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Old 01-24-2010, 11:45 AM   #10
Jim Sachs
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You've always done a fantastic job of policing the Forum, Morgan. But even though these psychos are immediately banned, they are still walking around out there, causing me to worry about the safety of myself and my family. I can see the headlines now, "The Screensaver Murders!"

A further note about automatic lighting - Many people assume that since versions 1.0 to 2.6 have had auto-lights, that it would be simple for me to put it into MA3. Not so. MA3 is a complete rewrite of the program. Every single feature has to be put back in individually, often in a wildy different way from the original. MA2.6 used the DirectX Lighting Model, which means that I just needed to set up lights, (Ambient, Directional, Spot, etc.), set the color and intensity for each, turn them on, and they would illuminate the objects in the tank. MA3 uses Shaders for all effects, including "lighting". Shaders are extremely powerful, but very difficult to use (at least for me).
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