| 3ds max ™ 5 � Now Shipping! |
| Discreet,
a division of Autodesk, Inc. announces the best upgrade of 3ds max
5. |
 3ds
max™ the world's most widely-used 3D modeling, animation, and
rendering software contains the essential high-productivity tools
required for creating eye-catching film and television animation,
cutting-edge games, and distinct design visualizations.
Experience the powerful new 3ds max 5 for the ultimate in realism, expression,
productivity and flexibility:
Realism
• Global illumination
with exposure control,
photometric lights
& new shaders
• Interactive Physics
• Export to real-time 3D environments with
Render-to-Texture, Normal Maps, and Light
Maps
• Support for Vertex Color Baking of Radiosity
solutions
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Expression
• New intuitive Curve and Dope Sheet Editor,
Draw Curves, and Soft Key Selections
• Enhanced animation capabilities
with a new
Set Key system to streamline pose-to-pose
animation
Productivity
• Perfect control over mapping coordinates with
a new UVW Unwrap modifier
• Unmatched polygonal modeling
• Free 5th-generation
backburner™ network
rendering & management utility for
management of 3ds max and combustion®
Flexibility
• New short-term rental programs available
• New floating network licenses
• New subscription software program
Full
Story at Discreet |
| 3D Web Zone |
Swift 3D Max Plug-In |
Discreet & Macromedia
Partnering for a Better 3D web
Discreet and Macromedia are working together to make the Internet a truly 3D environment. As leading providers of web content creation tools and playback technologies, we are poised to deliver even better rich media experiences in the future.Coming Soon! The 3ds max 4 exporter for Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio 3ds max™ 4 is the 3D content creation tool of choice for web professionals with an exporter that has the tightest integration with Director 8.5. Because 3ds max and Director work so well together, our exporter is the reference exporter for the Director 8.5 SDK and the only 3D content exporter to ship with Director 8.5. The 3ds max 4 exporter, available when Director 8.5 begins shipping, has the most efficient workflow supporting: MultiRes mesh technology, providing streaming previews and levels of detail within 3ds max 4. character studio®s biped and physique character animation. Selective export of textures, animations, bones, geometry, and materials to Director for incremental content development. Export Analysis�lists potential transfer issues with a specific object, speeding up the conversion process. Resource usage�shows memory and bandwidth of scene, which can then be adjusted to the desired file size. Start creating your 3D web content now! Ideaworks' Vecta 3D-max™ plug-in for 3ds max 4 exports your 3ds max animations directly to the Macromedia Flash™, Shockwave� and Adobe Illustrator® formats the most flexible animated media and illustration types on the web.
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Electric Rain Swift plug-In for 3ds max sets a new standard in 3d vector output.
The Swift 3D Max plug-in exports 3D scenes with supreme accuracy, while staying true to colors, lighting schemes, camera views and animations. With unmatched rendering speed, RAViX II renders up to 10x faster than other 3D-to- vector rendering products. It supports an extensive array of rendering options including 3 levels of outlines, 5 levels of cartoon shading, 2 levels of gradient shading, plus shadows, specular highlights, and a new preview window that allows users to see the results of each rendered frame.
Swift 3D MAX is able to handle models and objects containing well over 200,000 polygons, including complex intersecting and self-intersecting objects. The resulting files are fully optimized so users do not have to rely on outside applications (i.e. Macromedia Flash) to perform the optimization that competitive products require.
"Macromedia is excited to see yet another quality 3D solution from Electric Rain". "The Swift 3D standalone application has served as a complementary tool to Macromedia Flash for over a year now, and now Electric Rain Swift 3D MAX plug-in will only further extend the power of Flash by allowing high-end 3D designers to export directly to the Macromedia Flash (SWF) file format."
Swift 3D MAX is available immediately on the Windows platform and is compatible with 3ds max versions 3, 3.1 and 4. The SRP for Swift 3D MAX is US $295, and is currently available from the Electric Rain website at www.erain.com. |
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The most recent free update for 3ds max is version 4.2. English language
version is available at this time.
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Top animators working for computer gaming companies, animation houses, and FX studios. Such as Pixar, Digital Domain, Dreamworks SKG, etc.
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days remaining to submit an image for the Adrenaline contest.
The 3D contest is to explore Extreme Sports. 3dluvr.com would like
to make this contest character based with a suitable environment,
meaning that character's involved in the specific extreme sport activity
has to be the primary focus of your image.
Competition is open to everyone, worldwide.
Online registration
Contest deadline is:
September 01 2002 |
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