to kv6
Helpful for making larger voxels for Doom.
Pro Open source
Pro GNU/Linux
At least somewhat available for GNU/Linux.
Pro Supports .obj
Pro Available on Android
Pro Simple Interface
Pro Supports procedural rendering
You can script a build for it to render.
Pro Exports to PLY format
Pro Available in Debian/Ubuntu repository
If you don't have it installed yet, just enter "sudo apt install goxel && goxel" on the terminal, and you will be running it in a few seconds.
Pro Available on iOS
Works nicely with Apple Pencil.
Cons
Con Website is no longer available.
Con Does not support .obj export format
Con Really buggy
Sometimes it crashes at startup, some large models instantly crash the program, having the mirror function on causes every action to get mirrored (even imports get mirrored).
Con Not easy to export to .qb when there are many models
Con Hasn't Been Updated in over a year.
Con Missing docu/tutorials
Finding help on e.g. using materials is missing or not easy to find.
Con Have to compile it yourself on Linux
Con On Windows, tiny UI on 4K monitors
