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- From: Massimo.Mancini@rhein-neckar.de (Massimo Mancini)
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- Subject: Re: Imagine 3.0 to Imagine 4.0
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 17:35:53 GMT
- Organization: Lullaby of Birdland
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- Howdy!
-
- >Looks like I have picked up a copy of the CU coverdisk of Imagine 3.0.
- >Is it worth the upgrade to 4.0? What does it add?
- Have a look...
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- Features Added or Improved Since the Manual was Printed
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- These features are all explained in the file "manual.txt."
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- *New in Version 3.1*
- 1. Added an "About" Box.
- 2. Extended "States" to include object attributes.
- 3. Impoved and Extended DXF loading and saving.
- 4. Added FLC and ANIM global brush and backdrop support.
- 5. Added FLC and ANIM brush support.
- 6. Added ability to view Stills and Animations from within Imagine.
- 7. Added Field Rendering.
- 8. Added access to object attributs from Stage Editor.
- 9. Added perspective viewing from objects and lights to Stage Editor.
- 10. Added "Smart Bones" to speed up subgroup assignment in objects.
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- *New in Version 3.2*
- 11. Added support for Hi-Res graphics workspace.
- 12. Added support for 256 color graphics workspace.
- 13. Added "Quick Attributes."
- 14. Added "Set/Fill Edge Line" for stitching object together.
- 15. Added "Pick More" to aid in picking face groups.
- 16. Added "Hide Unpicked", "Unhide All", "Unhide Subgroup".
- 17. Added "Smooth Edge Line" for object smoothing.
- 18. Added Backdrops in editors for rotoscoping and persp matching.
- 19. Added Fracture in Object mode to anti-laticize an object.
- 20. Added "Scrub" bar to animation preview controls.
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- *New in Version 3.3*
- 21. Added Smooth fracture.
- 22. Added Variable Brightness to object attributes.
- 23. Moved Randomize Colors to function menu.
- 24. Added Mix/Morph control for intensity on ALL textures and brushes.
- 25. Added Specular Mapping.
- 26. Added Hardness Mapping.
- 27. Added Shininess Mapping.
- 28. Added Brightness Mapping.
- 29. Added Fog Length Mapping.
- 30. Added Index Of Refraction Mapping.
- 31. Added Ambient Light Mapping.
- 32. Added Roughness Mapping.
- 33. Added Previous/Next buttons for traversing texture list quickly.
- 34. Added Browse buttons to texture and brush requesters.
- 35. Added 256 Color real-time texture preview.
- 36. Added 256 color color pickers in texture requester.
- 37. View Brush added to previewing brushes.
- 38. QuickRender access directly from all attrib/txtr requesters.
- 39. User defined Texture/brush labels added for clarifying texture list.
- 40. "Dup" Added to attrib req for copying textures/brushes.
- 41. "Drop" Added to attrib req for dropping textures/brushes quickly.
- 42. "Disable/Enable" button added for turning textures on/off.
- 43. Interactive point-and-click support added to text in texture list.
- 44. Real time previewing of renders as they happen in 256 col displays.
- 45. Support for unfinished FLC's added.
- 47. Default object attributes added to preferences.
- 48. Shaded View Edge drawing control added to Prefs (PC only).
- 49. Replaced "Reflection Mapping" with "Environment Mapping."
- 50. Added preferences option for startup editor.
- 51. Added preferences option to set number of points in CSG sphere.
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- *New in Version 4.0*
- 52. Soft Shadows added to detail editor shadow casting light sources.
- 53. Motion Blur in Project Images.
- 54. Blob Modelling with both faceted and animatable soft object output.
- 55. Cascade Object Heirarchy Grouping.
- 56. Delete File in the Detail Editor for deleting temporary work files.
- 57. Stage Effects in Detail Editor.
- 58. Smoothing Tool for smoothing objects.
- 59. Auto-Load Backdrop Images in Stage (for rotoscoping).
- 60. Automatic Picking of Pasted Objects in Detail Editor.
- 61. Improved Imagine's Starfield.
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- HIH
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- >/************************************************************/
- >/* Steve Pyatt | Sick Boy - in his faded blue jeans */
- >/* spyatt@ibm.net | Sick Boy - black leather jacket scene */
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