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发信人: Qlin (青青子衿), 信区: Graphics
标题: 3DS MAX R2新增功能(6)--工作效率方面
发信站: BBS 水木清华站 (Tue Aug 12 19:33:10 1997)

New Features Listing - Productivity
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Viewport Interaction

*Full OpenGL &Direct3D Support for the fastest possible
performance the available hardware acceleration
configuration.
*Selective Ghosting/Onion Skinning for trailing and/or
leading frames in wireframe or shaded modes.
*Virtual Viewport for precise camera &view alignment in
magnified views.
*Zoom and Pan on background images.
*Independent Background Images for each viewport.
*Background Ratio Matching options for Renderer, Viewport,
Bitmap.
*Display Vertex Colors for meshes with RGB assignments in
the viewports - with or independent of scene illumination.
*Expert Mode for maximizing the 3D Studio MAX work area.
*Edged Face Display shows mesh edges on shaded geometry.
*Classic 12-Field Grid for examining scene compositions.
*Directional Light Viewports for examining sun angles.
*Named Views can be saved and recalled between sessions.
*Zoom and Pan on viewed images.
*Copy of viewed images with Clone VFB.

Viewport Interaction (cont.)

*View Image support for examining the color data per pixel,
image intensity, and all relevant image information.
*Background resolution control of proxy images for optimal
speed.
*Viewport display support for all light attenuation
settings, material self-illumination, and all color per
vertex data.
*Deactivate All Maps option turns off all maps displayed in
the viewports.
*View sequential images with arrow buttons.
*Vertical and horizontal viewing constraints/locks.
*Support for 32 interactive viewport light sources.
*Hide and freeze objects from named lists or interactive
picking.
*Particle Systems display category added.

General Productivity

*Concurrent 3D Studio MAX - run as many copies of 3DS MAX as
you like on the same system.
*Drag-n-Drop Scenes &Bitmaps from the Asset Manager into the
current scene.
*Object Property Adjustment from right-click menu
trajectory, name, color, and all display/rendering options.
*Modifier Result Display for not processing intensive
modifiers in the viewports while still being processed for
the production renderer.
*Undo/Redo List Editing for effecting multiple Undos and
Redos.
*Object Name Tooltips for always knowing what you抮e working
with.
*Modeless Display Floater for immediate display options.
*Modeless Select-by-Name Floater for immediate selections.
*Drag &Drop Merge of .max objects into the current scene
with the new Asset Manager.
*Right-click on Command Panel rollouts for quick menu
selection, and Super Scroll for fast navigation.
*Transform and constraint choices are stored separately for
object and sub-object operations.
*Group Filtering methods added.
*Hide animation tracks according to object type with By
Category.
*Support for Microsoft Intellimouse and 3-button mice to
speed actions.

Customization

*Stroke Recognition System for making custom command menus
which are quickly accessed by mouse gestures.
*Keyboard shortcuts for all core areas and for plug-in
developers.
*Shortcut categories localize focus between different areas
of the interface.
*Color Control for all areas of the User Interface.
*Scene preferences are now stored with each scene file.
*New Backface Cull on Object Creation option for automatic
2-sided display.
*Control over the resulting unit when pressing Enter after
typing a value without a unit definition.

Accuracy

*Robust 3D Snap System includes snaps for grid points, grid
lines, vertices,end points, edges, faces, midpoints, face
centers, perpendicular, tangent, pivot points, bounding box
extents, and NURB Curve &Surface centers, tangents, and
normals.
*AutoSnap feature interactively reports snap proximities so
you know what you抮e snapping to before committing.
*Transform selections about any snapped point for fast,
accurate modeling operations in one step.
*Single action snapping with convenient right-click Snap
Menu.
*Mathematical Entry is always available for any numeric
field with the Numerical Expression Evaluator.
*View Align for aligning any object to a view about any
axis.
*Freely combine unit types when typing any value.

Accuracy (cont.)

*Measure Helper for dynamic volume, area, center of mass,
length, perimeter, and dimensional readouts of selected
objects.
*Protractor Helper for dynamic angle readouts between
points.
*Limits Maximized for nearly every parameter.
*Quickly switch the creation plane axis of custom Grid
objects.
*Exact world locations of any sub-object selection.
*Fractions can be entered in numeric fields.
*Dynamic angle reports from the Tape Measure Helper.
*Scale Align for matching object extents with scale.
*Normal Align now supports smoothing group adjustments and
analytical face normals for precise alignment to surfaces.

Scene Coordination

*Asset Manager to browse, search, organize your bitmaps and
scenes with thumbnail representations with easy drag &drop
to the scene.
*Insert Tracks for importing animation from other scenes.
File Replace for updating materials and objects from
external scenes.
*Automatic Unit Conversion option for converting the system
unit scale of loaded or merged files.
*Rescale World Units utility for rescaling the world units
of the selection or entire scene.
*Directory specification allows central network management.
*Increased Summary Info file for recording descriptive text,
plug-in lists, and Video Post status in addition to scene
data.
*Gamma Enable option to control whether gamma settings are
loaded with each .max file.

Geometric Data Support

*Parseable ASCII Scene Format of all scene objects,
materials, mapping, and animation is available for use to
communicate with external applications (source code provided
in SDK).
*VRML 2.0 export with industry leading support and custom
options.
*VRML World Authoring with parametric event-control objects
including Anchor, Proximity Sensor, Touch Sensor, Time
Sensor, Nav Info, Background, Fog, Sound, Audio Clip,
Billboard, Level of Detail, and Inline URL.
*STL Import and Export for stereo-lithography output.
*STL Check modifier for verifying valid meshes for
stereo-lithography.
*Multiple UVW Mapping coordinates can be stored per face.
*RGB Colors can now be stored in the mesh vertices.
*Viewport thumbnails are now stored in?.MAX files.
*Rendering export to the .VUE file format.
*Drag-n-Drop loading of .MAX files is supported from Windows
Explorer or WinFile.

Image Format Support

*Photoshop .PSD files now supported use in materials,
backgrounds, and compositing.
*Cineon formats are now supported for reading and writing
industry standard, film resolutions.
*All Formats option for displaying all recognized file
types.
*IFL Manager utility for generating image file lists from a
single, sequentially numbered image file, and viewing Image
File Lists.
*Custom color clipboard files can be saved and loaded.
*Stamped frame numbers option for preview renderings.
*Output a file list of scene bitmaps when archiving.

New API Categories

*Snap plug-in class for adding new snap types for any
geometry.
(actual API additions too numerous to list here)
*World Space Modifiers class for SpaceWarp-like modifiers
assigned at the object level without SpaceWarp binding
operations.
*GFX Display Pipeline is now separately loaded, allowing
independent graphics engines and enhancements, with OpenGL &
Direct3D as the first additions to the Software Z-Buffer
HEIDI.
*TrackView Utilities plug-in class for writing key
manipulation tools that can be modal or modeless.
*Keyboard Profiles for plug-in shortcuts that don抰conflict
with core.
*Scripting Hooks to expose plug-in applications to
MAXScript.
*Motion Capture input architecture for easily adding
devices.
*Front End plug-in class for programming completely
customized the MAX user interfaces.
*Z-Coverage and Z-Color channels for including antialiasing
to Z-buffer calculations in post effects.
*AppData Attachment to entire scene.
*Separate OLE-Streams available for plug-ins.
*Video Post plug-ins can now control animation through Track
View.
*New Shader Methods plug-in class for adding new rendering
algorithms.

MAX2 SDK

*The MAX2 SDK will be provided with every copy of 3D Studio
MAX R2 for writing seamless plug-in applications with Visual
C++5.0 Original source code supplied for most 3D Studio MAX
functions that create, modify, animate, shade, import, and
export making customization, expansion, and learning easier
than any other system. MAX SDK components amount to nearly
50%of the 3D Studio MAX source code.
*Debug MAX2 SDK available for registered Kinetix Developers.

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