Once upon a time, BSmooth started as really clumsy workaround. Since then the program has transmoglified in a terrain modeler with a wealth of modelers, Illustrator import, DXF export and other very powerful options.
A strongly geographic/GIS related BSmooth Pro may be relased in 1998. It's working title is BSmooth Pro and yes: it will be relativly expensive because this is really a small niche (of course you get an upgrade offer from your existing licence, too).
Anyway, you don't have to worry: BSmooth II is the main product and it will stay the fun product!
BSmooth Demo
• Terrains up to 128 x 128
• half of the terrain reduced to 256 levels to show you the difference it makes
• Isolines restricted to 10 polygons
BSmooth 3 (38$)
• Lattices and Terrains up to 1024 x 1024
• DEMs at full vertical resolution
• Isolines restricted to 10 layers
BSmooth Pro (198$) - Release planned for Mid 1998
• Unlimited Isolines
• reprojection of spatial data and DEMs
• featuring mapping of spatial data to imagemaps
BSmooth Pro is a geographical oriented package. If you have a certain problem in this range, please contact me at busse@kagi.com!
A Windows port of BSmooth is currenly in work.
Any Upgrades will be available for the price difference or less. Updates are free.
Version History
V3.0b4 - July 26th 98
• New: Bryce 3D import Op!
• New: 1° DEM Op!
• New: GTOPO30 DEM Op has preview now
• New: extensive documentation for DEMs
• Bugfix: Pasting Ops hasn't transmitted the filename
V2.11b7 - July 24th 98
• New: Condensation Op
• New: Inversion Op
• Bugfix: plugged a memory leak in the AI import routine
V2.10b5 - June 11th 98
• Bugfix: Error during Pref file creation fixed
V2.10b4 - June 6th 98
• New: Copy & Paste!
• New: The arrow keys move the mark now, cmd+arrows move the current Op
• New: Return and Enter call options/file dialog
• Bugfix: Default sweeping profile mix well with other Ops now
• Glitchfix: Autosizing of windows doesn't exceed the screen size anymore.
• Glitchfix: keyboard command for clear Op show correct symbol now
• Glitchfix: The progress dialog of sweeping shows "Sweeping..." now...
V2.9b74 - June 5th 98
• New: quite cool scaling options for Böppels in Daisy Op
• New: Version number shown in "About" dialog
• Bugfix: Horizontal Lathe hasn't worked in multiply, max, and min mode :-(
• Bugfix: Error due to unreadable Pref file fixed
V2.9b71 - June 4th 98
• New: Rotation & Scale option for Horizontal Lathe Op
• Bugfix: Crashes due to memory shortage should be fixed now.
• Bugfix: Errors during pref file creation are catched and reported
• Glitchfix: During AI import the progress bar is set to indeterminate state
• Speedup: AI import
V2.9b37 - June 2nd 98
• New: precision/speed option in Sweeping & Isoline Op
• New: More than 5000 knots are allowed in Isoline Ops
V2.9b12 - May 23rd 98
• New: Gaussian Blur Op
• New: Reworked option dialogs with previews for most Ops
• New: Reworked Link dialogs for most Ops
• New: Default curve/data for all Ops except DEMs
• New: Reworked and Updated docs, include tutorials now
• Bugfix: terrainsize changes are limited to the frontmost OpSet now
• Bugfix: Window resizing fixed (and enhanced)
• Bugfix: Fractal Op is normalized now
• Glitchfix: Shadow color calculation adapted to luminance of the textcolor
• Glitchfix: hint text for the preview
• Speedup for AI import (exspecially for eps-files)
V2.8b5 - May 9th 98
(History includes 2.6 and 2.7, which were never released into public)
• New: a Preview window is finally there!
• New: Switchable interface styles, font, font color & font size added
• New: Apply modes are switched by a new control (first dawn of the new interfaces)
• New: Render button (the green one labeled "Go!")
• New: Daisy Op (stable, but dialog will and implementation may still change!)
• New: Windows are live scrolling (due to my new optimized interface routines)
• New in the Demo:
• - Now you can also create Lattices in the demo
• New: Isolines have progress dialog now
• Bugfix: Under some circumstances Isoline were restricted to ten polygons
• (instead of ten layers) in the registered version
• Bugfix: Mandelbrot Op wasn't initialized correctly during creation
• Bugfix: At very first run palette display failed (palette was solid black)
• Bugfix: terrainsize was resetted to 128 each time the Prefs dialog was called
• Glitchfix: Deleting the registration doesn't leave the prefs dialog anymore
• Glitchfix. Ops are now inserted after the currently choosen Op instead before it.
• Glitchfix: When you delete a file, now the following file is chosen.
• New icons
V2.5b84
• New in the Demo:
• - Now you can use more than 1 DEM
• - You can use more than 2 frames in the sweeping Op
• Bugfix: Windows were not always redrawn correctly
• Bugfix: Printing OpSets from the Finder closed App even with unsaved OpSets
• GlitchFix: caption of sweeping progress dialog was still named "carving"
• GlitchFix: captions have been black (Why hasn't someone told me? Grrrrr...)
• GlitchFix: Window redraw flashing reduced
•
V2.5b73 - April 18th 98
• Choosing an Op in the palette creates a new OpSet window, if no OpSet is already open.
• Rotation control in Extrusion Op improved
• Changed "About" Dialog
V2.5b62
• Bugfix: registered users couldn't use more than 2 frames
V2.5b60
• resizing and scrolling of windows
• deactivating/ activating of windows
• updating of background windows
• Curves are not extrapolated anymore, the first or last value is used respectively. This leads to changes if you rely on extraploation – i.e. in the old speaker example!
• x & y-Extrude are replaced by a single Extrude Op, which can be rotated freely (old files are converted automatically)
• Bugfix: Menu handling caused messup with the Ops
V 2.5b21
• Bugfix: Open and Save dialogs were in German
• single click on already selected Op brings up option dialog
V 2.5b20
• Bugfix: Start & End Op have been movable
V 2.5b13
• Fixed a bug in the menu bar
V 2.5b12 - April 2nd 98
• Finally back to the old filesize (terrains are not saved twofold in the file anymore!)
• new Window design
• Window behaviour fixed
• floting palette floats
• needs at least Appearance 1.0.3!
V 2.4 (internal)
• Carving allows multitasking now
• OpSets shown in Windows
• multipla data sets can be opened at the same time
• reworked dialogs for appearance manager
• bugfix (The shareware DialogView moved controls off the screen)
• Operation DEM added
• Operation Mandelbrot added
• Carving runs in Background now and can be stopped with .
(most other operations will follow soon)
• Errors are reported (finally you know that your terrain is flat before invoking Bryce)
• Filename handling improved.
V 2.3b21
• Mac 68K compile (available on request)
• Fixed display of long user names
• Bugfix: Operation Isolines was disabled in the demo
• Bugfix: All dialogs are moveable now
V 2.3b5
• extensive standalone Documentation added
• Bryce terrain import added
• DXF export added
• fixed half a ton of bugs in the isoline operation
• some other small bugfixes
• menu item and hotkey for calculation of the output file changed to "Render terrain…" and cmd-R (due to consistency with Bryce & DXF output) SORRY!
V 2.2b88
• Bugfix: some monochrome PICTs have still not worked (grrrr)
• Bugfix: Illustrator import routines are more robust now and accept Illustrator 3.2
V 2.2b86
• Bugfix: monochrome uncompressed PICTs haven't worked
• Bugfix: Pict files were not recognized if loaded from a saved operation set.
V 2.2b84
• I have finally implemented saving of operation sets!
• Pixel Layers support PICT files now, too.
• Now BSmooth runs in demo mode if not unlocked with a software key.
• support for the standard AppleEvents Open, OpenDocument, Print & Quit.
• printing "operation sets" from the Finder renders them to BryceScenes
• Key registration routines
V 2.1b59
• support of the (not very compact) Bryce 3 format. Consequences of this change:
• the filesize of the scene files has more than doubled
• the BSmooth application nearly tripled in filesize (+ ~200K!)…
• …however the size of the compressed package increased by only < 20K
• here's the fun part of it: terrains have 65535 levels now!!
• Preference dialog added to choose Bryce 3D or 2 output & preferred terrainsize.
• Cleanup defaults changed to: Shift to bottom and scale to range
V 2.0b56
• bugfix: max & min mode haven't worked for vase sweeps.
V 2.0b54 - Dec 22nd 97
• Lattices added
• Carving: Profiles added
• Repeat option added for sweep operations
• Cleanup options added
• all modes for every operation are implemented now
• selecting already checked operations in the operation menu shows the option dialog now
• selecting operations while pressing any modifier key shows the option dialog now
• Fixed some import bugs (exspecially files exported from Illustrator)
• Memory requierements went up to 24 MB (to allow groups in later versions).
V1.0b4
• Carving: Bug resolved (if "holes" were laying behind a polygon, the whole polygon wasn't rendered at all. Now only the hole isn't rendered if it's laying under a poly)
V1.0b3 (registered users only)
• Vase sweep added
• Carving speeded up by factor 15
• Carving bugs removed
• Bryce Scene file: doesn't have a ground plane anymore (better to merge)
• Bryce Scene file: view changed
• reduced file size
• changed menu placements (sorry...)
• switched x & y sweep to have consistent orientation
V0.9b95 (new registered users only)
• Carving added
• names of choosen files and modes are shown in Operation menu
• TGA multichannel import fixed
• Terrain size setting fixed (didn't worked correctly)
• Reset of Operation set
• Watch cursor during operation
• new icons
V0.9b72 - Nov 12th 97
• Completely rewritten in C++
• operation list added
• Text-File support dumped
• x & y sweep added
• multiply mode added
• operations may be moved, deleted or relinked to other files
• Demo supports up to 128 x 128 Pixel terrains
V0.9 b
Start of version history.
• Illustrator file support added
• Import of multiple TGA's and/or rotational sweeps supported
• Slightly better error handling
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