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Up, up, and away with Artlantis!

Jules Verne, visionary 19th Century author of numerous epic travel adventures, once expressed that "anything one man can imagine, other men can make real." Perhaps nowhere is that statement better embodied than in the transformative power of architecture, where ideas are ultimately realized on a grand scale. While our imaginations might know no limits, without the right tools to express and communicate our vision, the journey from idea to reality can be a difficult one. In honor of the February 8 birthday of Jules Verne, Objects Online presents the Up, Up, and Away promo, an offer for the right tools that will set your ideas soaring.

The ascent begins with Artlantis Render and Studio upgrades. If you are using Artlantis 1, 2 or 3, venture up to Artlantis 4.1 at 10% off, now through March 31. With blazing speed, Artlantis can sail right through your rendering jobs with the greatest of ease, bringing your ideas to life with stunning quality and breath-taking visuals. If you're not yet on Artlantis 4, now is a great time to move up.

To accompany you on your Artlantis trek, we are offering a 10% discount on the Artlantis 3D objects media volume, Dosch Design 3D Transport 2010. This collection features 20 road vehicles, from light-duty trucks and vans to heavy-duty commercial haulers and semi tractor-trailers. Whether your renderings involve highways, parking lots, or construction sites, this collection is appropriate for a variety of paved and unpaved sites.

Happy trails and bon voyage! Don't forget, you can post pictures and videos of your incredible Artlantis journey in the Artlantis.com galleries!

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 Preview the 3D Transport 2010 Volume

Artlantis teams with Vectorworks at Ecobuild 2013

Ecobuild (March 5-7, 2013, London’s ExCeL) is the world’s largest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment, drawing over 57,000 industry decision-makers from 120 countries each year, including the largest gathering of architects and specifiers in the UK.

Free to attend, Ecobuild is about sharing innovation, ideas and best practice, sparking debate and discussion, and learning about the most current regulations and legislation.  Designed to inspire and educate the sustainable built environment community, Ecobuild’s highly acclaimed conference and seminar program will return for 2013, hosting a plethora of key industry speakers, ministers, lecturers and academics as well as a sprinkling of celebrity speakers and hosts.  Representing the entire supply chain from across the sustainable built environment, Ecobuild showcases thousands of innovative products, solutions and initiatives from over 1500 organizations in the green infrastructure, building materials, renewables, solar, timber, design and lighting industries.

Join Artlantis and Vectorworks at Stand #N420 at Ecobuild 2013!

For 25+ years, Nemetschek Vectorworks Inc has been a global leader in design technologies providing elegant architectural software that offers Building Information Modelling (BIM); landscape, urban and garden software that provides Site Information Modelling (SIM) and lighting design capabilities in a flexible, hybrid-design environment. 

Artlantis is the perfect software for Vectorworks users, allowing them to present their projects with 3D photorealistic renderings. Artlantis enables you to improve and bring realism to your Vectorworks models with 3D objects and textures. Texture your models with high resolution shaders to obtain a very realistic effect, then set your scene with as many light sources as you want.

These two programs will work for you in a complementary way, helping you to complete even the most ambitious projects, and giving your presentations the look you want.

Register for free entry!

Download the Vectorworks plug-in for Artlantis here!

We hope to see you in London!

Introducing ARTmineSKP

Does your interior design model need a bit of flare?  Why not add some fine art to help visualize the space?  Check out this new SketchUp plug-in, ARTmineSKP:  it lets you browse a collection of 5,000 artworks and upload them to your model!  ARTmineSKP makes your models more lifelike, and helps your clients find the artwork that's right for them.

Download the plug-in for free at skp.art-mine.com

Introducing ARTmineSKP from Agora Gallery on Vimeo.

Expert Rendering Parameters in Artlantis

Understanding the purpose and effect of the expert rendering parameters allows Artlantis users to customize their radiosity settings separately for each view, and thus, to bring out the best in their scenes.

The ABC of Architects

How fun!

The ABC of Architects from fedelpeye on Vimeo.

Creating Shaders in Artlantis

Do you find yourself using the same texture combinations over and over again for your scenes?  Use Artlantis to modify existing shaders or to create new, customized shaders for your media catalog.

Interoperability with ArchiCAD

ArchiCAD exports the model in the Artlantis file format through its dedicated plug-ins. You can transfer the geometry, textures, perspective cameras, the sun, lights, and layers. The plug-in offers you the possibility to update your second Artlantis file and take over the settings from the first one in case you need to change anything in the ArchiCAD model.

The Artlantis export plug-in is installed by default in ArchiCAD.

 Find more specific information about the plug-in and a Tutorial

The 'Ground Floor' Opportunity from Objects Online

As the new year is ushered in, discussions inevitably shift toward new beginnings. Have you ever been offered the chance at a new beginning with a "ground floor" opportunity? Maybe someone approached you to become a part of something that holds the possibility for great things to come, opportunities for advancement, and huge potential rewards? Often, those dreamy promises are dangling at the end of a stick that is tantalizingly close, yet frustratingly out of reach. We're offering a "ground floor" opportunity of a different sort...one with immediate benefits and no strings attached! We're talking, of course, about the "Ground Floor" Opportunity Sale featuring two essential shaders volumes from the Artlantis Media Collection: Dosch Design's Ground Pro and Floor Pro.

The Ground Pro volume features 126 detailed shaders, 30 billboards and 35 textures of ground styles and materials, such as street surfaces, grass, dirt, and industrial surfaces, which can be applied to surfaces in your Artlantis scene with a flick of the wrist...just drag-and-drop. These high resolution textures will greatly enhance your architectural and landscape renderings. Floor Pro contains 80 detailed floor shaders for professional visualization of large floor areas including wood, parquet, laminate, marble and granite floors, natural stone, cobblestone, weathered and aged floor materials, and brick (can also be used on vertical surfaces, such as large brick wall areas).

Start the new year off right by adding one or both of these workhorse shader volumes to your Artlantis media collection. This may not be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will make you fabulously wealthy, but it is definitely one sale that you won't want to miss!

Offer expires February 14, 2013.

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 Preview the Ground Pro Volume

 Preview the Floor Pro Volume