Informatix Software International Limited is proud to announce that version 5 of Piranesi® – its award-winning “3D painting” technology – will soon be released on Windows®.
Much of the power of Piranesi comes from its ability to combine different tools and effects together, but sometimes the number of possibilities can be bewildering! Piranesi 5 addresses this by promoting a number of effects – such as Edge detection, Restore, and various kinds of Cutout placement – to Tools in their own right. These facilities are now easier to find, and if you’re new to the system you can turn on the new Help Assistant which tells you step-by-step how to use your current Tool to get the result you want. The most common settings for each Tool are now right in front of you on the Tool Options toolbar, while the more advanced settings can be ignored or combined with other palettes as tabs on a single window to reduce screen space. Meanwhile the new Style Selector gives you easy access to saved style recipes for each Tool, fitting conveniently into the same Tool Options toolbar.
Piranesi 5 isn’t just about user interface improvements – there’s a raft of new capabilities. You can quickly populate whole scenes with people or plants using the Multiple Cutout placement Tool, and Cutouts can be grouped and moved together, or modified with motion blur and silhouetting effects. There’s a new Light tool for re-illuminating a scene with four types of light with adjustable strength and direction; a new Pencil tool for drawing lines and areas; and a Stamp tool for burning in raster images. You can export to Photoshop PSD files, or import SketchUp or 3DS Cutouts complete with textures.
As well as the enhancements to Piranesi itself, its sister Vedute program – for rendering models into Piranesi format – has new features for handling materials, textures and paper sizes, and generating 3D cutouts. Last but not least, there are 200 new royalty-free cutout images of people, plants, and street furniture.
For more information see our Piranesi 5 information page
This article was last modified on January 4, 2023
This article was first published on March 5, 2007
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