ANN: Leveller 2.5 available

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Jul 8, 2005
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The evolution of the species continues…

The Leveller 2.5 heightfield modeler is now available.
For existing 2.x users, a free update is available by contacting The 2.5 demo is available at
http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller/download/lev 25demo.zip

Main changes since 2.4:

– Graphics tablet support with brushsize/strength pressure sensitivity – 16-bit selection masking (e.g., no feathering artifacts) – Faster, multithreaded Rotate filter
– Faster brush tool operation
– Cached surface normals for fast dot-product lighting
– Gaussian Blur filter
– Motion Blur filter
– Radial Blur filter
– Zoom Blur filter
– Unsharp Mask filter
– Eyedropper tool
– Tween tool
– Smudge tool
– Global primary/secondary elevation settings
– More tool-scene pane interaction
– Renderer plug-ins
– Shadows in views and in raytracer
– Antialiased camera, lightsource, and brush reticle overlays – General document annotations (e.g., author, copyright, notes) – TER 6 document format (not openable by 2.4 or older)

New Craters plug-in; draws realistic and customizable craters

‘Standard’ raytracing shader provides ambient/diffuse/specular lighting, and reflection/transparency.

‘Snow’ raytracing shader improved.

Ray Gardener
Daylon Graphics Ltd.
http://www.daylongraphics.com/products/leveller
"Heightfield modeling perfected"

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