TurnTool Newsletter
The 25th of June 2002

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State of the Art
TurnTool breaks new boundaries for architectural visualization. The new residence project of the Technical Academy of Jutland is a sight to behold ...all in interactive 3D on the web. Check out the link...
 Technical Academy of Jutland

Sponsors
TurnTool now sponsors the Danish national beach volley team...
 Beach Volley Sponsors

3D Site of the Week
TurnTool makes 3D Site of the Week on the French website 3D-Test. The guys at this very comprehensive 3D site obviously knows what they are talking about, needless to say, we are very pleased with this honor.
 www.3d-test.com

The TurnTool Viewer Introduces New Features:
  • TurnTool Viewer now smaller than ever (and smallest of all) at a mere 124K initial download.
  • 7% faster rendering speed. Further optimizations have made TurnTool even faster.

The TurnToolBox Introduces New Features:
  • Support for map channel selected. Making TurnTool exports even more flexible.
  • Vertex colors. Can be used for precalculated lighting in unlit scenes. If used properly this can give a huge performance boost to your scene. Used in the new Technical Academy scene...
     Technical Academy of Jutland
  • Restraining of the camera controller to a specified angle interval. Don't want to let the viewer view the scene or model from an awkward angle? Don't have to! See an example of how...
     Table In Room
  • LookAtV object property. Modifies the LookAt flag to only work in one direction. Useful for billboarded vegetation in architectural scenes. Used in the new Technical Academy scene...
     Technical Academy of Jutland
It is always recommended to update to the newest version of the TurnToolBox. This is free, so it's time to hit those upgrade buttons folks. Update TurnToolBox now. When installing the TurnToolBox, the TurnTool Viewer is updated as well.

The TurnToolBox features are all fully documented in the TurnTool Manual.

COMING SOON!!!
The TurnTool scripting system. Give your scenes new life by making them truly interactive. Clickable objects controlling animations are now possible to implement using TurnTool's new simple scripting interface.
Scripts are written in JavaScript in the html files in which the TurnTool objects are embedded. We have a few teasers showing off some of the features, complete with example max & html files...
Demos:
 Compaq Laptop
Danfoss Valve
Canon Camera
Pakcept Mailbox
Max & html files:
 Compaq.zip (2169K)
 Danfoss.zip (849K)
 Canon.zip (297K)
 Pakcept.zip (442K)


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We wish you a pleasant summer.

The TurnTool Team