{"id":77,"date":"2007-03-27T09:14:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T09:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2007-03-27T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T09:15:47","slug":"beta-3-progress-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/beta-3-progress-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Beta-3 Progress Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written last.. Each Beta cycle is expected to take 2 weeks, but they seem to be brushing right up on a month. There&#8217;s been a variety of work behind the scenes, but its time to post another Cool Image from the WM Pro development.<\/p>\n<p>Beta-3 adds Bezier curve segments to the Line and Polygon tools, as well as handy things like importing\/exporting of paths and shapes via SVG and AI formats.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a new example world file that shows a bit of the Layout mode UI:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bezier_tease1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bezier_tease1.jpg\" id=\"image75\" src=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bezier_tease1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Something to notice here is that it&#8217;s quite possible to view the end result of your working pipeline while working on something higher up the chain. In this case, I&#8217;m editing the spline path defining the road, while viewing the result after being eroded, textured, and lit. Although it takes a strong machine to work in this way, the results are pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a &#8220;final build&#8221; look at the terrain &#038; texture:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bezier_tease2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bezier_tease2.jpg\" id=\"image76\" src=\"http:\/\/world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bezier_tease2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve written last.. Each Beta cycle is expected to take 2 weeks, but they seem to be brushing right up on a month. There&#8217;s been a variety of work behind the scenes, but its time to post another Cool Image from the WM Pro development. Beta-3 adds Bezier curve segments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-machine-pro-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.world-machine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}