IllusionMage - The EASIEST Way To Create Stunning Animations!

IllusionMage - EASIEST Way To Create Stunning Animations!

Feature 1: Ease Of Interface

* Overview of Features *

	Revolutionary non-overlap and non-blocking interface makes it easy to use
	Fully customizable window layout - You can configure any amount of screen types with custom themes.
	Undo easily at any level - Make changes to your mistakes with one-touch
	Powerful built-in database system allowing instances, scene management, and dynamic linking multiple project files
	Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support
	Windows for animation curves/keys, outliner, schematic scene diagram, non-linear video sequence editing, character animation action editor, non-linear animation mixer, image/UV editing, file/image selection and file management
	Built-in text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts
	Graphical user interface with consistent interface across all platforms
	Plus 300 hours of videos and tutorials included with illusionMage Suite.

* Overview of Features *

	Supports a full range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts.
	Editing functions such as extrude, bevel, cut, spin, screw, warp, subdivide, noise
	Very fast Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces with optimal iso-lines display and sharpness editing
	Modifier stack deformers souch as Lattice, Curve, Armature
	Mirror modifier with middle vertices clipping and automatic deletion of inner faces
	Non destructive real time Boolean and Array modifiers
	Mesh modeling based on vertex, edge and/or face selection
	Smooth soft selection editing tools for organic modeling

* Overview of Features *

	Armature (skeleton) deformation with forward/inverse kinematics
	Auto IK allows posing FK chains easily
	Non-linear animation editor for mixing individual actions in Action editor
	Automated walkcycles along paths and Animated constraint system
	Vertex key framing for morphing, with controlling sliders
	Edit and create new blendshapes from existing targets
	Character animation pose editor and Animated deformers (Lattice, Curve)
	'Ipo' system integrates both motion curve and traditional key-frame editing
	Audio playback, mixing and editing support for sound synchronisation
	Timeline offers fast acces to many playback functions, autokey, help markers

* Overview of Features *

	Graphical logic editor for defining interactive behavior without programming
	Collision detection and dynamics simulation now support to Bullet Physics Llibrarly. Bullet is an Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library for games used by PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, XBox360
	Shape types: Convex polyhedron, box, sphere, cone, cylinder, capsule and static triangle mesh with auto deactivation mode
	Discrete collision detection for RigidBody simulation
	Support for in-game activation of dynamic constraints
	Full support for vehicle dynamics, including spring reactions, stiffness, damping, tyre friction etc
	Python scripting API for sophisticated control and AI, fully defined advanced game logic
	Support for multimaterials, multitexture and texture blending modes, per-pixel lighting, dynamic lighting, mapping modes.
	Support all OpenGL^TM lighting modes, including transparencies
	Playback of games and interactive 3D content without compiling or preprocessing

* Overview of Features *

	Compositor tightly integrated and aligned with the rendering pipeline
	Composite nodes souch as Render Result, RGB Curves, Mix, Hue Saturation, Alpha Over, Z Combine, Normal, Vector Curves, Filter, Blur, Vector Blur, Color Ramp, Time
	Preview panel to define the portion of interest. A composite then only happens on this part
	Threaded and memory efficient
	Near realtime sequencer can edit hours of video with Waveform and U/V scatter plots
	Open and write many audio & video files
	Can render using frameserver-support directly into foreign applications
	Supports float images as well as regular 32 bits images
	Curves tool allows you to create a mapping from the float range to a displayable result (for HD images)

* Overview of Features *

	Very fast inbuilt raytracer
	Oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels
	Tile-based and fully threaded
	Render Layers and passes
	Render engine tightly integrated with the node compositor
	Halo, lens flares and fog effects
	Vector motion-blur post-process effect (using node compositor)
	Edge rendering for toon shading
	Interactive preview rendering panel in any 3d view
	Ambient Occlusion and Radiosity solver
	Integral support for the famous Yafray render engine
	Export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman (RIB), Povray, Virtualight, Indigo

* Overview of Features *

	Diffuse shaders such as Lambert, Minnaert, Toon, Oren-Nayar, Lambert
	Specular shaders such as WardIso, Toon, Blinn, Phong, CookTorr
	Node editor for creating and mixing complex materials
	Material previews rendered by main render engine
	Tangent shading to give any shader an anisotropic effect
	Versatile procedural textures system
	Environment maps
	Normal maps

* Overview of Features *

	Fast skeleton creation mode
	Mirror editing (bone creation and weight painting)
	Fast envelope based skinning
	Interactive 3D paint for vertex weighting
	Bone layers for better rig organization
	B-splines interpolated bones
	Constraint stack for IK solver setup and other constraints

* Overview of Features *

	Particle system can be attached to any mesh object. Control methods include weight painting, textures, curve guides, wind and vortex effects. Particles can be deflected by moving geometry
	Hair strands can be created by a static particle system, supporting all particle control methods
	Fluid simulator with fully animated inflow, outflow, obstacle and fluid objects. Gravity and viscosity settings can also be animated. Supports vector blur and is integrated with the particle system
	Realtime soft body solver integrated in mesh, lattice, curve and text objects. Supports collision detection and particle field effects like Wind or Vortex, soft bodys can also be baked for faster playback/rendering
	Game engine rigid body physics can be easily baked into animation curves