Version 0.90 Beta 1 is released. The biggest new features are support for vertex animation (still crude) and a sprite creator (for saving out animation frames to a 2D format).

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After the longest and most painful debug cycle I can remember I've finally got a beta ready for the next version. The support for vertex animation (morphing) is still pretty crude so feel free to make suggestions for features. Also there is one known issue with the sprite creator, it seems that some graphics cards don't retrieve alpha values when reading from the screen buffer so if your sprite images end up being completely transparent try using the remove alpha values option while saving sprites. Please send any bug reports to support <at> fragmosoft dot com or post them in the Bug Reports section of this forum.







http://www.fragmosoft.com/forum/index.php?topic=229.0








Synopsis of changes made for version 0.9.0
-added sprite creation dialog
-fixed scrollbars in KeyFrameSlider dialog
-fixed Invoke button on Rotate and Scale tools
-added Origin property to Rotate Object and Scale Object tools
-removed restriction on number of vertices and faces exported to Quake 2 .md2 files
-fixed crash in IMesh::GetTriangleStrips which is called by the .md2 exporter
-added Merge Animation option to menu
-added options to .x file exporter
-fixed bug where .x files were invalid when exporting an animation with no keyframes
-fixed bug where importing certain .x files would crash due to invalid VertexDuplicationIndices
-added support for vertex animation
-added importer Quake 2 .md2 files
-added importers for 3D GameStudio MDL3, MDL4, MDL5
-updated MS3D importer/exporter to support vertex weights
-added undo/redo buttons to toolbar in the UVMapper and keyframe editor
-added animation controls to the keyframe editor toolbar
-added context menu items to flip textures and add/remove alpha values
-added graphic tools for transformation and animation

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