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Subject: Updates to Ground Control and Shaders Plus plug-ins

ewinemiller opened this issue on Jan 01, 2005 · 1 posts

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ewinemiller ( ) posted Sat, 01 January 2005 at 2:02 PM · edited Tue, 07 July 2026 at 9:11 PM

Hi folks,

We've just posted a couple of DCG plug-in updates.

The first is an update for Shaders Plus that fixes a problem with the Anisotropic lighting model where multiple alpha transparencies would cause it to be much brighter than it should. This fix requires the 4.01 update for Carrara 4 to be installed for it to work correctly. Additionally it changes the Shadow Glow lighting model so that if you set it to a negative value, it will only glow when illuminated.

The second update is to Ground Control. Some packages for manipulating USGS DEM files will not correctly set the minimum and maximum elevation values. If you have problems with this, there is a new option (Calculate USGS DEM elevation) that will make an additional pass through the actual data to get the elevation instead of trusting what is in the header.

The upgrades are free for existing customers. You can download the updates or try Shaders Plus and Ground Control from the links below.