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Welcome to DustV2.3+ !
What's very new:
1. local metamorphosis which produces very good results, see the tutorial
2. DEMO-version: Because I increased the performance of the program I
enabled some more commands
3. Dust 2.3 has an unique smooth-function which increases object-quality
4. The Imagine<->Lightwave should now be faster than any other product
(features: fast merging, converting subgroups and polygons)
5. You can use Dust for you study: Interpolation of
data from usual data-files is now possible (Lots of splines
are supplied)
Quick Installation:
-Copy Dust.key and .dustrc s:
-set the help-paths:
"set(helpdir,<path>)" e.g. "set(helpdir,hd1:dust/DustHelp)"
"set(helpdir2,<path>)"
"saveconfig"
Bug-reports etc. are welcome (EMail).
In the unregistered version some commands are disabled, get registered
and you will get another keyfile.
(Your personal data will be saved into this file, so dont spread it...)
Affected commands: see README2
Now have fun !
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There are some additional programs or packages which belong to the
Dust-project, e.g. Mesh2TDDD, DustMD, ...
That means: If you register for Dust you will become registered
for all this programs, too.
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How to register:
Send the fee mentioned below to the author, and try to answer the following
questions:
1. Whats your recent version of Dust ?
2. Whats your configuration (processor, OS, etc.) ?
3. Have you any suggestions to improve the program ?
You have two ways to receive Dust:
1. via EMail:
the price is $25/25DM cash
2. via normal Mail:
the price is $30/30DM cash or
$25/25DM + 5 DM German stamps
I don't accept any cheques !
NOTE: I prefer "Deutschmarks" - it's cheaper for you and makes me no trouble.
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The standard version of Dust requires 68030+ and FPU (68881+).
(It's possible to generate special versions, of course.
Simply send me a letter describing your hardware and $5/5 DM + postage
because I have to recompile about 100 files.)
(68040 and 68060 are NOT supported directly! :( )
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MAJOR CHANGES SINCE V2.0:
V2.31:
-preview: face-mode improved and renamed as "color"
useless modes "color" and "grey" removed
V2.3:
-CDEFORM, CDEFORMINTERP: local metamorphosis
-Lightwave-loader merges edges only (Dust loads, converts and
merges faster than Lightwave loads)
-some old useless commands removed
-some usefull commands added
V2.2:
-FAST merging (good for Lightwave-users)
-smooth-algorithm improved
-Lots of splines (see "Splines.bat")
-splitting objects using subgroups:
every operation can be restricted to a subgroup now
-IF-construct (see "Starfield.bat")
V2.1:
-incredible smooth-algorithm
-nice lattice-effect
-more programmer-functions (insertpoint, getpoint, new calculator-mode, ...)
-new Mesh2TDDD-program