Imagine
3D rendering, graphics arts, textures, ray tracing, scan line render, object creation, animation,
English
Supported Technologies
Windows 95/98/ME,
Windows XP/2000/NT
Software
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Pricing
Users (# of seats)
500 to 1000
sales@coolfun.com
702 948 1100
direct
Additional Product Information
Words will never do for the eye what they do for the mind. Imagine is all about the eye, your imagination and dreams that can come to life.;You can read all about the "Tech Specs" but the reality is simple, until you master the power of the tool, its just a set of words.;Imagine has been around in one form or another growing in power and performance since 1986. Imagine holds many awards, and has been used to make numerous motion pictures, television shows and commercials as well as extensive use in the print media world.;Yet we at Impulse want to stress one factor no matter how good the software, no matter how fast the computer, the work must still be done by an artist, you. It is your effort that makes the impossible seem like child's play. Imagine delivers all the power you will need to do any job. Imagine is the power tool for the mind and the eye.;To see some great work done by individuals and studios around the world check out the GALLERY at
http://www.coolfun.com.;Technical specifications for Imagine 2.0, PC and MAC versions;Quad View Interface;Front, Side and Top Views with perspective;Preview in wire frame or solid mode;NOW SUPPORTS OPEN GL ;offers a more realistic real time preview of your work;Render;Full Trace (with shadows, reflection and refraction);Scan Line (limited reflections);Color and Black and White Solid Mode;Color and Black and White wire frame mode;User Customizable Tool breakaway toolbars;Render safe area window;Multiple Editors;User customizable interface;Detail Object creation and properties application;Stage animation control and object staging;Forms slice object editor;Spline font and 2D spline object creation;Action Dialog quick view of all stage actors;Portals, giving you a mini view of what to expect prior to committing to a render, also makes work flow faster ;and easier to visualize;Procedural Texturing with over 100 textures included such as Wood, Brick, Bath tile, Fire, Ghost, ;Image mapping, and various applications of image maps such as, Color, Specular, Altitude, Filter, Reflective;Object manipulation;Bend, Twist, Taper, Shear, Scale, Move, all manipulations are Animatable.;No limitation to point, edge or face count;Boolean operations for slicing and cutting objects;Real Time Point reduction, visually control the point and face count of objects with a simple slider, all in real time;Object States an Imagine unique feature allowing each object to have various states where different aspects of the object can be set, then when animated users can morph between various states. Great for creating character animation movements.;Built in primitives;Sphere, cone, plane, torus, tube and disk, hemisphere, cube, box, rod. Simple drag and drop to the work surface;Full lathe and extrusion function with;Spin, Sweep, Extrude and Extrude along a path or axis.;Conform objects to object types and paths;Magnetic control of selected points;Object selection tools include, click, lasso and drag box;Editor zoom tools;Particle system support, various built-in particles as well as load any object as a particle and full Animatable;Supports Grouping in mass and hierarchical;Meta Ball functions;Backdrop images both static and animated;Full AVI support and Image sequence save and load;Animation Bluing show last position of animated object;Imagine and DXF, 3 D Studio and Lightwave file format load and save;Key Cell tweening with absolute or spline base motion paths.;Animated objects can fallow define spline motion paths.;Inverse Kinematics for character animation;Rotoscoping;Unlimited Animatable light sources that where color, intensity and type can be controlled:;Point, Spot, Square and parallel;Full Camera control;Special Effects including;Toon, Particle, Explode, Fireworks, Jitter, Balloon, Tumble, Haze, Lens flare, Shredder ;Global variables including ;Field Rendering;Motion Blur;Anti Alias controls;Depth of Field;Star Field (fully animatable);Global Fog with density and color;Supports Windows 95, 98 and NT all O/S support included by same program.;Easy Install;Full 24 bit video support ;Renders from 1,1 pixel to 16,000 by 16,000 suitable for multimedia, print and motion picture film and video;Image out put format includes, TGA, TIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG.