What's new in 3D Invigorator Pro 8.0.0
Nov 28, 2014
- Compatible with OS X 10.7 or above and Intel Mac Only
- Compatible with After Effects CS6 - After Effects CC 2014
- Real-Time Rendering:
- Optimized OpenGL and Ray-Traced Renderer- Our OpenGL and Ray Trace Renderer is now faster than ever! Create hundreds of thousands of polygons without having to worry about slowdown. Everything updates in real-time with texturing, lighting and shadows.
- Auto-Rendering- With Auto-Rendering, whenever you make any changes the scene automatically renders. No need to keep having to click the Render Test button to see what your objects look like.
- Depth of Field - Use Depth of Field to create highly realistic images where some objects are in focus while other objects are out of focus.
- Instancing:
- Instanced Text- With instanced text, you can set the text to be instanced by character, word, or paragraphs. This lets you distribute walls of text to create amazing text backgrounds quickly and easily.
- Instanced Objects- With instanced objects, the program automatically duplicates as many objects as you want without slowing down the program. Objects can be distributed using our distribution tools.
- New Distribution Types - Use new distribution tools such as assigning your objects to take on the shape of a different object, or other simple shapes such as cubes, spheres and more.
- Materials - Apply the same material or different materials to the instanced objects.
- Randomization - Use our randomize controls to place objects in random positions instead of scattering objects one by one.
- Normal Maps:
- Applying Normal Maps- Our Material Editor gives you the ability to load either a normal map or bump map to create realistic effects.
- Realistic Material Presets- Our material presets have been re-edited with normal maps for even more realistic effects for your objects.
- New Lighting Controls:
- Image Based Lighting- Apply Image Based Lighting for highly realistic lighting effects for your scene.
- Shadow Lights- Create a light that doesn't affect your scene, but has the ability to cast shadows.
- Note: Wireframe and Hidden line rendering styles are no longer supported. If you have any projects that are using wireframe or hidden line rendering, the material will render as a solid color instead. You may use the Grid Shader as an alternative for Hidden Line rendering.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 7.0.1 (Dec 19, 2013)
- Flares optimization to allow much faster preview speed.
- Fix with Flare color not displaying properly.
- Memory optimization to prevent out of memory issues.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 7.0.0 (Dec 6, 2013)
- Advanced Lighting Controls - Create your own lighting animations using After Effects keyframes.
- Set up your lights to track objects, the camera and more.
- Use Fan controls for lights to fan out, or converge at a point.
- Work with Parallel, Point or Spot lights to create a realistic 3D environment.
- Lighting Fixtures - Dozens of lighting fixture presets.
- Variety of Trusses and Pipes - Create complex trusses such as box, triangular, rectangle trusses, or laced and ring pipes with a click of a button.
- Lens Flares - Dozens of Lighting Flares can be used for any lighting effect. Contains a wide variety of flares to use for professional stage effects.
- Flare Editor. This lets you create extremely realistic glows and spikes to produce the perfect flare for your scene.
- Light Cones - Customize your light with dozens of different beams such as hard, soft, smooth, wash, and many other moody lights.
- Lighting Rigs - Use lighting rigs to instantly add stage elements to your project.
- Gorgeous Photo-Realistic Materials - Over a hundred highly detailed, seamless materials.
- Newly Designed Interface - Re-designed buttons and easier to read text.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 6.1.0 (Sep 27, 2012)
- GPU-based Open GL rendering. Enables final quality textures, bump maps, reflections and shadows right in the 3D preview window.
- Changes have been made to handle text editing under more situations allowing text to be freely edited while retaining its original position.
- The user interface on Windows has been upgraded for a more modern look.
- A blur function was added to the noise shaders making for better bump maps and a wider range of uses.
- Bump maps have been made more dramatic... and useful.
- The Specular channel is now full color ... good for metallic materials.
- Material channels now show a "no" sign if they don't affect the material. This makes it very easy to see which channels are contributing to the look of the material.
- Imported 3D objects now have normals imported too.
- There is a new Preference to disable jumping to the start of a Pose or Transition when a control is changed. This enables you to leave the Time Marker at a point in time while you change the controls at a different time
- Undo now works faster, especially when working with Fragmentations.
- ProAnimator no longer pops to the front each time a frame is rendered. This way you can put ProAnimator in the background and work on other things while it's still rendering.
- Object Animation presets can now be organized into folders.
- The timeline will automatically scroll if you drag a Pose past the end of the timeline.
- The drawing window now automatically scrolls if you drag objects to the edge of the drawing area.
- Fixes an issue where using the Color Picker when working on a Mac OSX Lion may cause the program to crash.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 6.0.0 (Jul 6, 2012)
- Ray Tracer Renderer
- Refractions - Create realistic looking materials that simulate the effect of glass, ice, or water.
- Ray Trace Reflectivity - Make surfaces reflective. You'll be able to see the other objects in the reflections!
- Falloff - Apply to make the reflections fade off over a certain distance.
- Ambient Occlusion - Darkens corners and areas where one object is close another to add realism for shadows.
- Ray Trace Shadows - Create more realistic shadows than using Shadow Maps.
- Grid Shaders - Create Grids or different line patterns. Useful for creating tiles.
- Collect Files - Used to collect all media files that are being used by materials.
- Import Images - Select images to import and they automatically get mapped onto 3D Planes. It's easier than ever to create 3D backgrounds.
- Trace Background - In the Object Drawing window, use the "." command after tracing a background image to instantly transfer the background image onto the object you are tracing.
- Increased Number for Sets and Layer Maps - Animate up to 16 Sets and apply up to 16 Layer Maps for your materials.
- Shadow Catcher Plane - Select a 3D After Effects layer to use as a shadow catcher layer.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 5.1.0 (Mar 24, 2012)
- Optimization for rendering frames with Motion Blur and Fields.
- Fixes compatibility with the Zapf Dingbat font so the preview shows up properly.
- Fixes the Orthographic camera so you can now orbit using the camera.
- Fixes a crash where if you move Text and use the Undo command, this may cause the program to crash.
- Fixes an issue where deleting shapes in the Profile Editor may cause a crash.
- Fixes an issue where using the Undo command after applying Object Styles may cause the program to crash.
- Fixes a crash if you try to duplicate more than one Set.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 5.0.9 (Dec 30, 2011)
- Optimized the performance when working with many objects in the scene.
- Improved responsiveness of commands in the Object List panel.
- Fixes an issue where certain controls would not accept typed in values (Windows Only)
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 5.0.8 (Nov 26, 2011)
- You can now copy and paste the text from one 3D Text window to another, as well as copying text from word processing programs to paste into the program's 3D Text window.
- Upgraded the drawing of Bezier paths so they're easier to draw and manipulate.
- You can now cycle through the drawing tools by repeatedly pressing a tool's shortcut key.
- Made it easier to delete swatches.
- Fixed how reflection maps were applied when reopening version 4 projects in version 5.
- Drawing window grids can now be hidden.
- Improves Video Card Compatibility for both Mac and Windows.
- The file icons are now modern and awesome!
- Rearchitected how text works so it's now more intuitive to create text blocks or individual text objects. This also makes it much easier to replace text for versioning or doing text substitution.
- The program now saves the last Camera used and the interface will open with the previously used camera.
- The Render Test button now works for all Cameras instead of just the Main Camera.
- Fixes an issue where After Effects may run out of memory and crash during rendering.
- Fixes an issue where editing the text from a version 4 project may cause the text to shift in position.
- Fixes an issue where black pixels may appear during a render when using Fresnel materials.
- Fixes an issue where you have to re-link the Text Substitution file after re-opening the project file.
- Fix for a crash that may occur if you are working in a separate program such as Illustrator or Photoshop, and using the Save command.
New in 3D Invigorator Pro 4.5.1 (Apr 17, 2010)
- New feature: user and master swatches. User swatches are now saved in the "Documents > Zaxwerks" folder.
- Compatibility with After Effects CS4.