25 January, 2002

• Changed the debug shadow volume visualisation code.
• Changed the shader used for rendering the shadow pass to produce a slightly more pleasing result.
• Changed the default shadow colour to something more appropriate to the new shader
• Particle system “colour” command now expects values in the range of 0-1 like all the other colours in Cipher scripts.
• Updated networking documentation for the support site.
• Major update of Cipher model conversion tools..
  • Orders of magnitude faster at generating shadow volumes, esp. for v. large models (>50K polys)
  • Produces far better batching and triangle strips than the previous versions.
  • Better batching results in better bounding boxes of sub-meshes.
• Let Cipher developers know about new version of tool on support site.
• Cipher is now able to generate and render all shadow volumes entirely on the GPU.

More progress with Task Tracker and Daily Build as well...

• HTML export has options to display times in days, hours or days & hours.
• New drag and drop support in both products.
• Added XML export to Task Tracker.
• Changed Task Tracker native file format to xml.