Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Electronic Rain
http://www.erain.com/
If you're into doing web graphics, Elec-
tronic Rain makes something I think will
interest you. Swift 3D is a tool that exports
LightWave stills and animations into
Macromedia's Flash format. It fully sup-
ports gradients, transparency, reflections,
specularity, and shadows. It'll render your
LW scene to Flash's vector-based format as
polygonal outlines, cartoon shading, or
photo-realistic using multiple layers of
transparency to get realistic specular high-
lights and shadows.
Wordware Publishing
http://www.wordware.com/
Wordware, the publisher of the topic you
are reading, provides topics on many differ-
ent computer-related subjects, from its
Game and Graphics Library to topics on
pixel shading and real-time graphics coding.
Few publishers have topics that actually
teach you things you need to know. I don't
want to get on a soapbox here, but I am fed
up with topics that talk a lot but don't say
much. I choose to publish my LightWave
topics through Wordware because we share
similar foci in our intent in
making a differ-
ence
and giving the community
things you
can actually use, things you really want to
know.
Safe Harbor
http://www.sharbor.com/
Safe Harbor is an online retailer that sup-
ports the 3D and graphics communities.
While it is not my intention to single out
one retailer from another, I call attention to
Safe Harbor because they have served the
digital content community for more than 16
years and consistently provide a high level
of personal service and professionalism. If
you're looking for 3D-related hardware and
software and are having trouble locating
what you need through other vendors,
check out Safe Harbor.
