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Dust

 Dust is a F/X-software manipulating 3D-objects. So it's a perfect
 completion for your modelling-program and comes with many features
 no modelling-program has.

 Because Dust is no toy the user should know how to use a 3D-rendering
 and -modelling-program and should have basic programming-skills.

 Because there are lots of good 3D-programms for the Amiga I had to
 made a choice - Dust supports only "Imagine" and "Lightwave" directly.
 If you use another program you have to obtain a good object-converter
 which is able to operate on batch- or ARexx-scripts.
 (You cannot convert 120 objects by hand...)

 The main features of Dust are:

  -local metamorphosis which produces very good results

  -smooth-algorithm producing incredible results

  -direct support of "Imagine" und "Lightwave" - the most popular
   raytracing-packages

  -loading, saving and viewing of object-sequences

  -metamorphosis between any two objects

  -particle-system: exetremely simple structure (for programmers),
                    opens a new dimension of object-modelling

  -realistic explosions (gravity, stokes-friction, ...),

  -realistic water-waves (3D-unharmonic waves)

  -1D-,2D- and 3D-waves, transversal, longitudinal, including particle-waves

  -mathematical distortion of points, face-colors, particles,
   so you can use Dust as simple function-plotter, too

  -every programmer can create various particle-effect in an easy way,
   the knowledge of the TDDD-format (or object-structures etc.) is not
   necessary

  -every face can have an own color, every edge has a sharp/soft-flag,
   this data is kept creating particle-objects

  -handling and changing of Imagine3.0-textures and -brushes

  -sphere-objects: particle-Objects made of real spheres

  -creation of objects from external programs

  -ARexx-port

  -user-defined variables, mathematical expressions instead of
   plain numbers as arguments, loops, simple if-statement

  -very flexible preview-function

  -online-help

  -command-, parameter- and help-topic-completion

 Other programs, e.g. Imagine which is supported by Dust directly, are
 able to create some of effects mentioned above, too. But this programs
 create the effect while rendering - you cannot edit the transformed
 objects. With Dust you can linearcombine all types of effects.