CyberMotion 3D-Designer features a multi-window graphical user interface, integrated 3D modeling tools, hierarchical animation, a raytrace renderer, and a host of special effects, such as lens flares, motion blur, object deformation, animated starfields, real particle systems and much more.

All the modules required to generate, manipulate and model, represent and animate the three-dimensional world are integrated into one program: CyberMotion 3D-Designer.

There is a choice of several rendering algorithms, from simple scanline (depth buffer) to up-to-date global illumination rendering methods using raytracing and photon mapping. The possibilities to define object surfaces, light conditions and backgrounds are almost inexhaustible - visual libraries and fast preview windows in the main dialogs invite to experiment and play around with this vast functionality.

Complex 3D animations can be set up very easily - you can animate all objects, camera and light settings, backgrounds, fire, water and even clouds and fog in the atmosphere. You can arrange objects in hierarchies to animate jointed models or robots and easily position joints with the help of Inverse Kinematics.

And with the up to date Skin and Bones technology even character animation is available with CyberMotion. Call your own heros and monsters into being, CyberMotion gives you all the tools you need to do it.

The graphical user interface allows you to design complex 3D scenes while working in multiple windows simultaneously. Just select an object and drag it with your mouse to move, scale, rotate or deform it in the corresponding work modes.

Clearly arranged dialogs containing visual libraries make it easy to load prefabricated files and to modify them to your own needs. Big preview windows in the main dialogs provide a quick overview of the scene, so just play around and test everything. With the multiple Undo/Redo-functions almost everything can be undone or redone, respectively.

Here are some key features of "CyberMotion 3D-Designer":

Modeling 3D-Objects:
· Extrusion Editor with B-Spline-curves (a drawing in the editor is provided with a depth - e.g. for logos - with bevels, twisted or as a spiral object)
· Sweep Editor (a drawing is turned about a vertical axis to create a symmetrical rotary object such as a glass, torus, cone, cylinder)
· Subdivision Surfaces - is a real time process which transforms a low resolution object to a higher resolution model with organic curved shape
· NURBS (a special type of deformable 3D surfaces and cylinders. By manipulating control points on the surface you can model very easily smooth and organic shapes.)
· Boolean Operations (e.g. 'Box' minus 'Cylinder' results in a box with a hole)
· 3D-Text (select any TrueTypeFont to create 3D-Text objects with or without bevels)
· Simple or analytical based primitives, such as boxes, spheres, ellipsoids, cylinders and so forth)

3D-Function Generator:
· Landscape Editor for complex terrain design
· After creating an object you still can add further detail by adding or deleting points or faces, dragging out new segments from the objects surface with the mouse (Facet Extrude), deforming or detaching parts of it, and so on. The multiple UNDO-function makes it easy to test all kind of operations, since everything can be undone or repeated again.
· Of course you can also import objects in common file formats like OBJ, 3DS, DXF or RAW. CyberMotion exports projects in it's own CMO-format and in OBJ, DirectX, VRML 2.0, 3DS, DXF or RAW-file formats

Landscape design:
· With the integrated landscape designer you can create special terrain objects. The landscape editor provides a preview window with a shaded plan view and many functions and filters (crater, terrace, etc.) for the basic generation and the editing of height fields.

Atmospheres:
· The background-dialog is another highlight of the CyberMotion software. With it you can put a simple color range or a picture in the background or rather generate a complex atmosphere with multi layered cloud formations, atmospheric and ground fog, rain or snow, rainbows and stars. All effects can be freely combined or switched off, just as you like.

Materials:
· Create your own surfaces in the powerful material editor or just load and adjust one out of the materials visual library. The material editor provides basic settings for the object's color, reflection, transparency, optical density, object glow and surface waves as well as an extensive choice of procedural textures.

Raytracing and Global Illumination:
· The raytrace renderer lets you create photorealistic images and animations with real refraction, reflection and shadows.
· Light
· Apart from standard light sources such as parallel sunlight, point- or spotlights in CyberMotion almost every ordinary object can be converted to a real light source, for instance, to fit area-lights into wall panellings.

Animation:
· The integrated animation modul of CyberMotion offers a wide range of possibilities combined with an intuitive interface that will allow even beginners to master their first steps into animation films successfully.

Character-Animation:
· Without skeletal deformation the production of modern animation films and especially the animation of characters would be impossible. The skin and bones technique uses a skeleton which is subordinated to a corresponding skin object enveloping the skeleton. Now, every time you move a bone of the skeleton, the particular part of the skin previously assigned to that bone will be deformed and move with the bone - the character awakes to life. What was usually left to awfully expensive animation studios before, you can do now as well at home with the CyberMotion 3D-Designer.

Particle systems:
· Particle systems are used in situations, where many objects have to be randomly distributed in the scenery or even moved at the same time.

Requirements:

· CPU: Single Core 2.4GHz (Multiple Cores recommended)
· a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels (1280 x 1024 recommended)
· 1024 Megs RAM (2048 recommended)
· 110 Megs hard drive space

Limitations:

· 30 days trial
· watermark on rendered pictures
· save and export functions are disabled

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Added features:
· HDR-Rendering - High Dynamic Range Data, Tone Mapping, Exposure and Adaption
· Saving to Radiance HDR-Files
· HDR-Light Effects - Bloom and Stars
· Material-Color Brightness
· Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
· Ambient Occlusion (AO + SSAO)
· Photon Mapping
· Optimized Machine Code
· Fresnel Reflection
· Unsharp Reflections and Transparency
· Invert Bitmaps
· Visible Light Sources
· Spot with Truncated Light Cone
· Additional Cameras and Viewports

Removed Functions:
· Field Rendering
· Lens Flares
· Point = Sphere