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- * PHOENIX U.S.A. - XENOMORPH Update (Version 2.0) *
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- LEXICOR SOFTWARE is proud to announce the release of PHOENIX 2.0 in the U.S.A.
- The following pricing structure is U.S.A. only, European Prices and
- Distribution at your closest Lexicor Dealer.
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- In the USA contact 1726 Francisco Street, Berkeley, CA 94703, U.S.A.
- Tel: (510) 848 7621 - Fax: (510) 848 7613
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- Lexicor Europe can be contacted at (617) 437 0414 or Fax: (617) 437 9413
- For European Sales and Distribution please contact the above number.
-
-
- Pricing Structure is as follows (these Prices are
- valid for North America, European prices vary from Country to Country!)
-
- PHOENIX 1.0 Upgrade Policy, return the original disk and payment of 49.95 U$D
- and you will receive your PHOENIX 2.0, PHOENIX 1.0 will be known as entry level
- PHOENIX and be still available for 69.95.
-
- PHOENIX 2.0 Standard Price will be only 89.95! All Prices do not include, tax,
- shipping and handling costs.
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- = Now to some inside information on Phoenix 2.0 =
- =================================================
-
- NEW WINDOW BASED INTERFACE and MULTITOS Support
- ============================================
-
- Runs Completely under MultiTOS (tm) and supports it completely i.e. you can
- Render your images in the background! so now rendering your images will not
- tie up your computer completely.
-
- NEW TOOLBOX INTERFACE
- =====================
-
- Options to render in
- Polygon
- Gouraud
- Phong
- Phong/Shadows
-
- You can now also preview in the resolution of your choice, when Rendering
- Phoenix will open up a window of the rendered image and a status bar.
-
- New Palette options, next to best and fixed, you can now render with the
- Palette of your choice in the option custom designed palette! This is a very
- important new feature that is extremely useful for 8bit animations and fast
- playback!
-
- NEW ENHANCED OBJECT WINDOW
- ==========================
-
- Shadows, No Shadows, Caustic Shadows
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- This New set of features will allow you to turn off the Shadows for individual
- objects, this would decrease rendering times for objects that may never need
- to cast shadows. Caustic Shadows will simulate th caustic focusing of lights
- due to refraction, for use with partially transparent objects.
-
- As well as.....
-
- the usual powerful functions such as specular refraction, break points,
- individual glow factors for objects and object transparency and a new Surface
- Texture and enhanced Color Texture Menu!
-
- New improved Textures
- =====================
-
- Alongside the old wood grain, marble and image mapping many new texture as
- well as bump mappings have been now included!
-
- Surface Textures
- ================
-
- - Ripples creates a rippled water appearance with small somewhat random ripples
- - Waves creates ocean type waves
- - Bump Mapping produces a bumpy surface
- - Eroded very similar to bumps, a small variation of it
- - Image Mapping will allow you to use an image (SPC, GIF, TGA) to pertubate
- the surface.
-
- Additionally you can control the animation factor to every respective Surface
- Texture for example in Waves or Ripple produce an animation cycle of any frames
- per cycle of your choice! Create realistic moving waves and ripples!
-
- Color Spline Textures
- =====================
-
- This is the new texture mapping in Phoenix that allows you to have a lot
- more control over the individual texture rather than the old textures. You can
- specify the texturing method, describe the color spline, sequence of colors
- thus adding various texture layers over each other. It is nearly like a user
- defined texture mapper with Bozo, Gradient, Agate, Granite, Marble,
- Wood type layers per texture layer.
-
- Color Spline has to many features to go in detail about them, check out our
- 24bit Color Texture Images (TEXTURES.TGA) to see just some of the power of
- this new option. On the disk there are over 100 new textures and texture layers
- available to the user. A Texture list at the end of this message.
-
- NEW RENDERING OPTIONS
- =====================
-
- - Fog Create your own fog effects of your rendered images.
- - Background Color, select the color to render in the background of your choice
- - Background Image, select the image of your choice to render in the background
-
- COLORED LIGHTS
- ==============
-
- Now Xenomorph can light an image with a user-specific light so you can produce
- a red-light spotlight, mix it with other lights of different colors to produce
- some amazing and interesting effects.
-
- TEXTURE MOTION CONTROL and MORPHING LOCK
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-
- Control your textures in animation so your texture will flow with your
- animation as if it is a real part to a moving object! With the new morphing lock
- function this can be now be done with morphing animations donw with Chronos and
- combined with ANM-Link the missing link to render CHRONOS animations with the
- power of the Phoenix Rendering Engine!
-
- Standard Features of Phoenix
- ============================
-
- o Render Objects with smooth shading, no more polygon edges!
- o Objects will render with highlights
- o Objects may be textured with wood grain, marble, or wrap and
- image around the object
- o Each Object may have it's own color palette
- o Number of Objects is limited only by memory
- o 4 different light source type, up to 21 lights in a scene.
- o 3 different camera types. Maneuver the camera anywhere in a
- scene.
- o Graphical object, light and camera positioning editor.
- o View and save rendered images as 512 color Spectrum SPC files,
- 2 to 256 color GIF files, or true color (24bit) Targa files at any
- resolution.
- o Simple animation capabilities, or render CTL script animations
- (Cyber Control v.1.1 required for CTL animations) or use the new
- ANM-LINK (relativity) to render Chronos Key-frame animations with
- morphs and cycles.
- o Several tutorial and sample objects included
- o Runs in any 80 column color or monochrome resolution
- o Full math co-processor support
- o Plus much much more!
-
- There is a lot more to the new Phoenix, especially the new powerful Color
- Spline to give you close to absolute texture control. Lexicor Software will
- soon come with a special disk of over hundreds of new textures for use in
- Phoenix, but here a small list of the Textures available straight away in
- the Phoenix 2.0 disk.
-
- - Wood
- User definable with grain color and width, Object Texture Ratio, view
- - Marble
- User definable with color bands, turbulence, base color, grain, view, Object
- Texture Ratio and more
- - Image Mapping
- Load SPC, TGA or GIF to map in S map (Plane, Cube, Cylinder or Sphere), O
- Map (Reflection, Obj Normal, Obj Center, S Map Norm), Tiling (single or
- tiled, morph lock, view control, turbulence and Mask (no mask, foreground or
- opaque mask) on the object of your choice with your own created image.
-
- Brandnew Textures that come with Phoenix 2.0 (and only useable in Phoenix 2.0)
- can be altered in the Color Spline Texture Control, also only individual layers
- of that Texture can be saved, loaded and/or manipulated.
-
- WOOD Types: STONE Types: SKY Types: MISC Types:
- =========== ============ ========== ===========
- Cherry Wood Agate Blue Apocalypse Brass
- Dark Wood Agate Brown Clouds Candy
- Pine Wood Agate Sapphire Sky Blue1 Cork
- Rose Wood Gradient Pink Sky Blue2 Fire/Flame
- Sandy Wood Jade Sky Blue3 Peel
- Tanned Wood Marble Blood Sky Bright Rust
- Toned Wood Marble Red Sky Blood Iron Rust
- White Wood Marble White
- Yellow Wood Pink Lab
-
- and 7 more and 24 more Stone
- Wood types types!
- that have each
- their own indiv.
- characteristic!
-
- * Texture Layers not included on the list, only complete named Textures
- * All in all 125 Textures are included on the Phoenix 2.0 disk for the User
-
- And LEXICOR will be releasing texture disks loaded only with brandnew textures
- such as Popcorn that will look like real popcorn when rendered! absolutely
- amazing!
-
- The true strength of Phoenix lies in its ease of use, and this ease of use has
- been thankfully preserved in Phoenix 2.0, don't be baffled by the wealth of new
- Textures and the incredible new functions, it will only take a very short while
- to master it.
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- On the Internet you may contact us on staff@lexicor.com or support@lexicor.com,
- optionally you may also email Lexicor@world.std.com
-
- On COMPUSERVE contact 75300,763 or 73073,142 or visit us in topic 11 (LEXICOR)
- on atariarts or atariven (type go atariarts).
-
- GENIE contact LEXICOR or Y.SIU or visit us at the GRAPHICS RT on page 1415
- (type m1415) in Category 22 (LEXICOR SUPPORT) or just type GRAPHICS to enter
- the forum.
-
- On DELPHI contact LEXICOR or LEXICORWORLD or visit us in the Atari Advantage
- Area (type go com atari).
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