Serif ImpactPlus 5.0 Serif ImpactPlus 5.0


Platform: Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

Whether you're a novice, a digital dabbler, or an old hand with 3D modeling, here's a quick summary of what's in store for you.

Stunning Preset Particle Systems! With a single click, particle presets add an amazing level of impact! Simply drag and drop to enhance your images with rain, snow, wisps of smoke, raging fire, explosions, candle flames, fireworks, billowing clouds, bubbles and lava to name a few! You can even create your own particles in the Particle Workshop.

Powerful Particle Workshop The all-new Particle Workshop allows an unprecedented level of control for creating customized particle systems. Manipulate them to produce virtually any effect that involves movement of shapes under the influence of gravity, in a vortex, in 3D orbit and even change color, transparency, direction and speed.

Camera Animation Creating an animation is even more fun with the mobile camera. Simply manipulate its position and orientation in your scene to see things from different angles. The camera moves through your scene easily and when you export your scene the results will be just as if you're looking directly through the eyes of your mobile camera - Wow!

Impressive Preset Paths For Smooth Animation With a single click or drag you can add cool 'paths' to your scene. Paths are curved or straight lines that other objects in your 3D world can follow in your animations. You can even animate one path along another and have objects follow complex waveform patterns.

Flexible Path Workshop In addition to the range of single-click presets, you can also use the all-new Path Workshop to create custom curved or straight paths. Enjoy multiple views of your path so you can literally edit it in 3 dimensions; make your path sweep up, down, left right or around!

Easy Looping Animations ImpactPlus 5 introduces an amazingly easy way to make your animated objects perform lengthy and looping changes in rotation, color, position - in fact any of the animation attributes are a snip to extend or repeat. Your animation can continue for as long as you like, without the need for you to reset the frames.

Improved Rotation We’ve taken a fresh look at one of the most-used tools in ImpactPlus and made it easier to use. ImpactPlus 5 makes it easier to constrain to the 3 axes of rotation for any object thanks to an intelligent rotation node and easy-to-grasp rotational orbit lines. Why worry which is X, Y and Z when you can rotate freely or make constrained adjustments without having to think?!

Average Download Times
(Your download time may vary)
* 56K Modem - 2 hours, 10 minutes, 38 seconds.
* ISDN - 54 minutes, 24 seconds.
* T1 - 4 minutes, 31 seconds.