Novadesign's Aladdin 4D

Aladdin 4D is one of the most complete 3D packages you can find on the Amiga market today. It comes complete with enhanced animation, modeling, lighting, and rendering that can all be extended with an advanced plugin system. Aladdin 4D provides professional features at a price anyone can afford.

Available on the Amiga platform, Aladdin 4D steps forward with a complete suite of tools available for you to use. Aladdin 4D comes with the tools, plugins, and functions necessary for you to deliver the highest quality work on time and under budget. Best of all, Aladdin 4D does this without sacrificing quality or ease of use.

Aladdin 4D

This page will give you an idea of the key features of Aladdin 4D and the system requirements of Aladdin 4D.

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Aladdin 4D Features

Interface

• 100% Amiga Styleguide compliant
• CyberGraphX support
• Basic ARexx scripting
• AmigaGuide Help System
• Logically organized menus
• Font sensitive interface
• Real world coordinates
• Dolly, Truck, and Pan capabilities
• Infinite Surface Layering

Modeling

Thanks to the unified interface, Aladdin 4D allows in-animation modification, deformation, and enhancement of 3D models in a dynamic manner. Thanks to Aladdin 4D's versatile modeling abilities, you can create 3D animations typically reserved for higher-priced packages while staying under budget. Rather than forcing you to adapt your imagination to the environment, Aladdin 4D works by adapting its environment so that the only limit in Aladdin 4D is your imagination.

• Spline modeling tools
• Surface editing directly during modeling
• Easy to use lasso style zoom
• Extensive modeling tools including Extrude, Path Extrude, Lathe, Bevel, Mirror, Clone, Subdivide and many more
• PostScript file importing can load a subset of most Postscript files
• Draw freehand shapes, or trace over images directly
• Work in an unlimited number of layers/spaces
• Line of sight cutting tool allows complex object creation with ease
• Create organic objects with spline curves

Rendering

Aladdin 4D, offers high quality rendering output, powerful capabilities and one of the most flexible systems available today for any platform. You can get both photo-realistic along with unreal approaches to your scene in Aladdin 4D without sacrificing quality in either. With Aladdin 4D, the output is exactly what you need it to be when you need it.

• Fastest possible rendering available on the Amiga
• Multi-level supersampling antialiasing
• Full control at render time over render attributes and settings
• Motion blur with controllable passes
• Fully customizable lens flare and 3D flare objects
• Render 32-bit images in standard resolutions or in custom resolutions
• Generate photorealistic soft shadows
• Control light attributes including Light Type, Color, Intensity, Falloff, Lens Flare, Shadow Options and more
• Direct support of CyberGraphX, DCTV, Toaster, Retina, OpalVision and standard Amiga modes including HAM8, 24-bit IFF and more

Lighting/Shading

Lighting can make or break any animation. The right lighting adds that touch of realism to a project, the wrong lighting can ruin it. With this in mind, Aladdin 4D offers a wide range of dynamic lighting tools and plugins to fill most needs.

• Shading can be facet, Gouraud or Phong. Other attributes are timelined so objects can change reflectivity, color, transparency, hardness, etc. during the animation by spline controls
• Unlimited lights of any type
• Lights use attribute lists that can be animated to change color and strength
• True photoreal soft shadows and user optimizable ray traced shadows
• Conic lights (Spotlights) with full controls and targeting
• Negative light

Animation

Aladdin 4D comes with animating tools and plugins that compare to the best in the industry! Aladdin 4D integrates them as part of the whole package, giving you the ability to put that extra little touch to the project, granting your audience the experience they have come to expect. Aladdin 4D allows unprecedented flexibility for your animations, granting you everything you ever dreamed of as a 3D animator.

• Camera can use one or more targets which control zoom, tilt and direction and even pan from one target to the next, all under spline control
• Animation of objects via paths and spline paths
• Paths also control rotation, scaling, mechanical waves, deforms and instancing, and can be linked for complex motion
• Timeline and 3D morphing animation techniques are supported
• Control splines can be used to control all aspects of transition
• Animate nearly all attributes of your scenes through easy to use envelope controls
• Animate lights, lens flares, textures, objects, even camera attributes
• Hierarchical motion paths and targeting abilities
• Advanced motion controls including Spline Controls, Velocity, Shifting and Scaling
• Enhanced lens flare controls with complete customization and animation

Special Features and Effects

Aladdin 4D does not skimp when it comes to special features and effects. Aladdin 4D provides you with a nearly unequaled toolbox full of tools for most wants and needs. And then, as if the built-in tools for Aladdin 4D were not enough, it integrates with our ImageFX to allow the application, layering, and manipulation of Aladdin 4D projects with the powerful tools found in ImageFX.

• Gaseous objects with easy-to-use controls. A container is presented in which the actual density of space can be modified
• Gases use attribute and texture lists as well as turbulence settings for dramatic effects
• Wave sources are unlimited in number and have dual radii making it easy to imitate rings in water, and more
• Fountain particle system allows the creation of endless varieties of particle effects, from fireworks to smoke trails to falling snow
• Textures. The most complete and easy to use texturing system available allows you to composite any number of bitmaps and/or procedural textures and specify when each should occur along with the strength and effect, including normal, bump, opacity, illumination, genlock and more. Procedural and bitmap sequences are supported

Plays Well with Others

Aladdin 4D interfaces and interacts well with other Amiga software. Lightwave/Toaster compatibility includes Lightwave object import, Zbuffer compositing (Lightwave), Toaster rendering, and framestore load/save. The zbuffer support also supports World Construction Set! Aladdin also supports bBuffer sharing which allows connectivity between Aladdin 4D, ImageFX and any other software supporting MAGIC buffer sharing.

Object Formats Supported

In today's world of ever changing formats, Aladdin 4D has kept up with the times. With its plugin solution, it is more than possible to support newer image codecs and object formats as the times change. Image loaders/savers for the following formats: IFF/ILBM (palette mapped and 24-bit formats), JPEG, and Video Toaster Framestores. 3D Object loaders and/or savers for the following formats: Aladdin 4D, Lightwave3D, GEO, EPS, DEM, Draw4D-Pro, and Draw4D, 3D Studio and more.

Aladdin 4D System Requirements

Requires 1mb ChipRAM (Amigas) and 4mb FastRAM. 10mb of hard drive storage (or more) required. Comes on Floppies and CDROM.