#3DS 2.01 is out!
hehehe… To be specific, we sped up the IPAS routines by THIRTY TIMES. We
noticed that as we were developing the new IPAS stuff (like the particle
systems and the fractal flora) we were waiting forever for objects to be
created and pumped back into 3D Studio. So… we developed a new "burst"
mode that allows the IPAS routines to blast huge amounts of data into 3DS
virtually instantaneously (one of the nice things Phar Lap lets you do).
One of the other super things in 2.01 that you haven't noticed is that we
improved the 8-bit color-cut method for making gifs and flics by about 100
times. You can even avoid dithering most of the time now, and that
increases playback speed and decreases overall flic size. It's a pretty
awesome improvement.
Enjoy!
– G