Marcus Geduld reviews Electric Rain Swift 3D v6 at Layer's Magazine.
Advanced users will enjoy Swift 3D's ability to import industry-standard 3DS and DFX formats. Swift 3D also includes polygon tools for advanced modeling. Developers will enjoy the program's ability to export models and Papervision3D scenes.
There seems to be some old info at the bottom of the review (cut and pasted over an old review, is my guess). The price is $249.
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Boulder, CO - June 8, 2009 - Today Electric Rain presented Adobe Flash designers with a new version of its popular Swift 3D software. Swift 3D version 6.0 adds exciting capabilities to enhance its already robust feature set, enabling 3D designers of all levels to introduce 3D to their projects with minimal effort and no limitations. With the addition of Boolean operations, advanced texturing and bump mapping, PaperVision3D v2.0 export, 5x increases in rendering speed, and support for cloning and arrays, there is something for everyone in this release.
Electric Rain’s intuitive and easy-to-use Swift 3D is already the de-facto application for designers exporting vector and raster-based 3D animations to Adobe Flash, as well as to video and common vector-based formats, such as Adobe Illustrator and EPS. Initially a pioneer in the 3D-to-vector world, Swift 3D is now accepted as a highly-capable and versatile 3D authoring application, while maintaining its reputation as the marquee tool for producing vector-based 3D content for Flash.
"The feature set we’re releasing with V6 brings Swift 3D into line with much more expensive 3D tools on the market," said Mike Soucie, CEO of Electric Rain.
"And it does so without sacrificing the approachability designers have grown to appreciate with our applications. V6 builds upon the legacy of the Swift 3D product line and we have gone to great lengths to continue to add powerful modeling, texturing and export capabilities that rivals the power found in high-end 3D applications while maintaining a designer-friendly workflow. Besides that, Swift 3D is rendering really fast now!"
The most anticipated features of Swift 3D 6.0 are:- Boolean Operations with non-destructive union, intersection and subtraction options
- Up to 5 times faster rendering and multi-processor support with raster export
- PaperVision3D v2.0 export for real-time 3D object display in Flash
- Clone and array tools for easy multi-object editing and rich scene development
- Bump map material support and advanced texture mapping for maximum 3D realism
- Background tracing images and multi-path support within Extrusion and Lathe Editors
- Advanced lighting with soft shadow rendering and improved viewport camera controls
While useful features continue to augment Swift 3D’s quick-and-easy 3D production environment, rendering performance improves significantly with this release. The EMO ray tracer renderer powering Swift 3D’s image and video export has been drastically improved to the tune of a five-fold increase in rendering speeds. V6 also adds support for utilizing today’s multi-processor machines, and with the addition soft shadow rendering Swift 3D is clearly challenging the more expensive 3D video production applications, minus the premium price. Swift 3D v6.0 continues to offer the widest range of vector rendering options, with a multitude of fill and outline choices, artistic pen styles and built-in optimization tools.
Swift 3D v6.0 for Windows and Macintosh is now available now for $249.00 USD.
Upgrades from previous versions start at $99.00.
About Electric RainElectric Rain is a Boulder, Colorado-based software company with a vision of bringing easy-to-use multimedia creation and editing tools to business and design professionals. Electric Rain has become the industry-leading developer of 3D Adobe Flash solutions, selling over 70,000 units of its flagship product Swift 3D. Electric Rain’s partners include Adobe, Autodesk, and Microsoft. Labels: Electric Rain, Swift3D, upgrade
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Swift 3D PS plug-in for Photoshop CS4. It accomplishes simple 3D tasks in seconds with remarkable results and places your 3D text, extrusions or models back into Photoshop as 3D layers for further manipulation with their toolset and filters.
Swift 3D PS is a fun and easy-to-use Photoshop plug-in that will have you exploring entirely new hemispheres of Photoshop CS4 Extended. It accomplishes simple 3D tasks in seconds with remarkable results and places your 3D text, extrusions or models back into Photoshop as 3D layers. These layers remain fully editable by Swift 3D PS, even after Photoshop's array of layer styles and filters are applied. Swift 3D PS offers the same powerful capabilities of our standalone product, but works within the confines of the Photoshop environment.
Swift 3D PS introduces a very simple but extremely powerful Boolean primitive to our modeler, which allows you to combine or punch holes through objects using other 3D objects in your scene. It's all non-destructive, allowing easy editing and unlimited possibilities!
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Swift 3D is a standalone application enabling designers to quickly and easily create high-quality 3D animations and scenes for use in Adobe Flash, Papervision3D, video, and other rich media design projects. Swift 3D v5 Mac Universal Binary is now available, and is a
free update to existing v5 for Mac customers.
What's New in Swift 3D v5:- New Papervision3D Export from Swift 3D V5 From designer to coder, we implemented Papervision3D with all skill levels in mind. In fact, beginners don't have to write a line of code to export their 3D scenes or models for Flash with interactive mouse rotation and zooming.
- Import and Render Transparent Textures Transparent textures also work with the Papervision3D and 3DS export. Swift 3D also renders refraction based on your settings.
- Orthographic Views Makes modeling a snap. Orthographic views take away the camera perspective that makes the task of lining up objects difficult.
- Keyframe Easing New easing controls work with the keyframes in your animation timeline to smooth out position, rotation, and scaling transitions.
- Extrusion / Lathe Free Transform Swift 3D V5 provides the missing tool from previous versions and improves workflow in both the extrusion and lathe editing environments.
- Built-in Optimization Swift 3D Version 5 adds a user-controlled post-render process utilizing slider controls that allow you to further reduce file sizes by 50% or more!
- Drag / Drop Animation Visuals New drag and drop animation visuals give you an at-a-glance view of pre-defined animation paths and rotations.
- .3ds Export Swift 3D now allows you to export your 3D models and scenes to the .3ds format for use in other 3D programs that support this industry standard file format. All materials, lighting, and animation are exported. This new functionality also allows tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS Extended.
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