... a Special Effect Program and many more ...

Wildfire is not only another brandnew image-processing-program - it's a professional animation-processor with some really new concepts.

It allows you for example the creation and processing of animations in several formats, the generation of time-dependant special-effects and the design of large projects containing several animations and frame-synchronized sound-effects.

Because the common animation-formats on the Amiga have too many lacks or restrictions we have tried to create a better one: YAFA. This animation-format for example features many compression-methods and realtime-zooming.

One of the outstanding features of Wildfire is the fact that it makes for you no difference if you apply changes to a whole animation or if you process only one image. A single image is only a very special case of an animation.

In contrary to common image-processors you can use envelopes instead of plain numbers as effect-parameters. This makes the creation of complicated time-dependant special-effects very easy.
So you haven't to fight against the "do"-loops in an ARexx-script to get an animation outside your image-processor any more.

All of the numerous effects can be arranged in any number and combination. Because the output of any of these effects can be one of the 8 "flat" or 4 3D-temp-buffers Wildfire allows you to perform "impossible" operations easily and in a very comfortable way !

Main Features:

• fast and comfortable Converter:
  input:  YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, mpeg, image-sequences
  output: YAFA, ANIM5/7/8, image-sequences
  
• preview for almost any operation (including realtime previews)
  
• Project-Editor which allows the creation of large and complicated projects easily using the mouse
  
• effect-generator featuring time-dependant parameters via envelopes
  
• a stunning library of effect-PlugIns (about 80)
  
• some really unique effects
  
• 3D-engine with multiple lightsources and phong-shading
  
• superposition of 3D-effects (PowerPlugs!)
  
• superposition of Lightwave-objects and images in the threedimensional space
  
• (un)loading of PlugIns at any time
  
• Envelope-Editor
  
• Timecodes-Editor
  
• Transition-Maker for easy creation of transitions between two animations
  
• easy-to-use Player-interface
  
• Filmstrips to simplify the perfect timimg of huge projects
  
• AnimInfo-function displaying size-profiles etc.
  
• fontsensitive GUI without MUI
  
• internal gadget-toolbox which handles mathematical expressions instead of only plain numbers
  
• calculator which allows for example the export of user-defined symbols to the gadgets in the whole-program
  
• Drag&Go
  (using drag.gadget 1.0 beta  Copyright ) 1997 Jvrg Kollmann, see bonus drawer!)
  
• ARexx-port with about 400 commands
  
• macros, custom-windows, docks
  
• import of images from other programs
  
• Developer-Kit which allows you to create your own effect-PlugIns
  
• and many more