Short: X-DVE 2.70 free update (UK/DE/USA ONLY) Author: classx@pisoft.it Uploader: classx pisoft it Type: gfx/edit Architecture: m68k-amigaos **************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** * ClassX Development Italy Via Francesca, 463 I-56030 Montecalvoli (PI) * * E-Mail: classx@pisoft.it Tel. +39 587 749206 Fax. +39 587 749206 * *************************************************************************** Welcome to the latest free X-DVE update. This update is suitable for X-DVE 2.50/2.60 UK/GERMANY/USA version ! The ITALIAN version must be updated with a different update package available from ClassX. We would like to thank all our registered users for their support and for believing in this product. I hope they will appreciate our continuous efforts and dedication to the best computer ever. Michele Puccini. *************************************************************************** - Overview Our firm is continually updating X-DVE in order to make this leading software the most productive, easy and powerful DTV animation/titling environment on the market. With this new free release, X-DVE has been added of some some important features and new functionalities. - 68060 support Thanks to its modular desing, X-DVE keeps its cpu intesive code into separate libraries which has been optimized for several processors. With X-DVE 2.70 we have introduced the 68060 version of these libraries to allow power-users to get the best out of their expensive accelerator boards. With the imminent arrival of new PPC-based boards we'll be able to supply PPC-optimized libraries in no time. - Multipalette Anim5/7L object X-DVE is based on graphical objects which can be enhanced, animated and rendered with thousands of effects and combinations. Objects can be single frame (text, brush) or an animated sequence of frames (starfield, multibrush or animbrush). With X-DVE 2.70 the animbrush object has been extended and now it supports doublebuffered multipalette animation formats as ANIM5 and ANIM7 (long). With this new feature, users no longer need to convert their animations into IFF-ANBR format in order to use them as X-DVE objects. When adding an ANIMBRUSH object, X-DVE detects its format automatically without the need of any user input. For multiple palette animations, the internal colour remapper will perform the needed frame by frame adjustments automatically. - 12 New slide effects The library of effects has been extended again reaching 64 different Slides. o The "Sweep" effects (4 variants) where the object is divided into small rotating slices. o The "Twist" effects (4 variants) where the object is twisted onto its own axis and smoothly becomes plain. o The "RotCarpet" effects (4 variants) where the object is mapped onto a page coming from outside the screen. All these effects are computed with 3D texure mapping calculations and give astonishing visual results if rendered with the X-DVE light sourcing feature. - Fixes The texture mapping routines have been tuned up to allow a better precision and appearance of the effects (the 3D polygon clipper has been enhanced to better handle very small polygons). - Future o We're working to make X-DVE support DraCo of MacroSystem (even if the guys at MacroSystem keep to ignore our requests of support, development tools and documentation). The features of the DraCo version are unpredictable: it all depends on MacroSystem. o The PPC version of the libraries is one of our main aims. - Thanks We would like to thank all our registered users for their support and for believing in this product. I hope they will appreciate our continuous efforts and dedication to the best computer ever. *************************************************************************** To install the update simply unpack the archive to RAM: or any other device and start the "X-DVE2.70_Install" script. ****************************************************************************