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From: Craig Graham <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: Progress Report RsdANIM (next version)
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:19:32 +0000
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And another update on what's happening.....shout out when folks think I've done
enough
to justify a new release......

[25/10/98]
o Fixed some stuff in the RSD file saving (didn't handle all the poly types I'd
added to the
  TMD saver [21/10/98] - now it does).
o Added new Point Lighting function (Tools->Point Lighting). (Uses vertex
colouring)
  Usage:
   Select ONE vertex. This is where the light will be focused.
   Open the Point Lighting dialog from the tools menu.
   Set the colour of the point lightsource, and it's size.
  This will static light a model (embedding the lighting information into the
TMD file).
  There is almost no overhead for doing this, so have as many lights as you want
(use it for
  static scenery lighting such as street lights or wall torches).

Still to come:
- Transparent Polygon insertion lighting (better effects than you can get with
vertex colouring).
- Static flat lighting.

Craig.