ParticleIllusion products get Leopard compatibility
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Aug 27, 2008 at 10:33am
Wondertouch has announced that new versions of its particleIllusion 3.0 and particleIllusion SE line of product offerings on the Mac OS X are now available.
The updates to particleIllusion 3.0, wondertouch’s standalone particle effects application, and particleIllusion SE, the company’s introductory version, gives digital content creators working on Apple’s advanced operating system more ways to quickly and easily create complex effects: explosions, smoke, fire, sparkles, motion graphics backgrounds, space effects, creatures, and abstract artistic effects, according to Alan Lorence, president of wondertouch.
The new changes and enhancements are available to current wondertouch customers free. Lorence, says the updated versions provide particleIllusion users on the Mac platform access to the same feature enhancements already updated in particleIllusion products on the Windows platform made available last December. New features and enhancements include:
° Integrated tendering (particleIllusion 3.0 only; not available in SE)—tighter integration with pIllusionRender, wondertouch’s standalone renderer, allows for automatic rendering of HD and other large-format output (previously, large-format output had to be saved in particleIllusion then loaded manually in pIllusionRender);
° Leopard compatibility—full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”), as well as continued compatibility with OS X 10.3 and 10.4;
° An Emitter Library AutoUpdate that provides a way to check for, download, and install the particleIllusion emitter libraries that are provided free by wondertouch each month;
° particleView search engine to help users find particle emitters within the vast particleIllusion library collection which currently numbers over 2,500 emitters for particleIllusion 3.0 and over 2000 emitters for particleIllusion SE (particleView is installed with both particleIllusion 3.0 and SE, and is also available as a free download from the wondertouch web site);
° A Quick Load Library—this new function, added to particleIllusion SE 2.0.2 and enhanced in particleIllusion 3.0.7, makes switching between particleIllusion emitter libraries faster and easier.
Registered owners of particleIllusion 3.0 and particleIllusion SE can download updates free-of-charge from the wondertouch web site. For new users the cost is $389 and $99, respectively.
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