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Live Interior 3D - 1.0

home and office interior designing software

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All Time:	(4.0)
Version 1.0:	(4.0)
Selected Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2007-04-04
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.0):	967
Downloads (all versions):	16,919
Price:	$79.95

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Product Description:

Live Interior 3D is a powerful yet very intuitive interior designing application. Whether you are remodeling, improving or building a new home, Live Interior will assist in visualizing your redesigned apartment way before you actually start the work.

The program 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.

The program allows you to flawlessly switch between 2D and 3D modes to preview interiors. Objects can be added and edited in both views.

General:

1000+ Object Library, with brand name content.

50+ editable interiors and plans.

Google 3D Warehouseâ„¢ integration.

Import Google SketchUpâ„¢, Ogre XML and 3ds objects.

View and Edit designs in 2D & 3D.

Various measurement units (fractional supported).

Unlimited undo/redo.

View objects in 3D Preview window.

Drag & Drop objects to 2D/3D window.

Runs natively on both Power PC and Intel Mac's.

Working with 2D Plans:

Create plans in any scale.

Smart guides and object snapping.

Automatic/custom floor and ceiling creation.

Auto/custom dimensioning.

Custom ceiling height.

Option to fill walls/slabs with color or one of 96 patterns in 2D plan.

Export 2D plans to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG.

3D Environment:

Realistic walk through mode.

Adjust Lighting on the fly.

Realistic light and shadows rendering.

3 rendering modes to control lights and shadows.

Set daytime (day, night, etc.)

Real Geo orientation (North, East, South, West).

Collision detection.

Multiple adjustable user cameras.

Make screenshots of interior 3D view in JPEG, TIFF and more.

Editing 3D Objects:

1000+ Material Library and flexible material editor.

Advanced options to customize doors, windows, columns, furniture.

Wall moulding support (base and crown).

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.

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0:
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Almost brilliant..... - Version: 1.5, 2/22/2008 05:12PM PST

HerrFunken

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!