Strata 3D, and Website Strata Design 3D CX is a commercial, and program developed in by Corastar, Inc. Dba Strata Software. Strata is a pioneer and developer of 3D design software. Strata Design 3D CX 8 is the latest incarnation of a program that was originally named. It is best known as an all-purpose 3D modeling application with photo-real rendering ability, ease of use and tight integration with. Strata 3D is targeted at the illustration/multimedia market rather than at the movie/games market. Strata 3D software in its various iterations has received awards and praise from many sources including MacUser UK, Digit Magazine, Layers Magazine, DigitalArts, MacWorld, and Photoshop User.
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Share Your Vision in 3D, VR and AR Output to the latest technologies to share your work: 3D Printing: Use the Publish 3D command for direct 3D printing, or use STL or one of many other formats Design 3D provides. Virtual Reality: VR lets you walk directly into your models. Render photoreal, fully immersive images, or use the Publish VR command to push your models to Strata Spaces VR with the Vive VR headset. Augmented Reality: You can publish directly to AR services and even use one of the Strata AR platforms. Strata supports all of the key 3D formats. Strata Design 3D CX offers an incredible array of modeling options.
You can model using familiar Bezier splines, but now in 3D: traditional polys- but now with Quad Polysplines (subdivision surfaces); MetaSurfaces to meld objects together; Extrude and Lathe; Boolean to combine or subtract: Skin; Mirror and more!. Polyspline SDS (subdivision surfaces). Meld MetaSurfaces. Bezier Surfaces. Extrude.
Lathe. Boolean. Skin. Polygonal Modeling. Path Extrude.
Construction Objects. Shy Objects.
Shape Instancing. Replicate / Duplicate. Object Manipulation. Drop a Curve.
Hide Objects. Fillet.
Thickness. Mirror. Hull Surface. Deformation Lattice. Grids – World, Custom & View. Guides – Custom and Default. Smooth Mesh.
Decimation. Segment Edge Command. Show Face Normals. Point Snap.
Unlike your favorite 2D applications, Strata Design 3D CX gives you the opportunity to examine artwork from any angle. With the power of 3D perspective comes new challenges for control.
Strata 3D rises to the occasion with split-able views, connected views, multiple views, depth cueing and even special views for cameras and light sources. OpenGL gives you quick previews while LiveRay gives you photo-real previews.
Familiar Interface. Split Views. Camera View. Multi-Views. Depth Cueing. Image/Movie Backdrop. Spotlight Views.
OpenGL. LiveRay. You’ve heard of “looks good in any light” – now you’ve found the tool that gives you that elusive “any light”.
Strata Design 3D CX gives you point lights, spotlights, global sun-style lights, environment based lightdomes, High Dynamic Range Image lighting, glowing surfaces, gels – all unlimited and fully controllable. Point Lights. Spot Lights. Global Lights.
Glowing Surfaces. Lightdome HDRI. Intensity.
Host Object. Soft Edges. Ambient Light.
Gels. Animatable Lights. Overflow Handling.
Spotlight Window View. Effects Applied to Light. Direct Manipulation Interface. HDR Light Studio Integration (optional). Being able to talk to other programs in your design studio is an important issue.
Strata Design 3D CX offers a number of options in this area. U3D (in).
Collada (in/out). Illustrator/EPS (in). Photoshop PSD (in/out).
STL (in/out). XMM (out). Quicktime (in/out). PICT (in/out). Quicktime VR (out). TGA (in/out). TIFF (in/out).
BMP (in/out). JPEG (in/out).
3DS (in). PDF (in).
DXF (in/out). AVI (in/out).
MiniCAD (in). Amapi (in/out). OBJ (in/out). VRML 1 & 2 (in/out).
Flash SWF (out). True Type Fonts (in). Postscript Type Fonts (in). The core of what makes Strata Design 3D CX so good – and what it’s famous for – is the high quality rendering. Rendering is the process of taking the design you worked to put together and creating the final image.
OpenGL. Toon. LiveRay. Photons. Raytracing.
Raydiosity. Render to Layers. Flat Shaded. Hidden Line. Outline. Pointcloud. Smooth Shaded.
Wireframe. Scanline. Transparency.
Alpha Channel. Anti-Aliasing. Oversampling.
Glow. Reflectivity. Blurry Transparency and Reflectivity. Instance Rendering. Anti-Matter Effect.
Field Rendering. Atmospheric Effects. Shadows.
MIP Mapping. Soft Shadows.
Stereoscopic. Custom Environments. Specular Highlights.
Suspend Rendering. Marquee Select Rendering. Design 3D CX takes a simple approach to animation: Everything can be animated. And it takes a simple approach to controlling animation: keyframes, a timeline, and scripting. Even if you’ve never booted it up, you already know how to use it. Scripting.
Hierarchial. Visible Paths. Everything Time Variable. Animation Preview.
Shatter. Explode. Jiggle. Convert to Path Event-Based. Cycle Back & Forth. Key Frames. Velocity Graphs.
Life Checkbox. Align to Path. IK (Inverse Kinematics). FK (Forward Kinematics). TCB, Spline & Natural Paths. Proportional Event Scaling. “What if” is as simple as drag-and-drop in Strata Design 3D CX.
Select from the palette of hundreds of pre-made surface textures or make your own using features like live-linking to native Photoshop and Illustrator files – make a change in Photoshop or Illustrator and Strata Design 3D CX automatically updates the model surface. A great camera can make even the novice photographer look good. Just think of what Strata Design 3D CX will do for you with all these imaging options at your finger tips. These options include four kinds of motion blur, depth of field, and six styles of cameras including panoramic. Scripting. Hierarchial. Visible Paths.
Motion Blur. Depth of Field. Boom.
Pan. Dolly. Arc. Pitch. Yaw.
Roll. Host Object. Target Object.
Focal Distance. View Angle. Stereoscopic Camera.
Panorama Camera. Cubic Camera. Fisheye Camera. Spherical Camera. VR 360 Stereo Camera. Shutter Speed.
Live Window Updates. LiveRay Scene Preview. Strata Design 3D CX includes a Lua based scripting language. Lua is a widely used language, particularly in gaming, with companies like Blizzard (World of Warcraft), Criterion Studios (NBA Ballers, ESPN Major League Baseball), BioWare (Neverwinter Nights), UbiSoft (Far Cry), Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts), Nival Interactive (Blitzkrieg) and many more. Even new favorites, such as Adobe Lightroom, utilize Lua. With Lua you can script shaders and textures to: access the rendering pipeline; lens scripting for the creation of custom lenses, effects and warps; Filter FX which allows you to write custom Lua scripts to apply filters based on an object’s surface normal, direction, lighting, volume, and by pixel color, depth, transparency, layer within the psd file – and much, much more.
In fact, Design 3D comes with a whole series of special effect shaders created using Lua. These “Script FX” let you do things like bounce, vibrate, alter acceleration and more. Each Script FX gives access to the full Lua source code, so you can edit them if you like. Additional features are implemented directly in Lua throughout Design 3D such as Match Motion and Instance Node Control. If you’re somebody who’s interested in scripting, Lua gives you the opportunity to extend Design 3D in a variety of important ways.
Learn Design 3D CX Online at Strata 3D University Learning 3D doesn’t have to be difficult. Especially with Strata’s online training library at your fingertips, covering every aspect of Strata Design 3D CX and the entire 3D design workflow. Strata 3D University makes it simple to find your subject of interest and quickly get up to speed with short, informative videos created by professional 3D designers. Hundreds of hours of available video tutorials. Free with subscription purchases, available to all other users on separate purchase.