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From: "Craig Graham" <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: RsdAnim v1.3 - progress note
Date: 26 Jun 1998 10:49:23 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Just a quick note on how things are going with the next version of RsdAnim.
This is a list of changes since the last public release. This version isn't
released yet
(got a few more things to sort out yet).


[4/6/98]
o 3DS Max ASE import now handles texture information. Why? Isn't RsdAnim's
texture
  mapper pretty good? Yeah, it is compared to RsdTool, but 3DS Max rules
for 
  this sort of thing, RsdAnim is just for final edit and animation.

	NOTE: You MUST convert your textures to TIM's before you try to load
	the ASE. I recommend you setup all your textures in one directory first,
	before mapping them in 3DS Max. RsdAnim expects to find a TIM file in the
	same directory as the texture file you used from Max.

[10/6/98]
o Added swap X/Y option to the texture wrap dialog.

[13/6/98]
o Re-wrote the ASE importer to handle stuff more generically.
o Added a replace keyframe button.

[14/6/98]
o Fixed rendering of 4 sided polys in the texture view.
o Added new options to the view popup menu to make selected poly's:
	- transparent
	- coloured -+
	- textured -+--these last two are to allow you to clear the texture of a
polygon
	  and to turn it back on again....
o Textured view now displays transparency - note that this only works on a
3D accellerator
  device which supports it (Direct3D's software rasterizer doesn't do it).
Also (at least
  on my S3 Virge card), only solid coloured polys display as transparent -
that's probably
  just my 3D card though...
o Added new toolbar buttons for a couple of the new functions.


[20/6/98]
o A basic miscomprehension on my part about what the Yaroze manuals
meant...
	p:(1,19,12) actually means 1 sign bit, 19 whole bits, 12 fractional bits.
  So, I've re-done the MIMe export code to allow a much broader range of
values
  for the p coefficient (before, I was only allowing the values 1,19 and
12!!!).
  This gives a much larger and more accurate MIMe representation of an
animation
  than you were getting before....

====================================================
[22/6/98]: v1.2 Internal Beta Release (to John & Mark Only)
 NOTES:
  1) TMD saving is work in progress - don't try to use it, bad things will
happen.
  2) Max2 ASE import: Don't enable "Extract Camera Paths" in the import
dialog. This is
     gonna get finished once I work out KB-Splines properly....
  3) Max2 ASE import: Pay attention to my note dated [4/6/98]. This is
important.
====================================================

[23/6/98]
o Added a view lighting configuration dialog. You can now setup how the
texture views
  flat lights are coloured. There are 3 lights, one on each axis, and you
can toggle
  the RGB components of each light. Each view has it's lighting set
individually, so
  you can have different illuminations in each view pane if you like...
  NOTE: This is a feature requested by John Li, and as he's my main
graphics man, it goes
  in before anything else...

[25/6/98]
o Started the TMD saving function. Only works with FP3N's and GP3N's at the
moment.

[26/6/98]
o Added more prim types to the TMD saver:
	FP3
	GP3
	FTP3
	GTP3
	FTP3N
	GTP3N


-- 
Craig Graham, Intelligent Research (Video Games) Ltd
EMAIL:cgraham@hinge.mistral.co.uk
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