Eyeon Software introduced version 3.1 of its compositing application, Digital Fusion. The company also announced it is working on bringing Digital Fusion to the Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.
3.1 features include:
– Development of Digital Fusion’s flexible flow system includes definable groups, wherein tools can be expanded and collapsed, and cut, copied or pasted as an entire group within the flow or within another flow.
– 3D Text+ tool now provides the ability to output web-ready text animation to Flash.
– Spline and keyframe information is presented in a spread sheet format for ease of editing, such as copying and pasting.
– Digital Fusion’s paint system offers new brushes, apply modes and controls, and increased speed.
– New controls over the timeline to sort tools and keyframe information into different user-definable sequences ease editing of large animation and flows.
– The new advanced color system includes a new control of hue, histograms, definable levels and blend of color correction.
– Robust distributed network rendering supervisor monitors render nodes and render machines, and relays progress as defined.
– Definable render control of selected frames and different qualities and render settings, such as step rendering and reverse rendering.
Using the flow-based technology, Digital Fusion 3.1’s particle system includes a comprehensive set of tools for three dimensional particles, rather than a single tool with all of the controls built in, offering superior functionality. With a particle-based flow instead of an image-based flow, particle tools, modifiers and connections can be connected, then rendered, directly within Digital Fusion.
Digital Fusion 3.1 is a free upgrade from 3.0, which lists at $4,995. It is expected to ship in Q2 2001.
