3D:LIVE

Unlock your imagination and create intuitive yet extraordinary weather visualizations for current, forecast and other data-driven weather events with industry leading 3D:LIVE 3.5 software. 3D:LIVE unites real-time data, stunning 3D effects and animations, high-resolution maps and imagery and a full suite of proprietary storytelling tools to bring to you the industry leading weather visualization solution.
3D:LIVE Interactive Visualizations
On every screen viewers use, make the weather story easier to understand by using interactive storytelling tools, 3D animations, simulated weather conditions, time lapse and Web cams. Using the tools that 3D:LIVE offers will make your weather brand stand out and get noticed among viewers.
MagicTRAK™
Weather Central's patented, leading-edge MagicTRAK technology lets you interact with data, animate numbers and highlight areas instantly, on and off camera, using the tip of your finger.
Navigated Scene Launch™
With Scene Launch, talent can launch to a new scene – which can include any video source, image or content from a URL – by using MagicTRAK to interactively touch a location to reveal a new scene.
Telestration
Use patented telestration tools to move, draw, and instantly animate symbols, fronts, and any other visuals on-camera or over live video.
MetroVision™
Add amazing clarity to today, tonight and tomorrow's forecast with MetroVision weather simulation software. Artists at Weather Central create your customized MetroVision by combining a station-provided photograph with simulated weather conditions, dramatic lighting effects, high definition clouds, lightning, precipitation and animating water.
URL Grabber™
Use URL Grabber to grab any image, from any web site, and play it as a static image or timelapse on the air or post it on your Website.
:LIVE Lightning™
Show viewers where lightning struck and where it might be heading with :LIVE Lightning. The live data feed means that each time lightning strikes, your map will automatically update. You can also animate historic data to show your viewers how soon the storms might hit their neighborhoods.
HD Clouds™
Create an amazingly realistic view of cloud formations including cirrus, stratus, and cumulus clouds.