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- README.TXT for CyberMotion 3D-Designer v.10.01
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- Welcome to CyberMotion 3D-Designer v.10.01.
-
- This page will give only a short summary of all new and updated features of the
- new 10.0 program version. Use the help manual, chapter "What's new in version
- 10.0", for a more detailed description and a quick and easy guide to all
- changed and new topics.
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- In addition registered users can download a printable PDF-version of the manual
- from our download page at www.3d-designer.com.
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- New Features in v.10.0:
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- Animation
- - Work on a project is now divided into Modeling Mode and Animation Mode
- - Hierarchy-Independent Animation
- - Character Animation using the Skin and Bones technique
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- Animation Editor
- - Separate timelines (tracks) for all objects and features that can be animated
- - Cut, Copy, Paste - Animation sequences can be cut, copied and pasted to and
- from the clipboard
- - Relative Copy of movements from object to object
- - Multi Paste for animation loops
- - Editable Duration of Animation
- - A selected frame range in a timeline can now be moved freely with the mouse
- - Acceleration between keyframes can now be controlled for all individual tracks
- - A separate Undo/Redo-function undos all operations in the animation editor
- - Field Rendering for interlaced video
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- Navigation Bar
- - The navigation bar is now accessible only in Animation Mode
- - The button to call up the animation editor has been integrated into the
- navigation bar
- - A new slider is provided with which you can scroll through the animation
- - New record button for manual creation of keys
- - New buttons are provided to force key generation for additional tracks and/or
- objects in a hierarchy
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- Work Modes
- - World dimensions are expanded to 2^24 = 16,772,216 units
- - Work on a project is now divided in Modeling Mode and Animation Mode
- - Objects can be moved (scaled or rotated) with or without their movement paths
- - Group Objects are used to group together a number of objects
- - New snap functions will facilitate the positioning of the objects in the scene
- - Use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out of viewport- and camera windows
- - The window-detail can be moved now in any work mode with the mouse (press
- left and right mouse buttons simultaneously)
- - You can grab crosshairs now at the center arrows to move them around
- - The undo and redo functions have been optimized
- - Many more new and revised functions (see following detailed description)
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- Viewport Render Engine
- - The CyberMotion viewport render engine has been revised and optimized,
- transparencies are now also shown in the viewport windows
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- Raytracing Render Engine
- - Up to 250% faster rendering of complex scenes containing high resolution
- models
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- Background
- - Rainbows
- - Clouds - Condensation Trails
- - Weather machine - A post processing particle effect simulates rain (stripes)
- or snowflakes or, e.g., floating particles in the water.
- - The starfield generator has now been integrated into the atmospheric background
- model - star intensities can be animated
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- Material
- - The Texture Blur function blurs procedural texture patterns with increasing
- distance to reduce noise in the distance
- - Mip-Mapping generates additional bitmaps resized and filtered to lower resolutions
- to reduce texture noise from bitmaps in the distance
- - Bitmaps can now be tiled with a given number of repetitions
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- and
- - New visual project library for the project managment
- - You can change now the root folder for libraries
- - Drag and drop of CyberMotion project files directly from the Windows Explorer
- - Lensflares with rainbow effect
- - New shortcuts for all important dialogs are provided
- - Customize Dialog - a new dialog for general program settings
- - Object Selection Dialog - Double clicking on a plus folder icon will expand the
- whole selected hierarchy branch
- - More precise and logical object selection in viewport windows
- - Still pictures in Animation Mode are rendered now with all effects incl. particles
- and motion blur