Autodesk® Softimage® software is a high-performance 3D character animation and visual effects application. Intuitive, nondestructive workflows and the innovative ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) and Autodesk® Face Robot® facial animation toolsets extend Autodesk® Maya® or Autodesk® 3ds Max® software pipelines. With new creative tools, enhanced interoperability with Autodesk® Entertainment Creation Suite Premium products, and support for the latest technology trends, Autodesk Softimage enables you to meet the evolving challenges in 3D game development and post-production.
Autodesk® Softimage® software is a high-performance character animation, game development, and visual effects application. Intuitive, nondestructive workflows and innovative tools like ICE (Interactive Creative Environment) and the Autodesk® Face Robot® facial animation toolset extend an Autodesk® Maya® or Autodesk® 3ds Max® software pipeline. New features in Autodesk® Softimage® 2012 software include an ICE modeling capability, workflow enhancements, and Lagoa Multiphysics compounds.
Leverage the power and flexibility of ICE to create geometry based on a set of rules, conditions, and parameters. New ICE procedural modeling offers topology operation creation, particle meshing, custom primitives, and geometry fracturing. UV attributes and certain other data are preserved during edits, helping to eliminate the need for retexturing as changes are made. A single ICE graph can handle interactive edits to huge data sets, such as forests and cities, so you can more easily create and manage extremely high levels of detail.
Key New Features in Autodesk Softimage 2012 Software:
* ICE Modeling — Nondestructive geometry creation, based on rules, conditions and parameters that facilitate topology operation creation, particle meshing, custom primitives and geometry fracturing while preserving UV attributes. * Improved User Experience — Wide range of small-scale enhancements to day-to-day workflows: Explorer, Schematic View, Scene Layer Manager, Render Tree, Bone Primitive, Reference Models and the Weight Editor. * Syflex on ICE — More flexible node-based workflow of ICE enables artists to use Syflex cloth to create and edit highly realistic cloth effects. * Lagoa Multiphysics — This simulation framework helps artists create realistic simulations of the dynamic behavior of liquids, cloth, foam, plastic and soft body collisions, as well as incompressible fluids, inelastic, elastic and plastic deformations. * Enhanced Interoperability — Single-step interoperability with the Autodesk Entertainment Creation Suite Premium 2012 products (Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max and Autodesk Mudbox), an extended software development kit (SDK), added support for Maya nCache format and Autodesk FBX asset exchange format. * ICE FX Builder — New module menu toolbar automatically connects compounds and nodes, enabling simple modification and extension of effects using the standard editing workflow.
For 32-Bit Autodesk Softimage 2012
* Microsoft® Windows® 7 Professional, Microsoft® Windows Vista® Business (SP2), or Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP3) operating system * Intel® Pentium® D processor workstation * Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL® 1.5 (or higher) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available from vendor * DirectX® 9.0c application programming interface or higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX® 9 application programming interface) * 1 GB free hard drive space. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for the system’s temporary folder when decompressing files during installation. * TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers * 2 GB of RAM * 1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended * Three-button mouse * A web browser to view HTML documentation * Microsoft® Internet Explorer® internet browser 5.5 or higher * Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported) * DVD-ROM drive
For 64-Bit Autodesk Softimage 2012
* Microsoft Windows 7 Professional, Microsoft Windows Vista Business x64 (SP2), Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 (SP2), or Fedora™ Core 14 operating system * Intel Pentium D processor * Certified hardware-accelerated OpenGL 1.5 (or higher) professional graphics card with latest graphics driver available on vendor's site * DirectX 9.0c and higher (recommended for support of the advanced features of DirectX 9 application programming interface) * 1 GB free hard drive space. Setup requires additional temporary disk space for the system’s temporary folder when decompressing files during installation. * TCP/IP service protocol installed on both client and server computers * 4 GB of RAM * 1,280 x 1,024 screen resolution recommended * Three-button mouse * A web browser to view HTML documentation * Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher * Network adaptor with Internet connection for licensing (non-Internet connected licensing is also supported) * DVD-ROM drive
Notes:
* To run Softimage, you can be a Restricted user (Users), Standard user (Power Users), or Administrator. * To install and license Softimage, you must be an Administrator. * Autodesk does not support 32-bit applications running on 64-bit machines.
