Presenter 3D represents a major upgrade to VIDI's modeling and animation technology and an aggressive commitment to support Apple technology. VIDI is offering the first complete solution for creating QuickTime VR scenes and object movies and is now fully supporting QuickDraw 3D. Multi-target Morphing provides the tools necessary to create rich character and facial animation, and a new visual tool helps fine tune surface attributes, VIDI also further enhances its extensible animation technology with new group motion and particle effect plug-ins.
Presenter 3D offers new features not found in any other application on any platform and required a significant level of innovation and engineering development to complete. Presenter 3D was optimized to support a new plug-in architecture, provide improved ray tracing speed and memory utilization, and, with the introduction of targeted 3D morphing features, support a new, complex data structure called "generation object sets."
Additional capabilities include a 3DMF import/export capability that is unique in its support of NURB surfaces and a QuickDraw 3D viewer built into the 3D window.
To Presenter 3D's unique Wrap texture mapping that fits the map directly on the spline-mesh surface and eliminating projected map distortion and "creep", we added Cylindrical, Spherical, and Cubic mapping along with graphic map placement interface. The Ease In/Out buttons enable animators to smoothly vary any parameter over time.
To top it off, we've added a blazing Phong shader. So if you don't have Presenter 3D yet, download the demo version and give it a try.