Features
Productivity enhancing features of 4.0:
- Interactive Web-Based Animation Viewer: Use as a previewer on your desktop, or share your animations with your web community online
- New Optimized Default Models: Modern and classic dance figures, optimized for use with the Animation Viewer
- Batch File Converter: Convert large quantities of file from one format to another with ease
- Enhanced Joint Map Editor: adjust pivot points, joint size, offsets and import geometry for your segmented models or bones.
- New Maya Plug-in: streamlined integration between Life Forms and Maya
- New 3D Studio Max Plug-in: streamlined integration between Life Forms and Max
More Features
- Range Editing: easily adjust a pose across a range of frames. Great for editing motion capture data!
- Procedural walk generator: create realistic walks in seconds.
- File browser: preview your motion or movie files before opening them.
- Mirror: make a mirror image of your moves along the x, y, of z axis to get your figure backstepping, dancing upside down, and more!
- Snap: works like artificial friction to eliminate sliding feet, falling through the floor and more.
- 3D file format support: Maya, LightWave 3D, 3D Studio Max, ElectricImage, Cinema 4DXL, Poser, and any app that uses HTR, Acclaim, or BVH motion capture data.*
*available in Life Forms Studio only
What's the difference between Studio and Dance?
The two versions share the same 'infrastructure' in that they have the same interface, tools and animation capabilities. They are both free-standing software, you'll only need one, either Life Forms Dance or Life Forms Studio.
Life Forms Dance is the choreographer's choice for creating dance in a fun, easy- to-use workspace. Dance ships with Rhonda Ryman's Ballet Moves CD.
Life Forms Studio ships with the PowerMoves CD of ready-to-use content, and has more advanced importing/exporting capabilities and supports the following 3D packages and formats: LightWave 3D, Inspire 3D, 3D Studio Max, Maya, PowerAnimator, ElectricImage, Cinema 4D XL, Poser 4, and BioVision BVH, Acclaim, and HTR Mocap Data.
