Description :
WaterRace Terrain Builder, also called WRTB, is a powerful 3D level editor designed to create and edit levels (or terrains) for WaterRace with real-time rendering through the Infinity 3D Rave engine.
WRTB creates new terrains using gray levels images. You can then apply textures and lighting on these terrains,
add objects, place cameras, create animations…
Software and hardware requirements :
Hardware requirements:
Minimal configuration: Power Macintosh with a 832x624 screen, but the Rave software engine provided by QuickDraw 3D Rave will probably be too slow for real-time editing.
Best configuration: a G3 (all G3 Power Macintoshes have ATI 3D chips on board) with 4Mb of VRAM or a PowerMacintosh with a 3D accelerator card (with at least 4Mb of VRAM) which is Rave compliant, and a 1024x768 screen.
Software requirements:
WRTB requires MacOS 7.1 or later. MacOS 8.5 is highly recommended.
WRTB requires QuickTime™ and the Appearance Manager.
WRTB does not require QuickDraw 3D™ to run, but only Rave: the “QuickDraw™ 3D RAVE” extension must be present in the extensions folder of the System folder.
New features in WaterRace Terrain Builder 1.0 :
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The complete version history of WaterRace Terrain Builder (including the list of the bugs that were fixed) is available as a text file enclosed within the WRTB package.
Download the WaterRace Terrain Builder package now (version 1.0) :
| Package name | Package content |
Size |
| WR Terrain Builder 1.0 | Fusion application, users manual (40 pages) in PDF format, an FAQs text file and the version history. |
352 Kb |
| WRTB Tutorial | A few examples of complete objects: a soccer Ball, a space ship and the amazing walking Mech you can see on the screenshot page. |
595 Kb |
Download the special version of the WaterRace Terrain Builder program (version 1.0) for the pre-MacOS 8.5 systems (100Kb) - this file just contains a modified version of the application program; you still need to download the complete WaterRace Terrain Builder package.
You need StuffIt Expander to decompress the archives.
Important : you must agree to the license located at the end of the users manual before starting to use WaterRace Terrain Builder.
WaterRace Terrain Builder may be freely distributed by online services, bulletin boards, shareware collection CDs or non-profit user groups, as long as it is not modified. This software may not be included in any commercial package without the authorization of French Touch.
Check out Fusion :
Fusion is a powerful 3D editor developed by French Touch in order to create the 3D models to be used in conjunction with the WaterRace Terrain Builder.
Fusion was developed totally from the ground up as a real-time editor and is based on the Infinity 3D Rave engine; this makes it the fastest 3D tool available on the Mac platform even on low-end PowerMacs.
Read the complete description and download it on the Fusion web page.
Still more to come in the next versions... :
Path builder,
Collision detection...