PLAYMAKER PRO 4.0, an object-oriented drawing program with special tools for drawing plays, is available to football coaches from B.W. Software.

PlayMaker Pro 4.0 is a fairly user friendly, play design software program that allows you to draw up offensive and defensive plays in color or black and white.

PRO 4.0 FEATURES
Its standard features include the basic line, text and box design elements. The line tools allow you to draw curved or straight regular lines, arrowhead lines and lines with a blocking symbol to indicate pass patterns, running, motion and blocking.

The Box Tool, which includes yard lines and hash marks for the field, features fill patterns and colors to mark different zones in a play. The software also features 15 symbols to represent players.

The text tool box offers a variety of fonts, sizes, styles and colors for easy clarification of your play designs.

PRESENTATION POINTS
One of the unique features of the software is the Show component. This allows a coach to present a play or a series of plays to coaches or the team. On screen, your plays are presented in a format similar to a Power Point presentation. This mode can be used to project your presentation onto a screen.

While in Show mode, four buttons allow you to navigate to other pages in your presentation and animate a play. Any plays, documents etc. that you create on a PlayMaker Pro page can become a presentation slide. Color, word charts and drawings can be used. QuickTime movies can also be imported into the documents, allowing you to add digitized video to your team presentations.

While in presentation mode, PlayMaker Pro can animate a play. The PlayMaker User guide indicates the easy-to-follow steps to help you set this up. Plays can also be viewed in offensive view and defensive view, original format, reversed about the center or a flipped view from the line of scrimmage. A left-hand version of a right-handed play can also be created.

PERSONAL PLAY LIBRARY
Another useful feature in PlayMaker Pro 4.0 is its extensive library. It allows you to store drawings that are used often. Once you’ve added a drawing to the library, it can be retrieved and placed easily. If you have a standard way that you like your pages to appear in your playbook, you can create a template in the library.

PlayMaker Pro 4.0 is designed for Windows 3.1, 95 or 98 and MacPlus or newer. Other versions of PlayMaker Pro are available for other computer operating systems. The software is available on a 3.5-inch disk with a detailed, user-friendly manual.

PlayMaker Pro 4.0, B.W. Software, P.O. Box 15163, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.
Web site: www.bwsoftware.com.Call:(888) 752-9625