Informatix - Piranesi 5 10-User Educational UPGRADE MAC - PIRMEDUP450 - SaverSoftware

Informatix - Piranesi 5 10-User Educational UPGRADE MAC

Manufacturer - INFORMATIX

Price £ 141.00    (£ 120.00 exc. VAT )


INFORMATIX - Informatix - Piranesi 5 10-User Educational UPGRADE MAC

Description

Please Order if you are an UPGRADING as Education i.e School or College.

Specialised 3D painting tool

Piranesi is a specialised '3D painting' tool, allowing you to start with a simple rendering of a 3D model, and quickly develop it into high quality images ready for client presentations. You can use Piranesi to quickly develop photorealistic images, by painting in textures and scenery with automatic perspective and masking; or you can Piranesi's wealth of effects to generate non-photorealistic images that have a more subtle, hand-rendered feel and focus the client's mind of what is important in the design. You can even use Piranesi with a 2D plan or elevation image, or to generate Panoramas!

Product features
Locks
Piranesi allows you to 'lock on' to a particular portion of the image, such as a specific wall or those parts of the image which correspond to wooden surfaces. These locks mean that you do not need to create masks in order to limit your painting actions to a particular feature in the scene - Piranesi automatically detects the edges and does not paint beyond them.
Painting in perspective
When you paint with textures - such as brick or wood effects - Piranesi uses its knowledge of the 3D geometry to continuously adjust the texture to honour the scene perspective.
Cutouts
Piranesi uses the term 'cutout' for 2D raster images or 3D models which can be placed into the scene, such as people, plants, trees, furniture, or cars. 3D models can be in 3DS, DXF, SketchUp, Archvision RPC, or MicroGDS format. Piranesi's 3D knowledge makes the placement work like magic - Piranesi automatically calculates the correct size and perspective for the cutout depending on where in the scene it is placed, and determines masking effects depending on what lies in front of and behind it. Cutouts can even cast shadows on other parts of the scene!
Non-photorealistic effects
Piranesi is an especially valuable tool in early design stages. In these stages many details are not known, are too expensive to model, and even if they were modelled would distract from the important aspects of the design. Piranesi provides a wealth of effects - many of which would not be possible without Piranesi's 3D knowledge - to give your image an artistic, hand-rendered look (they are referred to as non-photorealistic because the aim is specifically not to produce an image that looks like a photograph). Such images are often more attractive to look at, convey a 'feel' for the scene that a photorealistic image cannot, and draw the client's attention to what is important whilst fading out irrelevant details.
Styles
Effects or combination of effects - locks, cutouts, textures, fades, blends and so on - can be saved as a style for future re-use. Piranesi comes complete with a whole range of predefined styles, using over 2000 free texture and cutout images. A Style Manager is provided to help you manage your styles and create new ones.
Plans and elevations
You can use Piranesi without ever building a 3D model! Piranesi allows you to import any plan or elevation image to use as a starting point. Many of Piranesi's effects will work without depth and material information. Because Piranesi knows that the image is plan or elevation, depth and material information can be added by constructing new planes and adding cutouts.
Panoramas
Piranesi breaks new ground by introducing animation to non-photorealistic rendering. Panoramic views can be rendered with Piranesi, and saved in .MOV format for display using the industry standard Apple Quicktime® viewer.

System Requirements

Macintosh®

Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later

Release Date: Tuesday, 8th January 2008