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From: "Craig Graham" <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: RELEASE ANNOUNCE: RsdANIM v1.5
Date: 17 Aug 1998 18:17:19 GMT
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Announcing the next release of RsdANIM (1.5), and RsdANIM_lib (v2.0).
Available from my yaroze WWW page now....

Changes from 1.4 are listed below. Action Replay support is removed from
this
release (not permanently, just for a while).

-----------

[28/7/98]
o Started adding code to use the Datel Action Replay to provide a fast
previewer
  actually on the Playstation itself (taken from my ARS server/client
code).
o New toolbar added "Action Replay Control".
o AR port setup available in options dialog.
o AR comms class integrated into program (based on the stuff I wrote for
ARS).

[29/7/98]
o AR texture download works. Bloody quick it is as well.
o Fixed bug in vertex selection (couldn't click to select a single vertex
if
  you had Show Vertices enabled without having Show Model enabled as well).
o Added the "View Track" check box to the Action Replay Control toolbar.
o Added Action Replay Comms Error dialog in case comms ops timeout.
Provides Retry or Cancel
  options.
o New CRC checked block transfer method for AR comms. I should go back and
put this into
  ARS :)
o Added AR model download code (save a temporary TMD as
"c:\temp\temp_tmd.tmd", then downloads that).

[30/7/98]
o Added AR zoom & rotation control.
o Coded Playstation side previewer.
o AR preview mode works fine now....excellent!!!

[2/8/98]
o Improved speed of AR download approx. 300% by changing the process
priority for the duration of
  the download, and removng timeout detection once a download is in
progress (you may occasionally
  get an error using this, but it's worth it for the 99% of the time it
works fine and is loads
  faster).
o Added AR forced EXE download to put the previewer onto the playstation
real quick. I probably
  cann't actually do a release with this code in, but it's quite useful.
o Added playstation graphics resolution selection to the AR previewer and
RsdANIM.
o Added remote reset button to the AR Control toolbar.

[3/8/98]
o Added poly4 support to the TMD saving routine.
  New primitives:
	FP4
	GP4
	FP4N
	GP4N
	FTP4
	GTP4
	FTP4N
	GTP4N
  This is used both by the direct TMD saving code (Save As->TMD) and the
Action Replay previewer,
  (which saves out a temporary TMD to download to the Playstation).
o Inlined the playstation side AR previewer EXE into the RsdANIM
executable. 
  This will probably not make it into a general release version (see note
on forced exe download 
  on 2/8/98).

============================================================================
===
[4/8/98]: Limited distribution source release 1.5 (prerelease)
           Released to a small number of people who offered
		   to help with debugging some issues with the
		   Direct3D code.
		   Thanks to Steve Spiller & Mario Wynands for their help.
============================================================================
===

[5/8/98]
o Added CPU & GPU load profiler to PSX side previewer.
o Added switches to turn these on and off from RsdANIM's TOOLS menu.
o Fixed bug in RSD saving, bones skeleton now correctly saves baseframe
skeleton instead of
  current edit frame skeleton.

[6/8/98]
o Bones skeleton now saved for all keyframes, previously only the baseframe
skeleton was saved.
  Older bones files will still load, but will save out in the new extended
format.
o Plugged the memory leak (at long last) that's been giving me grief since
v1.0 :)
o When we arrive at the final frame of an animation, correctly set the
bones and stuff (the 2nd
  to last frame's bones skeleton was being set instead).

[7/8/98]
o Added new binary MIMe save code.
o Extended the PSX side RsdANIM library with two new functions:
	LinkMIMe()	 : links a binary MIMe file so you can then use InitMIMe() on
it.
	ReleaseMIMe(): releases a MIME_HANDLE and free's the memory allocated to
it.
o Added support for animation previewing on the playstation.
	- New button in AR Control bar "AR Send MIMe"
	- Support in the PSX side previewer for downloading binary MIMe files.
	  (animation plays continously once started).

[10/8/98]
o Re-arranged the TOOLS menu a bit.
o Added new function "Delete Movement" (Tools->Movement->Delete).
o Added new function "Remove Texture" (Tools->Texture->Remove). Removes all
refferances
  to the selected texture from the model. All faces painted with it are
made coloured,
  all other texture ID's are renumbered and the texture is removed from the
RSD altogether.
o Slight fix to the set as coloured face option.
o Added new function "Rename Movement" (Tools->Movement->Rename)
o Added new function "Rename Keyframe" (Tools->Keyframe->Rename)
o Added new function "Rename Poly Group" (Tools->Group->Rename)
o Added new generic rename function (Edit->Rename), will rename
Movements,Groups or Keyframes.

[11/8/98]
o Added new function "Ungroup Polygons" (Tools->Group->Ungroup).
o Fixed tools menu Tools->Keyframe->Delete to actually work.
o Added new generic delete funtion (Edit->Delete), will delete Movements &
Keyframes and ungroup
  Poly Groups (really, it deletes the grouping information, hence it being
on the delete option).
o Following Mario's suggestions on Backbuffer/Z-Buffer creation in the
Direct3D code, I've added
  some retry code that attempts to ensure that the display is actually
created correctly. A bit
  techie, but what it does is shrink the window and keep trying to create a
Direct3D display
  using repeatedly smaller windows until it finds a size that your 3D card
can handle.
  Note that this doesn't apply if you're using the software renderer.
o Added a new pane in the Options dialog. This allows you to set the
maximum view pane size.
  So, you can setup a huge max size so that you can have a single view full
screen? Well, perhaps.
  Depends how much memory you've got on your 3D card. If you're using the
software renderer
  (NO from the startup dialog) then you're in luck, as the DirectX 6
software renderer will
  happily display 1280*1024*16bit Z-Buffered 3D images. Of course, the
bigger the display pane,
  the slower it updates......

[12/8/98]
o Added new recentering function to the Model info panel, to allow all
frames of an animation
  to be re-centred.
o Re-scale & re-centre now correctly effect the bones skeleton.
o Holding down shift when selecting bones with the pick tool will now
select bones when you click
  on their start joint.
o Holding down shift when using the Rotate Bone tool will now rotate about
the joint end instead.
o New function "locked rotate joint". Not sure how to describe what it does
- try it on a model
  to see.

[13/8/98]
o Recoded the Direct3D textured display driver to get a bit better
performance.
o Fixed the problem with using shift as the joint/bone modifier.

[14/8/98]
o Improved the drag & drop operation of the Project Manger Tree slightly.
o Right click on an item in the Project Manager Tree now gets you a popup
menu
  with common operations in it. Exactly which depends on what type of item
you click
  on (eg. right-clicking on a Keyframe get you a menu with Edit
Info,Rename,Replace & Delete in it).

[15/8/98]
o Model Info dialog now shows centre point of object as well.
o Rotate joint & locked rotate joint now show the angle (in degrees &
radians) in the view pane.
o "Save As Rsd" now actually works and saves as the RSD filename you
select.

[17/8/98]
o Added "Measure Angle" function.
o More performance optimisations in the texture view display code.
o Optimised the RecalculateVertexNormals() code (improves display speed).
o Play Preview (on PC) - right button click & drag to change viewing angle
  now works whilst a preview is playing...

============================================================================
===
[4/8/98]: Public Release 1.5
          NOTES: The AR control stuff isn't disabled is this release, but
I've
		  not released the Playstation side client yet, as I've yet to put
together
		  a Yaroze libps built version (current version uses pro-dev librarys).
============================================================================
===

-- 
Craig Graham,
EMAIL:cgraham@hinge.mistral.co.uk
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