Xara 3D Maker 7 – The 3D software

Design professional-looking flash banners containing your own message and put them on your website in just the same way you would personal logos.

Likewise, custom 3D effects and animations draw attention to your creations. Buttons can be made with amazing ease. They can be used in navigation bars or converted for use as menu options.

In doing this you invite your website's visitors to discover and explore your content, e.g. your personal or commercial website, community profiles or email newsletter.

Xara 3D Maker 7 is the perfect addition to any website design program: Using creative 3D animations you can also supplement the flexible design options of the leading international web editing software MAGIX XARA Web Designer.

Tip Your creations can be copied directly into your web designer project using Copy & Paste. and will be there for further editing when needed, transparent backgrounds included.

Xara 3D Maker 7 is great as a 3D title editor for slideshow & video programs from numerous different developers.

For example, create dynamic title animations, spectacular intros & outros, lively decorative elements, as well as chapter and DVD menu titles.

Use it with these MAGIX programs

Suitable for use with all the following MAGIX video and slideshow programs - all 3D titles and animations with transparent backgrounds that were created in Xara 3D Maker can be exported in standard format, therefore they can be automatically placed in front of the motifs of your videos or slideshow.

• Movie Edit Pro (version 2007/2008 and up)
• Movies2go (version 1 and up)
• Movies on DVD (version 6 and up)
• Photo Premium (version 1.0 and up)
• PhotoStory on CD & DVD (version 6.5 and up)
• Photos & Videos easy (version 3 and up)
• MAGIX My Life & My Loved Ones

Besides being suitable for website design as well as a title editor for videos and slideshows, Xara 3D Maker 7 is also ideal for the following purposes:

• Artistic fonts on images e.g. use in word processing programs
• Headings, logos & shapes e.g. for graphic design, printed documents etc
• For word processing programs e.g. Microsoft® Word, OpenOffice Writer™ etc.
• For presentation programs e.g. Microsoft® PowerPoint™, OpenOffice Impress™
• Export as screensavers, icons, and much more

Tip: Graphics and presentation programs by many developers only enable the user to design 2D graphics and export them as a Windows metafile (*.wmf, *.emf, etc.). These formats are ideal for turning 2D graphics into high-quality 3D objects or animations with Xara 3D Maker so that they can be used in the original program (for more formats, see "Additional functions").
NEW! 3D objects can now be inserted in Microsoft^® Word other programs simply by using Copy & Paste.

Make the most of even more effects and animations; Choose from over 700 templates, more than 400 textures and 33 different edge types. Make shapes look like they were chiseled out of stone. or fill your 3D designs with a photo. Adding an artistic squiggle to your text is no problem.

Enter your text directly and choose from a range of fonts including those already on your computer. You can custom format them just as you would with conventional word processing programs. Special design variations, e.g. super or subscripts or inserting symbols presents no problem.

All attributes can be designed just as quickly and easily, e.g. color, edge type, font, texture, animation style, line spacing and print tracking – for the complete text or separately for selected areas or characters.

3 freely positionable light sources enable you to specify the direction and color of light on your 3D object intuitively with the mouse. You can therefore move the light and text independent of one another.

It's just as easy to position spatial shadows and their colors, blurs, and transparency.

Specify the spatial depth and perspective of your 3D graphics easily and in real time simply by dragging with the mouse or by rotating the object freely on its axes.

Use the intuitive animation tool to liven up complete areas of text, individual characters, or selected objects fully automatically (e.g. turns, rotations, in and out fades, pulses, swings).

You can also easily specify the number of movements per sequence, turn direction, speed, pauses, number of repetitions, and animate text and light separately.

You can freely move 3D objects in any direction you want, for example; upwards and downwards (vertically) or from left to right (horizontally). Movements forwards and backwards are also possible.

You can change the speed of movement for any direction too.

Be even more precise in the way your 3D object appears and disappears. Animate the fading in and fading out of the same object simply separated from one another. For example your title appears in the background then flies towards the viewer and disappears off to the right.

In the new menu option "View options" you can now define the alignment on the X and Y axes with even more precision. In addition, you also have the option to accurately determine the angle from which you see and rotate the object. In order to avoid being distracted by fill colors and textures, you can also display texts and objects in lattice model. You can keep track of the bigger picture despite tricky twist and turns.

Here are a few examples of text & graphics designed with Xara 3D Maker. Of course, this is just a small selection of the various design possibilities offered by the program.

• There are unlimited restore options for simplified experimentation.
• Edge smoothing for precise screen presentation (anti-aliasing)
• Flexible control over color and texture in all areas of the image
• Even background textures can be scaled, rotated, and colored in
• Images can be displayed as front and rear sides or made hollow
• Create images matte or with shine
• Animation of any TrueType fonts
• Real-time presentation of shadows, borders, textures, spaces, and much more
• Open/Import: Windows metafile (*.wmf, *.emf), texture (*.bmp, *.gif; *.ico, *.jpg, *.png), MAGIX3D (*.X3D), Xtreme (*.xar, *.web)
• Export of still graphics: JPEG (*.jpg), bitmap (*.bmp), PNG (*.png) [including full PNG alpha channel for transparent background], GIF (*.gif), Flash bitmap (*.swf), Flash vector (*.swf), icon (*.ico), cursor (*.cur)
• Export as animation: AVI (*.avi), GIF (*.gif), MAGIX CFX (*.cfx) [including full PNG alpha channel for transparent background], Flash bitmap (*.swf), Flash vector (*.swf), screensaver (*.scr), animated cursor (*.ani)
• Save project: MAGIX3D (*.X3D)