Now artists, designers, and multimedia developers can work in 3-D with Visual Reality 2.0 for Windows ($259). The package, which consists of four modules -- RenderizeLive, Visual Model, Visual Font, and Visual Image -- lets you drag and drop objects, materials, and images between applications. RenderizeLive, a 3-D rendering and animation tool, lets you combine input from other Visual Reality 2.0 modules and images to create full-color, high-resolution, photo-realistic renderings. Visual Model lets you create 3-D models, Visual Font transforms TrueType fonts into 3-D words, and Visual Image lets you combine or collage photos and images and then perform multilayer image-processing and enhancement procedures. Visual Reality 2.0 also includes push/pull, melt, stretch, twist, and band tools; enhanced free-form modeling; key-frame object
and camera animation; the ability to drag and drop 3-D data from Visual Catalog, a 3-D data module; solid-shaded modeling; 3-D Boolean operations; organic deformations; and 3-D morphing between objects.
Contact: Visual Software, Woodland Hills, CA, (800) 669-7318 or (818) 883-7900.
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