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Old 05-05-2007, 11:09 AM   #543
Jim Sachs
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Tim and jpjoe - thanks for the kind words. I think you will be happy with the 3.0 version when it's done. Every aspect of the program will be greatly improved. With each item I add, I go back and look at the current version and wonder how I could have accepted something so primitive.

Right now I'm working on the bubbles. No one has ever really done saltwater bubbles right, including me. The bubbles I created for my Freshwater beta turned out extremely well, but in saltwater tanks the column is really more of a foam than recognizable bubbles. Common sense would indicate that individually rendering thousands of tiny specks would add far too much overhead - but maybe not. Maybe if it's done on the video card using a Shader, the overhead would be manageable. Only experimentation will tell.
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