http://www.maxon-computer.com/cinema4d/press_e.html (Amiga Plus Extra No. 5/97, 05/1997)
for immediate release
MAXON is pleased to announce the launch of a major new 3D
design, raytracing and animation package for the Power Macintosh
an Windows 95/NT - CINEMA 4D. First presentations at
international trade shows had an enormous feedback. A very
competent audience, well-known hardware manufacturers,
international press and professional of 3D software users were
very impressed by the number of features, the incredible speed
and the high quality output of CINEMA 4D.
CINEMA 4D is true 32-bit application, fully multi-tasking and
multi-threading. This power gives you a rendering tool that
enables you to do things you always wanted - real time modeling
of a shaded model. Extensive scenes with more than 100,000 faces
can be handled easily even on an average Power Macintosh.
The powerful speed and image quality of CINEMA 4D sets a new
standard for render engines, until now found only on expensive
workstations with expensive software. CINEMA 4D gives you
optimized anti-aliasing with oversampling up to 64 times and
several render qualities; from scanline with transparency and
reflectivity up to real raytracing. Due to its adaptive
technology CINEMA 4D allows you to render even the most complex
images in a matter of seconds or minutes, rather then hours.
CINEMA 4D is up to 10 times faster than other current programs on
the PC or Macintosh. This advantage in speed increases more and
more by a scene's size.
The integrated CINEMA 4D editor offers interruptible redraw,
complex, hierarchical objects, full range of basic and complex
special objects, Splines, Boolean operations, various measuring
systems & units, virtual walkthrough and infinite numbers of
lights with lens flares, lens reflections, light glows, fog and a
lot of more visual effects. The animation part of CINEMA 4D
includes features never seen before in a program in this price
range. Inverse Kinematics, skeletal animation, hierarchic
animation, object morphing, animation preview in real time and
the possibility of integrating QuickTime movies as a texture or
background layer gives you the real render workstation feeling.
CINEMA 4D allows you to configure its user interface yourself.
Thus you get an intuitive and individual interface with parallel
active managers, multi-threading (i.e. for background rendering)
- all conforming to the style guide.
CINEMA 4D reads and writes the following formats: TIFF, Targa,
PICT, IFF, JPEG, QuickTime movie, QuickDraw 3D and 3D-DXF.
Further it imports Adobe Illustrator paths and 2D-DXF and allows
QuickTime VR panorama rendering. On top of this the package
includes hundreds of objects, scenes, animations, textures and
other useful tools. CINEMA 4D for Power Macintosh and
Windows95/NT is available immediately for DM 1,490.- (about US$
950).
MAXON Computer GmbH
Max-Planck-Str. 20
D-61381 Friedrichsdorf
Germany
Tel.: (+49) 6172 5906-0
Fax: (+49) 6172 5906-30
Home page: http://www.maxon-computer.com
E-mail: mailto:c4d-info@maxon-computer.com
CINEMA 4D XL will be the "big brother" of CINEMA 4D
with features the Mac has never seen, like multi-processing (up
to 16 CPUs, e.g. 360% on a four processor-machine), very powerful
particle system, NURBS, 3D free form modeling in real-time,
Bones, a C++/ Java-like programming language and much more.
CINEMA 4D XL will be available at fall '97 at the price of
2,999.- DM. The clou: Buying CINEMA 4D now and upgrading to
CINEMA 4D XL will save you money.
These pictures may freely be published in magazines.
Product of the month in CHIP 12/96
Rating "very good/outstanding" in Macwelt
1/97
Recommendation of PC Video
