COMPANY: BeLight Software | URL: www.belightsoft.com | TYPE: Standalone | PLATFORM: Mac | PRICE: $80/$129.95
		Do you periodically get an itch to change your surroundings? Or does that faded brown sofa from the seventies just not do it for you anymore? Maybe you just want to try your hand at the art of home design. The award-winning Live Interior 3D can save you a heap of time, money, and sweat by giving you all of the tools necessary for designing the interior of your home and viewing it in virtual reality before setting off for your local paint or furniture store. Live Interior 3D takes you to a world where even the wildest of dream houses can become yours right on your Macintosh! You can furnish it and enjoy its beauty in both 2D and 3D. The vast object library and flexible import options give you access to all of the furniture and appliances you could ever imagine. Change the fabric, finish, and more using the material library and editor. And once your dream home is completed, you can give your best friend a realistic virtual walkthrough or send him a movie or shot of your favorite rooms. Live Interior 3D is perfect for: •People who are making decisions about the look of their future home. •Those who want to get a look at their interior before buying furniture and paints. •Professional designers who prepare presentations for clients and advertising. •Architects working on a home plan or layout of new building additions. Standard and Pro Editions Live Interior is great for both professionals and those just looking to design their dream home in their free time. It is available in two editions — Standard and Pro. Standard Edition The Standard Edition of Live Interior 3D accommodates people who are about to begin designing a new home or overhauling an interior. The program gives you the ability to create a house with up to two stories and a roof. Add a little variety to the architectural mix with multi-level floors and ceilings. The 50 professionally designed interior templates and floor plans are sure to get you on your way to design mastery. Flawlessly switch between the 2D floor plan and 3D environment. Choose the Split Mode to view and edit your project in both 2D and 3D simultaneously. You can add and edit 3D objects in whichever mode you fancy! 2D Floor Plans The 2D drawing tools let you draft out and add annotations to walls, floors, ceilings, and more. Adding measurements to your 2D floor plan gives you quick reference to the tech specs of your home. Your walls will always be accurate since you see the exact measurement of a wall as you draw it in the 2D view. The smart guides and object snapping options make it very simple to draw up a precise floor plan of your home or office. 3D Object Library Furnish your home or office with the furniture, appliances, and fixtures you have always dreamt of! The library with 1,200+ objects gives you a wide selection of furniture and building elements (windows, doors, etc.) that are split up into categories. Find the couch you want by browsing our brand name models or accessing the endless number of 3D objects in Google 3D Warehouse right from inside Live Interior 3D. If you have your own 3D objects, import them in Google SketchUpTM, Ogre XML, or 3DS format and add them to the library. And working with objects in Live Interior 3D is a piece of cake. You can quickly make that queen size bed in your guest room a king size bed with just a few clicks! Roofs, Lofts, and Dormers Putting a roof over your head in Live Interior 3D is as simple as selecting one of 12 roof templates from the Roof Assistant and tweaking it using custom segments, changing the soffit type, adjusting angles, and applying one of 200+ roofing textures. Materials Collection The library of 1,500+ materials gives you complete control over the look of each piece of furniture and surface in your project. You can easily glue up new wallpapers, change the floor finish, tack up new shingles, and give any object a wooden, metallic, or glassy look. Realistic 3D Environment Taking a virtual tour of your dream house gives you the right point of view to help you realize what your interior needs to reach perfection. Your project is completely editable in the 3D mode, so you can make changes in real time. Live Interior 3D automatically generates interior shadows to give you a realistic perspective of your future home. You can adjust the way lamps, light fixtures, and other light sources emit light. Results Live Interior 3D offers you the opportunity to shoot movies of your interior and export them as QuickTime™ videos to send to all your friends. Support of QuickTime VR technology lets you create complete panorama views of your interior from a fixed point in the 3D mode. Also, export your favorite views of your interior into high-resolution images in JPEG, TIFF, and PNG formats while taking a virtual walkthrough of your project. Print your 2D floor plans or export them to PDF. Live Interior 3D Pro Edition The Pro Edition of Live Interior 3D takes the home design experience to an advanced level by offering an advanced tool kit that empowers you to take maximum control over your 3D home design project without complicated twists and turns. 2D Floor Plans Map out your home or office on a CAD-like 2D floor plan. Smoothly sketch walls, ceilings, and other floor plan elements using the versatile drawing tools. Place dimension marks, custom annotations, and more right on the area of your 2D floor plan. Real-Time Editing in 3D Take a virtual walkthrough of your living space to get a glimpse of the interior from any point of view and make any adjustments right in the 3D mode. The changes are made in real-time! You can edit any aspect of your future home in the realistic 3D environment. Adding furniture and changing the wallpaper is as simple as a quick drag and drop. In Live Interior 3D, you manage the lighting of your project. You have complete control over the color and luminosity of any light source. Set the daytime to see how the external light influences interior shadows. Content Diversity and Import Capabilities The 1,200+ 3D objects and 1,500+ materials supplied with Live Interior 3D provide all you need to experiment with your interior. Import your own furniture and appliances in either Google SketchUp™ or 3DS format. Compose your own object and material libraries in Live Interior 3D by creating custom categories and filling them with the objects and materials of your choice. Integration with Google 3D Warehouse™ provides access to an online database of name brand furniture and other 3D objects created in Google SketchUp™ that can be downloaded and imported directly to your interior design project. Export to Google SketchUp™ Apart from the import capabilities, Live Interior 3D allows you to export your entire project or selected objects to the Google SketchUp format. Effectively share your project with others via Google 3D Warehouse™. Extensive Building Tools Live Interior 3D assists in creating your home from head to toe! The Roof Assistant quickly gets you started roofing your future home. Choose one of 12 roof templates and effortlessly customize the angle, thickness, and soffit to meet your expectations. Add custom segments to sculpt a more intricate roof structure. Find the roofing material you desire among the 200+ supplied roofing textures. Take advantage of loft walls and a collection of 16 customizable dormers to turn your attic into more than a dusty storage area. Diversify your home or office with multi-level floors and ceilings. Create the high-ceilinged foyer you have always hoped for, or a stage for the jazz club you are designing. Have you always dreamt of having a wine cellar? Include a basement and set the foundation thickness for the preliminary building plans. The Pro Edition of Live Interior 3D contains every single feature of the Standard Edition plus various other advanced tools: Multiple Stories Create a house with as many stories as you wish. Place staircases between each one and set the ceiling height and slab thickness to get the results you need. Light Source Manager Affix light sources to any 3D objects and adjust the color, attenuation, glow, and direction of the light. This is great for imported light fixtures, furniture with built-in lamps, illuminating aquariums, and more. Wall Designer Draw custom niches and openings in walls to add some structural diversity to your home. Use this feature to create a wet bar or inset bookshelf. Advanced Material Editor Alter any supplied material or create your own from an image or photo using advanced options to get the right floor, wall, or furniture surface you need. You can also add a realistic reflection to any material and control its level. Google SketchUp™ Editing Edit any 3D object directly from the program using Google SketchUp™ (Free or Pro version of SketchUp™ needs to be installed). Getting the result with Live Interior 3D Pro Create camera paths to shoot high definition QuickTime videos of the home you have designed and send them to friends or clients. Support of QuickTime VR technology allows you to create amazing panoramic views of the interior (up to 1024 x 768 pixels). Or you can make high quality screenshots and set custom resolution value (up to 3360 x 2400 pixels). System Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later, Intel only. QuickTime 7 required for QTVR export. Available Measurement Units: Millimeters, Centimeters, Meters, Feet-Inches, Inches (Decimal), Inches (Fractional), Yards. Languages: English, German, French and Spanish.