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Xara 3D 5 Full Download
TRADITIONAL 3D programs are notoriously difficult to use and understand. Not so Xara3D. Unlike much modern 'bloatware' that offers more features than are ever likely to be used, and take an age to learn and understand, Xara3D has been created to perform one job, and performs that job with style, speed, and slick simplicity. Xara3D is solely designed to create the highest quality 3D titles and logos for use on Web pages. All images are fully anti-aliased for that smooth, professional quality. Xara3D can also create simple, high quality animated GIFs, AVIs and Flash movie sequences in seconds.
Creating and Importing
- Uses any TrueType font. Six fonts are included in the download and a further 50 on the CD. Simply select the font from the drop down menu and type away
- Full text control, including window placement, alignment, sub- & superscript, line spacing, tracking and kerning values for individual characters or over whole selections
- Image previews in file dialogs
- Instant access to full character sets from within the text dialog
- Can import 2D graphic shapes as Windows metafiles (WMF and EMF) and CorelXARA/Webster files (XAR and WEB) to be used as outlines
- You can select any background color and texture to match your web page background. Then you can position your image exactly against the background
- Full anti-aliasing for the best possible on-screen display.
Xara3D screenshot Editing and Applying Special Effects
- Interactive control over the 3D extrude depth - see screenshot
- Unlimited undo
- Automatic button-making tool which converts any heading into a button
- Real-time 3D positioning around three axes by simply dragging the image on screen
- Real-time solid shading with optional error-diffusion dithering for top quality results
- Areas of text can be selected, and different attributes such as bevel, color, fonts, textures, animation and text settings applied
- A new Style Picker allows you to grab any or all of the settings of one file and apply them to another
- A total of 25 different bevel types with adjustable bevel size
- Simple-to-use lighting (three adjustable light arrows for interactive adjustment of the color and direction)
- Flexible interactive controls over the color and texture of the image and background
- Images can be displayed with front and back faces, or can be made hollow
- Images can have bitmap textures applied
- A total of 37 textures are included in the download, you can also import your own GIF or PNG files
- Textures can be scaled, rotated and colored
- Images can be matt or shiny
- Images can have a soft-edged shadow and an intuitive interface allows you to simply alter the blur, transparency and color
Animation
- Images can be animated in many different ways (see examples), such as Rotate, Fade, Pulsate, Step, Fade and Swing, using a simple interface
- New Animation Picker lets you import the animation settings of one file and apply them to another
- Apply different animations to individual characters or sections of text
- Step-through multi-page animations of different images
- The number of frames in a sequence, the rotation direction, the speed, pause and number of loops can all be selected through simple controls
- The new animation time line allows you to step through each frame, pause and export a single frame
- Lights and text can be rotated separately
- Great for creating animated buttons. Exporting your results
- Outputs JPEG, Progressive JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG (including full PNG alpha channel), ICO (icon), CUR (cursor), animated GIF, AVI and SWF (vector and bitmap)
- Optional background transparency
- Color reduction and palette-optimization for maximum quality with the smallest file size
- Complete control over the image size, including a handy Fit To Width feature (with pixel size shown on screen).
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