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           Wildfire - where dreams become virtuality

            A Special Effect Program and many more

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Wildfire is not only another brandnew image-processing-program -
it's a professional animation-processor with some really new concepts.

It allows you for example the creation and processing of animations in
several formats, the generation of time-dependant special-effects
and the design of large projects containing several animations and
frame-synchronized sound-effects.

Because the common animation-formats on the Amiga have too many
lacks or restrictions we have tried to create a better one: YAFA.
This animation-format for example features many compression-methods
and realtime-zooming.

One of the outstanding features of Wildfire is the fact that it
makes for you no difference if you apply changes to a whole animation
or if you process only one image. A single image is only a
very special case of an animation.

In contrary to common image-processors you can use envelopes instead
of plain numbers as effect-parameters. This makes the easy creation
of time-dependant special-effects possible.
So you haven't to fight against the "do"-loops in an ARexx-script to
get an animation outside your image-processor anymore.

All of the numerous effects can be arranged in any number and
combination. Because the output of any of these effects can be
one of the 8 tempory-buffers Wildfire allows you to
PROGRAM IMAGES in an comfortable way !


Main Features:

  -fast and comfortable Converter:
    input:  YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, mpeg, image-sequences
    output: YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, image-sequences

  -Preview for almost any operation

  -Project-Editor which allows the creation of large and complicated
   projects easily using the mouse

  -Effect-Generator featuring time-dependant parameters via envelopes

  -a stunning library of effect-PlugIns

  -some really unique effects

  -3D-engine with multiple lightsources and phong-shading

  -superposition of 3D-effects (PowerPlugs!)

  -superposition of Lightwave-objects and images in the
   threedimensional space

  -(un)loading of PlugIns at any time

  -Envelope-Editor

  -Timecodes-Editor

  -Transition-Maker for easy creation of transitions between two animations

  -easy-to-use Player-interface

  -Filmstrips to simplify the perfect timimg of huge projects

  -AnimInfo-function displaying size-profiles etc.

  -fontsensitive GUI without MUI

  -internal gadget-toolbox which handles mathematical expressions
   instead of only plain numbers

  -calculator which allows for example the export of user-defined symbols
   to the gadgets in the whole-program

  -Drag&Go
   (using drag.gadget 0.2  Copyright © 1996 Jörg Kollmann, see bonus drawer!)

  -ARexx-port with about 400 commands

  -macros, custom-windows, docks

  -import of images from other programs

  -Developer-Kit (with working example) which allows you to create
   your own effect-PlugIns

  -and many more