To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8332 ) 12/2/2000 3:37:23 PM From: AustinPowersIII Respond to of 14451 Pulse Announces Exporter for Alias|Wavefront's Maya New Pulse Exporter Web-Enables Maya-Created Content, Further Solidifying Pulse's Position as the Standard for 3D Animation on the Web SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 2, 2000 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Pulse, developer of the leading technology for 3D Animation on the Web, announced that it will offer an exporter for Alias|Wavefront's(TM) Maya(TM) 3D animation and visual effects software. The free Pulse Exporter will allow Alias|Wavefront users to export interactive, real-time 3D created using the Maya platform directly into Pulse and onto the Web. "Whether Maya developers are creating content for entertainment, advertising, e-commerce or e-learning, with 200 million computers equipped with the Pulse Player, Maya artists now have another professional tool to allow them to expand their audiences by creating streaming interactive content for the Web," said Pulse Senior Vice President of Product Marketing Don Harris. "Being able to export Maya content for use on the Web quickly and easily, in the widely-accepted Pulse format, is great news for the Maya community, which is made up of some of the world's top studios," said Chris Ford, Sr. Product Manager for Maya of Alias|Wavefront. "The new exporter announced today by Pulse will give Maya users a great new way to bring their creations to life on the Internet." About Pulse Exporter for Maya The Pulse Exporter will enable Maya users with the power of interactivity. Using JavaScript and Pulse's own proprietary scripting language, Maya creators will be able to assign behaviors that allow a viewer to select the behaviors in any order using mouse or keyboard controls. When content is created in Maya, Pulse Exporter will export geometry, texture maps and animation including rigid-body animation and vertex blended deformations. Bones that control skin deformation will also be maintained and their motions preserved for the Web. The Maya exporter will be widely available in the first half of 2001. INTERESTING CHARTS:::siliconinvestor.com siliconinvestor.com siliconinvestor.com