Swift 3D Xpress for Flash MX coming in mid-October
updated 08:50 pm EDT, Tue October 5, 2004
Swift 3D Xpress for Flash
Electric Rain today announced standalone for Mac OS X, scheduled for mid-October. Swift 3D Xpress will be priced at $130 or $40 when purchased with Swift 3D 4.0 standalone.
"The Swift 3D Xpress extension offers powerful 3D design capabilities to the Flash user with a minimal investment of time, effort and money," said Mike Soucie, President of Electric Rain, Inc. "Macromedia customers using Mac OS X will now have access to the leading 3D technology without needing to leave the comfort of the Flash MX 2004 interface. By incorporating easy-to-use 3D design tools and two powerful rendering engines right into the Flash MX authoring environment, the Xpress extension is sure to open up new doors for anyone interested in utilizing 3D in their projects."
Swift 3D Xpress includes one-step conversion of 2D artwork to extruded 3D objects, an extensive material gallery with many customization options, flexible beveling of any extruded object, pre-built lighting schemes, drag-and-drop animations, vector rendering using the RAViX III rendering engine, ray traced raster rendering for photorealistic imagery, automatic creation of Flash movie clips, and round tripping for further editing of 3D movie clips.
