Editing TrueSpace (section)

==End of Life==
As of May 19, 2009, Ormandy announced that TrueSpace had been discontinued:

{{quote|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 is with regret that I have to tell you that trueSpace is one of the products affected. As a consequence, you will see reduction or elimination of services offered for trueSpace. For example, there will be no phone or email support offered for trueSpace by Microsoft, and our web site may also be affected. '''While the dates are not absolutely fixed, some services and contacts may come to an end as early as Friday May 22, 2009''', while others will continue as long as possible with no firm cutoff date available yet.|[[Roman Ormandy]]<ref name=founder>[[Roman Ormandy]]. [http://www.caligari.com/News/news_200905/LetterFromTheFounder.html Letter from the Founder] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090619080809/http://www.caligari.com/News/news_200905/LetterFromTheFounder.html |date=2009-06-19 }}, Caligari.com</ref>}}

Elsewhere he thanks everyone, urges people to download all the free software as soon as possible.  It may currently (as of 2023) be downloaded from a fan site along with various plugins.<ref>{{cite web |title=trueSpace 7.6 |url=http://truespace3d.free.fr/index.php/truespace-7-6/ |website=trueSpace3d.free.fr |access-date=14 October 2023 |language=fr-FR}}</ref>

After 2010, many of the developers{{Who?|date=October 2023}} helped develop Microsoft's 3D Builder application available for free in the Windows Store. There are many similarities between 3D Builder and the original TrueSpace product.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}