Electric Rain Swift 3D V4.5 & Swift 3D Xpress Bundle-2 titles

Swift 3D V4.5 & Swift 3D Xpress Bundle from Electric Rain

Two great software titles in one value-priced package!

NOTE: This is Academic pricing. Proof of enrollment or employment needed.



Swift 3D V4.5

The Ultimate 3D Tool for Macromedia Flash!

Swift 3D is the most versatile and easy-to-use standalone tool for creating high-quality, low-bandwidth 3D vector and raster animations for Macromedia Flash™.

PLEASE NOTE: This product is available as a download only, boxed product is NOT available.

There's a reason Swift 3D is the industry-leading 3D vector graphics animation tool.

Swift 3D is the only 3D application to directly integrate with Macromedia Flash and provides unrivaled vector rendering quality and output style options. Swift 3D's toolset and interface allow anyone to quickly create 3D content while providing a full set of advanced tools to grow into. With both vector and video export capabilities, Swift 3D provides the entire motion graphics design industry with a powerful, easy to use 3D solution that delivers high quality results for an affordable price.

Swift 3D v4.5 Key Features

High Quality, Low-Bandwidth 3D Vector Realism

• 4 outline styles, 5 cartoon fill styles & 2 gradient fill styles
• Pen Style Outlines
• Create vector reflections
• Render transparent materials with opacity
• Multiple overlapping shadows
• Advanced specularity

• Swift 3D Importer for Flash 8 streamlines workflow
• SmartLayer Technology separates vector layers in Flash:
• - Still objects and objects in motion
• - Fill styles and outlines
• - Shadows, speculars, reflections and transparency
• Automatically import Swift 3D files into Flash 8 Library

• Photorealistic output with reflection and refraction
• Render transparent materials with opacity
• Multiple overlapping shadows
• Advanced specularity
• Bitmap textures like wood and metal
• Procedural textures like glass and chrome

• 3D Text from TrueType or PostScript fonts
• Extensive library of 3D primitives
• Extrusion Editor for simple shape extrusion
• Lathe Editor with familiar bezier path tools
• Extrusion scaling, copy & paste, & Lathe paste
• Advanced modeling environment
• Smoothing and rounding surface areas
• Designate rendered lines to be drawn

• Drag-and-drop material & texture gallery
• Procedural textures like glass and chrome
• Advanced texture mapping tools
• Apply materials and textures to surfaces
• Import 3ds files with bitmap textures

• Drag-and-drop animation palette
• Full featured keyframe timeline
• Animate cameras and lighting schemes
• Bezier path animation tools
• Morphing of text and paths
• Hierarchy for parent-child relationships
• Camera & light hierarchy additions
• Numeric rotation & rotation trackball axis cues

• 2D vector artwork from AI and EPS files
• 3D scenes and models from 3DS and DXF files

• Vector Formats: SWF, AI, EPS, SVG and SWFT (MX Importer)
• Raster Formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIF, TGA
• Video Formats: FLV, AVI, MOV
• Vector Style Video : FLV, AVI, MOV

• Animation spins
• Animation fly-bys, deformations & paths
• Material & texture pallets
• Mood setting lighting schemes
• Professional 3D models
• Popular extrusion & lathe models
• Scene environments
• Bevel collection
• Save models, lights, materials & animations

• Web Assist Tab within Swift 3D UI gives instant access:
• Swift 3D resources
• Erain community forums
• Customer account section
• Product registration
• Tutorials
• Support

• Camera views: front, back, left, right, top, bottom
• Camera views: perspective
• Shading views: smooth and wireframe
• Shading views: textures
• Enhanced viewport rendering
• Open GL hardware cceleration
• Framing: frame all & frame selection

• Quickly satisfy the most common 3D needs
• No experience with 3D software necessary
• Never have to leave the Flash environment
• Create the highest quality output available
• Painless upgrade path to a full 3D application