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Added support for 3ds Max versions 2018 through 2022.
Made improvements throughout the plugin to improve the user experience. Almost everything has been improved in at least a small way. The overall workflow has been improved and has generally been made more fun.
Dramatically increased the rendering speed of the plugin, by using Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD) instructions found in modern Intel processors. On some scenes the rendering speed has been increased by a factor of four!
Added the ability to show information relevant to laser frame rendering in several 3ds Max rendering windows. The additional information shows the number of points in the frame, as well as the Z-axis coordinates of the rear-most and front-most elements in the scene. This information is very handy when using Beam Brush.
Added Soft Line capability to both the Utility plugin and also the Modifier plugin. This allows you to create faded line endings on any object independently. In order to do faded line endings previously, you needed to import frames of the animation and perform a post-process. This created extra work and also provided sub-optimal visual results.
Added Beam Brush capability to both the Utility plugin and also the Modifier plugin. This allows you to create animations that use dynamic beam divergence capability built into Kvant's line of Beam Brush projectors.
As a final note for this version, LC-Max was released in 2001, just a few years after the release of the LD2000 platform. At the time the LD2000 SDK was the most developed of its time. However, LD2000 is now a 22-year-old platform, and when compared to BEYOND, LD2000 really has a lot of limitations. The newer BEYOND platform is much more open and expansive from a development standpoint. For the past few versions of LC-Max, we struggled to create code that worked well with both LD2000 and BEYOND, but during the development of version 6.0, this struggle really hindered our ability to add the new features you see documented in this help file. Since the LD2000 platform is now 22 years old, and is no longer sold by Pangolin, we have removed support for LD2000. From this point forward, LC-Max will only work with BEYOND.
February 2004 - Version 3.50 BETA
September 2002 - Version 3.00 BETA
July 2001 - Introducing Lasershow Converter MAX version 2.0
January 2001 - Version 1.0
Lasershow Converter MAX released after demonstrating it at the 2000 ILDA Conference in Stuttgart, Germany.