A prototype 3D video animation package for the Amiga Computer led to the incorporation of Octree Software in 1986.
Caligari wanted to provide inexpensive yet professional, industrial video and corporate presentation software.
[citation needed] In 1993 Octree Software moved from New York to California and became known as Caligari Corporation.
In 1998 an employee inadvertently left a copy of the trueSpace 4.0 sourcecode on the company website's public FTP server.
[2] As of May 19, 2009, Ormandy announced that TrueSpace had been discontinued: Dear Caligari customer, You may have heard that Microsoft Corporation, reacting to difficult business conditions, has been evaluating many of the products it produces and making the difficult decision to reduce investment in certain areas.
It featured a plug-in architecture that allowed the user to create tools to enhance the core package.
Capabilities of the software include creating visualizations and animations with realistic lighting (through the use of radiosity, HDRI and global illumination) and organic modelling using NURBS, subdivision surfaces and metaballs.
The software has several native formats: RsScn for scenes, RsObj for objects, RSMat for materials, rsl for layouts, RsLgts for lighting, etc.