Between January & February 1999 will Eyelight release the following
products:

Tornado3D v2.1
another free upgrade bringing seweral new features and bug fixes

Tornado3D PowerPack
a jam packed CD with over 300 MB of objects, maps, projects and
animations with an easy HTML navigator

Tornado3D v2.1 Manual
the new, expanded and improved manual, both in freely downloadable
HTML format and printed as part of an update pack that includes
Tornado3D v2.1 and the PowerPack

Tornado3D v2.0 SE
a manual-less, introductory, version of Tornado3D that will bring
basic 3D capabilities in the $99 price range


Tornado3D v3.0 will be ready by April 1999.

Prelimitary features of v3.0:

* Clothes and strings, for soft object animation.
* Mannequins, male, female and alien characters, fully changeable
with simple evolutionistic parameters to create an infinite
number of life forms already boned and ready for animation
* "Footed Full Time" Inverse Kinematics for effortless character
animation.
* MeshMapping
* Flocks and Herds, full featured mass-animation of semi-intelligent
groups of objects that fly, navigate or swarm, avoiding obstacles
and interacting among themselves
* Nurb Sculptors
* 3D sound tracing, mikes and loudspeakers allow to play sounds and
record them with full spatial information and effects such as echo
and distance fades
* Sound and lip sync, allows to define morph targets to simulate
lip-sync and to tie sound effects to the actions, like for example
footsteps or sword clanging
* RadMapping, another powerful cubic mapping technology that allows
to simulate the effect of Radiosity at high speed
* Multi monitor capabilities
* Project scheduler, to manage and render several projects at once,
 also over network of different machines
* 2D shaper, full "traditional" 2D modeler, with adaptive Bezier
curves, tracing capabilities and lofting
* Internal virtual memory support cuts in half rendering memory
requirements with minimal speed loss
* Render engines, freely redistributable render engines for variety
of platforms
* Faster PPC rendering, with full custom math library
* SmartApt, auto-detection and optimization of the code for the
processor found
* Even faster CybervisionPPC (Permedia 2) support
* Customers of Tornado3D v2.0 full edition will be able to download
for free Tornado3D v3.0 from Eyelight`s web site.