The latest new and improved features include:

NEW INTERFACE

• Work faster and easier in Version 2's improved interface
• Full click-and-drag mouse control of all object & camera functions
• Switch among mouse functions simply by middle clicking (wheel clicking on a wheel mouse)
• Faster shot set up with Zoom to Selection Shot Framing
• USB Controller Pad interface lets you control virtually all functions of the program with a standard USB Game Pad or a FrameForge 3D branded Directors Pad

OPTICALLY CORRECT DEPTH OF FIELD

• Render and print any view with TrueOptix™ optically correct depth of field
• This is not a Parallax simulation, but is true Depth of Field based on the optical properties of the frame, its circle of confusion, the f/stop and point of focus
• User controllable f/stop and point of focus
• View and print associated hyperfocal lengths, near and far focus and f/stop with all DOF frames

NEW ACTORS

• Version 2 actors now look and bend in a far more realistic manner, and they use Skeletal Mesh Deformation which means they have no visible hinges
• Render significantly faster than Version 1 actors
• More clothing and hair options, including non-skin tight clothing such as dresses for women
• All actors can be aged from 20 yrs to 60 yrs old
• Body Morphs allow you to adjust their body shape to make them fatter/thinner/bustier etc.
• Four Ethnicities: Caucasian, Black, Asian and now Middle Eastern
• Multiple Character Heads for each actor of each ethnicity (16 male actors, 16 female actors, 4 boys & 4 girls)

THREE NEW RENDERING OPTIONS

• Render with Outlines gives your FrameForge 3D Studio images heavier lines, making it look slightly like a cartoon but without the flatness of color of the cartoon rendering
• Render as Cartoon gives your FrameForge 3D Studio images a flatter
  color and heavier lines, making it look like a cartoon
• Sketch Rendering gives your FrameForge 3D Studio images a flatter
  black and white line-drawn look, making it look like a sketch

EASIER POSING

• "Control Jack" Posing lets you simply click on the limb you want to pose, then clicking and drag the appropriate control jack that appears
• "Look At" lets you simply click on any object and the Selected Actor will look right where you clicked, turning eyes and twisting neck, shoulders and upper spine as needed
• "Reach For" lets you click on any object and the Selected Actor will reach for where you clicked with the hand of your choice
• "Match Eyelines" lets you select two actors and with a single click, they'll look into each other's eyes

FULL FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

• 12 preset Facial Expressions with varying levels of intensity (e.g. slightly angry <-> very angry)
• Apply any facial expression with a simple click of the mouse
• Create New Facial Expressions or edit existing ones
• Full phoneme support

MORE POWERFUL RELATIONSHIPS

• Relationships can now be defined as partial - e.g. between only a specific part of an actor and another object. Thus a partial relationship might be between an actor's hand and a lighter, and it would thus only affect those parts, and not make him/her stand up, for example, when the relationship was applied
• Relationship Priorities ensure that if an actor is holding something in his/her hand, when another relationship is applied that would normally affect the hand, it will still remain holding the object

ROOM BUILDER (Windows Only - Will be a free update via Webgrab for Macintosh Version when it becomes available)

• Build room and full locations to exact measurements simply by dragging and sizing various wall combinations (full room, hallways, or single walls)
• Add, reposition or remove doors, windows and arches simply by dragging and dropping them on walls
• Optionally enter room/wall/door/window measurements numerically
• Dynamically edit existing rooms and then rebuild them with a single click

NEW DISTANCE FUNCTIONS

• Find the distance between any points on the set (including angle of offset) by clicking and dragging
• Find the distance between the camera lens and any object simply by clicking on the object while in that camera's view
• Exactly position any object on the set either by dynamically measuring the distance from the desired start point, or by entering exact numeric values

IMPROVED OBJECT LIBRARY/HANDLING

• Instantly find the object you want simply by typing its name or a related keyword
• Double-Column Object display shows more objects simultaneously
• Nearly 300 new Objects including 40 actors in four ethnicities
• Select on-set objects from a pick-list
• Percolate an object's state - need to change the color of a couch? Change it on the set and then you can automatically "percolate" that color through all existing shots which contain that couch
• Display chosen on-set objects in a hyper-fast "Draft Mode" for speed improvements, particularly on crowded sets

MORE POWERFUL USER OBJECT CREATION

• Free Position Mode now allows you to add new objects to the set, letting you build user objects more easily
• Three types of Hinge Objects (Hinge, Platter & Slider) allow you to build user objects with hinges and sliders within FrameForge 3D Studio
• Conversion of User Objects to True FrameForge 3D Studio Objects allow you to name parts and hinges and create faster loading and more flexible objects
• Native VRML Object Support (with a support for hinges, user optional parts and more) gives you and other users the pipeline needed to quickly and easily create true dynamic FrameForge 3D Studio objects in any other 3D Modeling program that supports VRML format and hierarchical object structures

"DECAL" FUNCTIONALITY

• Allows you to apply a small image or decal with a transparency or alpha channel on top of a larger texture. This allows for the easy application of facial hair for men, or things like badges or ribbons, scars and tattoos, or blood and gunshot wounds
• A selection of pre-made decals is supplied and you can make your own in your favorite graphics program

NEW PRINTING OPTIONS

• Print the Camera's Rotation, Tilt and f/stop & Depth-of-Field Data (when appropriate) in addition to all other camera information if desired
• Print to PDF (Windows Only as the same PDF functionality is supported natively by OS X)
• Render Overrides - allows you to print/export all shots in any of the four rendering styles (Normal, Cartoon, Normal with Outlines, or sketch) regardless of what style the shot was snapped in

MAJOR SPEED IMPROVEMENTS

• OpenGL Hardware Acceleration
• Rendering Optimization
• Texture Sharing for more efficient memory use
• New and more efficient Actor format
• Faster switching from shot to shot