Swift 3D

Features

High Quality, Low-Bandwidth 3D Vector Realism

• 4 outline styles, 5 cartoon fill styles & 2 gradient fill styles
• Pen Style Outlines
• Create vector reflections
• Render transparent materials with opacity
• Multiple overlapping shadows
• Advanced specularity

Tightest Flash Integration with SmartLayer Technology

• Swift 3D Importer for Adobe Flash streamlines workflow
• SmartLayer Technology separates vector layers in Flash
• Still objects and objects in motion
• Fill styles and outlines
• Shadows, speculars, reflections and transparency
• Automatically import Swift 3D files into Flash Library

Photo Quality Raster Rendering

• Photorealistic output with reflection and refraction
• Render transparent materials with opacity
• Multiple overlapping shadows + Soft shadow support
• Advanced specularity
• Bitmap and textures like wood and metal
• Procedural textures like glass and chrome
• Bump map texture support

Intuitive and Powerful Modeling Tools

• 3D primitives + 3D Text from TrueType or PostScript fonts
• Extrusion Editor for simple shape extrusion
• Lathe Editor with familiar bezier path tools
• Extrusion & Lathe multi-path support
• Background Image Tracing in Extrusion and Lathe Editors
• Extrusion scaling, copy & paste, & Lathe paste
• Advanced modeling environment
• Smoothing and rounding surface areas
• Designate rendered lines to be drawn
• Cloning and Arrays

Extensive Material and Texture Selection with Precise Controls

• Drag-and-drop material & texture gallery
• Procedural textures like glass and chrome
• Easy texture mapping tools (Scene Editor)
• Advance texture mapper (Advanced Moder)
• Apply materials and textures to surfaces
• Import 3ds files with bitmap textures
• Bump map texture support

Robust Animation Features

• Drag-and-drop animation palette
• Full featured keyframe timeline
• Animate cameras and lighting schemes
• Bezier path animation tools
• Morphing of text and paths
• Hierarchy for parent-child relationships
• Camera & light hierarchy additions
• Numeric rotation & rotation trackball axis cues

Import the Most Popular 3D and 2D Vector File Formats

• 2D vector artwork from AI and EPS files
• 3D scenes and models from 3DS and DXF files

The Largest Variety of Export Options

• Vector Formats: SWF, AI, EPS, SVG and SWFT (MX Importer)
• Raster Formats: JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIF, TGA
• Video Formats: FLV, AVI, MOV
• Vector Style Video : FLV, AVI, MOV
• Autodesk .3DS
• Papervision3D v2.0 Project
• Collada .DAE (via Papervision export)

Professional Quality Drag-And-Drop Galleries

• Animation spins
• Animation fly-bys, deformations & paths
• Material & texture pallets
• Mood setting lighting schemes
• Professional 3D models
• Popular extrusion & lathe models
• Scene environments
• Bevel collection
• Save models, lights, materials & animations

Web Assistant for Quick Access to Helpful Erain Resources

• Web Assist Tab within Swift 3D UI gives instant access:
• Swift 3D resources
• Erain community forums
• Customer account section
• Product registration
• Tutorials
• Support

Viewport options

• Camera views: front, back, left, right, top, bottom
• Camera views: perspective
• Shading views: smooth and wireframe
• Shading views: textures
• Enhanced viewport rendering
• Open GL hardware cceleration
• Framing: frame all & frame selection