![]() Strata Design 3D eases the learning curve for 2D designers who are new to 3D. The only pricing decision you need to make is whether to buy Design 3D CX by itself, or as part of the Strata 3D CX Suite. The makers of Strata Design 3D CX don’t force you to decide how you’re going to use the product in the future, or make a guess ahead of time about which tools you might need for future projects. Unlike some 3D applications, Strata Design 3D CX gives you all of its 3D tools for one great price. MacUser UK Review, October 2011 All the Power for One Simple Price “Strata Design 3D CX has a lot to offer 3D or 2D artists who want to integrate 3D elements in their work, and it’s also backed up by community forums, videos and the web-based Strata 3D University.” Many of the new options are also used for the new UV enhancements, such as defining seams for flattening UV textures. Strata Design 3D Version 7.5 provides a range of new features designed to give more control with polygonal modeling and to make modeling and editing easier and more intuitive. ![]() This is used to reduce the poly count on models on import to reduce model problems as well as on export to industry areas like 3D gaming or simply for 3D printing or general performance issues. Lastly, there is a new Decimation and Polygon Reduction function set. And new in Strata 3D CX 7.5 is Collada file format support. The STL file format widely used by CAD programs for 3D printing is fully supported in both import and export directions. New features include new 3D printing options and new file import and export options. Its ability to export to a number of file formats, including EPS and Flash, will certainly be welcomed by print graphic designers. Photoshop files can be imported and mapped without flattening and it has excellent and rendering quality. Its interface is as straightforward as Photoshop, plus it is more intuitive to navigate than many 3D programs. It is built around an Adobe user interface standard. If you’re somebody who’s interested in scripting, Lua gives you the opportunity to extend Design 3D in a variety of important ways.Strata Design 3D CX 7.5 offers subdivision- and spline-based 3D modeling as well as texturing, lighting and rendering. Each Script FX gives access to the full Lua source code, so you can edit them if you like.Īdditional features are implemented directly in Lua throughout Design 3D such as Match Motion and Instance Node Control. These “Script FX” let you do things like bounce, vibrate, alter acceleration and more. In fact, Design 3D comes with a whole series of special effect shaders created using Lua. With Lua you can script shaders and textures to: access the rendering pipeline lens scripting for the creation of custom lenses, effects and warps Filter FX which allows you to write custom Lua scripts to apply filters based on an object’s surface normal, direction, lighting, volume, and by pixel color, depth, transparency, layer within the psd file – and much, much more. Even new favorites, such as Adobe Lightroom, utilize Lua. Lua is a widely used language, particularly in gaming, with companies like Blizzard (World of Warcraft), Criterion Studios (NBA Ballers, ESPN Major League Baseball), BioWare (Neverwinter Nights), UbiSoft (Far Cry), Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts), Nival Interactive (Blitzkrieg) and many more. ![]() ![]() Strata Design 3D CX includes a Lua based scripting language. LiveRay Texture Preview: see all texture effects with interactive rendering directly in the modeling view.Pin UVs (Toggle pinned vertices on or off).LSCM unwrap (Conform, Conform Connected) Unwrap entire objects, single UV island or just selected polygons.New Conform to Mesh option using Least Squares Conformal Maps technology.Select from the palette of hundreds of pre-made surface textures or make your own using features like live-linking to native Photoshop and Illustrator files – make a change in Photoshop or Illustrator and Strata Design 3D CX automatically updates the model surface. “What if” is as simple as drag-and-drop in Strata Design 3D CX. ![]()
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