Our goal was to create an environment that allowed first-time users to make fantastic graphics by just dragging and dropping icons, but to also provide experts with the entire power of Interactive and PhotoRealistic RenderMan. It can also turn any PostScript font into a 3D font. 3D artwork Users can drag and drop RIB code from any external source. Textures are automatically installed in the texture library and can be applied to any object by dragging and dropping. 3D Reality also supports creation of custom shaders and textures, bump-mapping and texture wrap around any object.
Users can also constrain to any coordinate system that exists within the scene.
Users can develop shaders and textures quickly for use in complex scenes. A programmer's API will provide endless number of ways to customize and augment 3D Reality's functionality through direct access to underlying RenderMan functionality. 3D Reality supports dynamic loading of objects. Included with the package are several 3D geometry projects with full source code, to demonstrate how easy it is to make custom shapes. 3D Reality has a suggested retail price of and will be available directly from Stone Design or your local NeXT dealer in the fourth quarter of 1992.