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3D World Studio / [LOCKED] Beta Version 5 discussion

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JoshK
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Beta 5.04 will be released to the testers, as soon as my server comes back online. The provider's web site is down.

-added materials system. See "textures\testmaterials\" for example material files.
-renderer is now a plugin. Source is included, go nuts.
-plugins are now detached from program after operations. You can recompile import/export plugins without restarting the program.
-options dialog with lots of control over rendering options.
-Lots of new rendering features; antialias, texture compression, trilinear filtering, texture quality. Some are silently disabled. at the moment.
-Hardware information and plugin information dialogs give you extra info (in the Help menu).
-fixed a bug in carve where splitting along a vertex would give bad results.
-fixed .usx bug. You can now point your mesh directory to the UT2004 folder and load all staticmeshes without crashing.


I'm going to look into adding a .utx plugin next, for loading Unreal texture packages.

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Deadwords
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.utx plugin? cool. here's some more games that use these textures. (including Postal 2)

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Skalex, every game that uses the Unreal Engine uses .Utx, because that is the Unreal Engine's texture format .
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oh yea? oh Splinter Cell too

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Beta 5.04 is sent.

-added materials system. See "textures\testmaterials\" for example material files.
-renderer is now a plugin. Source is included, go nuts.
-plugins are now detached from program after operations. You can recompile import/export plugins without restarting the program.
-options dialog with lots of control over rendering options.
-Lots of new rendering features; antialias, texture compression, trilinear filtering, texture quality. Some are silently disabled. at the moment.
-Hardware information and plugin information dialogs give you extra info (in the Help menu).
-fixed a bug in carve where splitting along a vertex would give bad results.
-fixed .usx bug. You can now point your mesh directory to the UT2004 folder and load all staticmeshes without crashing.

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There is something wrong with the Zip File. It`s half as big as 5.03.
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ALPHA ZERO PRODUCTIONS
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hey josh what can I do so you can make me beta tester again ?
should i send you the e-mail containing the stuff that said i am a beta tester ?

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You're not anymore. Nothing against you, it's just that this is something I am letting our media subscribers have exclusively.

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Z-order test with alpha transparency:


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Hey Josh !
How are you doing the z-order sorting ?
By vertex, by surface or by mesh ?
BTW, the window would look pretty cool in a game ! I like the feeling it gives
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I re-uploaded beta 5.04. Vapournet was having some major problems last week.

Z-sorting is performed per face for brushes, and per limb for meshes, sorted by position of the face/limb. I guess you could still get some errors if you made a mesh with a bunch of different transparent surfaces, but you shouldn't be doing that in the first place. This will give good results in real-time, for any of the situations you should be using.

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The Text in the four Views (Perspective, Top...) is really
unsharp now in 5.04. In 5.03 it was better.
It`s heavily flickering now at Startup.

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Quote: "Z-sorting is performed per face for brushes, and per limb for meshes, sorted by position of the face/limb. I guess you could still get some errors if you made a mesh with a bunch of different transparent surfaces, but you shouldn't be doing that in the first place. This will give good results in real-time, for any of the situations you should be using."
But doing a sorting by triangle won't slow down the things ? If you need to buffer all these data two times ?
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Quote: "Z-order test with alpha transparency:
http://www.leadwerks.com/post/windows.png"


WOW! The alpha works like a dream! Another time, CANT WAIT FOR CSHOP

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