News

• The next release of Ayam (1.4) is getting near. New features include:
  • improved Clone object, that now also arranges the clones along a path curve,
  • greatly improved speed and versatility of the Sweep object, that now also accepts a third curve, a scaling function (GIF, 71K), as argument,
  • support for a new object type SDMesh (this greatly increases interoperability with other modelling packages such as Wings3D),
  • better support for editing in local object coordinate systems,
  • plus a slew of other changes.
  You are welcome to check out the latest version of Ayam from CVS and try it out. Do not forget to send me your comments.

• A note to NVidia users on Linux:
  the Tcl-library that is statically linked into the official Linux Ayam binary (Tcl 8.2.2) contains a bug, that prevents the start of NVidia-OpenGL using programs (such as rgl or rendrib) from Ayam, they immediately die with a segmentation violation.
  I am sorry for this, but until the next official Linux binary is released (which will contain a fix for this) you need to compile your own version of Ayam (with e.g. Tcl/Tk 8.3.x).

• A list of frequently asked questions is now available.

• The Ayam 1.3 release has been updated to fix a serious bug with the rotate_about modelling action and is now available from the download page.

• Ayam 1.3 is now released and available from the download page. Here is a list of all the changes since Ayam 1.2.

• Feature freeze for Ayam 1.3. Alpha source and binaries will soon be available from the download page. Please test it! Here are the changes from Ayam 1.2.

• The IRIX binary release of Ayam 1.2 has been fixed. Thanks to the 200 downloading people for not reporting the bug.

• The Tutorial#1 has been updated for Ayam 1.2, get it from the docs section.
• Olivier Saraja from www.linuxgraphic.org translated the Tutorial#1 to a french version. Thanks Olivier!

• Ayam 1.2 has been released, get it from the download page.

• José Pedro Dias set up a page regarding Ayam. There are some nice images on this page, but see for yourself.

• There are now binary versions (IRIX and Linux) of Ayam 1.2 alpha available from the download page. Please test it!

• The alpha release of Ayam 1.2 has been updated. Some old memory leaks (finally) got fixed. Get the new alpha from the download page. Please test it!

• Ayam 1.2 alpha is available from the download page. Please test it!

• The RIB import plugin is nearly done, it creates now material objects as well.
• A new object type "PatchMesh" has been added to Ayam.
• The picking code is also mature, expect it soon in CVS.

• A port to MacOS X (done by D. Ward) is underway.
• B. Coconnier is developing an object picking mode.
• A first version of a RIB import plugin (yes, that is right, RIB import) is in the CVS. It does not create material objects yet, but reads lights and geometry just fine.

• Ayam 1.1 is available for download. It is not yet in the file-release-system on SourceForge but just on the home page(s). I plan to wait until next Monday for potential show stoppers. Please test it!

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