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St Rose, LA – March 16, 2001
– Digimation, Inc. announces the immediate availability of Cluster-O-Matic, a new clustering and animation tool developed by Di-O-Matic,
Inc. for use with Discreet’s 3ds max™ 3 and 4.
Cluster-O-Matic is designed as an all-purpose
tool for clustering collections of vertices together and linking them to
other objects directly within 3ds max scenes. You can use the product as
both a modeling tool as well as an animation tool. It's a perfect choice
for doing any kind of facial animation as well as touching up your
models for that extra touch of realism.
Users can select
vertices using the popular soft-selection method to get an even falloff
for controlling individual clusters. But unlike the built-in tools,
users can even create non-uniform selection sets with C.O.M. and
add/subtract them from each other for ultimate control. Then, users can
link these clusters to any other 3ds max object and by animating that
other object, instantly control the linked soft selection clusters. It
couldn’t be easier!
Cluster-O-Matic
is the first selection package to bring users :
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An unlimited number of named
clusters.
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Anisotropic soft-selection to give
users more options for radius shape.
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The ability to remove vertices
from a soft selection area.
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Soft-Selection with splines,
patches, meshes, NURBS, and FFD space warps.
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Direct link to external objects
for manipulation of set clusters for animation.
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Fade selection values gives users
the ability to select points at various percentages.
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Cluster Operations, arithmetic operations,
advanced booleans and more on multiple clusters.
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Unlimited number of Linked Xforms
- instead of having a very long modifier stack, you can handle tons of
linked xforms from the same modifier.
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Restrict axis on Linked Xforms to prevent the
links that C.O.M. creates from moving, rotating or scaling along each
axis independently.
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Soft selection cluster weights can be displayed
as Vertex Colors
“Cluster-O-Matic is a very handy tool! This plug-in gives you so much
more control over your models than anything 3ds max provides! I totally
recommend it and use it constantly!” said Tom Mitchell of The Deck
Company.
This plug-in also integrates well
with another forthcoming release from Digimation and Di-O-Matic, Morph-O-Matic,
the first, true progressive morpher for 3ds max. Cluster-O-Matic is
available for 3ds max 3 and 4 and only for $149.00. Visit Digimation at
http://www.digimation.com
or contact a sales representative at 504-468-7898 for more information
or to place an order.
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