Saturday, November 1st, 2008
One of the best features in CloudWright 1.6 is the realtime previews of raytraced clouds. This means that what you see on screen is much closer to the rendered cubemap. Like this:
As a sample of the output from 1.6, here's a 2048x2048 map in hdr and ldr formats, click here ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
CloudWright 1.6 is now available as beta software. Like previous versions, it's free to download and try. The big new feature is you can now see raytraced clouds in real time. There's lots of other good stuff, so take a look.
As 1.6 is beta, it needs some testing. We'd especially ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
We have been planning for a long time to put CloudWright plug-ins into the major 3D graphics packages, and the first of these will be the plug-in for XSI. When it's launched, CloudWright will be available in two versions - the standard edition, which is standalone, and is on sale ...
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Saturday, October 11th, 2008
Great news everyone! CloudWright moves today to a new, cheaper permanent price of £24.95. We're now using prices in pounds, not dollars - the exchange rates were giving our accountant a headache!
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
To celebrate the release of the rather great version 1.4, CloudWright is only $59 until the end of June!
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Our first major press coverage - the April 2008 issue of Develop magazine has half a page on CloudWright and the Clouds SDK. More information and subscriptions from www.developmag.com.
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
CloudWright 1.4 is a major milestone. We've made the windows interface much more configurable, we've merged the Free Edition with the main program.
But the big difference is we've integrated the realtime cloud rendering from the Simul Clouds SDK into CloudWright. This means that when you're in "Realtime" mode, you can ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Recent versions of CloudWright Free Edition had out-of-date cloud xml files that didn't load properly. This and more is now fixed in version 1.3. There's also an update to the full version, here. Apologies to anyone who's had problems with either one.
We've added a new feature, Quicklight, which does a ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Now that the demo is available, the promotional launch price for CloudWright is coming to an end. The regular price of US$80.00 will kick in on the 1st of February - that's four days from now. So now would be a great time to buy!
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
The Free Edition is now available - basically a demo, it's not time-limited but can't export cubemaps and so on. Hopefully the free one will help people evaluate how CW performs on their systems. On both versions, feedback is of course, welcome.
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