Hi all,Development has been on and off, more off than on to be honest, for various reasons. Here's the latest list of new implemented features in the forthcoming 0.4 version:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW FEATURES - New Saturation parameter for all modes - Anti-Alias optional for all modes - Opacity optional for Solid Mode - Quark equation was added - Background color for Light and Plasma modes FIXES- Setting Preview Iterations below 50000 was causing Light and Plasma to crash
- Gradient name wasn't cleared when gradient was randomized or reversed - Closing a project while animating would crash the program - View wasn't cleared when no attractor found on fast computers MISCELLANEOUS - Sliders thumb is resized properly when property is selected - Recent files list in File menu ------------------------------------------------------------------------Added to these are "work-in-progress" features, which aren't fully implemented yet:
- Dual threaded rendering (90% done) - Caching of rendered attractors in RAM - Perspective - New coloring engine (with ability to switch off gradients)The new coloring engine is a pain to implement because it's being moved from the rendering code to the attractor code. It's a bit like changing a gearbox on a car. I'm almost done with it.
Other features to appear in 0.4: - Super sampling - Color perspective (haze) - Color editor - Gradient editor/browser - Timed rendering - Rendering stopped when specific amount of frustum hits is reached - Light editor, interface to position lights in Solid mode - Export attractor to ASCII - Undo (maybe!) - New equationsAs far as 3D is concerned Peter has exclusive use to the specific 3D export version for now. There's a bit of code that improves 3D meshes dramatically and I haven't decided yet if this will be a "pay for commercial use" feature or not.
Any questions on features are welcome! If you found a bug you wish to report please do it now! Regards, Nicolas Desprez ====================================================== The Chaoscope mailing-list Archives : //www.freelists.org/archives/chaoscope Admin contact : chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web site : http://www.chaoscope.org ======================================================