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 Xfrog 4 for Maya now available Posted by: amigo
Source: email
Date: Sun Oct 31 2004
October 31, 2004 - With Xfrog 4 for Maya, a new modeling tool by Greenworks organic software, computer graphics artists can create complex and highly realistic organic structures in a very short time. Modeling plants, organisms, abstract forms, organic architecture - or even special effects - has never been easier, with the new Xfrog 4 for Maya.
Xfrog adds six new objects to the Maya modeling interface, giving the user a much wider selection of tools for the creation of models, far beyond the existing capabilities of Maya software
Powerful New Object Creation
Xfrog 4 for Maya gives Maya users the following new Objects:
- Branch Object: enables you to create complex branching structures - very helpful for creating trees, bushes, other branching natural forms.
- Curve Object: a special NURBS curve that can be changed by parameters such as rotation and translation.
- Hydra Object: tool for copying objects about a circle similar to Nature. This can be used to perfectly arrange leafs / petals around a flower, for example.
- Phyllotaxis Object: this tool groups objects onto and across surfaces of revolution. Objects are arranged on a spherical surface by default.
- Variation Object: can be used to create different child objects from a set of objects.
- Tropism Object: Effects like gravity and phototropism are able to be applied to curves with this Object.
Tight Integration
Xfrog 4 for Maya combines all tools very powerfully with each other. For example, Maya�s NURBS or polygon objects can be copied with the Branch Object, the Hydra Object or Phyllotaxis Object. Additionally, the geometry created in Xfrog4 can be used as the basis of a particle emitter. Even deformers can be applied to Xfrog Objects!
X Frog 4 User Interface � Fully integrated within Maya
Operating from within the Maya user interface, Xfrog Objects are easily and precisely controlled by control curves and splines that are fully animatable. Advanced users can influence the input values of the curves and splines with mathematical formulas, so they are able to create their own unique models very quickly.
Xfrog Plants
Greenworks has also created over 1,000 highly accurate procedural models of plants which are available in 22 individual libraries. Each plant is modeled by botanical experts, and real samples of each species are scanned and photographed to create accurate and highly detailed textures.
For game content creators, each model now has a billboard or �sprite� equivalent for realistic low-polygonal rendering of natural scenery.
These plants can be fully edited and animated within Xfrog 4 for Maya. For information and pricing on Xfrog Plants, please check the Greenworks website.
About Greenworks organic-software
Greenworks organic-software is a world leader in organic modeling and animation software. Customers include Pixar, Disney, ILM, Dreamworks, Moving Picture Company, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures Imageworks, among many others.
Xfrog and XfrogPlant film credits include: "Batman and Robin", "Time Machine", and most recently, Jan Kounen's "Blueberry" (Lt. Blueberry, Moebius). Several other major films using Xfrog are currently in production.
Related Links: Greenworks website
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