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From: "Craig Graham" <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.3d_graphics
Subject: RsdANIM Progress Report
Date: 6 Aug 1998 17:15:00 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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As I usually do, here's a progress report on RsdANIM (since v1.4).....

Mario Wynands & Steve Spiller are bug chasing at the moment to try and
sort out the DirectX problem that's been stopping some people using it.
Thanks lads, nice one....

Some stuff listed here probably won't get released....never mind eh?

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[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!!!

[2/7/98]
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.

[3/7/98]
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 2/7/98).

============================================================================
===
[27/7/98]: 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.
============================================================================
===

[5/7/98]
o Added CPU & GPU load profiler to PSX side previewer (not for release to
Yaroze members).
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.

[6/7/98]
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).

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