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From: bmorris@islandnet.com (Ben Morris)

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Subject: ** Worldcraft 10/07 released **

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Date: 9 Oct 1996 11:09:38 +0100

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The new version of Worldcraft was released yesterday. You can get it from:

http://www.islandnet.com/worldcraft/ [NB Frames-only page -- moderator]

Here's the "what's new" -

Worklog:

+ : added something

* : fixed/changed something

Since 09/20:

* Fixed a lot of Direct3D crashing bugs. I hope this helps some people.

Unfortunately, it won't help people with Matrox cards.

* Worldcraft no longer creates "duplicate brush planes", which QBSP

would often complain about.

* "Select All" and the box selection would select objects that were not

visible. Fixed.

* Shearing the selection was all wrong. Fixed.

* The 500 solid limit is removed.

* Entity keyvalues were removed if Smartedit didn't know about them -

this wasn't part of the original design, but uh - someone slipped the

code in there. Or something. Anyway, that's fixed.

* Fixed pasting & object creation. New objects are now created in the

current 2D view (of course), and are centered in the next most recently

used view.

+ Added FULL textured preview. The textures in this preview are properly

aligned, properly rotated and properly scaled. A huge thank you goes

to Alex Moon (odin@mdn.com) for giving me the Direct3D code to calculate

the texture coordinates based on Quake information.

+ Added new edit mode: "Apply textures mode." Click the funny looking

pencil-block icon on the left to activate it. When you're in this mode,

all you can do is select faces in the 3D view and edit their textures

and offset/rotation/scaling information.

(Sidetrack: I am adding a "Vertex/face manipulation mode." Watch for

it in the immediate future!)

How to use this:

- Click on a face to select/deselect it.

- Hold down CTRL to select multiple faces.

- Hold down SHIFT to select/deselect all of a solid's faces. SHIFT

must be combined with CTRL to select multiple solids' faces.

When you enter the mode, a dialog box is displayed that contains info

about the currently selected faces. Modify the info and hit APPLY to

make it permanent. Hit REVERT to restore the original information.

While you're in this mode, you can still use the other tools - magnify,

camera, etc. However, you MUST select the pointer tool to select more

faces. Also, You can use Edit|Clear Selection to deselect all faces.

+ Hold down SHIFT to make the right mouse button move forward/backward in

the 3D view with the camera tool.

+ Added support for multiple texture files. Configure this using Tools|

Options. NOTE: If you use more than one texture file, you MUST use

a version of QBSP that supports multiple texture files.

+ Added "Hide Items" menu selection. This toggles the display of items:

Monsters, Guns, & so on.

+ Added a spike/cone primitive.

+ Added the ability to select the number of faces to create on a

cylinder/spike.

+ Added the ability to add solids to an existing solidentity. Select

the solids you want to add and the entity you want to add them to,

select

'toEntity', and Worldcraft will ask you if you want to combine the

solids

& the existing entity or create a new solid.

+ Added mouse scroll feature for the 2D views. Hold down the spacebar

and left-click-drag to drag the view around. It doesn't track perfectly

yet, but it will.. oh, it will.

+ The Texture Browser now initially selects the texture that is selected

on the Texture Bar.

+ Added preset zooms - the 1 thru 9 keys now zoom out->in.

+ Added the ability to save only the visible parts of a MAP. This is very

useful for cutting down on QBSP/LIGHT time. Select File|Export to Quake

MAP, and click on "Save Visible Objects Only."

+ The size of the selected objects is now displayed on the status bar.

+ Added gamma-correction keys. CTRL+Home makes textures brighter, and

CTRL+End makes textures darker. You can also change this setting with

Tools|Options.

+ Added color to the game definition file. Now, different objects appear

different colors.

+ Upped face limit to 120. Also reduced memory requirements for Solids:

In the previous version, 16 faces were allocated for each solid

regardless

of how many were actually used. The new version allocates faces as

necessary in blocks of six: this means big memory savings, at a small

performance price.