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From: "Craig Graham" <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: RsdANIM: Progress Note
Date: 22 Jul 1998 11:09:31 GMT
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Stuff I've done since the last release (not released yet, just so folks
using it know what's coming):


[2/7/98]
o Fixed the wireframe view (thanks to Ian Thompson for the bug report).
o Added optional backface removal mode to the wireframe view (toggle is in
the 'View' menu).

o Uploaded the RsdAnim_lib animation library to my WWW page.

[6/7/98]
o Generate MIMe & Add Keyframe now work from the menu as well as the
buttons.
o Disabled the File->New as it has no meaning for RsdAnim (and wasn't used
anyway).
o Changed the way UV edit works. Only vertices that are selected in a
wireframe or texture view
  and are part of a face with the texture on it will show up in the UV
editor. This makes things
  less cluttered and allows easier fine tuning of textures. Also, improved
the way UV editing works...

[10/7/98]
o Fine tuned the click/point vertex selection (when you click on a single
vertex to select it).
  Changes to the selection algorithm to make it less frustrating trying to
get the vertex you really
  want.
  1) The distance selection algorithm used to just drop out when it found a
vertex close to the cursor.
     Now it selects the vertex CLOSEST to the cursor.
  2) You now always get the vertex closest to you (in Z) if several
vertices are on top of one another.
     At least it's consistent now.....


[20/7/98]
o Recoded the "Bones" creation stuff (which has never been enabled in a
release build anyway, so
  you'll not realise how big a job this was).

[22/7/98]
o Got bone editting working. When a bone rotates around a joint, all child
bones follow it :)
  Nice editting aproach, where rotation axis is always into the screen,
whatever viewpoint
  you are looking at.
o Disabled the baseframe checkbox in the Add Keyframe dialog. Use Replace
Keyframe to change the
  baseframe instead.


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