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Control Your 3D Scenes
By Clayton Crooks
For 3D graphics professionals, Animatek World Builder has long been the leader in 3D-terrain generation for Windows. It's a complete package, and includes a full collection of tools and an excellent rendering engine. The interface is very similar to most 3D packages, so it's relatively easy to use, and with its large collection of plant libraries and new integration with 3D Studio Max, World Builder has improved even more.
Contents
One of the problems with many 3D applications is a lack of adequate documentation or help files—a particular problem for newbies. World Builder excels in this area. The small booklet that ships with the product contains a quick introduction to the package and covers everything a new user needs to get started. The help files are also one of World Builder's strengths. They contain tutorials to guide beginner and experienced users, and come with explanations for all of the tools and commands that World Builder offers.
User Interface
As you can see in
Figure 1,
the interface offers a customizable system of three view windows. These windows are the traditional front, top, and left windows with a fourth window called the Library window. The Library window displays a collection of object libraries that let you drag and drop objects into a scene.
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