3D Photo Browser for 3D Users 10.03

3D Photo Browser for 3D Users 10.03 offers an effective tool which helps you to view, edit and organize your 3D scenes, images, videos, audio files and ZIP archives.

It displays high quality thumbnails in a comfortable customizable window. It recognizes your 3D files (3DS, Max, Maya, Light Wave, STL...), more than 60 image formats, and audio files.

The 3D Open GL viewer clearly shows scene hierarchy and materials. It displays textures and vertex colors. It includes file format conversion, object cleaning, printing features and Polygon Cruncher, a must to have in polygon optimization.

The image viewer includes many tools (crop, resize, filters...), slides show, conversion and printing features.

In a single step, the batch command allows to optimize, convert or clean your 3D scenes, or modify your images.

The screen capture tool is one of the most powerful of the market: if offers still image or movie capture from a window or a defined area, magnifier to assist with pixel-by-pixel cropping, capture preview, application live-state mode enable you to communicate visually with your entourage.

Nothing is more simple that printing a contact sheet of a directory content. You control accurately page setup (fonts, colors...) and can add information under each image using tags feature.

Export your images or your 3D scenes to the web using the HTML format. Select the HTML template that fits your needs and let 3D Photo Browser for 3D Users do the job for you.

You can describe each file using the keywords and information panel then export/import to/from a database or make advanced search based on this information.

3D Photo Browser for 3D Users offers a wide range of advanced features, which list increases day by day, thanks to the regularly updates. For example, you can manage albums, send images by email (including resizing and conversion feature), rename a set of files, edit MP3 tags, search for files, create AVI or animated GIF from a set of images...

Major Features:

1. Browse your folders in a wink
   • Display in the same window the files located in several folders: this is very useful to take a glance at your whole scenes or photos library.
   • Browse scenes stored in your ZIP archives without decompressing them.
   • Display your files the way you want:
   • • Small thumbnails to browse thousand of files in a split second.
     • A customizable display mode to view the information you need such the width and height of your images, the number of faces of your 3D files or the title and the length of your MP3 files.
   • For your comfort and a better navigation, 3D Photo Browser fits all your needs by:
   • • Sorting the files at your convenience (name, picture-taking date, user-defined)
     • Filtering the files as you want (I.e. display only images or 3D files or *.jpg and *.html files starting by A)
     • Grouping files together using logical criteria.
   • 3D Photo Browser rotates automatically your digital camera pictures and also handles renaming and deleting files that share a given name but have different extensions (i.e. example.jpg image and example.wav sound).
   • 3D Photo Browser includes extra tools such a folder tree size view (ideal for cleaning your hard disk), an uppercase/lowercase filename conversion, a file splitter for your large files…
2. View, modify and edit your photos and 3D files
   • Open your 3D files in the built-in OpenGL viewer.
   • You display the scene using one of the many rendering mode and select the best point of view for creating the scene thumbnail. You clearly see the scene hierarchy and the materials. You’ll find the tools you’ll need every day:
   • • Scene conversion from/to many file formats
     • Textures or vertex colors display
     • Mesh subdivision display and conversion (patch)
     • Unify or flip normals
     • Merge near or confused points
     • Mesh optimization using Polygon Cruncher (license including Polygon Cruncher)
     • Slides show
     • Print
     • Edit material and display a complete report about objects
   • Open your images or your videos in the built-in viewer.
   • You clearly view the layers of your images (I.e. alpha channel) and can use one of the many available tools:
   • • Crop & resize
     • Image conversion from/to many file formats
     • Horizontal or vertical image’s axis alignment
     • Colors adjustment
     • Image bending
     • Filters
     • Slides show
     • Print
   • You can also play your videos in full screen and extract images from your favorites movies.
   • 3D Photo Browser also plays your audio files and allows MP3 tags edition (album, track, length...).
3. Optimize your 3D scenes with Polygon Cruncher
   • Polygon Cruncher interfacePolygon Cruncher for 3D Photo Browser allows optimizing any one of the 3D files recognized by 3D Photo Browser.
   • Polygon Cruncher for 3D Photo Browser reduces the number of polygons of your objects without changing their appearance. You keep all details even at high optimization ratio. You also keep texture information and vertex colors.
   • You see the scene as long as you optimize it in order to choose the best simplification level. You can also batch optimize scenes stored in a folder and automatically decline them at various levels of details.
   • Polygon Cruncher uses an exceptional algorithm, which gives incomparable results, really better than what you can get with optimizer provided with 3DS Max or Lightwave.
   • Polygon Cruncher is really simple to use. This multi-awarded software is used by most of the 3D and video game companies.
   • • Look at Polygon Cruncher main page to get more information
     • Look at optimization samples page
     • Look at the tutorial on Polygon Cruncher to get information on the way to open Polygon Cruncher in 3D Photo Browser
4. Process a set of files using batch processing
   • Automate the tasks you perform regularly and process a set of files in a wink.
   • You wish to convert a set of images to JPEG quality 60? To create images from your 3D scenes? Clean scenes you get from the web?
   • Select a predefined macro or create your a macro command that matches your needs.
5. Make screen captures or record your screen
   • Capture still images on the fly or record your screen using the screen capture feature. Select the area or the window to shoot and let’s go! All your actions are recorded in the select video format (I.e. Divx).
   • The screen capture tool is one of the most powerful of the market: capture a window or a defined area, magnifier to assist with pixel-by-pixel cropping, capture preview, application live-state mode enable you to communicate visually with your entourage.
6. Organize your files efficiently
   • To organize your files you must first know them! 3D Photo Browser gathers information contained in your files:
   • • EXIF tags for digital photos (giving a precious information on the picture-taking condition)
     • Faces and points number, materials for 3D files
     • MP3 tags for audio files.
   • You can also document each file using keywords or one of the many available information fields (author, legend...).
   • Customize the main window by selecting the information you want to display.
   • This information can be printed in a contact sheet, displayed in a slides show, used to perform a targeted search, or imported/exported from/to an external database.
7. Win flexibility and save your time using albums
   • The album feature allows you to gather files located in different folders into a single catalog. Your files are not duplicated unnecessarily as an album only contains references to them.
   • Once your album created you can perform any operation such editing file information, printing a contact sheet or batch processing its content…
   • The albums are the ideal solution to organize the same files in different contexts, without creating copies of your files or modifying their organization.
8. Advanced search
   • Nothing is easier than to gather in a same album the images of your computer (or your network) taken between July and August 2003, having "holidays" as keyword and whose width is larger than 1000 pixels! 3D Photo Browser does it for you instantaneously using the search feature.
   • Save the search result then perform any operation such editing file information, printing a contact sheet or batch processing its content…
   • Moreover: you can search on your local network! You have many files spread over several computers? The folder repository feature is your solution: finding your files, whatever their location in the network becomes a play of child.
9. Share your favorites memories
   • Import files from external devices...
   • • Use the importation features to acquire images from your digital camera (WIA) or your scanner (TWAIN).
   • ...or your CD Rom
   • • You are looking for an image or a 3D files stored in one of your many CDROM?
     • Each time you browse a CD ROM, 3D Photo Browser creates a catalog on your hard disk containing files thumbnails and some extra information. Once created, you can view and search in these catalogs and save your time: no needs to insert any CDROM in your drive!
   • Print your files as you wish
   • • Printing several files on a page
     • • Nothing is easier than to print a contact sheet of your images and 3D scenes.
       • The catalog printing module enables you to edit and preview accurately your parameters by giving you a perfect control on the page setting: font sizes and colors, header and footnote, number of images printed on each page… A specific text can be added to each printed image such a title, a description or the file’s size.
       • You get very personal printings by including background images and playing on their opacity. Then you can save your page setting in predefined templates for a later use.
     • Printing a single file
     • • You can also print a single image or a single 3D scene using the printing feature included in each viewer. You control the image position and its size on the paper…
       • In each printing module, you’ll save your paper thanks to the print preview.
   • "Child birth", "The 80 years of Grandpa", "Guess what I saw this weekend? "...: You’ll enjoy to share these precious memories with your friends using one of the following tools:
   • • A slides show: Project your favorites photos or 3D meshes in full screen. Slides appear smoothly using fade in-out transition. Each slides might be annotated at your choice with a title, a description or file's information.
     • An executable slides show: Create a compact and independent application, which contains your slides show. Associate sound to slides, add texts and present your documents in a really pleasant way.
     • A personal email to your best friend: Images exportation in HTMLConvert your images or your 3D scenes automatically and reduce mail’s size using the Send email feature. Original files are not modified; temporarily files are created then deleted once the mail has been sent.
     • An Internet slides show: Export your images or your 3D scenes to the web, using the HTML exportation feature. Select one of the HTML templates then 3D Photo Browser takes care of all. If the preset templates are not appropriate to you, edit your own templates. Specific html tags allow the creation of advanced templates, which can include frames or JavaScript code.

Enhancements:

• Simple search mode
• View Image Sequence feature
• Custom point of view
• Animation supor
• Normal optimization
• PLY file format
• Maya 2009 support...

Requirements:

1. Operating system
   •  Window Vista, Vista x64
   •  Windows XP, XP x64
   •  Windows Server 2003
   •  Windows 2000
   •  Windows NT 40 SP3
   •  Windows Millenium
   •  128 Mo RAM minimum
2. Plugins provided
   • Plugin for Lightwave 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x (x32 and x64 bits) Plugin for 3DS Max 6x, 7x, 8x, 9x (x32 and x64 bits), 2008 (x32 and x64 bits), 2009 (x32 et x64 bits) / Autodesk VIZ
   • Plugin for Maya 7x, 85 (x32 and x64 bits)