ParticleIllusion 3.0 half price upgrade for Combustion users

Wondertouch has announced a special limited-time upgrade promotion that allows registered owners of the Autodesk Combustion 3 or Combustion 4 desktop software programs to receive more than 50% off the US recommended price of particleIllusion 3.0, the latest version of the company's cornerstone, sprite-based particle effects software application.

Ending on November 15, 2005, the promotion allows Combustion 3 or Combustion 4 software owners to purchase the standalone version of particleIllusion 3.0 for Windows or Mac OS X platforms, at a reduced price of US$179, saving them US$220 on the deal.

The October 2005 emitter library has also been released. Wondertouch makes available new emitter libraries as an added extra. The company also encourages particleIllusion users to create and release their own emitter libraries for sharing with the particleIllusion community.

Designed to customize and modify effects, or create entirely new particle effects to any image, animation, or video footage, particleIllusion has been used in hundreds of feature films, TV episodes, and broadcast commercials worldwide.

The particles in particleIllusion 3.0 are promoted as running faster than those in Combustion 3 and Combustion 4, even with multiple emitters running on modest OpenGL hardware. Included in the new particleIllusion 3.0 are ‘forces’, which influence particles after they are created, to create wind effects for instance.

New Super emitters are included, allowing for the automatic creation of emitters to create other emitters, to achieve new levels of realism and creativity, and an emitter library that allows easy movement of emitters between libraries on your drive. wondertouch releases a new emitter library for particleIllusion 3.0 every month. Over 1300 emitters have been released for particleIllusion 3.0, providing new users of particleIllusion 3.0 with a huge set of new effects to use immediately.

The particle color can also be eye-dropped from the background footage, allowing for a wide variety of artistic and simulated displacement effects, as well as a new "don't erase" function that essentially allows you to "paint" with particles.

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