-* This may be posted, shown anywhere you like in this form only *- *%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* * PHOENIX U.S.A. - XENOMORPH Update (Version 2.0) * *%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%*%* LEXICOR SOFTWARE is proud to announce the release of PHOENIX 2.0 in the U.S.A. The following pricing structure is U.S.A. only, European Prices and Distribution at your closest Lexicor Dealer. ************************************************************************ European Sales you may contact: * North American Sales contact: =================================== * ================================= email: europasales@lexicor.com * email: usasales@lexicor.com * LEXICOR EUROPE * LEXICOR SOFTWARE CORPORATION 36 Queensberry Street, Suite 6 * 1726 Francisco Street Boston, MA 02215 * Berkeley, CA 94703 Tel: (617) 437-0414 * Tel: (510) 848-7621 Fax: (617) 437-9413 * Fax: (510) 848-7613 ************************************************************************ Pricing Structure is as follows (these Prices are valid for North America, European prices vary from Country to Country!) PHOENIX 1.0 Upgrade Policy, return your original Phoenix 1.0 disk and payment of 49.95 U$D and you will receive your PHOENIX 2.0. PHOENIX 1.0 will be known as the entry level PHOENIX and be still available for 69.95. PHOENIX 2.0 Standard Price will be only 89.95! All Prices do not include, tax, shipping and handling costs. ================================================= = Now to some inside information on Phoenix 2.0 = ================================================= NEW GEM BASED INTERFACE and MULTITOS Support ============================================ Runs Completely under MultiTOS (tm) and supports it completely i.e. you can Render your images in the background! so now rendering your images will not tie up your computer completely. NEW TOOLBOX INTERFACE ===================== Options to render in Polygon Gouraud Phong Phong/Shadows You can now preview in the resolution of your choice, when Rendering Phoenix will open up a window of the rendered image and a status bar. New Palette options, next to best and fixed, you can now render with the Palette of your choice in the option custom designed palette! This is a very important new feature that is extremely useful for 8bit animations and fast playback! NEW ENHANCED OBJECT WINDOW ========================== Shadows, No Shadows, Caustic Shadows This New set of features will allow you to turn off the Shadows for individual objects, this decreases rendering times for objects that may never cast shadows. Caustic Shadows will simulate the caustic focusing of lights due to refraction, works best with a partially transparent objects. As well as..... The usual powerful functions such as specular refraction, break points, individual glow factors for objects and object transparency and a new Surface Texture and enhanced Color Texture Menu! New improved Textures ===================== Alongside the old wood grain, marble and image mapping many new texture as well as bump mappings have been now included! Surface Textures ================ - Ripples creates a rippled water appearance with small somewhat random ripples - Waves creates ocean type waves - Bump Mapping produces a bumpy, realistic surfaces - Eroded very similar to bumps, a small variation of it - Image Mapping will allow you to use an image (SPC, GIF, TGA) to pertubate the surface. Additionally you can control the animation factor to every respective Surface Texture for example in Waves or Ripple produce an animation cycle of any frames per cycle of your choice! Create realistic moving waves and ripples! Color Spline Textures ===================== This is the new texture mapping in Phoenix 2.0 that allows you to have a lot more control over the individual texture rather than the old textures. You can specify the texturing method, describe the color spline, sequence of colors thus adding various texture layers over each other. It is nearly like a user defined texture mapper with Bozo, Gradient, Agate, Granite, Marble, Wood type layers per texture layer. Color Spline has too many features to go in detail about them, check out our 24bit Color Texture Images (TEXTURES.TGA) to see just some of the power of this new option. There are over 100 new textures and texture layers available to the user. A Texture list at the end of this message. NEW RENDERING OPTIONS ===================== - Fog Create your own fog effects of your rendered images. - Background Color, select the color to render in the background of your choice - Background Image, select the image of your choice to render in the background COLORED LIGHTS ============== Now Xenomorph can light an image with a user-specific light so you can produce a red-light spotlight, mix it with other lights of different colors to produce some amazing and interesting effects. TEXTURE MOTION CONTROL and MORPHING LOCK ======================================== Control your textures in animation so your texture will flow with your animation as if it is a real part to a moving object! With the new morphing lock function this can be now be done with morphing animations done with Chronos and combined with ANM-Link the missing link to render CHRONOS animations with the power of the Phoenix Rendering Engine! Standard Features of Phoenix ============================ o Render Objects with smooth shading, no more polygon edges! o Objects will render with highlights o Objects may be textured with wood grain, marble, or wrap and image around the object o Each Object may have it's own color palette o Number of Objects is limited only by memory o 4 different light source type, up to 21 lights in a scene. o 3 different camera types. Maneuver the camera anywhere in a scene. o Graphical object, light and camera positioning editor. o View and save rendered images as 512 color Spectrum SPC files, 2 to 256 color GIF files, or true color (24bit) Targa files at any resolution. o Simple animation capabilities, or render CTL script animations (Cyber Control v.1.1 required for CTL animations) or use the new ANM-LINK (Relativity) to render Chronos Key-frame animations with morphs and cycles. o Several tutorial and sample objects included o Runs in any 80 column color or monochrome resolution o Full math co-processor support o Plus much much more! There is a lot more to the new Phoenix, especially the new powerful Color Spline to give you close to absolute texture control. Lexicor Software will soon come with a special disk of over hundreds of new textures for use in Phoenix, but here is a small list of the Textures available straight away in the Phoenix 2.0 disk. - Wood User definable with grain color and width, Object Texture Ratio, view - Marble User definable with color bands, turbulence, base color, grain, view, Object Texture Ratio and more - Image Mapping Load SPC, TGA,GIF or FLC/X animations to map in S map (Plane, Cube, Cylinder or Sphere), O Map (Reflection, Obj Normal, Obj Center, S Map Norm), Tiling (single or tiled, morph lock, view control, turbulence and Mask (no mask, foreground or opaque mask) on the object of your choice with your own created image. Brand new Textures that come with Phoenix 2.0 (and only usable in Phoenix 2.0) can be altered in the Color Spline Texture Control, also only individual layers of that Texture can be saved, loaded and/or manipulated. WOOD Types: STONE Types: SKY Types: MISC Types: =========== ============ ========== =========== Cherry Wood Agate Blue Apocalypse Brass Dark Wood Agate Brown Clouds Candy Pine Wood Agate Sapphire Sky Blue1 Cork Rose Wood Gradient Pink Sky Blue2 Fire/Flame Sandy Wood Jade Sky Blue3 Peel Tanned Wood Marble Blood Sky Bright Rust Toned Wood Marble Red Sky Blood Iron Rust White Wood Marble White Yellow Wood Pink Lab and 7 more and 24 more Stone Wood types types! that have each their own indiv. characteristic! * All in all 125 Textures are included * on the Phoenix 2.0 disk for the User And LEXICOR will be releasing texture disks loaded only with brand new textures such as Popcorn that will look like real popcorn when rendered! Absolutely amazing! The true strength of Phoenix lies in its ease of use, and this ease of use has been thankfully preserved in Phoenix 2.0, don't be baffled by the wealth of new Textures and the incredible new functions, it will only take a very short while to master it. ====================================================================== On the Internet you may contact us on staff@lexicor.com or support@lexicor.com, optionally you may also email Lexicor@world.std.com On COMPUSERVE contact 75300,763 or 73073,142 or visit us in topic 11 (LEXICOR) on atariarts or atariven (type go atariarts). GENIE contact LEXICOR or Y.SIU or visit us at the GRAPHICS RT on page 1415 (type m1415) in Category 22 (LEXICOR SUPPORT) or just type GRAPHICS to enter the forum. On DELPHI contact LEXICOR or LEXICORWORLD or visit us in the Atari Advantage Area (type go com atari). ======================================================================