What's new for version 2.1? - removed 020 version - added PowerPC version Scenario - now supports high and true color cybergfx screens - OpenGL support (StormMesa, not for 881 version) - loading and saving of light definitions - lightwave loader - Rendering in the background - new lensflare types (exponent 1, exponent 2) - new and improved light star - shadow maps - names of brushes and textures can be changed in material requester - brushes with cylindrical and spherical mapping are now drawn as cylinders and spheres - Size of external toolbar images is now set to size of first button (new.iff) - more colors (colors can be set in preferneces) Renderer - PowerPC version - handoptimized assembler functions (up to 30% faster) - improved lens flares RayStorm Script - added 'COLOR', 'RINGCOLOR', 'NOISE' and 'BRIGHTNESS' to 'STAR'. - added new keywords 'EXP1' and 'EXP2' to 'FLARES'. - PowerPC version What's new for version 2.0? Scenario - added 'Time estimated' to render status window - recent files in project menu - Scenario is now asking for a new filename when it wants to load or render a project and can't find an object, brush or texture - improved redraw speed - toolbar images can now also be external images - added cylinder, CSG, SOR and cone object - Scenario can now be called with a name of a project as argument, which then is loaded. - added object browser with drag and drop capabilities to the side of the draw area - added enable button for backdrop and reflection map - added material manager to the bottom of the draw area - material previews are calculated independently in threads - resolution predefinitions can now be set in the ASCII-file 'prefs/res.dat' - it's now possible to edit and change meshes - more than one transformation or material requesters can now remain open Renderer - RSOB-loader failed to load mesh objects without triangles - added 'Time estimated' to render status window - position actor didn't work since 1.8 - under some circumstances the light star and the lens flares were not on the right place - added shadowmap to the lights - added hyper textures - added cylinder and cone object - added surface of revolution - added JPEG-modules RayStorm Script - added 'SHADOWMAP' and 'SHADOWMAPSIZE' to 'POINTLIGHT' and 'SPOTLIGHT' - added 'FUZZY' to 'SPHERE' - added 'HYPERTEXTURE' - added 'INVERTED' to 'BOX', 'CSG' and 'SPHERE' - added 'CYLINDER', 'SOR' and 'CONE' command - problems with example files which needed bigger stacks. Now RayStorm is started from the ARexx scripts with a shell script. What's new for version 1.8? Scenario - minimum amount of objects for octree is now setable in the Render Settings requester - added spikewidth to visible light star - added new/load/save buttons - all objects can track each other - added undo and redo - added box object - added status bar - added tilt angle to light star - the render window can now be set with the mouse - objects can now be selected with a selection box - raw object loader works now correctly - lens flares in the requester are now selectable with the mouse Renderer - added shadow cache (improves rendering speed for scenes with many shadows) - fire texture - minimum amount of objects for octree - added spikewidth to visible light star - added box object - added CSG - added tilt angle to light star - brushes support now 24 bit datatypes too - lens flares are now softly interpolated to the border of the flare RayStorm Script - added 'MINOBJECTS' to 'STARTRENDER' - added 'SPIKEWIDTH' to 'STAR' - added 'NOSTAR' and 'NOFLARES' to 'POINTLIGHT' and 'SPOTLIGHT'. - added 'BOX' command - added 'CSG' command - bugfix: 'RANDJIT'-flag of 'SETWORLD' has been ignored. - added 'TILT' to 'STAR' What's new for version 1.7? Scenario (1.2) - forgot to scale child objects of external objects - added ok and view button to render requester - added camera to viewer - added hierarchical object browser - ask for rendering of scenes with no light sources - bugfix: it was impossible to track and to set the opening angle of a spotlight - convert external to scene objects - added RayStorm object file format (RSOB) - fixed problem with vertical stripes with 020-version - fixed problem with screen update - coordinate display even if no object is translated - focal distance of camera can automatically be set to camera-track distance - added preview to attributes requester - improved color selection for rendering preview window - added show and save button to registration program - added some materials - added lens effects (flares, light star) Renderer (1.3) - recompiled raystorm.library with StormC -> upto 30% faster (68030/881) - backdrop pictures are now automatically scaled - added lens effects (flare, light star) RayStorm Script (1.3) - added 'FLARE' and 'STAR' What's new for version 1.6? Scenario (1.1) - save and load materials in attribute requester - create cube, sphere, plane, tube, cone and torus mesh objects - fixed bug with color requesters (colors changed every call) - string gadgets now advance to next/prev gadget when return is pressed - improved zooming with the mouse - added enable button for render area - fixed problems with KS-versions less than 3.0 (<39) - key 't' opens settings requester - added new preview resolutions (NTSC 80x50,PAL 80x64,VGA 80x60) - if more than one object is selected the object for attributes can be selected by the browser - implemented two browser modes - added center view with 'R-Amiga - .' - joined settings and transform requester - improved object scaling - can now scale external objects Renderer (1.26) - fixed error in marble texture - bugfix: had problems with sharp edges of TDDD objects (once again) RayStorm Script (1.26) - fixed a bug which caused the program to crash on exit What's new for version 1.5? - the RayStorm kernel is now a shared library - added support of new TDDD TXT4 chunk for textures from Imagine 4.0 - changed the world axis orientation (x left, y up, z in) - Scenario What's new for version 1.22? - bugfix: had problems with sharp edges of TDDD objects - bugfix: altitude brush mapping produced ugly results - bugfix: fixed some motion blur bugs - added 'SURFACE' to 'LOADOBJ' to replace objects surface with own surface - added Datatype support for all commands which load brushes What's new for version 1.21? - TDDD objects are now rotated and scaled relative to axis of first object - bugfix: since 1.2 shadows in motion blur scenes were calculated wrong - bugfix: in some cases there were vertical and horizontal stripes in rendered pictures - bugfix: triangles which were exactly in one plane (XY,XZ,YZ) disapeared What's new for version 1.2? - bugfix 'ANTIALIAS' command: parameter CONTRIB produced error 30 - bugfix: last line of picture has been always black - speed up of complex scenes - bugfix: had problems with Imagine 4.0 TDDD objects What's new for version 1.17? - object loading is now done in modules - added 3DS module - bugfix in TDDD-module: hardness is now used to set REFEXP - brushes and textures are no applied to surfaces which lie between the light source and the illuminated surface - bugfix antialiasing: there where some bright pixel trash in the picture if antialiasing with fog was used - rewrote bump, wood and marble textures - global reflections map is now applied in 'QUICK' mode too What's new for version 1.16? - bugfix in PNG-module: had problems with palette pictures - bugfix motion blur: had a problem with voxel calculations - bugfix motion blur: had no motion blur in scenes with planes - added TGA-module - added 'SOFTSHADOW' to 'DISTRIB' - optimized octree (up to 10% faster) - added 'FALLOFF' for 'POINTLIGHT' and 'SPOTLIGHT' - bugfix: motion blur of brushes - TEXTUREPATH is now also used for textures of Imagine objects - bugfix can now load plane - bugfix can now load multiple planes or perfect spheres What's new for version 1.15? - added PNG- and ILBM-modules - added radial texture - added 'Time spend' and 'Time left' What's new for version 1.14? - plane can now be animated - changed default gaussian filter with from 1.8 to 1.3 - changed axis position in flat brush mapping (see RayStorm.guide 'BRUSH' for details) What's new for version 1.13? - new path format - soft interploation of brush colors What's new for version 1.12? - up to two times faster motion blur What's new for version 1.11? - Registration programm - bugfix: Imagine fog objects can be load What's new for version 1.1? - Depth of field - Soft shadows - Backdrop picture - Fog - Motion blur (Great!) - Specular brush mapping - Field rendering - New format for vectors and colors - 68000 version