And then press "Install" in the installer for both packages.
Alternatively, use a program such as Opener or UnTar by
double clicking the icon for WireFrame1.1.tar, and then
double click the icons for the .pkg files.
SYNOPSIS
Changes from 1.1:
1) Added a wireframe inspector, allowing for dynamic changes to the wire frame.
2) Linked in the ray tracer written by William Heelan.
Ray Tracer features:
Raytracing of spheres and planes
Distribution of raytracing across a network of NeXT machines
Transparency
3) Added fields to the .wireframe discription:
"Author"
"Info"
"Index Of Refraction"
"Specular Reflectance"
"Diffusive Reflectance"
"Specular Transmittance"
"Diffusive Transmittance"
"Specular Reflective Power"
4) Jump To feature allows you to move any wireframe to any position, and allows you to move yourself to any position.
5) The rotate around selection feature now works properly. As well you can set the origin of rotation arbitrarily.
6) Added a hosts inspector that allows you to modify the list of remote hosts for distributed ray tracing
7) You can now set the background colour to be anything.
8) Made the default save, save to binary. The ascii version was just too flaky, but you can still read and write both versions, and can even intermix binary and ascii wireframes in worlds.
9) Added rotation around arbitrary centers. May be a little strange getting the hang of it though.
10) Added a "jump to center" that allows you to enter an arbitrary point which o move the viewer, or an object.
Changes from 1.0:
1) Fixed a bug pointed out by Todd Nathan. If you drag in the
Instance browser past the end of the browser you'd crash every time.
2) Todd Nathan made a nice little tutorial on making wireframes
by hand. I touched it up a bit and included it into the
distribution.
3) Everything is now set up for installation by the installer.
The .world files won't be read unless you install WireFrame in
~/Apps or /LocalApps, etc. The installer does this for you now.
4) As well, the installer puts the .world files and the manual
into ~/Library/WireFrame
5) Double clicking on a .world package will now start WireFrame
and load the world into the WireView. I just added this a couple
of seconds ago, so I don't know if it's entirely debugged...
Changes from the old WireFrame0.6:
1) Dynamic deletion of wireframes
2) selection of individual wireframes
4) transformation of selected wireframes
5) .world directories. These are just directories full of
.wireframe files. WireFrame1.0 recognizes these as a grouping
of wireframes
6) read/write of .world directories
7) I built an editor, but it sucked so I disabled it. If you are
daring, you can extract the interface and undisable it. It really
sucks though.
8) I've added a couple of new objects (Octagon, something else too...)
9) A quick print feature (doesn't work too well).
Future directions:
1) This will be an animation package. It will send output of a scene
to a raytracer, and give a shaded representation of the scene in
TIFF format.
2) I'm in the process of building a scripting engine. This will allow
you to record a passage through the 3D world you've created, and play
it back as a movie.
3) Better controls. I don't like what I have, there's just too many
things to press. For the scripting, I'll build something like a
flight simulator's controls.
4) Animated wireframes. These will allow a set of wireframes to
describe several frames of an object. Thus when a wireframe moves,
it'll animate...
5) Grouping of wireframes into a single wireframe would be good.
6) I'm going to build a cool game out of all this one day...
7) A better editor is on the way...
If you have ANY ideas, or interesting worlds/wireframes, send them
