Objects

Artlantis provides a superb object manager that makes it easier to expand a scene layout and make it even more realistic. Whether you are working with vegetation, people, furniture or simple decorative knickknacks, you can manipulate all of these either in 3D or 2D, and make graphic control of these objects dependent on scene-specific factors (such as hierarchy, catch point, season). This makes scene layout easier than ever.

Catalogues

Artlantis R's characteristic simplicity also extends to handling catalogue elements (shaders, objects, images).
Integrating items into the catalogue is a simple matter of dragging and dropping, just like placing them into a scene.
Catalogues can be reorganized any way the user desires, regardless of whether the elements have been placed on the hard drive.
The user can navigate within the catalogue and its subfolders either graphically by browsing the list of files displayed or by performing an automatic search on the user-assigned file names.

Objects & Characters

You need only drag objects to the desired location to insert them into a scene. Their catch points will react based on their characteristic: This is how, for example, a floor lamp will always be vertical while a sconce will be positioned perpendicular to the wall
The texture of objects can be modified either individually or in tandem. Also, the instancing system allows significant reduction in the amount of memory taken up by duplicated objects.
Objects can be saved freely in Artlantis Studio and can even contain light sources that are reproduced when they are integrated into a scene.

3D Plants & Trees

Developed in partnership with VB Visual, one of the industry's leading companies, Artlantis' 3D plants and vegetation can be used as simple objects, by dragging and dropping them. Moreover, they have an excellent feature of predefined behaviour, such as foliage tint and density, for example, to match the season defined by the Artlantis Studio heliodon.

Billboards

Billboards are special images (2D people, but also manhole covers, traffic signs, etc.) that the user can drag directly from the catalogue to the 3D scene as he wishes.

Additional CD-ROMs

To complement the standard library, Abvent offers CD-ROMs with theme collections designed specially for Artlantis by industry partners or independent designers. These provide a multitude of materials and textures that you can use for your synthesis images (for Macintosh and Windows).