What's New in Xara3D 5

The latest version of Xara3D - Version 5.0 - offers over 20 significant enhancements since Version 4 - these are some of the key points:

New Features

  • Create 3D animated screensavers
  • Style Picker - Now you can copy some or all of the attributes from any existing file to your work. The preview window shows you what your current heading would look like with those styles applied
  • You can now apply texture and texture attributes per character. This option can be set for either front or side faces (same as color)
  • Four new bevel types: Fancy incut 1 and 2, bumpy and ridged
  • Apply button text colors per character
  • Create icons and cursors, including animated cursors
  • Thumbnail previews in filer windows and previews with file size info for static bitmaps in the export dialog
  • A free copy of our drawing software Xara Webster (sold for $49) giving you the freedom to draw your own shapes, logos, buttons etc and export them directly into Xara3D to be extruded into 3D.

New Format Support

  • Flash vector and bitmap export
  • Progressive JPEG export
  • Screensaver (.scr) and icons (.ico) export

New Animation Features

  • Animation Picker - Allows you to copy the animation attributes of any existing file to a new file. Xara3D 5 contains a collection of professionally created animations that you can apply to your own work. The preview window in the Animation Picker shows you what your current graphic would look like with the animation applied
  • Most animation options can now be applied per character
  • Animation Time Line - Can now save any single frame along the timeline
  • More pulsate animation options - can now pulsate along any one of 3 axes individually and in a wave along an axis. There's also a new overlap option which results in smaller animations (multi-page animations only).
  • Can also wave in rotate (2) and swing
  • New Animation types: Typewriter, Ripple, Pulse
  • Can rotate lights and text separately