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    While After Effects 5 introduced the lighting and compositing of 3D planes, Conoa ads some more basic 3D functionality, such as the ability to work with spheres, cubes, and 10 other primitives. And unlike the 3D in After Effects, the objects in Conoa use reflection maps and reflect off each other in addition to intersecting and casting soft shadows.
Conoa is really a 3D ray-tracer in a plug-in that gets applied to a layer. Using a standard plug-in interface, several primitives can be added to the scene and textured using other layers in the project. Conoa recognizes the positions of AE cameras and lights, making it easy to mix Conoa elements with AE layers ina 3D animation. While Conoa may be far from a whole 3D program, it lets users perform more simple 3D tasks inside After Effects than is otherwise available in 3D compositing.
Conoa 3D offers the following unique features:- 12 different 3D geometric primitives with true 3D (no polygonalization)
- A true raytracing renderer
- 2 material models with ambient, diffuse and specular lighting.
- Reflection
- Tranparency, with a variable index of refraction
- Texture mapping onto any primitive
- Shadows may be cast from any primitive to any other
- Soft shadow effects with area light sources
- Wireframe previews
- Bump mapping
- Environment mapping
- True 3D camera model
Conoa plug-ins currently work with the following hosts: Adobe Adobe After Effects 4.1 through 6.5, Apple Final Cut Pro 3.0 through 4.5, Discreet Combustion 3.0 and Avid AVX systems (including Xpress DV, Xpress Pro and Symphony) through the use of Elastic Gasket from Profound Effects. Users have also successfully used Conoa plug-ins in Eyeon Software's Digital Fusion and Boris Red, but these are not officially supported hosts. This product can be choosen as a download or CD shipment
Learn more about Conoa 3D Plug-inVisit our Plug-in Finder and see images, samples and more.
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