MPARTICLE
~fg>fg>
	>fg>~g?
TTQUZ
@vF&@
uC$<'Xt
<H<A\	 
<A\	!
DC0o%
                INFO
Title       : Landscape v2.7.
Author      : Andrew Kreibich.
Country     : Australia.#Source      : See Shareware Column.#Conditions  : Shareware - $20 Aust.
Category    : Application.
Released    : June 1993.
Opinion     : ****
            REQUIREMENTS
Drives      : 1.
Memory      : 1 meg.
            COMPATIBILITY
A500 wb 1.3.2 : YES.
A600 wb 2.05  : YES.!Multi-tasks   : YES (AMOS style).
Display       : PAL.&   In  issue  three of APDR I reviewed&v1.11 of this program as found on Fish&disk 554. This version has quite a few&improvements  and  is  about  twice as$fast at drawing it's scenes as well.&   The   most    obvious    difference&compared  to the old version is in the&number  of parameters you have control&over. This has jumped dramatically and&there's  now  a screen-full of them to&play with. It's much easier to use too&with sliders for nearly all the values&as  apposed to entering numbers at the	keyboard.&   So  to the improvements. The output&is still only in 32 colour low-res but&an  interlace  option  is   now   also&available.  Shadows  have  also   been&added plus a method of placing the sun&where  you  want it to make use of the
feature.&   Waves  on  the sea are now possible&and  this  addition  works  very well.&Along  with  waves  on  the shorelines&this also give the appearance of reefs$being under the sea. Very realistic.&   Lakes  and  rivers  have  also been&added  though  why  you need both is a&bit  beyond  me.  Is not a lake just a&river  with  nowhere to go? No matter.&They're both here and it's just a case&of  clicking  on  the  2D map to place&them  in  your scene. Rivers will have&waterfalls too if they go over a steep&enough  cliff. How steep the cliff has&to  be,  as  with  most  of  the other&considerations  such as where the snow&lies  or  the  trees  can   grow,   is&determined  by  the user. All are easy
to understand and implement.&   "Trees"  are  also  a  new  feature&according  to the docs but I never saw&an  individual  tree as such in any of&the  scenes  I  rendered. As you can't&pick an individual point on the map as&your  view-point it's hard to check if&they  are there, but I did try to find&them. They may just be too far away in&most scenes but I suspect it refers to&the colouring of the scenes and not to&individually  drawn trees. Pity. Rocks&are  also  mentioned in the docs but I
never saw any of those either.&   In the previous review of Landscape&I  criticised  AMOS  rather a lot, the&language  used  to write this program,&and  a  wee  bit  unfairly as it turns&out.  (See  the  Letters column for my
       Waves on the sea are now!     possible. Along with them on!    the shorelines this also give
       the appearance of reefs
         being under the sea.
[23m&full  apology.)  It  does  multi-task,&sort  off,  but  I  still  stand by my&other  complaints  about the language.&As I was getting to grips with the new&features  in  Landscape  I thought how&useful  it  would  be to have the docs&available  from within the program and&in AmigaGuide
 format. Somehow I don't&think  this  would be all that easy to&do  using  AMOS, though I may be wrong&about  that.  Has  anyone done it yet?&That said, at least I knew how to look&at the docs without having to exit the&program this time, which made learning
it's features a lot easier.&   A HAM option for Landscape and real&trees  and  other features would add a&lot  to  it's  output.  The ability to&render  frames  for an animation would&also be a welcome addition. Do you get&the  feeling a program like this could be a lifetimes work for someone?&   But  as it is, this Landscape has a&lot  more  features and is much easier&to  use  than  the   earlier   version&reviewed.  The  interface  is now very&user-friendly and apart from not being&able to select an individual viewpoint&and  the direction of view covers most&of  what  you  would  wish  for  in  a&scenery generator. A good upgrade to a&good  program.  May  future   versions
continue to appear.
                 ----
Application Review: Page 1 of 4
Index
Contents
Application Review: Page 2 of 4
Index
Contents
Application Review: Page 3 of 4
Index
Contents
Application Review: Page 4 of 4
Index
Contents