Props

Fill your scene with 3D props and customize their appearance with materials, size and location using the Prop Modify panel.

Props can be either animated such as animals, or static such as architecture or furnishings.

Collect more iClone Props from the Reallusion Content Store.

Free 3D Props can be imported from 3DXchange and Google™ 3D Warehouse. Create your own 3D props using the Free Google SketchUp modeling tool.

Design advanced animated props or skin-bone character props using the 3DS Max and iClone4 plug-in.

New! Set a prop or accessory as a dummy with the dummy rendering option.
Use the hotkey to hide a specific object without hiding the related attached items to this object.

New! Set the pivot point of any object to different positions. 1. Bounding Center - creates models like a rolling wheel. 2. Bounding bottom center - to simulate a tumbler. 3. Scene Root (0,0,0) - to move or duplicate the object as domino or pie.

iProps (Interactive Props)

iProps have numerous animation clips that can be embedded in the same prop file and control the behavior of the prop. Interact with iProps in Director Mode and trigger their actions using the Right-click Menu or through hotkey assignment. Access and edit iProp animation using the Timeline or by opening the DramaScript file.

iProps have default behaviors. For example, cars may be climbed into, door can be interactively opened by the actor, CTRL+click on the car then you can get on the car. CTRL+click on an iProp door and your actor opens the door.

iProps provide the idle motion to simulate live mode stand-by behavior.

iClone2 LiveProps are automatically converted into iProps in iClone4.

iProps behaviors are defined in DramaScript, an XML formatted script. The XML text document lists down the iProp interactive behavior and the relation between iProps and actors.

Attaching static props to iProp Helpers let your standard props inherit the iProp interactive behavior.
• Basic iMovement Helper types: vehicles, car, helicopter, plane, human, or other basic animations, rotation.
• Custom iProps content can be designed and exported directly from iClone4 PRO edition or 3D Studio MAX.

3D Blocks and Billboards

Instant 3D scene buildup via move, scale, rotate and stacking of basic 3D building blocks.

3D Blocks include walls and floors, columns, containers, pipe systems, pies and arcs, capsule and tablets, etc.

Easy texture mapping to specific faces of a model using the guidance of the UV map reference image.

Attach several blocks to form a new attached prop and save the new attached props into your library. Attached models can be detached to deconstruct any combined model.

Billboards can always face the camera even when it moves. Use billboards for creating signs, talking bubbles, or 2D people for large crowd scenes.

Flying Surface (FLEX)

Automatic real-time Flying Surface simulation with FLEX technology.

Preset FLEX Surface content library for common flexible objects.

Access to FLEX motion templates for instant Flex effects.

Custom FLEX parameters for unlimited visual results.










Attach FLEX surfaces to props or characters with motion affect.

Any custom texture or video can be placed on it.

Curtain	Flag	Waterweeds	Video on the Flex surface

Animated UV Props

Varieties of UV animation patterns, such as rotation, shifting, ping-pong, looping, center out, ring-in, and kaleidoscope effects. Users can apply his own texture to generate amazing effects.

Professionals can design sophisticated animated UV props using the iClone3 3D Studio MAX Plug-In.

Access and edit texture UV animation templates to present dynamic texturing effects such as water, wave, dance floor, clouds, and sky.

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