Digital Element's WorldBuilder 3.0

It is said God created the world in six days. Some of us see that as a miracle, others say He should have taken more time and worked out all of the bugs. For those of us who have, at one time or another, dreamed of improving or perhaps just changing the world to more closely resemble our own vision of perfection, Digital Element offers WorldBuilder 3.0

Now anyone can become God's assistant. The power to move mountains, chart the course of great rivers, create major civilizations and control the very heavens is now available at your fingertips.

WorldBuilder 3.0 now gives you several landscape libraries to choose from or you can use the drawing tool and start building your own custom landscapes. There are now also libraries of realistic textures, a lot of new editors, more control over lighting and shadows and more support for transparency and anti-aliasing.

WorldBuilder 3.0 lets you animate your world so that your clouds float, your rivers rage and your oceans sparkle. You can also import objects from 3ds max or LightWave and now, in this version, the interactivity between WorldBuilder and those packages has been improved.

The only problem WorldBuilder 3.0 still has is its need for a lot of computer power. WorldBuilder is a great package and I recommend it to all animators and those who create digital backgrounds in their work.

Rating: * * * *

Animation Magazine, August 2001, page 67

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