History -------------------------------------------------------------- v3.00 (Friday 23-May-97) -Info-Window: -read the info-text from the external file "wf:systemm/ifo.txt" --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 -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: -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 (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 ************ Version 3.50 is uploaded to the Aminet *************** 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