N-World

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N-World is 3D Graphic Tools software package developed by Nichimen Graphics Inc in 1995[1] for Silicon Graphics and Windows NT workstations. Shortly after the establishment in Los Angeles, California the company ported Symbolics Genera[2] to Silicon Graphics workstations, an operating system developed by now-defunct computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc.[3] (one of the premier software development environments of the 1980s and 1990s), which was significantly enhanced to form Nichimen's flagship product, N-World.

The N-World Graphics package includes a polygon modeler (N-Geometry), an animation choreography utility (N-Dynamics), a fully-integrated 64-bit paint system (N-Paint), a toll to paint directly onto the surface of a 3D model (N-Paint 3D[4]) a skeletal animation utility (Skeletal Animation System), a photorealistic renderer (N-Render) and a module to send data and interactively preview content on the target system (Game Express/Saturn Express[5]).

The N-World software was discontinued in the year 1999 with the last stable version (version 3.2) released in January of that year, and substituted by another Nichimen's software called Mirai[6] (used in facial morph targets for the Gollum character in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy).

In 2017 a Silicon Graphics Indy workstation which belonged to Probe Software has surfaced in the internet, with wath appears to be the source code for NBA Jam Extreme and a working copy of the N-World software (version 3.1b).

Games utilising N-World

Sega Saturn

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