ABVENT ART*LANTIS V4.5 FOR VECTORWORKS

Photo-Realistic Rendering, Virtual Reality and Animation

Art*lantis reaches an unprecedented level of speed and performance.

Today, with its new Version 4.5, Art*lantis re-enforces its technological leadership and confirms Abvent's commitment to continuous innovating and provide you with powerful solutions, precisely tailored to meet your needs. The new features such as Site Insertion, Parallel Views, Billboards and more, have all been carefully designed to optimise your productivity and to enable you to create scenes more real than ever before, in the simplest, fasted and most intuitive way.

Equipped with an incredibly simple and intuitive interface and powered by the most advanced technologies, Art•lantis has become the choice rendering solution for many CAD editors worldwide.

Regardless of the modeler, operating system or material used, Art•lantis renders the most realistic images and movie clips. Perfectly compatible with the leading CAD software (ArchiCAD™, VectorWorks™, AutoCAD™, form•Z™, CadSoft™, ChiefArchitect™, ARC+™, Amapi™, ZOOM™…), Art•lantis imports most industry-standard file formats (DXF, DWG™, 3D Studio™, IGES, VRML, Electric Image™, RIB…).

Art•lantis has earned its worldwide reputation mainly for its revolutionary real-time previewing. In other words, any modifications made to textures, surface patterns, multiple light sources, global illumination, soft shadows, or depth of field can be done interactively and seen in the Preview window.
Fast, precise and flexible fine-tuning of any 3D scene results in images and animations of incredible realism and atmosphere.

To facilitate the selection of textures, Art•lantis lets you see them before applying them. Shaders are applied by a single drag & drop, whether they are predefined "Art•lantis shaders" or new textures created by users.

The library of shaders is organized by families, which facilitates their installation, distribution and management. Users can create their own library of shaders and update it easily. Each modification of shaders is entirely graphic: from choosing colors to adjusting reflections, users can control everything interactively with simple clicks of the mouse.

Whether the final presentation of a project is a still image, an animation or a virtual reality panorama, Art•lantis’ interface is always interactive and easy to use.
Users have total control over different functions such as modifying camera paths and behaviors, speeding up or slowing down camera traveling time in animations, linking animation sequences and panoramas, conducting sun studies or experimenting with panoramic views. And thanks to a multitude of special effects like creating 3D background images and atmospheres or adjusting depth of field, users can customize their presentations.

Considered revolutionary for its intuitive and interactive interface as well as for the high quality of images rendered by its high-speed calculations, Art•lantis produces final images, animations, VR panoramas and objects in most industry-standard file formats including TIFF, PICT, TGA, BMP, AVI, EPIX (Piranesi), and QuickTime VR, and manages alpha channels as well.

Winner of numerous international awards and featured in many magazines, Art•lantis has acquired a very diversified clientele made up of graphic artists, multimedia designers, IT experts, CAD users, photojournalists and even complete beginners. And because they can interactively explore buildings and plans, view objects from all angles, calculate large images and create thumbnails for CD-ROMs or the Internet, Art•lantis is the ideal tool for all 3D professionals everywhere. Art•lantis makes photo-realistic rendering, animation and virtual reality accessible to all. And everyone agrees upon Art•lantis’ innovativeness and user-friendliness, which never stop evolving - even with every new version.

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