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- Short: X-DVE 2.70 free update (UK/DE/USA ONLY)
- Author: classx@pisoft.it <Michele Puccini // ClassX Development Italy>
- Uploader: classx@pisoft.it <Michele Puccini // ClassX Development Italy>
- Type: biz/patch
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- * ClassX Development Italy Via Francesca, 463 I-56030 Montecalvoli (PI) *
- * E-Mail: classx@pisoft.it Tel. +39 587 749206 Fax. +39 587 749206 *
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- Welcome to the latest free X-DVE update.
- This update is suitable for X-DVE 2.50/2.60 UK/GERMANY/USA version !
- The ITALIAN version must be updated with a different update package
- available from ClassX.
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- We would like to thank all our registered users for their support and for
- believing in this product. I hope they will appreciate our continuous efforts
- and dedication to the best computer ever.
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- Michele Puccini.
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- - Overview
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- Our firm is continually updating X-DVE in order to make this leading software
- the most productive, easy and powerful DTV animation/titling environment on
- the market. With this new free release, X-DVE has been added of some some
- important features and new functionalities.
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- - 68060 support
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- Thanks to its modular desing, X-DVE keeps its cpu intesive code into separate
- libraries which has been optimized for several processors.
- With X-DVE 2.70 we have introduced the 68060 version of these libraries to
- allow power-users to get the best out of their expensive accelerator boards.
- With the imminent arrival of new PPC-based boards we'll be able to supply
- PPC-optimized libraries in no time.
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- - Multipalette Anim5/7L object
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- X-DVE is based on graphical objects which can be enhanced, animated and
- rendered with thousands of effects and combinations.
- Objects can be single frame (text, brush) or an animated sequence of frames
- (starfield, multibrush or animbrush).
- With X-DVE 2.70 the animbrush object has been extended and now it supports
- doublebuffered multipalette animation formats as ANIM5 and ANIM7 (long).
- With this new feature, users no longer need to convert their animations into
- IFF-ANBR format in order to use them as X-DVE objects.
- When adding an ANIMBRUSH object, X-DVE detects its format automatically
- without the need of any user input.
- For multiple palette animations, the internal colour remapper will perform
- the needed frame by frame adjustments automatically.
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- - 12 New slide effects
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- The library of effects has been extended again reaching 64 different Slides.
- o The "Sweep" effects (4 variants) where the object is divided into small
- rotating slices.
- o The "Twist" effects (4 variants) where the object is twisted onto its own
- axis and smoothly becomes plain.
- o The "RotCarpet" effects (4 variants) where the object is mapped onto a page
- coming from outside the screen.
- All these effects are computed with 3D texure mapping calculations and give
- astonishing visual results if rendered with the X-DVE light sourcing feature.
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- - Fixes
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- The texture mapping routines have been tuned up to allow a better precision
- and appearance of the effects (the 3D polygon clipper has been enhanced to
- better handle very small polygons).
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- - Future
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- o We're working to make X-DVE support DraCo of MacroSystem (even if the guys
- at MacroSystem keep to ignore our requests of support, development tools
- and documentation). The features of the DraCo version are unpredictable:
- it all depends on MacroSystem.
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- o The PPC version of the libraries is one of our main aims.
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- - Thanks
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- We would like to thank all our registered users for their support and for
- believing in this product. I hope they will appreciate our continuous efforts
- and dedication to the best computer ever.
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- To install the update simply unpack the archive to RAM: or any other device
- and start the "X-DVE2.70_Install" script.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 26668 26111 2.0% 06-Sep-95 14:15:50 lhex
- 3739 1637 56.2% 12-Mar-97 11:16:06 ReadMe
- 495 235 52.5% 21-Nov-96 17:51:46 ReadMe.info
- 386406 386406 0.0% 12-Mar-97 11:06:58 x-dve.lha
- 307 196 36.1% 12-Mar-97 11:16:40 X-DVE2.70_Install
- 1894 1038 45.1% 26-Mar-97 10:34:58 X-DVE2.70_Install.info
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- 419509 415623 0.9% 27-Mar-97 21:35:22 6 files
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