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  • Page 2 Ulead, Ulead Systems logo, EasyPalette and Ulead COOL 3D are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Intel, Pentium and MMX are registered trade- marks and/or trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, DirectX, DirectX Media, and/or other Microsoft products referenced herein are either trademarks or regis- tered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
  • Page 4 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0...
  • Page 5 Web pages, videos, and presentations. Experiment and take advantage of all the power that Ulead COOL 3D has to offer, and discover why it remains the industry leader in 3D titling software.
  • Page 6 3D animations with greater speed. The best way to familiarize yourself with Ulead COOL 3D is to experiment with all of the options provided. To help you get started, this manual offers basic tutorials as well as a glimpse into advanced techniques.
  • Page 7 Select the Ulead COOL 3D icon from the Ulead COOL 3D program group on the Windows Start menu. Keep apace with the latest in Ulead COOL 3D news, updates, and free downloads - the program automatically detects and notifies you of any new events in the Ulead COOL 3D homepage.
  • Page 8 The intuitive design of Ulead COOL 3D makes it easy to use the program. In this version, there are more toolbars and buttons that allow you to really take advantage of all the program’s increased capabilities and new features. The following section should help you quickly familiarize yourself with all of the main functions.
  • Page 9 User Guide • Standard Toolbar Contains all of the most commonly used functions and commands. In addition to the typical file commands, it also has object and bevel face selection buttons, as well as the three basic movement controls: Rotate, Move, and Size.
  • Page 10 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 • Text Toolbar Allows you to adjust the alignment of the text within a text object, as well as the spacing between lines and characters. • Edit Window Lets you preview the 3D project as you work. You can...
  • Page 11 The EasyPalette provides you with the fastest way to create astounding titles and graphics with Ulead COOL 3D. With its vast number of presets, this is where you can add color and life to your project with just a few clicks.
  • Page 12 Object List. 3 On the Object Toolbar, click the Edit Text button. The Ulead COOL 3D Text dialog box appears, displaying the text object that you selected. 4 Change the text as desired, then click OK.
  • Page 13 User Guide When you set up a 3D project, the dimensions and quality of your project depend on how you plan to use it. You might want to use it as part of a video, include it as a GIF anima- tion on your Web site, or save it as a still 3D image.
  • Page 14 Note: Create a text string of multiple lines by creating a line break in a string of text. In the Ulead COOL 3D Text dialog box, simply press Enter where you want a line break to occur.
  • Page 15 Object List on the Standard Toolbar, or select it from the Object Manager (see page 16.) Ulead COOL 3D allows you to insert more than one object into your project, whether it be text or graphics. After you have created the individual objects, you can edit and animate each one individually just by first clicking on it in the Edit Window to select it.
  • Page 16 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 The more objects you create, the more of a challenge it can be to keep track of them. The Object Manager makes it easier for you to organize and edit your objects. Here are some of the basic functions: •...
  • Page 17 User Guide Ulead COOL 3D makes it easy to manipulate and animate 3D objects in three-dimen- sional space. For basic motions that combine changes in position, rotation and size, use any of the Motion presets located in the Studio category of the EasyPalette. Eventually, you will probably want to customize objects using your own settings using the Move Object, Rotate Object, and Size Object buttons on the Standard Toolbar.
  • Page 18 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 • Drag the object upwards in the Edit Window, and notice that the value for Y increases. Drag the object downwards, and the Y value decreases. • Drag the object left and right to see how the X values change on the Location Toolbar.
  • Page 19 User Guide • Drag to the left and right with the mouse, and the object rotates accord- ingly. Notice how values become negative when you drag to the left and positive when you drag to the right. • Drag up and down with the mouse, and the object rotates backwards away from you and towards you.
  • Page 20 With Ulead COOL 3D, you can adjust different types of light that affect the look of your object. Here is a brief description of the types of light that you can control: •...
  • Page 21 User Guide 1 In the EasyPalette file directory, select the Object Style: Light & Color cat- egory. 2 On the Attribute Toolbar, select Light from the Adjust list. The attributes for Light appear. 3 Click a Light Source button to activate it.
  • Page 22 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 By applying a texture map to your 3D object, you can give it the appearance of being made from a specific material, such as wood or metal, or you can apply a pattern or design to it. A texture map is a bitmap image that is wrapped around the surface of a 3D object.
  • Page 23 User Guide The great thing about applying texture and color in Ulead COOL 3D is that you can apply them to individual faces of your object. Click a Bevel Face button on the Standard Toolbar to select the side of the object to edit. Then, drag a color or texture from the presets to the Edit Window.
  • Page 24 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 Precision Determines the fineness of the bevel. A higher value creates a more precise bevel. This is useful if you have a rounded bevel and want smoother curves. Border Weight Extrusion Depth Round Chiseled Round-Chiseled Chiseled-Round...
  • Page 25 Image Size button in the dialog box that pops up, and click OK. Everyone wants to use customized graphics in Ulead COOL 3D to create outstanding 3D logos and images. With this latest version, importing and editing graphic objects has become that much easier.
  • Page 26 If you are already using this format in other 3D modeling software, you can create your own shapes to use in a Ulead COOL 3D project. Import these files by using the File: Import X Model menu command.
  • Page 27 User Guide Ulead COOL 3D lets you insert 3D geometric objects into your project with just a click of the mouse. The fun part is when you use them with text and graphics to create unique 3D animations and stills. You can use several 3D shapes together to create an alien object, or just a few as props for an animated title.
  • Page 28 After familiarizing yourself with three-dimensional space, you’re ready to start making fun animations. While there are many factors you have to take into consideration when creating an animated project, it’s definitely worth taking time to learn some basic ideas. From there, it will be easy for you to learn to create stunning and complex animation sequences.
  • Page 29 When you start to create an animation, you begin with a timeline. The timeline represents a number of frames in the animation. In Ulead COOL 3D, you use the Timeline Control to edit the attributes of timelines. Many properties of the 3D object (such as size, position, color, and any plug-in effects) have individual timelines that you can edit independently.
  • Page 30 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 • Slider Drag this to move to any frame in the animation, or click the Move to Next/Previous Frame buttons. • Jump to Next/Previous Key Frame Click these buttons to move from one key frame to the next, or directly select a key frame by clicking it.
  • Page 31 Edit Window. 6 Save the project by clicking the Save button on the Standard Toolbar. This allows you to save it in the Ulead COOL 3D file format (*.c3d). You can open this file later from within the program to...
  • Page 32 7 Increase the number of frames to 30. Notice how the motion of the object becomes smoother. 8 On the Standard Toolbar, click the Save button to save the animation. Your project will be saved in the Ulead COOL 3D format (*.c3d).
  • Page 33 User Guide The most obvious thing to do when you want to animate an object is to make it move. To animate the color and light of an object itself is less obvious, but can result in interesting effects. In these tutorials, learn how to make light and color change on a stationary object. Try animating texture as well.
  • Page 34 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 Inevitably, you will want to animate more than one aspect of your object. This means that you must work with multiple timelines. When you are working with multiple timelines, keep your eye on the Properties Menu - this will tell you which timeline you are currently editing.
  • Page 35 User Guide Working with more than one object can result in a stunning project. The next tutorials show you how to coordinate two objects. In the first one, make a second object appear after the first one completes its action. In the second one, learn how to make two objects chase after one another.
  • Page 36 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 1 Insert an object into the project and set the total number of frames to 30. 2 Select Position from the Properties Menu. On the Timeline Control, add key frames at frames 10 and 20. 3 Click key frame 1 of the animation to select it.
  • Page 37 Plug-in effects are what make your still or animated title extra special. In Ulead COOL 3D, you can give objects a unique edge with Bevel plug-ins, switch to different sentiments with Transition effects, make objects move in special patterns with Object plug-ins, and give them a unique flair with Global effects.
  • Page 38 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 You can create interesting still and animated titles with these plug-ins. These allow you to add a frame, a special hollow or engraved board, or a shape preset to your object. Once applied, you can further customize them by adjusting the standard bevel attributes.
  • Page 39 User Guide Create unique and wild three-dimensional forms by applying one of the dozens of preset bevel shapes to any of the objects in your project. When working with this plug-in, experiment freely with applying various Custom Bevel presets to various objects. 1 Insert an object into the Edit Window.
  • Page 40 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 This bevel effect not only offers you interesting visual options for your project, but gives you some animation possibilities as well. In this tutorial, work with a Bevel timeline and an Orientation timeline to create an animated project. (Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps) 1 Insert an object into the Edit Window.
  • Page 41 User Guide This plug-in effect lets your text or graphic penetrate right through the board for an interesting title. This tutorial shows you how to create a fun yet simple animation using two of the same text or graphic object. (Settings: 30 frames, 15fps) 1 Insert an object into the Edit Window.
  • Page 42 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 Make a deeper impression by engraving a title or banner on a board with this plug-in effect. You can also make an animated effect using this plug-in. Learn how to make a basic title sink into a board in the following tutorial. (Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps) 1 Insert a text or graphic object into the Edit Window.
  • Page 43 User Guide The control you have in animating individual objects is one of the things that makes Ulead COOL 3D remarkable. Some plug-in effects let your objects dance and explode in customizable patterns, while others let you choreograph the actions between individual letters with ease.
  • Page 44 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 This effect brings out the buoyancy in your title. Choose from several dance styles - Shake, Scatter, Wave, and Bounce. The following tutorial shows you how to make a bouncing project. (Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps) 1 In the EasyPalette file directory, select Object Effects: Dance.
  • Page 45 User Guide Put a new perspective on your title by using the Distort plug-in. You can either distort the perspective of the entire object, or distort the letters individually. When applied in an animated sequence, this can be useful for emphasizing the noteworthy. Create a basic Distort animation in this tutorial.
  • Page 46 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 The power you have when blasting a title to pieces makes this plug-in a favorite. If you are not so destructively minded, try reversing an explosion effect, having all the small pieces come together to form a whole. In this tutorial, learn how to disintegrate your title.
  • Page 47 User Guide Move your title along specially designed paths with this plug-in. Have it zigzag in space, or let it zip along sweeping curves in roller-coaster fashion. The Attribute Toolbar lets you further customize how the title moves - you can twist it around the path, make it move in wave form, mold itself to the path, and have each character move in sequential order.
  • Page 48 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 This plug-in lets your text move in ways that simulate the natural laws of gravity in the real world. You can let your object get caught in a tornado, ripple on water, or swing like a pendulum. In this tutorial, learn how to toss your object in an arc, and then have it change into another object upon impact.
  • Page 49 User Guide With this plug-in, you can let your object move and wrap around the form of different three-dimensional shapes. This tutorial shows you how to wrap your object around a small sphere, have it travel twice around the sphere, and then unwrap at the end. (Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps) 1 In the EasyPalette file directory, select Object Effects: Surface Animation.
  • Page 50 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 It’s easy to choreograph individual letters to move sequentially. This plug-in lets you do this in any direction and in just a few steps. This tutorial shows you how to have indi- vidual letters jut out at you for emphatic expression. (Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps)
  • Page 51 User Guide With this effect, you have the ability to make letters and objects spin and twirl, either all at once or in an elegant sequence. Here, learn how to make a simple wave effect. (Set- tings: 30 frames, 15 fps) 1 Adjust the Orientation of the object so that the Y coordinate is approximately 2 In the EasyPalette file directory, select...
  • Page 52 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 You can stretch text and objects in any direction with this plug-in effect. In this tutorial, combine the Skew effect with a simple Position animation to make an object appear as if it were being sucked away off the screen. (Settings: 30 frames, 15fps) 1 In the EasyPalette file directory, select Object Effects: Token Skew (G).
  • Page 53 User Guide The Token Size (G) effect is especially easy to use because you only have to make most of the settings once, and then all you have to change in the key frames is the value for Level. Learn to make your money grow in this tutorial. (Settings: 30 frames, 15 fps) 1 Insert a string of dollar signs, divided up in 3 rows.
  • Page 54 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 This effect lets you coil up a title in a number of different directions and styles. Twist the object beyond recognition along the X or Y axis, or make the title coil out towards you along the Z axis. In this project, learn how to combine the Twist effect with a basic Size animation for extra impact.
  • Page 55 User Guide This new plug-in category lets you make a striking statement by replacing one text or graphic object with another in a variety of entertaining ways. Explode your text to form a completely different text, or have one text squash another. You can also make one text bump the other one off the screen.
  • Page 56 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 This transition effect can add expression to those pressing statements that simply must be made, or simply emphasize the main point by having it push another object away. In this example, have the main text bump a graphic out of the way.
  • Page 57 User Guide Stomp out one text object with another with the Jump effect. You can also give it a realistic bounce and rebound as one text falls on the other. This example shows you how to combine this effect with the Show/Hide function so that a second message shows up at the end of the transition.
  • Page 58 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 This category of effects can enhance the quality of your text or graphic object. A wide variety of options lets you give your 3D objects an eerie aura, set them on fire, or cast a shadow, among others. These effects are different from Object effects in that when you apply one of them to your project, it is applied to all of the objects in it.
  • Page 59 User Guide This plug-in lets you give any type of aura to fit the mood of the project. Make your object radiate with a luminous glow of the nuclear age, or you can give it a halo of goodness. One of the things you might want to try with your object is to have it shine like a light. The following tutorial demonstrates how to make an object blink on and off.
  • Page 60 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 With this effect, you can make an object look as if it were zipping around at super speeds bouncing with energy. These and many more whisks of motion are possible with this plug- in. If you want to try this with an animated project, it is recommend that you use the least complicated settings for the animation.
  • Page 61 User Guide You can give your object a shadow, then animate it easily after making just a few settings. In addition to making the gray shadows of real life, you can make colorful shadows, or have an object cast a negative shadow on a dark background. In the following tutorial, make an object float away, leaving its shadow behind on the ground.
  • Page 62 With Path Editor, Ulead COOL 3D now makes it possible to create and edit vector graphics without having to worry about importing images from other programs. Not only can you create your own shapes, but you can also take letters that you’ve typed in, and edit them as vector graphics.
  • Page 63 User Guide that you can use to edit and create a shape. Every time you select one of these tools, the Attribute Toolbar changes to give you the options for that tool. Familiarize yourself with some of the tools in the following pages. A simple shape with few nodes (left) and a complex shape with many nodes (right) With the Path Editor, you can create both regular symmetrical shapes, such as squares and...
  • Page 64 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 Once you have created an object, you can move and manipulate it in a variety of ways with the Object tool. This allows you to select objects and then move, resize, and distort them anywhere within the workspace.
  • Page 65 User Guide The Path tool allows you to create shapes based on a series of straight or curved lines. You can manipulate these lines as you draw or edit them at a later time. 1 Click the Path tool button on the Tool Panel.
  • Page 66 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 The Freehand tool allows you to create any kind of shape you want by allowing you to draw it with your mouse or pressure sensitive pen tablet. This can be useful for tracing over elements in a background image, such as a logo. Once you have finished drawing your path, Path Editor then places nodes in positions on the path based on the accuracy that you specify on the Attribute Toolbar.
  • Page 67 User Guide Whenever you create an object, its shape is defined by the path you draw. Once created, you always edit it using the Adjust tool. 1 Select the Adjust tool from the Tool Panel. The Attribute Toolbar displays the options for adjusting a path. Nodes also appear on the path of the selected object.
  • Page 68 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 Smooth Curve Changes the curvature of the path between the active node and its adjacent nodes, allowing you to change the length of the control handles independently from each other (they still remain on a linear path). Use this option for greater control over the curvature with respect to the adjacent nodes.
  • Page 69 User Guide Path Editor makes it easy to create a 3D object that is tailored to your specific design needs. By giving you the ability to trace over a background image or to convert a raster image to a vector graphic, you have many creative possibilities for incorporating 3D elements seamlessly into your original graphic or logo.
  • Page 70 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 1 Click the Convert to Vector button. In the dialog box that appears, select an image file that you want to convert, then click Open. 2 In the Convert To Vector dialog box, a preview of the traced path is displayed on the window to the right.
  • Page 71 When you have finished editing your work, you can save it in the Ulead COOL 3D format (*.c3d). This allows you to reopen the project in Ulead COOL 3D for further editing and revision.
  • Page 72 One of the great things you can do with Ulead COOL 3D projects is output them as videos (AVI and MOV formats) to be used in your digital videos. Using a video editor, such as Ulead’s award-winning MediaStudio Pro, you can add your animated project to...
  • Page 73 Internet surfers or simply to enliven your Web pages. Many animations that you see on the Web are animated GIFs. This version of Ulead COOL 3D provides you with extra controls to create a GIF animation that suits your needs.
  • Page 74 • Launch Ulead SmartSaver Lets the program automatically detect and run Ulead Smart Saver, a program that helps you create and optimize animations saved in JPEG, GIF, and PNG formats. You can now output your animations in the RealText 3D file format (*.r3t). This new format stores your animation while maintaining small file sizes, thus making it optimal for display on a Web page.
  • Page 75 Shift + Ins Edit: Delete Ctrl + Del Deletes the selected object Opens the Ulead COOL 3D Text dialog box and inserts Edit: Insert Text text from Windows Clipboard Opens the Ulead COOL 3D Text dialog box containing...
  • Page 76 Shift + T Stop animation Stops playing the current animation sequence Help Displays Ulead COOL 3D help topics for menu items Displays brief help topic upon clicking any one of the Shift + F1 Context Sensitive Help features in the program...
  • Page 77 User Guide cache view 6, 14 3D geometric shapes color 20 adding and editing 27 animating 33 Geometric Toolbar 5, 9 applying to individual object faces 23 cone 26 Control Line 37 Adjust tool 67 cube 26 animation, creating 29, 31 Custom Bevel plug-in 38 adding/deleting key frames 28 cylinder 26...
  • Page 78 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 specular 20 Location Toolbar 9 Geometric Toolbar 9 GIF animation 73, 5 global attributes 37 Motion Blur plug-in 60 Global Effects 58 Motion Path plug-in 46 Glow plug-in 59 graphics, adding 3D geometric shapes 26 new features 5...
  • Page 79 26 paths, editing curved path segment 67 cusp curves 68 line segment 67 RealText 3D 74 nodes 67 running Ulead COOL 3D 7 smooth curves 68 symmetric curves 67 plug-in effects saving a project 31 overview 37 saving projects 71...
  • Page 80 Ulead COOL 3D 3.0 timeline 29 multiple timelines 30 Properties menu 29, 34 creating animations for 73 Timeline Control 29 creating images for 71, 72 Timeline Control 28 discussion group 6 for plug-ins 37 RealText 3D 74 functions 29 Ulead Homepage 6, 7...