ForthCad-3D^® News in version 5 home

Comparative resume of version 5 versus previous ForthCAD versions.

+	Full Support.	±	Partial.	-	Not Supported.

General unclassed features.	V5	V4
ForthCAD version 1 interface compatibility.	+	+
Save all project parts (2D, 3D, others) in one unique file.	+	-
Use hardware OpenGLTM acceleration technology.	+	-
Multilinguage support (user available). (FR, NL, SP, US)	+	-
Native 32 bits / 64 bits support.	+	±
Transportable (upgrade/downgrade) archive file format. Fast compact binary file format.	+	-

Realtime rendering in modeling environment.	V5	V4
Wireframe.	+	+
Hidden lines / Hidden surfaces.	+	-
Color rendering with hidden lines.	+	-
Photo fast preview rendering mode (textures, light, transparency..).	+	-
Photo realistic rendering in the modeling view.	+	-
Fast default lighing.	+	-
Radiosity support in raytracer.	+	-

Rendering types.	V5	V4
Wireframe with hidden lines.	+	+
Silhouette.	+	±
Wireframe + colors.	+	-
Shadowed with colors, textures, transparencies and speculars effects.	+	-
Photorealistic ray tracing.	+	+
Photorealistic ray tracing + photon-mapping.	+	-
Automatic 2D vectorial symbols generation.	+	±
2D scenes linked with 3D scenes.	+	±
Rendering in big sized bitmaps.	+	-
JPEG Compression in data files.	+	-
Result can be modified quickly from the ForthCAD environment using others art-softwares.	+	+
3D rendering in 2D context.	+	-

Animation Module.	V5	V4
Animation script nondependent with the scene. (enable to modify a scene with animation already done)	+	+
Record animation script in project file.	+	-
Use the animation script as a template in modeling mode.	+	-
Object animation and combinated animation of animation, saved in library with the objets.	+	-
Editable animation script.	+	-
Fine control of animation frequency and total timing.	+	-
Reusable animation script in different rendering mode.	+	-
Animation in photorealist mode (shadows, transparences, speculars and mirrors effects).	+	-
Can choose any movie compressor (mpeg...).	+	+

3D modeling.	V5	V4
Use a hierarchical structure to accelerate the display of big 3D graphics scenes.	+	-
Automatic collision test - precise intelligent mouse pointing.	+	±
Automatic tube and profil generation.	+	-
3D texts based on truetype font vectorisation/extrusion.	+	-
Texture scaling, rotation, antialiasing and colorisation.	+	±
Support all standard bitmap formats.	+	-
Support for saved colorisation template.	+	-
Complex Bézier surface.	+	-
Spline surface.	+	+
Boolean modeling.	-	±
Copy a quality bitmap of the working window in the clipboard.	+	±

2D modeling.	V5	V4
Plotter support.	-	+
Support des échelles de travail.	+	+
Precise fonts size and resizing. (greater than GDI)	+	±
Fast print parameters adjustement.	+	+
Precise geometric transformation of texts and paragraphs.	+	-
2D and 3D powerfull graphic cutting tool.	+	-
Direct rendering in 2D context.	+	-
Support pour création de tables et légendes.	+	-

New ISO Forth interpreter.

New ISO compatible Forth interpreter to write custom application and customized, intelligent graphics objects.