NuGraf Features

User Interface

• Beginner and Expert Modes.
• Multiple Display Modes.
• Window Positioning Controls.
• Interruptible and Transparent Redraws.
• Interactive Camera Placement.
• Interactive Light Placement.
• Light Librarian.
• Extensive, context-sensitive online help and dual printed manuals (600 pages).

Object Manipulation

• Completely Hierarchical Model Database and User Interface.
• Built-in Primitives.
• 3D Extruded Fonts.
• Object Manipulation.
• Automatic Polygon Processing.

Hierarchical Selector Window

• Fast Scene Component Access.
• Hierarchy Manipulation.
• Fast Material Assignment.

Extensive Material and Shader Support

• Material and texture librarian.
• Texture and Material Libraries.
• Complex Material Editor.
• Sophisticated transparency: Face, reflected colors and edge transparency.
• Spherical, cubical and planar mapping.
• Mist and fog atmospheric shaders.
• "Shadow Catcher".
• 12 forms of texture modulation.

Versatile Texture Mapping

• Unlimited Texture Layering.
• Interactive 2D Texture Placement.
• 3D Texture Editor.
• 2D Texture Editor. Imports 2D bitmap textures from a variety of standard formats (2 through 32-bit BMP, Electric Image, IFF, JPEG, Photoshop PSD, SGI RGB, SoftImage PIC, TIFF or TARGA, or 8-bit CEL, FLC, FLI or GIF files), enable texture filtering (MIPmap or Bilinear).
• Full Alpha Channel Support.

Great 3D Import and Export

• All the functionality of Okino's PolyTrans.
• Extensive geometry import filters.
• Imports polygon, trimmed NURBS and bicubic patch geometry as well as all camera, lights, materials, textures and object hierarchy found in files.
• Animation Conversion.
• Robust DXF Import Filter.
• Extensive geometry export filters.
• Wide Geometry Support.
• Built-In Bitmap Image Converter.

Fast, Photo-Realistic Rendering

• Fast and memory efficient 32-bit broadcast quality scanline & multi-threaded ray trace renderers.
• Multiple Rendering Formats.
• Selective Rendering.
• Many Output Formats.
• Accurate Alpha Channel Output.
• Soft-Edged or Hard-Edged Shadows.
• Field scanline rendering mode.
• Background Color Scheme.

System Requirements

• Recommended configuration:
  Pentium-class CPU, 256-1GB+Mb memory, 1024x768 screen resolution with 24-bit color, accelerated NVIDIA or ATI video card will provide pixel level shaders, any version of Microsoft Windows.