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 XFrog 4.1 Update Now Available Posted by: amigo
Source: Press Release
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004
MAXON, Germany - April 27, 2004 - Good news for CINEMA 4D users who want to create sophisticated lifeforms such as trees, flowers and octopi: Xfrog -- the number one selling organic modeling and animation tool for CINEMA 4D from greenworks organic-software -- has just been updated to version 4.1.
Xfrog 4.1 introduces a slew of tools that real world gardeners can only dream of. These include new controls for shaping branches more naturally, enhanced modeling controls in general, and faster screen updates.
"With these great new features, greenworks has made Xfrog even better," said MAXON Product Manager Marco Tillmann. "Since version 4, Xfrog integrates perfectly with CINEMA 4D. You can even combine it with CINEMA 4D's XPresso expressions editor to create amazing parameter driven organic effects such as, say, trees blowing in the wind, staircases, caterpillars or even abstract growing forms."
Xfrog's unique conceptual approach and perfect integration with CINEMA 4D represents a milestone in the generation of organic objects. All parameters in Xfrog can be animated, and combined with CINEMA 4D's objects. So you can create trees or other plants which grow, and follow the sun (phototropism) and respect gravity (geotropism), leaves and branches that move in the wind, and much more.
Key new features in Xfrog 4.1 include:
- Control over branches has been greatly extended: a new deviation object allows you to swiftly bend branches into natural shapes, and a node growth control has been added to the Phyllotaxis and Hydra objects to give control over the growth of subsequent branch objects.
- Screen redraw is up to ten times faster. You can now model more interactively with improved visual feedback.
- Enhanced curve controls make it even easier to control all aspects of modeling such as the variation in branch thickness.
- At long last you can now import Xfrog models into CINEMA 4D as polygon models instead of as XFR files if you wish. This makes it easier and faster to work with the models in CINEMA 4D.
- The XfrogPlants Basic Library has been revamped to offer the most lifelike plants yet and now includes the Xfrog files in addition to the CINEMA 4D files. You can load these Xfrog files into CINEMA 4D as a hierarchy of editable Xfrog 4 objects. Further, greenworks and MAXON offer 18 low-cost XfrogPlants libraries for use with Xfrog 4.1, comprising a total of over 1,000 highly accurate plants.
With these key new features and hundreds of smaller improvements, greenworks once again proves its commitment to providing CINEMA 4D users with superb tools to mimic the natural world around us.
Availability
Xfrog 4.1 is available now through authorized MAXON dealers or the MAXON shop (www.maxonshop.com).
The Xfrog 4.1 update is free to Xfrog 4 owners and includes the new XfrogPlants Basic Library. Download the appropriate software installer and model files or in CINEMA 4D simply choose "Plugins > Xfrog 4 > Online Documentation and Updates."
Related Links: MAXON website
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