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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
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