Equity B2

[hgt_terry]

Hi Folks

EquityB2 Release

Ok this Beta Release is to bring you up to date with what we have.

In this Release there are 2 new menu items the first is Scene_Movement this will allow you to move the Scene containing the actor around Proportional ( Based on mouse speed movement ) and now is the Default but to switch to the old style just click it off this applies to Rotation of the Scene, Pan will come later.

The Second Menu item is Import_New.

Now we are going to start import more file formats starting with Collada they are greyed at the moment but over the next coming months we will start to get them working.

We are using Assimp for this and a blend of our own as Assimp dose not fully support all motion at the moment.

There are a few interesting things about Assimp to note that it has post and pre Options which in a nut shell means we can load things that are not Triangulated and Triangulate them also things like Triangle reduction and creating normals Smoothed and Normal so we should be able to take most Import Files and if not compliant to RF can make so.

Also the weighted vertices issue with RF Assimp as a Option to normalize the weights so even if an imported object has weights we can normalize out.

We have add Maya FBL to the new Import list its not covered by Assimp but we have code to Bring that in and convert but first we will do Collada as that seems to be the new universal format.

The list of imports is not complete in the New_Import list we have listed the most popular but look at Assimp web page and Post if there is a particular one you want.


Ok that’s about it.

But I would like to thank Allanon for bringing Assimp to our attention and look forward to more contribution from him and yourself s.

Thanks Terry and Co

PS
Sorry for the delayed post but RF was being spammed I tried to get rid of them as a moderator but could not delete all post by a banned user so have waited for QoD or Bernie to do so.