Features

General

• File compatible multi-platform development.
• True 32 bit application.
• Low memory requirements.
• Extremely fast.
• Multi-tasking with multi-threading.
• The user interface is style guide compliant.

Editor

• Object shading in realtime.
• Precise object construction with numerical and mathematical input of all parameters, even as formulae.
• Choice of measurement system and units (pixel, nanometres up to kilometres, frames, SMPTE code).
• User-defined tool boxes.
• Virtual walk-through.
• Presentation and editing as floor plan, front elevation, side elevation, 3D view or as a combination of all four.
• Make objects or groups invisible.
• Screen redraw may be interrupted at any time.

Objects

• Hierarchical object management with any depth you like.
• Excellent range of basic objects.
• Complex special objects (height reliefs, figure, sun, floor, sky and many others).
• New forms and objects created using the rotation, extrusion, coiling and binding of splines.
• Bevels.

Splines

• Infinite number of 3D polygons and splines.
• Interpolation types: Linear, Akima, B-Spline, Cubic and Hermite.
• Functions and Tools
• Interactive object deformation.
• Rotation, moving, scaling, pulling and magnet in realtime.
• Boolean operations.
• Converts TrueType fonts into 3D objects or splines.
• File format is cross-platform compatible.
• Mirror, Wrap, Align to Path, Centre, Distort, Deform, Sub-divide, Transfer to Object, Optimise, Join, Align to Point or Object.

Camera

• Infinite numbers of cameras.
• Choice of lenses ranging from wide angle up to super telephoto lenses.
• User defined frame and pixel sizes.
• Choice of depth of focus (sharp foreground, background or middle).
• Light sources
• Infinite number of coloured light sources.
• Automatic lighting.
• Spotlights, fog, environment lighting and fading light.
• Hard and soft shadows.
• Parallel and divergent light.
• Visible light.
• Accurate sun simulation.
• Lens flares, lens glows, lens reflections and light effects.

Materials and Texturing

• Expandable material libraries.
• Real time material preview.
• Attributes for colour, luminosity, transparency, fog, bump mapping, refraction, reflection, highlight, highlight colour,genlocking and environment mapping.
• Flat, cylindrical and spherical material projections.
• Tiling of textures.
• Infinite number of materials and textures per object.

Animation

• Keyframe animation.
• Simple control via record, start, stop, rewind, forward.
• Object, camera, material, texture, light and sun animation.
• Path animation with any splines.
• Full hierarchical animation.
• Skeleton animation.
• Inverse kinematics.
• True acceleration and deceleration.
• Different spatial and temporal interpolation methods.
• Any combination of special effects including explosions, wind, melt, morph, pulse and vibrate.
• Objects can be constrained to paths.
• Time line and Time control.

Rendering and Output

• Real Raytracing.
• Flat, Phong and Gouraud shading.
• Fast high-quality anti-aliasing (oversampling).
• Post image processing functions (smoothen, sharpen).
• Background and Foreground layers.
• Highly optimised adaptive raytracer.
• Predefined formats for video or computer animation.
• Field rendering for video recording.
• Up to one thousand million light sources and objects.
• AVI/QuickTime movies can be used as textures.

Import

• TIFF, IFF, JPEG, Targa, BMP/PICT (depending on OS), AVI/QuickTime movies (depending on OS), QuickDraw 3D, Adobe Illustrator paths, 2D/3D DXF, Lightwave (objects, scenes, animations and textures), Imagine, external point files.

Export

• TIFF, IFF, JPEG, Targa, BMP/PICT (depending on OS), AVI/QuickTime movies (depending on OS), 3D DXF (polyline, solid, 3D face), QuickDraw 3D, image sequences for QuickTime VR, external point files, depth map, alpha channel.