Maya Shockwave Exporter Available on Alias/Wavefront Website; Downloadable Maya Plugin Will Facilitate Creation of 3D Web Content.Business & High-Tech Editors TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2001 Alias/Wavefront(TM), an SGI (NYSE:SGI) company, today announced that its Maya 3D animation and visual effects software for Windows and IRIX workstations from Alias Systems Corporation, Toronto, Ontario (www.alias.com). Formerly owned by Alias|Wavefront, a subsidiary of SGI, Maya is known for its special character animation capabilities that enables human characters to be simulated with flesh tones, wrinkles and folds in clothing. Maya uses the MEL (Maya Embedded Language) scripting language to define sequences. Shockwave A 3D animation and interactive learning technology and format from Macromedia. Macromedia Director generates Shockwave files, which can be viewed through a Web browser plug-in (the Shockwave player) or multimedia applications that access the player directly. Shockwave is used to develop more sophisticated animations and interactions than Macromedia's Flash format. Shockwave uses the .DIR (DIRector) file extension for source files and . 3D Exporter(TM) plugin See plug-in. is now available as a free download from the Alias/Wavefront website: www.aliaswavefront.com. This plugin can be used to transfer content directly from the award-winning Maya(R) 3D animation and effects package into Macromedia's Director(TM) 8.5 Shockwave Studio software. A special website has been set up within the Alias/Wavefront site where the plugin, technical information about it, and examples will be available. The Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter plugin consists of the Maya RT Scene Checker(TM), which serves as a high-speed Maya scene optimizer, and the Maya RT Export Express(TM), which allows for rapid fine-tuning of Maya content for the newly released Shockwave web 3D player. Like Director, the Maya Shockwave 3D Exporter plugin will be available in both Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Apple(R) Macintosh(R) versions. "Alias/Wavefront is committed to the Shockwave platform as a high quality 3D web content publishing path for Maya customers," states Mike Wilson, Director of Maya Interactive at Alias/Wavefront. "The new 3D capabilities of Shockwave will introduce the broad base of Internet users to fully interactive 3D games, educational and e-commerce material. We are very excited to be helping to further this goal through the development of an industrial strength export path specifically optimized for Director and the Shockwave platform." Note to Editors: There should be a pipe symbol between "Alias" and "Wavefront" -- the pipe symbol was changed to a forward slash 10 / 7 means 10 divided by 7. The slash is also often used in command line syntax to indicate a switch. For example, in the DOS Xcopy statement xcopy *.* d: /s, the /s is a switch that tells the program to copy all subdirectories. In Unix paths, which have become popular due to Internet addresses, the slash separates the elements of the path as in www.company.com/news/previous/abc.html. See backslash. ("/") for transmission purposes only. |
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