Virtual FireworX 1.6.2 review

Celebrate with Fireworks! All year long, any holiday or occasion, Virtual FireworX brings a festive mood to your Mac! These pyro-tastic delights burn cool, so they won't burn you, or your screen! What are Virtual FireworX? Virtual FireworX are realtime 3D particle animations of fireworks simulations.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 3145K Developer: Skyrocket Software Price: $0.00 Updated: 15 Aug 2006

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Celebrate with Fireworks!
All year long, any holiday or occasion, Virtual FireworX brings a festive mood to your Mac! These pyro-tastic delights burn cool, so they won't burn you, or your screen!

What are Virtual FireworX?
Virtual FireworX are realtime 3D particle animations of fireworks simulations. Thanks to new technology available to MacOS X 10.4, a.k.a., "Tiger", Virtual FireworX performs better than it's predecessor, Digital FireworX. Because the fireworks render in realtime, they truly vary from each viewing, randomly igniting in new locations in 3D space!

Here are some key features of "Virtual FireworX":
Realistic 3D particle animations, including smoke!
Realtime rendering, for a constantly changing experience!
Up to 20 different built-in fireworks effects!
Aerial, and ground based pieces!
Amazing fireworks sound effects, in stereo!
Realtime preview in options panel! See how your settings will look!
Load in your own background image!
Choose your own background color!
View streaming trails for even more realism!
Choose to view clouds moving in the background!

What's New:
Fixed Preview bug.
Recompiled in Xcode 2.4 for enhanced performance with 64 bit Macs.

Requirements:
Virtual FireworX REQUIRES Mac OS X Tiger, 10.4 or greater, and the following graphics hardware: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX and later, or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required.