Artlantis Studio

Artlantis Studio is a unique 3D rendering application ideal for quickly and easily creating very high-quality real-time still images, QuickTime VR, Panoramas and Animations. Ease of use, intuitive interface and powerful controls have made Artlantis must-have rendering software for over 75,000 architecture, design and urban design professionals in more than 80 countries.

WHAT'S NEW?

Full radiosity: Display your 3D model in global illumination! The new and improved rendering engine lets you generate accurate radiosity images in real time within the 3D preview window. The final rendering is consistent with the 3D preview window, giving you a faithful and accurate representation of the high-quality images you'll produce from your 3D models.

Real sky simulation: The latest version of Artlantis improves all lightings conditions. With the addition of a "physical sky", the sun, moon and stars are now visible elements that cast light onto the project using global illumination. A range of magnificent clouds are also available: cirrus, cumulonimbus or stratus add an extra realistic touch to the skies.

Automatic light adjustment: Thanks to its new automatic light adjustment feature, Artlantis dynamically balances the lighting levels in your scenes from dawn till sunset, and from outside to inside a building, and thus allows you to perform photorealistic four-stars images and animations.

Integrated image post-processing: Save time by doing your image post-processing in Artlantis...no need to use other image editing tools. Artlantis' new options enable users to modify the luminance, the contrast and the color index of a rendered image during post-processing. It also allows users to add grain, contour lines or a pastel painting effect, for fantastic new stylistic possibilities. These effects are displayed directly in the 3D preview window and can be used individually or combined.

Shader creator: Artlantis's new version offers new automatic texture definition. The shaders have new properties: specular reflection, shininess, blur effect, normal mapping...for a considerable new shading quality. A new function is available for advanced users, they can now create their own shaders through a complete interface.

Rich media: With an optional collection of media—shaders and 3D objects—Artlantis enables users to quickly work on different scenarios and simulate life-like virtual scenes in a realistic environment. With the release of Artlantis 2, Artlantis Family introduces 5 new media CD's: 3D Animated People, Billboard People, Cars, Stones and Marble Floor. All easily controlled with a simple drag&drop into the 3D preview window, these shaders and objects enhance the photorealism of your scenes.

More productivity tools: Compatibility with Space Navigator™ 3D mouse that allows intuitive and powerful 3D navigation; anchored target point for a camera or a light that follows the trajectory; magic wand for easy object extraction; Open GL navigation with shadows; automatic or manual view point update; looped object animation, use of a movie as a texture.

INTERFACE

Real-time Preview in Global Illumination

• Like its predecessor, Artlantis is designed based on the original concept of constant preview window interactivity, with user defined modifications and settings. The new and improved rendering engine lets you generate accurate radiosity images in real time within the 3D preview window. The final rendering is consistent with the 3D preview window, giving you a faithful and accurate representation of the high-quality images you'll produce from your 3D models. The preview image is calculated each time a change is made to the lighting, subject or environment settings, enabling the user to control all adjustments without losing time. The extremely high speed of its computing engines even provides access, in preview, to the radiosity and raytracing effect settings.

Dependent Viewpoints

• Each view of the project can make up a particular study integrating various representations ranging from the calendar date to a light source going out, or a change in the camera angle.

Catalog

• Media manipulation is easy and transparent to the user. By simply dragging and dropping, the user can incorporate Shader, Object or Image folders into catalogs where he can then choose the elements he places into the scene.
• The same easy drag and drop procedure is used to apply the selected image or texture to dress an object, place a background or foreground image, add a furniture element or a person.

ANIMATIONS AND QUICKTIME™ VR

Animations

• The direct combination of object animation and camera displacement allows a complete and scripted exploration of the entire virtual space made with your rendering software.
• The atmosphere effects, the realism of the shaders and evolutionary objects, the script development of the lighting sources themselves, every component of a scene set in still images can become a subject of exploration and presentation of your project in its entire spatial environment.
• In the 2D view, the Edit Path Mode is very useful to create a path. You may want to use it to move either a camera, an object or a light.

Quicktime VR

• The automatic recording of QuickTime files, in objects (VR) or in panoramas (Cubic), enables you to create the most effective interactive files for visting and communicating your virtual model.
• Not only more compact than video files, the QuickTime VR sequences have the benefit to allow you to make, for instance, an online interactive presentation with the degree of precision and resolution of your choice.

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Artlantis interfaces directly with ArchiCAD, Revit, VectorWorks, SketchUp Pro, and Arc+ . With the addition of the DWF, OBJ and FBX import formats and updated DXF, DWG and 3DS plug-ins, Artlantis seamlessly interacts with all the leading CAD software as well.

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