README

This is the README file for Mirai 1.0 Patch 3.

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1.0     On the NT platform, ***DO NOT*** uninstall previously installed
        patches. Doing so may uninstall components required to run Mirai.

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2.0     This patch includes:

        - Improved I/O through Game Exchange
        - Support for soft skin deformers
        - New version of Mirai renderer

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3.0     This patch fixes the following bugs (if you need more info,
        contact Nichimen Graphics Support):

Bug #   Description
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3D Paint
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4777     Added 'd' hot key to cycle through domains.
4998     Fixed Segmentation Violation with Paint on Faces [L].


3D Viewers
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4636    Elements no longer blink when moving background image.
4920    OpenGL display and render output of textures don't
        match.
4945    Error extruding with Animation Viewer & Geometry
        visible in same configuration.


Animation
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4813    Fixed error loading scene with script pasted from
        subscene.
4643    Added 'F6' hot key to add new channel.


Attributes
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4586    Can now tile UVs on copied object.
4737    Fixed ST coordinates rotating in opposite directions
        depending on domain.
4778    Added 'd' hot key to cycle through domains.


Configurations
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4072    Added option to automatically create camera graph.
        Choose File>Preferences>Geometry>Camera and set
        "Always Create Camera Graph?" to true.


Import/Export
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4271    Fixed GEx error importing objects with face(s) in
        more than one part.
4411    Fixed "Invalid Token" error reading in object with
        material written in .obj format.
4739    Views no longer imported as objects.
4834    Fixed error importing .gsf files where bones had
        no skin parts.
4835    Added export of keyframe information; add a marker
        track to the Record Game Animation channel and
        insert markers at frames to be marked as keyframes.
4999    Root translation now written out properly to
        GEx (some skeletons read in with the root or other
        bones rotated).
5007    Fixed problem exporting object in .3DS format.
5082    Fixed selecting views imported through GEx.
5085    Fixed error importing .gsf files where bones had
        no skin parts.
5119    Fixed error exporting/importing skin part on root.


Paint
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4402    Can now edit cutout brush and keep changes. 
4653    Added 'c' hot key to recenter image under the 
        pointer (e.g., when zoomed).


Physical Simulation
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4946    Fixed small memory leak with single point
        particle.


Render
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4860    Fixed error caused when rendering a scene which
        had face parts with no light group assigned.
4884    Fixed "Error Code -4 (BAD_SCAN_LINE)" error on
        SGI. If you interrupted a render and had "Add to
        Scene" selected, writing the partial image caused
        an error.
5019    Memory clean up (when render completes instead of
        when render exits).


Scene
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4797    Error saving scene after interrupted copy. If you
        started to copy an object, then aborted the copy,
        you may have been unable to save the scene.


Skeletons & Skins
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RFE 251 Soft skin deformers. Added support for soft skin
        deformers and Set Skin Weight operation. For
        documentation on using Soft Deformers go to 
        the Mirai>Support>Tips section of the Nichimen
        Web Site ().
4508    Added Mirror [M], which mirrors bones while
        maintaining axes direction.
4856    Fixed error where skin displacements were saving
        information for vertices which had numerically
        insignificant changes. Skin displacements should
        be much smaller now.
4916    [Chip off] from skin no longer maintains skin
        parts.
4939    Fixed 'Segmentation Violation' error when doing
        an IK Scale.
4965    Filter out small displacements in default skeleton.
        The default skeleton had a number of small skin
        displacements which have been removed (see 4856).
4992    Previously, changing the topology of a skin when 
        a skeleton or skin was not in its skin reference pose
        or skin base position updated the skin base position
        and reshaped the skin automatically. This no longer
        happens.