SWiSHmax has everything you need to create stunning fully interactive Flash animations. You can create shapes, text, buttons, sprites, and motion paths. You can also include more than 230 ready-to-use animated effects including explode, vortex, 3D spin, and wave. You can create your own effects or make an interactive movie by adding actions to objects.

A scripting language allows you to program sophisticated operations into your animations. You can preview your animation inside SWiSHmax without launching a browser or external player, and live editing lets you make changes while the animation is playing. SWiSHmax creates all the files you need to upload to your Web server, or you can generate the HTML code to paste into an existing Web page.

Features

Multimedia Effects & Components
Advanced Flash design for the graphic artist or animation programmer. Full design control.
Project Templates and Wizard Panel for quick publish of included projects.
Bundled with over 350 built-in multimedia effects and a simple effects browser.
Built-in effects make creating animations quick and easy using your videos, text, images, graphics or sounds.
Effects can be applied to multiple objects.
Supports multiple overlapping soundtracks with multiple sound effects.
Choose from over 250 components and vector shapes, or add your own custom built components.
Create and distribute your own special effects and components.
Component Tool for fast and easy placement of common components.

Drawing Tools
Type text directly on the stage and even give each character an individual attribute (bold, font, size etc.).
Advanced drawing tools include: Line, Pencil, Pen, Text, Ellipse/Circle, Rectangle/Square, Perspective and AutoShapes.
Keyboard short cuts are available for all the drawing tools.
Complex Shape editing options make it easy to modify your shapes.
Use AutoShapes to place arrows, stars, polygons and more.
Guides, grids, and alignment tools.
Knife tool and Shape Operations.
Bezier curves for motion paths. Convert shapes to motion path.

User Interface
A simple yet comprehensive interface puts all the tools within easy reach.
Objects, frames and effects can all be added, modified or deleted directly from the timeline.
Open multiple documents simultaneously to manage your large projects.
Moveable panels can be hidden to clear your workspace.
Preview all your work within SWiSH Max3, even playback at different internet speeds.
Sharing resources between your Flash movies is a breeze with the content library and assets.

Import & Export
Import SWF movies produced by any other Flash application.
Import videos, sounds, graphics and text files.
Paste Special offers a choice of import formats when transferring from other applications.
SWiSH Max3 SWF movies can be imported into any other Flash application with ease.
Advanced compression features help keep your SWF file sizes small.
Exported HTML can use a custom template to include Javascript, CSS, PHP and more.
Export straight to AVI, EXE, PNG or GIF animation.
Export straight to AVI, EXE, PNG or GIF animation.

Scripting
All interactivity can be added through a simple menu interface.
Script editor allows advanced user to enter scripts directly.
A debugger simplifies finding and fixing errors in your scripts.
Syntax coloring, custom keywords and support for external script files.
Advanced scripting now includes support for Adobe Flash Actionscript 2 (AS2) Classes.