Monday, August 11, 2008

Swift 3D Version 5.00.657

Swift 3D Version 5.00.657

Swift 3D Version 5.00.657 | 47.9 MB
for Windows 98, NT, 2K, XP, Vista
Ultimate 3D Software for Flash®, Rich Media and Graphic Design

Swift 3D is the ultimate 3D software for rich media designers. It's the only 3D software to directly integrate with Adobe Flash® through the Swift 3D File Importer and SmartLayer Technology, and produces unrivaled vector rendering quality and output style options. Swift 3D's toolset and interface allow anyone to quickly create 3D content, while providing a full set of advanced tools to grow into. And with new Papervision3D export, Swift 3D introduces a whole new realm of true 3D possibilities in Flash. Swift 3D is a powerful, easy-to-use 3D solution that delivers high-quality results.

Features:

- Papervision3D Export: Swift 3D now exports to the popular Papervision3D format and automatically generates all of the actionscripting required for rotation and zooming mouse interactions in Flash. You don't have to write a line of code...unless you want to.
- Import and Render Transparent Textures: Create bitmap materials with transparency and Swift 3D will respect that transparency when rendering. Transparent textures also work with the Papervision3D and 3DS export. Swift 3D also renders refraction based on your settings.
- Orthographic Views: Makes modeling a snap. Orthographic views take away the camera perspective that makes the task of lining up objects difficult. Quickly and easily toggle in and out of Orthographic View mode to improve the modeling workflow.
- Mesh Morphing Animations: Swift 3D V5 allows you to morph the underlying 3D mesh of your objects. Morph Targets act as starting, ending, and interim points for changes in shape to your 3D objects, allowing you to easily create these mesh transformations.
- Enhanced User Interface: After more than five years, it was time to give Swift 3D the facelift it deserved. The sleek new interface not only looks great, but is more functional and includes many of the usability enhancements our customers have requested throughout the years.
- Keyframe Easing: New easing controls work with the keyframes in your animation timeline to smooth out position, rotation, and scaling transitions.
- Per Object Fill Rendering: Now, with a single pass of the RAViX 4 rendering engine, you can output as many different looks and styles as you want on each object in your 3D scene. Styles applied to objects in the Scene Editor override the settings used in the Preview and Export Editor.
- Extrusion / Lathe Free Transform: Sometimes it’s the little things that make big impacts on workflow and efficiency. A 2D drawing editor isn’t complete without the ability to free transform the shapes. Swift 3D V5 provides the missing tool from previous versions and improves workflow in both the extrusion and lathe editing environments.
- Built-in Optimization: The RAViX vector rendering technology has always produced clean and compact Flash files. Swift 3D Version 5 adds a user-controlled post-render process utilizing slider controls that allow you to further reduce file sizes by 50% or more !
- Drag / Drop Animation Visuals: Sometimes an animation name just isn’t good enough. Our new drag and drop animation visuals give you an at-a-glance view of pre-defined animation paths and rotations. A mouse click on the preview presents an example of the animation to be applied.
- Viewport Consistency: Swift 3D’s Scene Editor now features a 4-viewport layout, making modeling and animation within this environment even easier. This, along with improvements in object selection and standardization of sizing between editing environments give a much improved experience when working between editing environments.
- Per Object Line Options: As with the addition of Per Object Fill Options, you can now apply individual line styles and colors to individual objects within your 3D scene.
- Undo Restructuring: One epic improvement to Swift 3D that you won’t even know is there until you need it is a completely revamped undo system. Version 5 now provides unlimited undo operations across editing environments to help get you back to your happy place.
- HTML /w SWF Export: Swift 3D V5 provides a new output option that embeds your SWF into an HTML page. It’s a quick and easy way to get your work onto the web without the use of other HTML editors.
- .3ds Export: Swift 3D now allows you to export your 3D models and scenes to the .3ds format for use in other 3D programs that support this industry standard file format. All materials, lighting, and animation are exported. This new functionality also allows tight integration with Adobe Photoshop CS Extended.
- Export to XAML for WPF and Silverlight: Swift 3D Exports frame-by-frame animation in XAML format, which is the language the Silverlight Player understands. These XAML files can also be used in Microsoft Expression Blend, as a design element of a larger Silverlight Project. Learn more about Swift 3D and Silverlight integration.

More about Swift 3D 5 is available from here.

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RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR is Live Now!

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RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR is Live now, after 5 months of public Beta. You can now download the RoboHelp Packager for FREE from Adobe site - http://www.adobe.com/products/robohelp/robohelp-packager-for-air. Feature list includes the following -

· Auto Update - Adobe AIR applications that can update themselves when online connection is available and that can work perfectly when desktop is offline. For example, Adobe AIR help file created with RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR will prompt the end-users when an update is available. With a single click, the help file will update itself.
· Web 2.0 Commenting and Review - Adobe AIR applications can store information locally – for example, when you add comments to Online Help, they are stored locally and can be viewed after you have closed the application. End users can also comment on external pages and store the comments as part of help file. Comments are still available when Online Help has been updated (provided file names don’t change) or when you are offline.
· Extensibility - Unlike HTML Help which depends on the CHM viewer, the functionality of the Adobe AIR is extensible and customizable. For example, organizations can add branding information to Adobe AIR help file, including icons for help file, branding imagery on the top of the help file and so on.
· Multiple tab – never before end user experience - Adobe AIR help file also allows you to open multiple tabs within the tri-pane enabling multiple help topics and threads to be navigated at the same time.
· Integrated interface to everything your end users need - You can also add resource links to your help files – enabling a single access point for product pages, user forums, knowledge base, online help and external web pages.
· Multiple templates to choose from - Organizations get to chose from several of the templates and can select a particular skin or theme for each of these templates. With RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR, there are three templates come out of the box - Multi-Tab Accordion, Unipane and Classic Help.
· End user preferences - RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR enables the help users to customize their help by selecting their preferences (something they can’t do for a CHM or for WebHelp output – which is not hosted on a Server).
· Cross Platform - Adobe AIR is cross-platform and cross-browser, supported on Windows, Mac and Linux (currently in pre-release).

For more information on RoboHelp Packager, you can see following posts on this blog -

1. Adobe AIR – Revolutionizing the World of Online Help

2. Online Help as Adobe AIR: Overcoming the Adoption Barrier

3. Sending your RoboHelp Project for Review - use Adobe AIR

4. RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR - End User Preferences for Help

5. RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR - Beta 2

6. Getting Started with Adobe RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR

7. RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR output on Win, Mac and Linux

8. Adobe Technical Communications Suite - Generating Adobe AIR Output from FrameMaker Documents

9. RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR - Use Unipane Skin for Publishing Online Help for Windows Vista

10. RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR (Beta) - Captivate Demo of Adobe AIR based Online Help

11. RoboHelp Packager for Adobe AIR - Redefining the future of Online Help



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The Photoshop Channels Book

The Photoshop Channels Book



CHM l 45 MB

One big advantage Photoshop professionals have always had was the understanding of channels. It was their secret weapon, and it enabled them to do things, and work in an entirely different way than their competitors, and maybe that's why the secret power of Photoshop's channels has been such a closely guarded secret. Until now.

Award-winning, bestselling author Scott Kelby (Editor of Photoshop User magazine) shows you how to unlock the power of Photoshop's Channels and really start using Photoshop like a pro. But this isn't a book of theory and technical explanations, this is a step-by-step project-based book that will teach you exactly how to the pros use channels in their everyday work (Using channels is one of the secrets they use to get twice the work done in half the time).

You'll learn how today's top photographers and graphic designers employ channels to make impossible selections, to speed their production workflow, to color correct images, to mask images, to create stunning color to black and white conversions, and to do dozens of inside tricks that set them apart from the field. There's a reason there's always been a mystique to using channels, and why Photoshop users who understand and use them stay on the cutting edge. Now, their secrets are revealed using the same plain-English style that has made Scott one of the leading Photoshop authors and instructors in the world today.

You'll be amazed at not only what you're able with channels, but you'll love the competitive advantage that using channels will give you. If you're ready to take your Photoshop skills to the next level, you're holding the book that will take you there, and you're gonna love it!



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