Hi All,

3D Canvas 6.1 Beta 2 is available for download: http://www.3d-canvas.com/downloads/3DCanvas61Beta2.zip

The full "what's new" list is available here: http://www.amabilis.com/whatsnew.htm

What's new since Beta 1:

o) The hierarchy is much less annoying. The operation parameters are not changed until the "upclick". You can now click and drag and not have to worry about a window resize. Also, if you select an object to change its name it doesn't "disappear" anymore. But, you may have to click twice to get to "name change" mode. (Of course the "full" hierarchy never had these problems - just the "customized panels" view)

The hazard in this is that I made quite a few changes and I could have broken the hierarchy in some way.

o) It is now possible to right-click on a group in the hierarchy and pick "Select Group" or "Select Hierarchy" from the popup menu. In previous releases you had to click on an object. Note that the group must still "contain" an object for this to work. You just don't have to right-click on the object.

o) The TrainSim Wizard now looks harder for the location of Train Simulator which means it should be more reliable at converting to unicode etc.

o) Reduced the memory usage by a few MBs. Also reduced the download by 1/2 MB.

I think that plug-ins compiled to work with the 6.1 beta will work with this version but I can't say for certain. Somebody will have to confirm this for me.

Amabilis produced Plug-ins can be downloaded from the usual place.

Richard

[quote author=Amabilis Support link=board=3DCanvasProGeneral;num=1067592204;start=0#0 date=10/31/03 at 04:23:23]I think that plug-ins compiled to work with the 6.1 beta will work with this version but I can't say for certain. Somebody will have to confirm this for me.

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MSTS Engineer (geometry and animations) and a few others compiled for beta 1 seem to work fine for beta 2.

I have problem with the unwrap selection operation:
1. at first, after selecting the faces and hit the operation
button, it always pop up a window with some lines
formed a globe, I could not adjust the size of the
map.
2. I restarted 3D Canvas, then reselected the faces and
  hit  the button, now I could choose the size, so I chose
1024x1024, and "oK", the object was textured but
I could still see the yellow line of the globe in the
  textured object. Anyway,   I saved the texture as
  "sample.bmp."
3. I tried to apply this operation to another set of faces.
In old 3D Canvas, the unwrap window popped up
with the texture of sample.bmp. However, this time,
in the new beta2 version, the operation didn't
remember the previous texture file, and ask me to
choose the size again.

I don't know if I missed something here, because it
seemed I am the only one who has problem with
this operation.

I had a look and Unwrap is definitely broken.

Thanks for the report.

Richard