What's new in release 7.0?

Improvements in release 7.0

• Polygon Cruncher can be opened from the main window

Others

• Polygon Cruncher is 40% faster and need less memory
• Less Light / More Light commands
• New view menu organization
• Fix: some objects might be invisibles on some graphics cards
• Fix: VRML import improved. Transformations are now handled
• Fix: 3DS import improved. Pivots are now handled
• Fix: 3DS is incorrectly exported when hidding objects in the scene
• Fix: Truespace import improved. Transformation matrix are better handled

Improvements in release 6.63

Others

• Fix: sometime plugin fails to load in 3DS Max

Improvements in release 6.61

Others

• Fix: bad menu initialization which can makes the host application crashes (3DS Max / Lightwave)

Improvements in release 6.6

New features

• 3DS Max release: 3DS Max 7.0 is now supported
• 3DS Max release: "Optimize selection button"
• Lightwave release: update now use Lightwave 8.0 SDK
• Lightwave release: maps update has been improved
• Upgrade Polygon Cruncher command

Others

• Fix: bad triangulation occurs on face with holes
• Fix: the application window sometime freezes
• Fix: face orientation corrected for Lightwave and 3DS Max, which allows to use single face display (now the default)
• Fix: selection and wireframe color are now correctly displayed

Improvements in release 6.5

New features

• Lightwave and 3DS Max release: optimization is precomputed (cf. Improvements in release 6.0)
• Improved UV textures optimization, which allows to increase optimization ratio.
• UV textures optimization does not involve to use the Keep materials discontinuities option.
• Optimization matches more closely the entered faces or points number.
• Multiple UV channel optimization
• Multiple vertex colors channel optimization
• New exportation formats through the Save As... command

Lightwave version

• It's now possible to optimize a single or all layers.
• All UV and vertexs colors are now imported and optimized in Polygon Cruncher.

3DS Max version

• All UV and vertexs colors channels are now imported and optimized in Polygon Cruncher.
• Improved stability when replacing objects by optimized objects in 3DS Max scene.

Viewer

• Low resolution textures setting allows to specify the maximum image size to use.
• Enable vertexs colors is now more accessible and has been included in the toolbar. It's also possible to display simultaneously textures and vertexs colors.

Others

• Fix: vertexs are now correctly frozen when optimizing UV using 0.0 as tolerance value.
• Fix: vertexs are now correctly frozen when they belong to a material which is excluded from the optimization

Improvements in release 4.0 of Polygon Cruncher:

• Better optimization
  • Optimization quality has been really increase (Optimized polygons are more compacts).
  • Better optimization on plane surfaces.
• New feature : points sharing two (or more) differents materials can be froozen.
• It's now possible to freeze a point selection for each objects.
  
• It's now possible to exclude optimization of one or more materials for each object.
  
• Better optimization of vertex colors (It's now possible to freeze points depending on a color threshold).
  

• Improved OpenGL viewer
  • Textures are now displayed in the OpenGL viewer.
  • New icons for combinated modes (smooth+wireframe, flat shading+wireframe).
  • Complete OpenGL preferences (textures directories, lighting...).
    
  • New camera interface.
  • Faster OpenGl display.
    

• A new interface
  • New user interface to simplify use of Polygon Cruncher
  • New visualization toolbar.
    
  • New display for optimization statistics.
  • New optimization progress bar.

• Texture coordinates and vertex colors are kepted.
• Texture discontinuity preservation depending on a choosen tolerance value.
• Optimization specifying a wished number of points or faces.
• Detailed information on object optimization.
• Better optimization on coplanar faces.
• 3DS Max version:
  • optimization on a selected face set or on an invert selected face set.
• Improved OpenGL viewer:
  • New controler in rotation mode.
  • Visualization of faces that are excluded of optimization.
  • OpenGL preferences (wireframe color, semi-transparent mode...)
  • Improved performances.

• New OpenGl viewer
  • Smooth shader
  • User defined smooth angle.
  • Wireframe & smooth shader, wireframe & flat shader : this allow you to see the optimization and the final object appearance.
  • Moving tools icons.
• New optimization features :
  • Materials optimization : you can now optimize one or several materials. Materials frontiers are perfectly kepted.
  • Object optimization : you can now optimize one or several object.
• New triangulation algorithm for preparing objects before optimization. Concaves faces are now perfectly optimised under Lightwave.
• Better use interface.