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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.3a
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- o) Export of DirectX Frame Hierarchies
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.3
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- o) The Surface Object Building Tool has been extensively revised to support:
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- NURBS surfaces
- Surface merging
- Surface cloning
- Surface division
- Individual surface scaling, shifting and rotating
- Display of control point cages
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- Also, the Mirror function has improved to mirror an entire object in one step.
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- o) Support for B-Spline Curves in all Object Building Tools and Operations
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- o) Refined and simplified Navigation Control and Edit Control
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- o) Quick access to Texture, Material and Object Libraries
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.2
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- o) 3D Canvas is now freeware
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- o) The Animation Camera can now be set to track the movement
- of an object
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- o) A bone's range of effect can now vary over the length
- of the bone
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- o) The Merge Operation has been improved to retain material
- information
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- o) Exporting and Importing have been improved
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- o) Animation Key-Frame Ghosting has been added
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- o) Inverse Kinematics now display range of movement constraints
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- o) Inverse Kinematics Joints can be set to a fixed position
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- o) The Crease Operation has been improved to produce sharper creases and more consistent smoothness
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- o) Roll-up groups are now more compact
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.1a
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- o) improved support for NVIDIA based video cards
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.1
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- o) Skeletal Animation
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- o) Inverse Kinematics
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.0c
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- o) Improved POV-Ray export function
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.0b
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- o) More configuration options for the Construction Panels.
- (Material Panel, Component Panel, Operation Panel
- and Hierarchy Panel)
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- o) Faster and more accurate importing of 3DS, DXF and COB
- models.
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- What's new in 3D Canvas 3.0/3.0a
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- o) 3D True Type Fonts
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- o) Plug-ins
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- o) Animated Object Deformations. Virtually any operation applied
- to an object can be animated.
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- o) Embedded Objects. Double-clicking an object opens its source
- which can then be altered.
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- o) Compound-Object selection. Groups of objects can be selected
- as though they were a single object, then scaled, added to an
- object library, copied to the clipboard etc.
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- o) Animation Time Line
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- o) Animation Time Frame Shifting and Scaling
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- o) Continuously Repeating Animated Objects
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- o) Trim Operation
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- o) Tip Operation
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- o) Point Split Operation
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- o) Shear Operation
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- o) Burst Operation
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- o) Swirl Operation
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- o) Flatten Operation
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- o) Extrude/Bevel Operation
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- o) Material Sampling Tool (Eye Dropper) copies the sampled
- material to the Material Palette.
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- o) Custom sizes for Videos and Snapshots
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- o) Simulated Shadows
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- o) Texture Cropping
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- o) Object Duplication
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- o) Easier selection of multiple faces and points
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- o) Multiple face painting with the Paint Tool
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- o) Rotation of Faces with the Edit Control
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- o) Scaling of Faces with the Edit Control
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- o) The viewing camera can be selected on a view by view basis.
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- o) Chrome texture wrapping
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- o) Camera relative texture wrapping
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- o) Bend, Taper and Twist operation now support custom effect
- orientations.
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- o) Animation Camera Field of View
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- o) Object Blend Tool
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- o) Object Bridge Tool
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- o) Object Merge Tool
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- o) Ability to Hide objects from view while modelling
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- What's New in 3D Canvas 2.0 Revision 1
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- o) Improved Support for 4MB video cards.
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- o) Undo/Redo for animations.
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- o) Import/Export of 3D Canvas Scenes in POVRay Format.
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- What's New in 3D Canvas 2.0
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- o) New Highly Customizable Interface
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- All toolbars and panels can now be hidden if desired.
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- Three new view configurations have been added.
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- View projections and orientation can be selected on
- a view by view basis by right clicking on the view and
- selecting an alternative from the pop-up menu.
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- Dividers between view panels can now be dragged to
- adjust the size of each individual view.
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- o) Animation sub-paths are now provided which permit mixing
- of Spline and Linear object movement within one animation
- path.
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- o) Pauses within animations paths are now available. Adding
- a pause is as simple as clicking on the Add Pause button.
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- o) The new Crease Tool allows you to increase or decrease the
- amount of creasing visible on objects.
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- o) Animation key-frame ranges can now be played and recorded
- by shift-selecting a range on the animation slider.
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- o) The Group Selection Tool may now select either forward
- facing faces or all faces within the selection rectangle.
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- o) The range of effect for the Deform Tool can now be set.
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- o) The Divide Smooth Tool can now be configured to smooth
- all edges, or selected edges based on a condition.
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- o) The extrude amount can now be set for the Face Extrude
- operation.
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- o) Undo/Redo are now available for Object Building Tools.
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- o) Animations can now be previewed through the through Layout
- Camera.
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- o) A new Status Bar provides feedback on the the progress of
- operations by indicating how much an object has been moved,
- scaled or rotated.
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- o) The time position within an Animation can now be directly
- entered.
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- o) Performance of the Surface Building Tool has been dramatically
- improved.
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- o) Enhanced support for 800x600 mode. Toolbars have been
- re-configured to work better in 800x600 mode.
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- o) Memory requirements have been reduced.
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- For the latest information on 3D Canvas(tm) see www.amabilis.com.
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