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Electric Rain launches Swift 3D v3.0
By ron carlson, Insanely Great Mac
September 24th 2002
New version provides realistic vector output styles, photo quality raster export and
SmartLayer Technology for direct integration with Flash
Electric Rain has announced the release of Swift 3D v3.0, a standalone application
allowing designers to build and export 3D animations to the Macromedia Flash (SWF)
file format, as well as other major vector and raster formats.
"Electric Rain continues to innovate and raise the bar in the 3D-to-vector industry,"
said Mike Soucie, president. "Swift 3D v3 offers ground-breaking advancements in
realistic vector rendering with new RAViX III rendering options, while the Swift 3D
Importer for Flash MX creates a whole new approach for Flash designers and developers
integrating 3D into their projects. And with a complete ray tracing rendering engine
that supports bitmap textures and photorealistic output, it''s clear that Swift 3D V3
is a big-time upgrade that provides significant value at an affordable price."
RAViX III Vector Output options:
� Transparency - Renders individual objects with opacity settings respected by Flash;
� Reflectivity - Supports reflective materials to create realistic vector and raster
effects;
� Advanced Specularity - Gradated highlights add depth to low-bandwidth output styles;
and
� Multiple Shadows - Overlapping shadows from any light source increase visual
accuracy.
SmartLayer technology works in conjunction with the Swift 3D Importer plug-in for
Macromedia Flash MX enabling users to render 3D scenes to a proprietary file format.
Files can then be imported directly into Flash MX libraries with various aspects of
the scene broken out into individual layers, offering unprecedented new design
possibilities.
The EMO Ray Tracer enables the use of bitmap textures within 3D scenes, and supports
ultra-realistic rendering output with transparency, reflection and refraction. Swift
3D V3 exports raster images and animations to the JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and TGA file
formats, as well as Macromedia Flash (SWF). SWF files are cropped on a per-frame basis
to guarantee smallest files possible.
Swift 3D V3 is available immediately. The SRP for Swift 3D V3 is $169.00 for both the
download and boxed CD versions. Upgrades from previous versions of Swift 3D are
$89.00, with a limited time offer to upgrade for $79.00.
Editor''s note: If the Flash animation on the Swift 3D site is any indication of its
efficacy, then this is one slick app.
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