Reprinted from an Electric Rain press release:
Today Electric Rain, Inc. announced the upcoming release of Swift 3D 3.0 for Mac OS X. Swift 3D is a standalone application for designers to build and export 3D animations to the Macromedia Flash (SWF) file format, as well as other major vector and raster formats. Swift 3D for Mac OS X will be available late spring 2003 as a free upgrade to existing Swift 3D 3.0 users.
“Electric Rain is proud to broaden its support for the Mac community by making Swift 3D available for Mac OS X,” said Mike Soucie, President of Electric Rain, Inc. “Swift 3D is a powerful 3D authoring tool that becomes even more compelling when paired with Mac OS X and its advanced capabilities.”
“Mac OS X, with Quartz Extreme, has the most advanced graphics architecture available,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. “We are pleased to see Swift 3D take advantage of Mac OS X’s powerful graphics capabilities and give the Mac an impressive 3D package with which to create high-quality vector Flash output.”
The Mac OS X version of Swift 3D will offer significant advantages over previous versions by utilizing Mac OS X’s dynamic memory management and multi-tasking capabilities, providing faster rendering speeds and enhanced workflow.
Swift 3D 3.0 for Mac OS X will offer Electric Rain’s latest innovations in quick and easy 3D authoring:
The Mac OS X version of Swift 3D 3.0 will be available at http://www.erain.com in late spring of 2003 and will be a free upgrade for owners of Swift 3D 3.0 for Macintosh. The SRP for Swift 3D 3.0 is $169.00 USD for the download and boxed CD version. Upgrades from previous versions of Swift 3D are $89.00 USD.
