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-
- v3.00 (Friday 23-May-97)
- -Info-Window: -read the info-text from the external file "wf:systemm/ifo.txt"
- -<r>-key: refresh the info-text (for only private use)
- -FilmStrip-Window: convert even single images into FilmStrips
- -ARexx: *FC_SAVE-command didn't work
- *filename was not refreshed after a FC_FILMFILE-command
- -FilmStrip-Player: serious bug fixed: sometimes the bitmap-pointer was
- not set to NULL after cleanup which caused the program
- to crash later
- -PCSelect-Window: preview-thumnails
-
- v3.01 (Saturday 24-May-97)
- -Neon-Operator
-
- v3.02 (Saturday 24-May-97)
- -DLA-Operator ("diffusion limited aggregation")
-
- v3.03 (Tuesday 27-May-97)
- -Neon-Operator: *now two algorithms are supported:
- -trivial
- -Hoshen-Kopelman-cluster-detection
- *documentation improved and updated
- -DLA-Operator: minor speedup
- -PCSelect-Window: *reset the preview-position after window-resizing
- *don't show the progress-bar while rendering previews
- -KillTemp3D-Operator
-
- v3.04 (Tuesday 27-May-97)
- -Join3D-Operator
-
- v3.05 (Wednesday 28-May-97)
- -Calculator: *Evaluate-Window to create data-files easily
- *Load/save expressions and the x-range from/to symbol-files
- -DWA: Evaluate-Window-support
- -Neon-Operator: *color-search-bug in tolerance-mode fixed
- *all arrays turned to LONG to avoid problems with large images
-
- v3.06 (Thursday 29-May-97)
- -Crack-check (be surprised if you use a cracked version)
- -3d-engine: *internal structures changed
- *kernel rewritten to support more types of polygons
- in the future
- *uses more but smaller blocks of memory
-
- v3.07 (Friday 30-May-97)
- -all 3d-operators fixed to fit the new concept
-
- v3.08 (Friday 30-May-97)
- -Perspective-Operator: support for the PowerPlugs!-concept (output-channel)
- -Prefs: *changed default Player-path from "c:yp" to "yp"
- *changed default Player-Screen from "Workbench" to "Wildfire"
- -3d-engine: *support for 3- and 4-point-polygons
- *quality slightly improved (without any loss of work-speed)
-
- v3.09 (Saturday 31-May-97)
- -3d-engine: optional z-sort-algorithm
- -LWOB-Operator: *PowerPlugs!-support, only 3-, 4- and convex 5-point-polygons
- are currently supported
- *bgColor-option removed (3d-engine is now used)
-
- v3.10 (Saturday 31-May-97)
- -3d-engine: *output-quality slightly improved again
- *support for 1- and 2-point-polygons
- -Cube-operator: "mysterious edge-bug" detected: the cube- and the
- base-coordinate-system where shifted by (0.5,0.5,0.0)
- which caused bad results at the edges
-
- v3.11 (Sunday 1-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: phong-shader for triangles (very alpha)
- -Perspective-Operator: full PowerPlugs!-support
-
- v3.12 (Sunday 1-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: phong-shader: *render-speed increased by a factor of 2
- *quality improved
- -documentation updated
-
- v3.13 (Monday 02-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: *the phong-shader acts as a "legal feature" now
- -all 3d-operators: *gadget-autoactivation removed
- *light-option changed from light=(ON|OFF)
- to light=(NORMAL|PHONG|OFF)
-
- v3.14 (Monday 02-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: *detect "sharp edges" using a maximal smoothing angle (in phong-mode)
- *render-speed slightly increased (in phong-mode)
- -Processor: global Phong-option (smoothing angle)
-
- v3.15 (Wednesday 04-Jun-97)
- -3d-operators: individual phong- and 3d-quant-option
- -Processor: *Phong- and 3DQuant-option removed
- *separate Render-settings-window for all 3d-operators
- -PlugIn-interface and -version-number changed
-
- v3.16 (Thursday 05-Jun-97)
- -Processor: improved the method to recognize used variables
- before killing them
- -some 3d-operators fixed to work with the new concept:
- Cube, Twist, Wave3D, Wrap, Magnet3D, Transform3D
-
- v3.17 (Friday 06-Jun-97)
- -remaining 3d-operators fixed to work with the new concept:
- Bump3D, Sphere, Twirl3D, Join3D, LWOB, Perspective, Water
- -Example-operator removed
-
- v3.18 (Friday 06-Jun-97)
- -TMaker: *(implicit) support for single images
- *the following methods where fixed and should work now (again):
- Twirl, Rotate, Perspective, Whirl, Stripes, Tile
- *Create-example-function updated
-
- v3.19 (Friday 06-Jun-97)
- -Processor: method to convert old Process-scripts improved
- -3d-operators: tRender-mode fixed
- -Join3D-operator: additional centre-flag
-
- v3.20 (Saturday 07-Jun-97)
- -Processor: bring the preview to front after opening the PCSinglePicture-Window
- -Envelope: *automatically sort points while adding
- *explicit sort after pressing the <t>-key
- -Documentation updates
- -some example-session created
- -Stats: *time-output-format improved
- *in some cases the printed fps-value was incorrect - fixed
-
- v3.21 (Saturday 07-Jun-97)
- -PCSinglePicture: number-gadgets turned into calculator-gadgets
- -Processor: global background-color to simplify advanced
- compose-operations
- -Text: background-color-option removed
-
- v3.22 (Saturday 07-Jun-97)
- -added the background-color-feature to the following operators:
- BlackHole, Bump3D, Cartesian2Polar, Cube, DLA, Join3D, LWOB,
- Magnet, Magnet3D, Perspective, Roll, Rotate, RotateBlur,
- Shear, ShiftLines, Sphere, Text, Transform3D, Twirl, Twirl3D,
- Twist, Water, Wave, Wave3D, Wrap
- -Editor: <space>-shortcut (PlayAll)
- -*cool* intro-picture (the first *cool* one)
-
- v3.23 (Saturday 14-Jun-97)
- -Statistics: "minutes-bug" removed (the minutes where subtracted from
- the global stats-structure while output)
- -Prefs: *the "c:"-path from the default settings was removed
- *the rootdrawer always is named "wf:"
- -Help: the program should never hang up after AmigaGuide-initialization-
- failure
- -3d-engine: introducing a new concept: "color-functions"
-
- v3.24 (Sunday 15-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: first colorfunction implemented: colorCube
-
- v3.25 (Sunday 15-Jun-97)
- -ColorCube-PlugIn to access the new features
-
- v3.26 (Sunday 15-Jun-97)
- -ColorCube-PlugIn: *alpha-mode
- *sizing-option
- *some more useful gadgets
- -Perspective-PlugIn: serious memory-bug fixed (in contrary to the other
- 3d-PlugIns this one has an implicit tRender-option
- which caused the problem)
-
- v3.27 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
- -TMaker: immediately delete animations after creating filmstrips
- -ARexx: *command TM_CREATEEXAMPLES:
- -didn't work - fixed
- -doesn't display the stats-requester any more
- (which should be better for "install-scripts")
- *command IM_RESET renamed as M_RESET
- *additional command M_QUIT (the same as M_EXIT)
- -SetBackground-PlugIn (to allow dynamic background-colors)
-
- v3.28 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
- -Triangulate-PlugIn (to convert images with high quant3D-values into
- smooth phong-objects)
-
- v3.29 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
- -SetColor-PlugIn (to modify the color of 3d-objects)
-
- v3.30 (Monday 16-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: rendering of two-point-polygons didn't work correctly because
- of swapped x- and y-coordinates - fixed
- -ZPlot-PlugIn: *plots f(x,y)-functions at any resolution using phong-shading
- *optional flat-shaded grid
- *PowerPlugs!-support (of course)
- *color-plots can be made using the ColorCube-PlugIn easily
- *no axes (a separate PlugIn adding axes and labels
- at high quality will be available later)
-
- v3.31 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
- -PPlot-PlugIn (parametric plots)
-
- v3.32 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
- -DataPlot-PlugIn (plots 3D-data in gnuplot-format)
-
- v3.33 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
- -ZPlot-PlugIn: 8 (nice) presets
- -PPlot-PlugIn: 12 (nice) presets
-
- v3.34 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
- -Morph-PlugIn (Morphs between two objects with the same point-count)
-
- v3.35 (Tuesday 17-Jun-97)
- -Calculator: new functions "abs" and "sig"
- -DataPlot-PlugIn: *x-/y-quantization-option
- *scale-value for each coordinate
- -Documentation updated
-
- v3.36 (Thursday 19-Jun-97)
- -Cube-Operator: additional *cool* "parcel-mode" (called folding)
- -SaveImage-PlugIn: format changed to %04d (to be compatible with LoadImage)
- -ILBM-Saver: error detected which occured saving the same chunky image
- for more than one time: because the interleaved-flag was not set
- correctly the images saved after the first looked very strange
-
- v3.37 (Sunday 22-Jun-97)
- -Variables: *additional type: expressions (constant strings evaluated at runtime).
- This makes it for example possible to create scripts
- which are 100% independent of the actual image-size.
- *to avoid wrong orders of internal structures variables
- can only killed if the Process-list is empty
- -Calculator: some predefined Variables: pi, pcWidth, pcHeight, pcFrame
- -GetDimensions-PlugIn to dynamically change the parameters pcWidth and pcHeight
- -Converter: loadSession: don't allow both annoString and annoFilename
-
- v3.38 (Sunday 22-Jun-97)
- -Main: *additional commandline-argument: -root <drawer>
- (this option isn't overidden by the config-file and should
- therefore be very useful for installing the programm on CD)
- *parsing of WB-Tooltypes
- -Editor: number gadgets turned into "calculator-gadgets"
- -PCRender-Window: store/import-function to easily exchange render-settings
- between different 3d-operators
- -Special Aminet-Edition finished (including config-file, texts, pictures etc.)
-
- v3.39 (Monday 23-Jun-97)
- -started to write an Axis3D-PlugIn (to add threedimensional axes and labels to plots):
- *GUI and PlugIn-stuff finished
- *creating of a 3D-bounding box with tickmarks implemented
-
- v3.40 (Monday 23-Jun-97)
- -Axis3D-PlugIn: high-quality built-in 3D-font
-
- v3.41 (Wednesday 25-Jun-97)
- -Axis3D-PlugIn: creating of x-ticklabels and axis-labels implemented
-
- v3.42 (Thursday 26-Jun-97)
- -Axis3D-PlugIn: *creating of y- and z-ticklabels implemented
- *4 different choices to place each label
-
- v3.43 (Thursday 26-Jun-97)
- -Genlock3D-PlugIn
-
- v3.44 (Friday 27-Jun-97)
- -3d-engine: some improvements to the lightsource-code
- -ZPlot-, ParPlot- and DataPlot-PlugIn: changed the coordinate-system
- to be compatible with the Axis3D-PlugIn
- -Processor: *global symbols "pcXMin", ... "pcZMax" which are
- set by the ZPlot-, ParPlot-, DataPlot- and LWOB-PlugIn
- *pcClear: automatically kill all variables
- -Axis3D-PlugIn: additional phong-flag
-
- v3.45 (Friday 27-Jun-97)
- -Processor: *mechanism of killing (used) variables fixed,
- now it should *really* work
- *restore the background-color after processing a stream
- *allow negative step-values (turn OFF the selected operator
- at each <0-step>th frame)
- -Program localized (NOT!)
- -PlugIn-loader: don't accept the wfo_example-PlugIn any more
- -Documentation updated
-
- v3.46 (Saturday 28-Jun-97)
- -Processor: *addProcess: insert the new process after the selected line
- (this doesn't affect the "duplicate"-function because
- I like it's current behaviour)
- -Axis3D-PlugIn: *additonal label-skip-option for each axis
- *additional place-manual-option for each axis
- *because of it's complexity and quality this PlugIn
- was removed from the "standard" distribution and must
- be purchased separately
-
- v3.47 (Monday 30-Jun-97)
- -3D-engine: face-visibility-check improved without loss of speed
- -Cube-PlugIn: automatically set faces-option to DOUBLE in folding-mode
-
- v3.48 (Tuesday 01-Jun-97)
- -Axis3D-PlugIn: *additonal label-rotation-angles for each axis
- -Processor: Process-structure: additonal state-flag
- (because negative step-values are allowed since version 3.45
- the enable/disable-function didn't work since this version)
-
- v3.49 (Wednesday 02-Jun-97)
- -3D-engine: new lightsource-algorithm (shader) with the following parameters:
- *ambient intensity
- *diffuse intensity
- *phong intensity
- *phong size
- *light color
-
- v3.50 (Thursday 03-Jul-97)
- -3d-engine: *up to four lightsources can be configured now
- *the camY-value is now used with the opposite (and right) sign
- -Processor: the smoothing-option can now be controlled by using
- one of the modes OFF, LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH
- -ColorCube-PlugIn: the values into y-direction where swapped to
- fit the 3d-coordinate-system
-
- v3.51 (Saturday 05-Jul-97)
- -3d-engine: *render-time reduced to 75% (only in light-mode - but who needs
- "flat" images)
-
- v3.52 (Saturday 05-Jul-97)
- -Processor: Import-function rewritten and improved:
- *the imported lines are inserted which is much
- more useful than appending
- *variables are imported, too
- *variables with duplicate names are renamed
- -Variables: the Envelope-gadget was not enabled, if the expression
- of a variable was cleared - fixed
-
- v3.53 (Saturday 05-Jul-97)
- -Shortcuts-Window updated and it's layout improved
- -Player-Window improved: *Screenmode-option
- *24Bit-Option (drgb, gray etc.)
- *layout improved
- -Main: *the initial screen-mode is set to "Workbench" which may be useful
- for gfx-board-owners
- *new commandline-option: noPrefs
-
- v3.54 (Sunday 06-Jul-97)
- -GSImport-PlugIn
-
- v3.55 Sunday 06-Jul-97)
- -RenderInfo-Window: *additonal Close-Button
- *resize and refresh didn't work - fixed
- -Converter: output=PICTURES: shift-parameter was ignored - fixed
- -Main: fileType-recognition-routine improved and rewritten
- -ShiftLines-PlugIn: a width or height of 1 caused the program
- to crash heavily - fixed
- -ARexx-Port and documentation updated
- -Makefile: because of a missing dependency-line the AutoCrop-PlugIn
- was not updated correctly - fixed
-
-