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- Welcome to DustV2.47 !
-
- What's very new:
- 1. loading/saving of Imagine3.3-textures
- 2. blackhole-effect
- 3. displacement-maps
- 4. external polygon-reducer for Lightwave
- 5. local metamorphosis which produces very good results, see the tutorial
- 6. The object-format of the German program "MaxonCinema4D" is
- supported now
-
- Quick Installation:
- -extract the DEMO-keyfile from the lha-archieve in the s-drawer
- -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/packages which belong to the
- Dust-project, e.g. reducer, makeHaze, Mesh2TDDD, DustMD, ...
- That means: If you register for Dust you will become registered
- for all this programs automatically.
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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
- (You will receive your personal keyfile (uuencoded).)
- 2. via normal Mail:
- the price is $30/30DM cash or
- $25/25DM + 5 DM German stamps
- (You will receive a disk which contains the recent version and
- your personal keyfile.)
-
- NOTES: 1. I don't accept any cheques, money orders, etc !
- (I never had any problems getting/sending money enclosed
- in a simple envelope.)
- 2. 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:
-
- V2.46:
- -Imagine-extensions
- V2.45:
- -blackhole-effect: TWIRL
- V2.44:
- -external image-module: WKI
- V2.42:
- -displacement-maps
- V2.40:
- -external polygon-reducer for Lightwave
- V2.36:
- -loading of huge TDDD-groups
- V2.35:
- -joining TDDD-groups
- -some bugs fixed: LW<->IM-converter improved
- V2.34:
- -MaxonCinema4D-filetype
- 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 useful 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
-
-