Electric
Rain Announces Development of Swift 3D 3.O
for Mac OS X
Popular 3D Flash Application Will Leverage
Mac OS X’s Advanced Graphics Architecture,
Memory Management System and Multitasking
Capabilities |
BOULDER, CO -- (INTERNET WIRE) -- 02/25/2003 --
Today, Electric Rain, Inc.® announced the upcoming
release of Swift 3D® 3.0 for Mac OS X. Swift 3D
is a standalone application for designers to build
and export 3D animations to the Macromedia® FlashT
(SWF) file format, as well as other major vector
and raster formats. Swift 3D for Mac OS X will be
available late spring 2003 as a free upgrade to
existing Swift 3D 3.0 users.
"Electric Rain is proud to broaden its support
for the Mac community by making Swift 3D available
for Mac OS X," said Mike Soucie, President of
Electric Rain, Inc. "Swift 3D is a powerful 3D
authoring tool that becomes even more compelling
when paired with Mac OS X and its advanced capabilities."
"Mac OS X, with Quartz Extreme, has the most
advanced graphics architecture available," said
Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide
Developer Relations. "We are pleased to see Swift
3D take advantage of Mac OS X's powerful graphics
capabilities and give the Mac an impressive 3D
package with which to create high-quality vector
Flash output."
The Mac OS X version of Swift 3D will offer significant
advantages over previous versions by utilizing
Mac OS X's dynamic memory management and multi-tasking
capabilities, providing faster rendering speeds
and enhanced workflow.
Swift 3D 3.0 for Mac OS X will offer Electric
Rain's latest innovations in quick and easy 3D
authoring:
- RAViX III Rendering Engine:
With options including
reflections, transparency, specularity and multiple
shadows,
users can create higher-quality output than
previously seen in
a 3D-to-vector product without creating oversized
files.
- SmartLayer Technology: A patent-pending technology
that works
in conjunction with the Swift 3D Importer plug-in
for
Macromedia Flash MX enabling users to render
scenes to layers,
offering new design possibilities, better workflow
and smaller
files.
- EMO Ray Tracer: With full support for bitmap
texturing, a
second rendering engine exports images and animations
with
photorealistic quality to popular raster-based
file formats as
well as Macromedia Flash (SWF).
The Mac OS X version of Swift 3D 3.0 will be
available at www.erain.com in late spring of 2003
and will be a free upgrade for owners of Swift
3D 3.0 for Macintosh. The SRP for Swift 3D 3.0
is $169.00 USD for the download and boxed CD version.
Upgrades from previous versions of Swift 3D are
$89.00 USD.
About Electric Rain, Inc.
Electric Rain is the industry-leading developer
and supplier of 3D-to-vector software solutions
for Macromedia Flash. Electric Rain's product
line includes Swift 3D standalone and Swift 3D
plug-ins for 3ds max and LightWave 3D. Electric
Rain actively licenses its proprietary RAViX®
vector rendering technology to 3D software companies.
For more information, visit www.erain.com or call
1-888-613-1500.
About Electric Rain, Inc.
Electric Rain, Inc. is a fast moving 3D and multimedia
software company with a vision of bringing easy-to-use
3D and multimedia tools to the masses. Through
the release of Swift 3D, the Swift 3D plug-ins
for 3ds max and LightWave 3D, and the company's
proprietary RAViX rendering technology, Electric
Rain has quickly become the industry-leading developer
and supplier of 3D-to-vector solutions. More information
about Electric Rain, its products and technologies
is available at www.erain.com or by calling 1-888-613-1500.
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For More Information Contact:
Carrie Cochrane - Electric Rain, Inc.
P (303) 543-8233
F (303) 543-8225
E ccochrane@erain.com
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