Dear Moray Users,

if you are a registered user and haven't received the following
announcement then we do not have your current email in our database
(we got numerous bounces) and would appreciate an update. 

Please discuss the beta version in moray.beta!

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Moray Usage
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We are interested in finding out how you are using Moray. Please
tell us your story and show us any work you have done or are doing 
with Moray. Naturally any feature requests can accompany those
stories<g>.

Moray Gallery
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Is there interest in a gallery of images created in Moray?
If you have images that you would like to showcase on our site,
please upload them to our FTP server (ftp.stmuc.com) in the 
directory /pub/moray/incoming and we will create a gallery 
once a sufficient number of images have been submitted.

Moray V3.3 Public Beta 1 (Build 6795)
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The first public beta version of Moray V3.3 has just been uploaded to
our FTP server. It is time-limited until the middle of November, is
2.4MB large and can be downloaded here:

  ftp://ftp.stmuc.com/pub/private/special/moray33pb1.exe

The installation is password-protected and will expire on the 13th of
November 2000. Please request a password from lut### [at] stmuccom.

Note that the new version will NOT be a free upgrade, unless you 
registered on or after 1st July 2000. Be aware that since any 
scenes you create or work on with this Beta version will not be 
readable by the previous version you have. Therefore you will 
need to upgrade to continue work on those. Upgrade pricing will
be DM59, but you can upgrade before the 1st of November for DM49.

You can install the new version parallel to the old version in 
a different directory. If you do this the beta will use its own 
settings. If you want to share settings, you can edit 
MORAY.INI and remove the "Beta" from the RegistryBase variable.
Or you can install it over the previous version.
 
The changes from the previous version are detailed in the 
accompanying HTML file in the Docs folder.

Here's a short summary of the major changes (details available at
http://www.stmuc.com/moray/mefeat.html):

 - OpenGL support. All 4 views can take advantage of OpenGL hardware
   acceleration you may have and can show shaded views of the scene.
 - Layer support. Objects can be assigned to layers.
 - Color support. Objects wireframe can be colored.
 - Much improved CSG evaluation.
 - Many minor enhancements and bug fixes....
 
Have fun testing!

- Lutz Kretzschmar
  lut### [at] stmuccom

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Hi all,

I just loaded the new beta and I like the OpenGL. I do a lot of my work in
Rhino so I placed a UDO file in Moray but no polygon render (Moray objects
render fine) for OpenGL. All other settings worked fine, I like the
antialiased lines. Will there be polgon render in OpenGL for a UDO object?
Well I have to get back to trying out the rest of the features...


Nice job Lutz,

Glen

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Hi Glen Adomovicz, you recently wrote in moray.win:

> Will there be polgon render in OpenGL for a UDO object?
Please see the group moray.beta.
- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Lutz Kretzschmar <lut### [at] stmuccom> wrote:
:  - OpenGL support. All 4 views can take advantage of OpenGL hardware
:    acceleration you may have and can show shaded views of the scene.

  Cool! This is one of the best improvements (although I haven't even tested
it yet).
  At last a way to hide hidden parts of the scene.

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):_;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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