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Release of Cheetah3D 4.0
23. Mar. 2007
Cheetah3D 4.0 has been released today. The fourth major release of Cheetah3D finally offers the highly anticipated character animation tools. With Cheetah3D 4.0 you can now easily animate characters for creating your own 3D short films.
Cheetah3D 4.0 costs 129 US$ for a single user license and 59 US$ for an update. But for a short period you can buy Cheetah3D with the introductionary price of 109 US$ for the single user license and 49 US$ for the Update. This special offer ends 1st. April. 2007.
And last but not least www.cheetah3D.com has a brand new design done by David Ellis and Alessandro Fontana.
New features in Cheetah3D 4.0:
- Character animation tools
- Joint based skeleton system
- Forward kinematic (FK)
- Inverse kinematics (IK)
- IK constraints
- Joint tool
- Vertex weight painting
- Take manager to record independent animation clips
- Poser manager to record often used poses for later usage
- Morph targets for facial animation and muscle animation
- FBX animation export/import
- UI enhancements
- completely new designed icons (by Frank Beckmann)
- group different views to a tab view
- multi object selection support in object browser
- tag copy & paste
- group & ungroup objects
- Modeling tools
- new transform gadget
- new ruler tool
- accelerated SDS modeling on multi CPU Macs
- Renderer
- Support for Macs with up to 8 CPUs
- dozens of other small features and enhancements
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