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Impulse Inc.
6870 Shingle Creek Pkwy, #112
Minneapolis, MN. 55430
(612) 566-0221
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
INTRODUCING "TURBO Silver"
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Turbo Silver New Features
1. SPIN.... allows you to make objects that are symetrical along the Z
axis. You can now make objects like wine glasses, chess men vases or even
cigars. Spin allows you the ability to pick the amount of sides to any
object, thereby making objects that appear smooth as well as facited.
2. EXTRUDE...with extrude you can create free form objects that will
be extruded along the Y axis. This feature makes creating letters and
other unique objects a real snap.
3. STENCIL...by using any picture created with any IFF paint program,
the user can create a black background or zero color and draw or manipulate
one other color, to create a stencil. When traced in Turbo Silver, the zero
color will show the background as though it were gen-locked and the other
color image will show normal. This feature allows creation of logos and the
like for fast and efficent flybys, rolls and moves. Stencils will cast
shadows and act as in all manners, just like any other Silver object, with
the exception of depth, the Stencil is only one pixel deep.
4. 3D Wire Frame Editor. this feature allows the creation of almost any
type of shape that can be you can imagine. This feature allows you to create
your own set of shape tables.
5. New Shapes.. In Silver 1.X you were able to only use the base
primitives. With Turbo Silver you can use the 3D editor to make shapes or
you can call from the Custom Menu one of some preset shapes they are :...
Spheres,Cones, Torus, Tube, Ring and Disk. These have the same names as the
older primitives, with the exception of the same name all of the objects are
created using triangles. This gives you the ability to squash and stretch on
any axis.
6. Surface, Silver no longer has a ground, we found that a ground is not
the most tidy way to create a good trace. If you wish to have a ground you
can now create your own using surface.
7. Refraction...Turbo Silver now has true refraction, ie you can create
objects that are air, (clear) glass, water and crystal, In the event that
you would desire to create an object with the refraction index of Emerald you
can do so by using the custom refraction index menu item.
8. Octree Tracing Techniques. This new technique similar to the techniques
used on much larger machines gives Turbo Silver it's new name. With this
technique applied to Silver you trace times will be reduced dramatically,
In some cases there is a 100 fold decrease in trace time.
As only an aproximate example a trace that would take 6 hours in Silver 1.X
will now take on the average of 35 minutes. The other important feature of
Octrees is that you will no longer have to do any bounding. In reality
bounding is automatic.
9. Improved color pallete with Phong shading techniques. This feature
gives the final rendered cell real visual "PUNCH"!
10. Virtual Disk storage. All cells that are created are saved to disk.
The will allow the memory of the computer to be unencumbered with excess
information floating around in the computer. This featue has two advantages.
One, the computer will never be asking for as much memory and this leads to
less fragmentation of memory. The other advantage of a virtual storage system
is the fact that once created in the editor the information is saved
immediately. In the rare occasion of a GURU or other problem like power out,
the information and file that you have been wroking on will be intact.
11. Greater control over both lighting models with a wider range of
latitude in brightness . The Moveable light can also be associated with an
object or group making rotation and movement very easy and controllabe.
12. Editor new features. Co-ordinate marker. This info box will tell
you at all times just where you cursor is in any view.
13. Join ...a new command in the Editor allows you to take two different
objects and connect them together on a very permanent basis. This command
also resolves the overlapping of other triangles making the smoothing of
these objects very clean and crisp.
14. The axis (old null point) now has all three co-ordinate markers shown.
By the addition of these markers the world of Silver has fixed axis and the
objects have their own axis. This attribute will allow you move in realtive
world space or just the space of the object .
15. Tweening and Story creation. This feature allows you to create a
complete story or animation without having to create each cell. Simply tell
the objects what to do and over what period of time. Turbo Silver does the
rest. This feature alone will make your animations simpler and quicker to
create.
16. THE BEST FEATURE ALL ? Turbo Silver is now only $199.95 - Complete!
Current Registered owners of Silver may upgrade to TURBO SILVER for
only $30.00.
To order Turbo Silver or your upgrade today give us a call
on the IMPULSE HOTLINE at 1-800-328-0184. Upgrade customers please
have your serial number handy it's located on on the back of your
Master program disk.