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Live Interior 3D - 1.5.1

home and office interior designing software

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.5.1
Release Date:	2008-03-20
License:	Commercial
Downloads (this version):	3,498
Downloads (all versions):	13,015
Price:	$79.95

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Product Description:

Live Interior 3D is a powerful yet very intuitive home and office design software. It will assist in visualizing your redesigned apartment way before you actually start the work. Create remarkable 360 panorama views of your interior, using Export to QuickTime VR.

Live Interior 3D comes with 50+ editable interiors and plans. Pick one and modify it as you wish or start from scratch by drawing a 2D plan, adding and arranging objects to your taste.

1000+ 3D objects come with the program, including brand name furniture and building elements. Or import Google SketchUp objects from an online database of 3D objects Google 3D Warehouse.

What's new in this version:

Improved import for complex 3DS and Google SketchUp TM objects.

Improved import for 3DS objects, created in Carrara, Strata and Cinema 4D software.

Crashes while importing from Google 3D Warehouse TM on PPC platform fixed.

Compatibility problems with Panther 10.3.9 fixed.

Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later

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Almost brilliant..... - Version: 1.5, 2/22/2008 05:12PM PST

t:f

I'm pretty impressed with Live Interior 3D (especially as this latest build is far snappier than previous builds), however I'm confused about the behaviour of the 3D rotating tools. It is possible to rotate a object ready to be imported, and this works really well- in the bottom left-hand corner of the library palette, but try doing this in the main page, and I start getting frustrated as it is cack-handed and badly implemented. Why?

Live Interior 3D also needs to accept Cheetah3D files as import too. Come on you guys, why do all Mac 3D applications only contain import options for software that is only Windows based, such as 3DS Max?? >>Believe<< in our beloved platform!! Also all these 3D apps need more attention to how the mouse and keyboard work together- like option, alt and ctrl keys for eg. Once upon a time there was a standard- now all seems forgotten. :(

I'll probably purchase this, and then moan to the developer instead ;)

Gorgeous renderings - Version: 1.2, 7/30/2007 11:25AM PST

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jdavidsn

I bought and used a competitor, Punch Home Design Studio for a while. Punch is a semi-modernized application with a crusty old core ported from Windows.

I found Live Interior 3D to be much more satisfying... faster to render 3D views with lighting, walkthroughs in 3D. And the shaded renderings are stunning: everyone including our architects ask us what program we use.

The price is miniscule relative to the cost of a home renovation project. We found that it truly helped us to feel what the space would be like and to make dozens of "what if" changes.

It is great being able to download 3D models from Google (http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/). We were able to find many models and add them to our design.

There are bugs, sluggishness and awkward UIs. But the program is in active development with frequent updates and they seem to listen to customers. So hopefully they will continue to work on stability, performance and UI efficiency.

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Gorgeous renderings

Hangs too easily - Version: 1.1, 6/27/2007 08:52AM PST

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CLSmeed

I was so excited to see this as I've been looking for a similar program for a long time, that was affordable. MacZOT offered it today for $50. So I tried it before buying and it's a good thing I did. I spent a half hour getting all my outside walls just right, right size, etc. and suddenly got the spinning beach ball. I'm running OS 10.4.10 on a 160GB iMac G5 with 2GB of RAM and I repaired permissions before and after installation so there's no excuse for the spinning ball. Of course, all my work was lost. I'm just glad I hadn't finished my project first!