Reader Mail & Rumor Report

In today's report, we note the release of Babya bSuite to Go,Citybuilder,Icon Stiudio,Babya Film Central.

A minor update for Babya Icon Studio is now available at:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037383
New Babya synth-ES10 A new Babya synth-the ES10 is coming early next month.
Available for popular audio production hosts and VST hosts-including Babya VST Host supplied with Logic Pro, it can produce classic sounds of the 70's/80's and the 90's.

BabyaCAD-Softpedia BabyaCAD is now at Softpedia:http://www.softpedia.com/get/Science-CAD/BabyaCAD.shtml
Babya Citybuilder released

Babya Citybuilder is a fun game-that lets you build your own cities:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037381
Babya Photo Workshop Express 3.5-Softpedia

Babya Photo Workshop Express 3.5 is now available to download from Softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Babya-Photo-Workshop-Express.shtml

BabyaCAD is now available.

BabyaCAD is a powerful computer aided design software package, its features include
Position and rotation control
Adding polygons
Editing polygons
Editing points
Editing points extended
Textures
Materials
Light sources
Assigning textures and materials to polygons
View modes
Save as Shot It map
Restore original Shot It map
The position and rotation controls are left upper. There is only one basic rule: If there’s something selected, the position and rotation control works for the selected object. It there’s nothing selected, these controls works for the user position and rotation. This means you can move and look with these buttons if there’s nothing selected.

You can add polygons by clicking 'Add object…' in the 'Create 3d scene' menu. You get a form in which you can change between adding an object by defining its size manually or to add an object by defining its size and / or position by clicking on points of already existing polygons. Of course you can only choose this if there are already existing polygons.
You can choose which 3d object you want to add by selecting the repesentative point and clicking OK. Try the following: Choose 'Add a floor' and enter, for instance, the following numbers: Width 10, Lenght 10, Begin height –2, P. in width 5, P. in length 5. You get an floor like the following screenshot:



Adding other objects works similar.
If you have choosen to add an object by clicking on existing points of polygons, you get a message box which tells you what to do.

Editing polygons
You can edit polygons only if they’re selected. To select a polygon, choose 'Edit polygons' in the edit mode dropdown. After this, you can select a polygon by clicking on it. If a polygon is selected, it appears in a red colour. You are able to multi-select polygons if you press Strg and click on other polygons. You also can unselect a polygon if you click on a already selected polygon while pressing the Strg button, or if you click on any position where nothing is, all polygons become unselected again. If you click and move the mouse while the button is pressed you can define an area in which all polygons become selected. If you press Strg+A, every polygon becomes selected. Just try it!
With the Entf button you can delete the selected polygons. With the position and rotation buttons you can move and rotate the selected polygons in the representative direction. If the 'Also move near polygons' option in the 'Edit mode' is checked, every connected polygon also will be moved. If not, only the selected polygons are moved. Just try to select some polygons of the floor by holding the Strg button pressed and clicking on some polygons and move them up. To do this, you have to click the y+ button in in the position control some times. If you click on a button of the rotation control, the selected polygons rotate around their midpoint.
Editing points
If you select 'Edit points' in the edit mode dropdown, you are able to select single points of any polygon. It works nearly in the same way as editing complete polygons. You can select points by clicking on any corner of a polygon and you also can multi-select point by pressing the Strg button. After selecting points, you can move them like polygons with the position control.

Editing points extended
To use this feature, you have to select the 'Edit points extended' in the edit mode dropdown.
This is a very nice feature. You can generate hills with it. It moves the selected point(s) and also moves near points but not as much as the selected one. This generates a hill. Just check out the screenshot.

After changing the height with the y+ button three little hills were created. Pretty cool, isn’t it?Notice:
Textures
An important part of every 3d object are textures. In DX Cad, you can use every bmp file which has a width and height of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 etc. as basis for a texture. A 32 x 64 bmp file is valid, a 40 x 40 not. A invalid bmp file can’t be loaded in DX Cad. So, always change a bitmap file in a program like paint to a valid size before using it in DX Cad.
Every bitmap file which should be used as a texture has to be in the 'DX Cad'\Textures folder. To create a BabyaCADtexture file, choose 'Set textures…' in the 'Create 3d scene' menu. Now select 'Add new texture'. You can browse now for bmp files. After selecting a bitmap file, you can see it in the picture box. Now you can enter a colour which should be transparent. Notice: The preview 3d engine doesn’t support (render) this feature. Add all textures you want to use this way. After finishing, select the 'Save' button and specify a file name. You have created a texture file now!
Such files can be used for the texturing of any 3d object. Hint: Create for every obj file it’s own texture file except the files are using the same textures.
Materials
To render a 3d object, there are two things nescessary: textures and materials. You can define materials by choosing 'Set materials…' in the 'Create 3d scene' menu. Now select 'Add new material'. You can enter a name for the material. The other properties like colour and own lightning have default values which usually don’t have to be changed. There’s even a default material file (Standard.mat) which can be used for the most of the 3d objects so that you shouldn’t have to create your own material. The Global.mat is the material file used by the 3d ego shooter game Shot It.
Light sources
To generate a realistic 3d scene, you need to simulate lightning. The lightning info is usually not stored in the 3d object file itself, and BabyaCADsaves the lightning data to a lig file. Due to this, the 3d object is stored separtly in the obj file and the lightning in the lig file.
There are two light types: Directional light and indirectional light. The directional light is for example a point or spot light. The indirectional (also called ambient) lightning is a general lightning which floods the whole 3d scene. It is often used to keep a minimum lightness. In DX Cad, you are able to set both types of lights.
Indirectional lightThis light type intensity can be set if you choose '3D settings…' in the 'Extra' menu.
Directional lightYou can edit directional lights by clicking on 'Add / edit directional light source...' in the 'Create 3d scene' menu. If you select 'Add new light source', you’ll be able to change the light properties. It depends on the type of the light source which properties are enabled to change and which not. This type of light handling isn’t invented by me but DirectX needs this format. I’ll explain the most important light types and properties now.Pointlight:Spotlight:Directional light:
The lightning properties
You can enter a RGB colour between 0 and 255. A RGB of 0, 0, 0 means that the light colour is black and this is like there is no light. If the RGB is 255, 255, 255 you get the strongest white light which is possible. To create a normal light enter for the RGB values 10, 10, 10. If you want to create a coloured light source, enter for instance 10, 0, 0. This creates a red light source.Light colour:Specular light colour:Position:Direction:Max. range:Reduction:Angel phi and theta:Reduction form phi to theta:
Assigning textures and materials to polygons
A polygon is only a valid one if it has a texture AND a material assigned. If a polygon has only one of these two necessary things or none of it, DirectX would render the whole polygon only in a black colour, and BabyaCADsimply doesn’t render such polygons because black polygons wouldn’t be very useful.
So this means that every polygon must have a texture and a material. To assign it to the polygons, select all polygons which should get the texture or the material. Now click on 'Assign textures and materials to polygons...' from the 'Edit 3d scene' menu. You get a form in which you can set many things.
At first you have to set the texture and material file for the whole 3d object, if you havn’t done this so far. You can do this by clicking on 'Change texture / material file…'. Have a look at textures and materials on how to create such files. In most cases, you can use the predefined material file 'Standard.mat'.
After defining the texture and material file, the other properties gets enabled.
You can select a texture with the scroll buttons or entering it’s number. You also have to select the alignment of the texture. At least you have to choose between two texturing modes: the first one puts the texture on every selected polygon seperatly and the second one pushes the texture as a whole over all selected polygons. If you are ready, click on 'Assign texture to polygons'.
The material can be selected like the textures (with the scroll buttons or entering it’s number). If you use the Standard.mat, ther’s only one material, the 'Standard-Material'. It’s recommended that you use this material. If you are ready, click on 'Assign material to polygons'.
View modes
There are three different view modes: The standard polygon model, the edit model and the preview.
In the polygon model, only rectangles are drawn.
In the edit model, every single triangle is drawn. If you select a polygon, you can see it’s normal vector. This vector says from which side the polygon is visible. You can change this in the 'Edit 3d scene' menu by clicking on 'Set visibility…'.
In the preview, you can’t edit the 3d scene. The whole scene is rendered via DirectX. You can move and rotate with the position and rotation controls. Notice that only these polygons can be rendered which have assigned a texture AND a material and that you can only see the polygons from the side where to normal vector points to. This means for example that a floor is only seen if you are over the floor and look down to it. You won’t see the floor if you are under the floor and look up to it. This is done by DirectX because of the performance. You can change the visibility, as mentionted, in the 'Edit 3d scene' menu by clicking on 'Set visibility…'.
Save as Shot It map
Someone asked me if it was possible with BabyaCA Dto generate own landscapes for the 3d ego shooter game Shot It.
I’ve implemented in BabyaCADan export function to the Shot It file format.
Just generate the landscape with BabyaCADas usual and select 'Save as Shot It map…' from the 'Shot It' menu.NOTICE:
You get a form witch contains conditions for your map. This is to mind bugs in the game afterwards. After defining all necessary points, you get a message that the map was sucessfully saved. You should be able now to play your map with the Shot It game.


You can easily restore the original Shot It map by selecting 'Restore original Shot It map...' from the 'Shot It' menu.
You just have to select the Shot It game directory.NOTICE:
You’ll get an error message if you try this when you havn’t exported a own level into the game so far. It’s easier if you open the original Shot It map and edit it as to begin a new one, but you can do both things as well. This is the internal light reduction from the upper to the inner core of the lightning from a spotlight. It’s recommended to let this value to it’s default.
This two angles are only used for the spotlight to define the lightning angle.

Their functionality is very complex, so let this value to the default. This is the reduction of the light over the distance.
Default is 1. If you want to get a light which rapidly falls off, enter a higher value. This defines the maximum range of the light source. This is also very simple. Here you can enter the direction of a light source. I think it’s known what this means. Here you are able to define the light source position. This is like the normal light colour but it’s used for specular reflexions. Notice: The preview 3d engine doesn’t support (render) this feature.
This light type is in my mention not very usefully. It also floods the whole 3d scene like the indirectional light, the only difference is that it has a direction. This light type can completly be compared with a torch. It has a position, a lightning direction and angles which define the lightning size. This is a light with a 3d position and it lights in every direction, so it’s like a little sun. The range of the movement can be changed if you choose 'Settings' in the 'Extra' menu and changing here the value of 'Max. distance to points of extended movement'. Increase this value if no points except the selected point are moved when clicking on a button of the position control.
Download:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037359http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaCAD.exe
Babya Space War Babya Space War is a exciting game from Babya's new Babya Games division to be released next week.
The game comes in two versions: Retro and Evolved.
The Retro version is inspired by the first implementation of Spacewar, developed by Stephen Russell, Peter Samson, and Dan Edwards in 1962 for the DEC PDP-1; the Evolved version features similar gameplay, but with 3D models and effects
What's so cool about Babya Space War is that a Xbox 360 controller connected to your PC can be used to play-see the control mapping table below:Action Controller Keyboard P1 Keyboard P2 Select ship type, color, and weapon D-pad A, D, W, S arrow keys or keypad arrows Fire weapon Right trigger or A V keypad 7, keypad ., Home, or Delete Rotate ship, forward and reverse thrust Left thumbstick A, D, W, S arrow keys or keypad arrows Hyperspace warp Left trigger or B G keypad 1, keypad 0, End, or Insert Pause Back Left SHIFT Right SHIFT
Button Keyboard P1 Keyboard P2 A V Home or keypad 7 B G End or keypad 1 X F Page Up or keypad 9 Y T Page Down or keypad 3
Babya Software Group is now Babya Babya Software Group is now Babya-see below:
Babya Software Group today announced a corporate name change to Babya-dropping the Software Group part of its name from today.
Babya Software Group once best known from Babya System, now offers a wide range of software solutions-hence the change to just Babya.
The company also unveiled a new logo to coincide with the name change-a stunning silver colored 'babya'. It can be viewed at http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/1936/babyalogote4.jpg
Babya Software Group's A.A. Fussy said,"It was great being called Babya Software Group for four years-when we only did system and imaging software. But as we expanded to offer video,audio and office applications we felt our name didn't reflect our current product offerings. And as a result-the new Babya was born:with the power of the well-known Babya brand combined with our large product range and expertise."
The new Babya offers a wide range of products-from system utilities,office and photo software to video and audio applications.
Babya has a website at http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com and a blog at http://babyasoftwaregr.livejournal.com/.
About Babya:
Babya (formerly known as Babya Software Group) is an award-winning developer of digital media software for Mac and Windows, including bSuite,Babya OneVideo, bPicture, Babya Firestorm, Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.
Babya's software has won many awards over the past several years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005), a Softpedia Pick and 100% clean award (2006) and has been featured in magazines such as PC Utilities and PC Format. Jun. 24th, 2007 @ 11:42 am (Leave a comment) » Babya Photo Workshop Express 3.5 Babya Photo Workshop Express 3.5 is now available to download.
Download:http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaPhotoWorkshopExpress.exehttp://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037357
Babya bSuite to Go at Softpedia Babya bSuite to Go is now at at Softpedia:http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Office/Suites-editors/Windows-Portable-Applications-Babya-bSuite-to-Go.shtml
Babya Icon Studio-Softpedia Babya Icon Studio is downloadable at Softpedia: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Enhancements/Icons-Related/Babya-Icon-Studio.shtml
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/Babya-Icon-Studio-Screenshot-76633.html

Babya bSuite to Go no-install http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037338Jun. 21st, 2007 @ 07:32 am (Leave a comment) » Babya bSuite to Go released Babya's new portable office suite suitable for use on USB flash drives.
Called Babya bSuite to Go and based on the award-winning Babya bSuite, it offers: Babya E-Type Express Babya Notes Babya Clip-displays the contents of Window's clipboard Babya Picture Edit-a rebranded Babya Photo Workshop Express with basic drawing tools that now only saves images as .BMP files.
It is the first version of Babya bSuite that is designed to be a portable application for use from USB flash drives and the first in the To Go series-a line of portable applications that can be used from a USB flash drive from Babya.
Babya bSuite To Go is the first Babya software that is Windows Vista exclusive.
Babya bSuite to Go can be downloaded at: http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037337

Babya Icon Studio released Babya's professional icon editor and creator application-Babya Icon Studio is now shipping.
Some features are:Effects ToolsReflectorsStretch/ShrinkScreen captureExtractorRotator
Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037336
Babya Film Central Server Coming soon will be a web based server solution for Babya's video graphics asset management application-Babya Film Central Server.
More details are to be posted soon.
Babya Film Central released Babya's video graphics asset management application-Babya Film Central v 1.1 is now downloadable.New features:Has a new interface with file scanning
Download:http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000037335
Babya Icon Studio and bSuite to Go release date Babya Icon Studio and bSuite to Go release date-now offcial:Babya Icon Studio:July 1, 2007bSuite to Go:July 10, 2007
» Babya bSuite and System 2008-September release Babya bSuite and System 2008 will both ship in September-a month before OS X 10.5 ships.
Babya bDesktop Express Babya bDesktop Express allows you to is to get rid of that messy desktop. All this application does is clean your desktop. It does this by arranging all files of the same type together,easily accessible from the system tray.
Babya bDesktop Express is only available as part of Babya System 2008. Babya Spaces
Babya Spaces is the new name for Desktop4-now offering a RAM status viewer.

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-June 13, 2007

In today's Reader Mail & Rumor Report, we note the release of bCal 4.0, and the announcements of bPicture 2008, Babya System 2008,BabyaCAD and Babya Film Central Public preview 2.


Babya bCal 4:

bCal 4 is now available offering Babya E-Type 4.0 for notes saving,
Windows Vista compatibility and PDF conversion of saved notes.

Babya bCal is a easy to use, PIM program that supports multiple
calendars.


You can use Babya bCal to store your friends, business associates
name, address,
company, telephone, email, webpage, info, photos and more.


If there are several people using the same computer they could all
have their
own Contacts books (Contact databases)-you can create as many as you
want and
call them what ever you want.


Easily backup and restore your address book to any location you want.


You can open and send a email to current person or open his/her
webpage.


A easy to use search feature for easily locating information using
several search
criteria such as: Last Name, First Name, Company, Address, Telephone,
Mobile, City, Country.


Use the included Babya E-Type to easily copy and save notes, then
convert them
to PDF with Babya PDF Converter.


Babya bCal 4.0 can be obtained at:
http://winsite.com/bin/Info?27000000037317

Babya Film Central 1.1


BabyaCAD:
BabyaCAD is a powerful computer aided design software to be released in July or August-a summary of the feature is below:

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Contents:

Position and rotation control

Adding polygons

Editing polygons

Editing points

Editing points extended

Textures

Materials

Light sources

Assigning textures and materials to polygons

View modes

Save as Shot It map

Restore original Shot It map

The position and rotation controls are left upper. There is only one basic rule: If there’s something selected, the position and rotation control works for the selected object. It there’s nothing selected, these controls works for the user position and rotation. This means you can move and look with these buttons if there’s nothing selected.

You can add polygons by clicking "Add object…" in the "Create 3d scene" menu. You get a form in which you can change between adding an object by defining its size manually or to add an object by defining its size and / or position by clicking on points of already existing polygons. Of course you can only choose this if there are already existing polygons.

You can choose which 3d object you want to add by selecting the repesentative point and clicking OK. Try the following: Choose "Add a floor" and enter, for instance, the following numbers: Width 10, Lenght 10, Begin height –2, P. in width 5, P. in length 5. You get an floor like the following screenshot:

Adding other objects works similar.

If you have choosen to add an object by clicking on existing points of polygons, you get a message box which tells you what to do.

Editing polygons

You can edit polygons only if they’re selected. To select a polygon, choose "Edit polygons" in the edit mode dropdown. After this, you can select a polygon by clicking on it. If a polygon is selected, it appears in a red colour. You are able to multi-select polygons if you press Strg and click on other polygons. You also can unselect a polygon if you click on a already selected polygon while pressing the Strg button, or if you click on any position where nothing is, all polygons become unselected again. If you click and move the mouse while the button is pressed you can define an area in which all polygons become selected. If you press Strg+A, every polygon becomes selected. Just try it!

With the Entf button you can delete the selected polygons. With the position and rotation buttons you can move and rotate the selected polygons in the representative direction. If the "Also move near polygons" option in the "Edit mode" is checked, every connected polygon also will be moved. If not, only the selected polygons are moved. Just try to select some polygons of the floor by holding the Strg button pressed and clicking on some polygons and move them up. To do this, you have to click the y+ button in in the position control some times. If you click on a button of the rotation control, the selected polygons rotate around their midpoint.

Editing points

If you select "Edit points" in the edit mode dropdown, you are able to select single points of any polygon. It works nearly in the same way as editing complete polygons. You can select points by clicking on any corner of a polygon and you also can multi-select point by pressing the Strg button. After selecting points, you can move them like polygons with the position control.

Editing points extended

To use this feature, you have to select the "Edit points extended" in the edit mode dropdown.

This is a very nice feature. You can generate hills with it. It moves the selected point(s) and also moves near points but not as much as the selected one. This generates a hill. Just check out the screenshot.

After changing the height with the y+ button three little hills were created. Pretty cool, isn’t it?Notice:

Textures

An important part of every 3d object are textures. In DX Cad, you can use every bmp file which has a width and height of 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 etc. as basis for a texture. A 32 x 64 bmp file is valid, a 40 x 40 not. A invalid bmp file can’t be loaded in DX Cad. So, always change a bitmap file in a program like paint to a valid size before using it in DX Cad.

Every bitmap file which should be used as a texture has to be in the \Textures folder. To create a BabyaCADtexture file, choose "Set textures…" in the "Create 3d scene" menu. Now select "Add new texture". You can browse now for bmp files. After selecting a bitmap file, you can see it in the picture box. Now you can enter a colour which should be transparent. Notice: The preview 3d engine doesn’t support (render) this feature. Add all textures you want to use this way. After finishing, select the "Save" button and specify a file name. You have created a texture file now!

Such files can be used for the texturing of any 3d object. Hint: Create for every obj file it’s own texture file except the files are using the same textures.

Materials

To render a 3d object, there are two things nescessary: textures and materials. You can define materials by choosing "Set materials…" in the "Create 3d scene" menu. Now select "Add new material". You can enter a name for the material. The other properties like colour and own lightning have default values which usually don’t have to be changed. There’s even a default material file (Standard.mat) which can be used for the most of the 3d objects so that you shouldn’t have to create your own material. The Global.mat is the material file used by the 3d ego shooter game Shot It.

Light sources

To generate a realistic 3d scene, you need to simulate lightning. The lightning info is usually not stored in the 3d object file itself, and BabyaCADsaves the lightning data to a lig file. Due to this, the 3d object is stored separtly in the obj file and the lightning in the lig file.

There are two light types: Directional light and indirectional light. The directional light is for example a point or spot light. The indirectional (also called ambient) lightning is a general lightning which floods the whole 3d scene. It is often used to keep a minimum lightness. In DX Cad, you are able to set both types of lights.

Indirectional lightThis light type intensity can be set if you choose "3D settings…" in the "Extra" menu.

Directional lightYou can edit directional lights by clicking on "Add / edit directional light source..." in the "Create 3d scene" menu. If you select "Add new light source", you’ll be able to change the light properties. It depends on the type of the light source which properties are enabled to change and which not. This type of light handling isn’t invented by me but DirectX needs this format. I’ll explain the most important light types and properties now.Pointlight:Spotlight:Directional light:

The lightning properties

You can enter a RGB colour between 0 and 255. A RGB of 0, 0, 0 means that the light colour is black and this is like there is no light. If the RGB is 255, 255, 255 you get the strongest white light which is possible. To create a normal light enter for the RGB values 10, 10, 10. If you want to create a coloured light source, enter for instance 10, 0, 0. This creates a red light source.

Light colour:Specular light colour:Position:Direction:Max. range:Reduction:Angel phi and theta:Reduction form phi to theta:

Assigning textures and materials to polygons

A polygon is only a valid one if it has a texture AND a material assigned. If a polygon has only one of these two necessary things or none of it, DirectX would render the whole polygon only in a black colour, and BabyaCADsimply doesn’t render such polygons because black polygons wouldn’t be very useful.

So this means that every polygon must have a texture and a material. To assign it to the polygons, select all polygons which should get the texture or the material. Now click on "Assign textures and materials to polygons..." from the "Edit 3d scene" menu. You get a form in which you can set many things.

At first you have to set the texture and material file for the whole 3d object, if you havn’t done this so far. You can do this by clicking on "Change texture / material file…". Have a look at textures and materials on how to create such files. In most cases, you can use the predefined material file "Standard.mat".

After defining the texture and material file, the other properties gets enabled.

You can select a texture with the scroll buttons or entering it’s number. You also have to select the alignment of the texture. At least you have to choose between two texturing modes: the first one puts the texture on every selected polygon seperatly and the second one pushes the texture as a whole over all selected polygons. If you are ready, click on "Assign texture to polygons".

The material can be selected like the textures (with the scroll buttons or entering it’s number). If you use the Standard.mat, ther’s only one material, the "Standard-Material". It’s recommended that you use this material. If you are ready, click on "Assign material to polygons".

View modes

There are three different view modes: The standard polygon model, the edit model and the preview.

In the polygon model, only rectangles are drawn.

In the edit model, every single triangle is drawn. If you select a polygon, you can see it’s normal vector. This vector says from which side the polygon is visible. You can change this in the "Edit 3d scene" menu by clicking on "Set visibility…".

In the preview, you can’t edit the 3d scene. The whole scene is rendered via DirectX. You can move and rotate with the position and rotation controls. Notice that only these polygons can be rendered which have assigned a texture AND a material and that you can only see the polygons from the side where to normal vector points to. This means for example that a floor is only seen if you are over the floor and look down to it. You won’t see the floor if you are under the floor and look up to it. This is done by DirectX because of the performance. You can change the visibility, as mentionted, in the "Edit 3d scene" menu by clicking on "Set visibility…".

Save as Shot It map

Someone asked me if it was possible with BabyaCA Dto generate own landscapes for the 3d ego shooter game Shot It.

I’ve implemented in BabyaCADan export function to the Shot It file format.

Just generate the landscape with BabyaCADas usual and select "Save as Shot It map…" from the "Shot It" menu.NOTICE:

You get a form witch contains conditions for your map. This is to mind bugs in the game afterwards. After defining all necessary points, you get a message that the map was sucessfully saved. You should be able now to play your map with the Shot It game.

You can easily restore the original Shot It map by selecting "Restore original Shot It map..." from the "Shot It" menu.

You just have to select the Shot It game directory.NOTICE:

You’ll get an error message if you try this when you havn’t exported a own level into the game so far. It’s easier if you open the original Shot It map and edit it as to begin a new one, but you can do both things as well. This is the internal light reduction from the upper to the inner core of the lightning from a spotlight. It’s recommended to let this value to it’s default.


This two angles are only used for the spotlight to define the lightning angle.


Their functionality is very complex, so let this value to the default. This is the reduction of the light over the distance.


Default is 1. If you want to get a light which rapidly falls off, enter a higher value. This defines the maximum range of the light source. This is also very simple. Here you can enter the direction of a light source. I think it’s known what this means. Here you are able to define the light source position. This is like the normal light colour but it’s used for specular reflexions. Notice: The preview 3d engine doesn’t support (render) this feature.


This light type is in my mention not very usefully. It also floods the whole 3d scene like the indirectional light, the only difference is that it has a direction. This light type can completly be compared with a torch. It has a position, a lightning direction and angles which define the lightning size. This is a light with a 3d position and it lights in every direction, so it’s like a little sun. The range of the movement can be changed if you choose "Settings" in the "Extra" menu and changing here the value of "Max. distance to points of extended movement". Increase this value if no points except the selected point are moved when clicking on a button of the position control.

Babya bPicture:

Official information about Babya bPicture can be found at:http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/babyabpicture

A Flash SWF can be viewed from that page.

Babya today announced the upcoming release of Babya bPicture 2008-a completely reinvented version of its digital asset managenment software.

Babya bPicture has been completely rebuilt using the NET Framework for the fastest image browsing experience-it can handle browsing of thousands of images (compared to the old VB6 based version).

Babya bPicture now has a built-in, in-program editing and slideshows.



Completely reinvented
Use the completely redesigned and Windows Photo Gallery inspired interface to easily organise all of your precious photos-whether already digital or scanned-in.

The new bPicture works extremely well with Babya PhotoPro and Photo Workshop.

Optimized for Windows Vista and conforms to the Aero UI-also XP compatibile


Best of both worlds
Use the new Babya bPicture editor to perform edits to your images-it’s a hybrid combination of Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Photo Center.

Get the stats
Compared to previous versions, bPicture 2008 can display even more image data.

Prints and slides better
New to Babya bPicture is a print preview function and a simple slideshow option.


Babya's A.A. Fussy,"With the all-new bPicture, organizing a large photo library is suprisingly easy."


Babya's Alvin Novick said ,"The all-new bPicture lets you edit and show-off images in a photo library is easy to do, yet quick."

Pricing and Availability:
Babya bPicture 2008 will be shipping in early July, as a free download.

About Babya:

Babya Software Group is an award-winning developer of digital media software for Mac and Windows, including bSuite,Babya OneVideo, bPicture, Babya Firestorm, Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.

Babya's software has won many awards over the past several years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005), a Softpedia Pick and 100% clean award (2006) and has been featured in magazines such as PC Utilities and PC Format.

Babya System 2008:

With Apple announcing some of Mac OS X 10.5's new features and the announcement of a all-new Babya System release soon, we look at some rumors and answer questions.

:Interface:-Babya System's bDesktop is now a full desktop environment.Yes, it's true! Babya bDesktop is now OS X like in function,unlike many other Explorer replacements, bDesktop works in harmony with the Desktop.

Babya Film Central Public preview 2

Babya Film Central Public preview 2 screenshot-it now has a new interface with file scanning:

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-June 1, 2007

In this edition-we note the announcement of Production Suite's release date, CityBuilder and bPicture 2008 and several tips and questions about Babya software.

Tips & Questions:
As there are a lot of Babya Photo Workshop users out there and those who want to try PhotoPro, one question we get is:can BBC files be used?

The answer is no-as PhotoPro can only use Paint Shop Pro color palettes.

BabyaTV tip:
A great use for BabyaTV is for movie scoring with Apple's Logic Express or Logic Pro.

Just import the movie into Logic-it's best if you recorded a audio and video track in BabyaTV into your song project.

Although-if you only did a audio-only .MOV, your results will be different.

There you go-it's that simple.


Babya Production Suite update:
Babya bMovie Pro is a graphical tool for creating Microsoft DirectShow Editing Services timelines and editing of Babya XTL format slideshows-a major part of Production Suite

Babya bMovie has a unusual timeline production based workflow-different from other non-linear editors but is easy to use learn and quite effective.



The UI is broken down into the following parts.

1. Pull Down Menus

a. The pull down menus allow for Creating New Timelines.

b. Opening Existing Timelines

c. Saving Timelines

d. Exiting The Sample Application

2. Button Bar

3. Tree View

4. Explorer View



Toolbar
In the button bar here is a description of the buttons from left to right.

New

Open

Save

Seek To Beginning of timeline

Seek Backwards 1 second

Play Timeline

Pause Playback

Stop Playback

Seek Forwards 1 second

Seek to Ending of timeline

The Timeline


Once the timeline is loaded the timeline will appear in the left pane of the application in the tree view.



If you select an item in the tree view the properties for that item are displayed in the right pane (Read-only list view control)



Timeline Operations


Inserts/Edits/deletes are done by right clicking on the item you want to edit in the left pane.

A Contextsensitive menu will appear that will allow you to modify the timeline. A different popup menu will appear depending on the item

selected in the tree view. I.E. right clicking on the timeline will bring up the timeline menu, whereas right clicking on the group will bring up the group menu. These menus are different and will only allow you to do timeline modification that are allowed on the object selected.

The Pull down menus are for creating a new timeline, opening a existing timeline, and saving a timeline as XML file.

Babya Smart Trim
A application included with Babya bMovie Pro that trims a source clip and writes the trimmed clip to a new file using "smart recompression".

Babya Production Suite will be shipping in July.


Babya CityBuilder
Babya CityBuilder is a fun game that allows you to build your own cities.

Babya CityBuilder will be out in June.

Babya bPicture
A new version is currently in development.

That's it for this week's report

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-May 17, 2007

In today's Reader Mail & Rumor Report-we reveal that bPicture development has restarted and a reinvented, all-new release is on its way, and note the release of a UB build of BabyaTV, and Babya PhotoPro Art Collection .


Babya bPicture 2008:

Three teasers revealed the return of Babya bPicture-after last being updated in 2005:

Teaser-developed in VB .NET.
Teaser 2-familiar ACDSee style interface.
Teaser 3-built-in Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Photo Center.


The new look

Babya bPicture-organize photos/browser:
http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/8194/bpiictureorganizemj6.jpg
Babya bPicture-editor:
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/2599/bpiictureeditos7.jpg
Babya bPicture-print options:
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6012/bpiictureprintag3.jpg
Babya bPicture-slideshows:
http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/5053/bpicshowce6.jpg


Details about the new version are coming next week.


BabyaTV updated:
A Universal Binary version of BabyaTV has been released

.The initial release of BabyaTV was supposed to be a universal binary-but was actually a Intel only build (so PPC users could not run it).

This file will replace your BabyaTV with a version that is a Universal Binary.

How to update 1. Download update from http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/downloads.

2. Unzip-either by double-clicking on the update or expand it using Stuffit Expander.

3. Move the UB build of BabyaTV.app to where BabyaTV.app is installed to-usually /Applications.
Download:
http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/BabyaTVUB.zip


Babya PhotoPro & Art Collection

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection has been released.

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection is a free add-on to Babya PhotoPro that includes all of the images from Babya Presenter Pack 1 and over 20 newly created images that are suitable for backgrounds or for use with the sculpture feature.

Also included is a PDF file showing all of the available images.
Download:http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaPhotoProArtCollection.exe

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection & Babya PhotoPro are now both at VersionTracker:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/112769

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/win/112770
That's it for today's report

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-May 14, 2007

In today's reader mail & rumor report, we note the release of the "best product we've ever shipped"-Babya PhotoPro.

Babya PhotoPro
Babya PhotoPro is now shipping!

Babya today announced that its professional image solution,Babya PhotoPro is now available.

Babya PhotoPro is designed from the ground up for the professional photographer, but is also suitable for camera enthusiasts and even home users.

Babya PhotoPro features Babya's exclusive Scuplture technology-with it, users are able to make stunning embossed style images with ease.

Use Babya PhotoPro's powerful and advanced toolset to create the most impressive graphics ever-perfect for any project.

Familiar tools included for Photo Workshop XL users-3d shapes, filters/adders and the file browser

Offering the largest number of drawing tools ever offered-over 150 in fact, Babya PhotoPro provides the ultimate image editing workflow and 1000 undos/redo levels.

Babya PhotoPro provides precision selecting and zoom tools along with support for Paint Shop Pro color palettes.

Features for powerful workflow automation include the unique ability to merge images instantly-within PhotoPro, and the scuplture feature.

Babya PhotoPro is a great sharer-from scanning in images (TWAIN and WIA), to round-tripping of images- such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop to PhotoPro and back again.

And of course-sharing-in JPG format.

Babya PhotoPro offers a built-in icon editor and image tracing, in addition to the above.


Babya's A.A. Fussy said, "Babya PhotoPro is a all in one imaging software-offering features you won't find in commercial software-like intergrated image tracing in a bitmap editing software and sculpturing. It's designed from the ground up to appeal to professiomal photographers. In conclusion, it is one of the best products that we ever shipped."
Pricing and Availability:

Babya PhotoPro is shipping now and is designed for Windows Vista and Windows XP.

It can be downloaded at the following sites:http://babyasoftwaregroup.googlepages.com/InstallBabyaPhotoPro.exe
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036978

About Babya:
Babya Software Group is an award-winning developer of digital media software for Mac and Windows, including bSuite,Babya OneVideo, bPicture, Babya Firestorm, Babya Photo Workshop and Babya Logic.

Babya's software has won many awards over the past several years, including 5 stars (Babya bSuite, 2005), a Softpedia Pick and 100% clean award (2006) and has been featured in magazines such as PC Utilities and PC Format.


The Art Collection will be released tomorrow.

That's it for this week's report.

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-May 10, 2007

In this special editon. we cover the release of BabyaTV.

BabyaTV

BabyaTV is now available.BabyaTV is a easy to use but powerful audio/video capture application that saves to QuickTime format (.mov)-which is ideal for use in iMovie, iDVD, websites or Final Cut Studio.

The outputted files can even be used on Windows PC's with QuickTime 7 or later and applications such as Babya OneVideo.

Features include:
* Includes a set of Cocoa wrappers to Sequence Grabber classes
* The app itself is written in Cocoa
*Universal binary
* Captures movies using Sequence Grabber
* Performs real-time preview of audio and video
* Supports arbitrary numbers of source SGChannels
* Supports saving of Sequence Grabber settings files
* Supports restoration of previous captures from saved Sequence Grabber settings files
Video-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates video preview outside the Sequence Grabber using the SGDataProc -> ICMDecompressionSession -> CIImage -> NSOpenGLView sub-class
* Supports real-time scaling of video preview (live-resizing)
* Supports setting video preview codec quality (low, normal, high, etc.)
* Supports dynamic throttling of video preview fps
* Shows standard SGSettingsDialog for video channel configuration
Audio-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates getting/setting most audio properties, including:
* Listing record devices * Selection of record device
* Selection of record device input selection
* Selection of record device stream format
* Setting of record device master and per-channel gain (in hardware or software)
* Enabling/disabling source channels on record device
* Assignment of audio channel labels to source channels
* Solo'ing and muting of source record channels
* Record device per-channel level metering
* Listing of preview devices
*Selection of preview device
* Selection of preview device output selection
* Selection of preview device stream format
* Setting of preview device master gain
* Hardware playthru or software real-time preview
* Selection of output format (including VBR formats, sample rate conversion, down-mixing, etc.)

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036967

That's it for this special issue.

Reader Mail & Reader Mail Report-May 9, 2007



In this week's Reader mail & rumor report, we note the announcement of bSuite to Go and reveal the final icon for Babya PhotoPro and its release date. Also: BabyaTV training, File Browser 2 .

Babya PhotoPro

Lots to report about Babya PhotoPro this week

User guides

User and Install guides are now available to download:

User Guide

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45820/Babya-PhotoPro-Users-Guide

PDF:http://static.scribd.com/docs/b0rz15cho9ke4.pdf

Install Guide

http://www.scribd.com/doc/45814/Babya-PhotoPro-install-Guide

PDF:http://static.scribd.com/docs/165lrdbedjzky.pdf

Art Collection

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection is a free add-on to Babya PhotoPro that includes all of the images from Babya Presenter Pack 1 and over 20 newly created images that are suitable for backgrounds or for use with the sculpture feature.

Also included is a PDF file showing all of the available images.

Babya PhotoPro Art Collection will be available in June, alongside Babya PhotoPro.

Application Icon

The final application icon for Babya PhotoPro has been decided on and has been added to the latest build-the icon is of a camera zoom lens.

Here's a picture of the new icon:And a updated Babya PhotoPro screenshot showing the above icon:

I must thank MugenB16 from InterfaceLIFT for creating the icon that I chose for Babya PhotoPro.

Go visit InterfaceLIFT to see more great icons and other graphics.

Release date

Babya PhotoPro is almost ready-so expect it out by early next month.

Babya bSuite To Go

Babya bSuite To Go is the basic version of Babya bSuite for the 2008 version-featuring a quick notes taker,a simplified E-Type, a basic paint program and a timer.

It is the first version of Babya bSuite to be a portable application for use from USB flash drives.

The release date for bSuite to Go will be announced in June.

BabyaTV training

A training document for BabyaTV is now available:http://www.scribd.com/doc/41366/BabyaTV-

The Babya Comic-issue 1
The first issue of The Babya Comic is now out-and can be viewed at: http://www.comicspace.com/aafuss/comics.php?action=gallery&comic_id=4302

File Browser 2

Babya File Browser 2 is a improved version of Babya File Browser which lets you quickly preview images.

The new Babya File Browser is initially only available as part of Babya PhotoPro-but will be released as a separate application as well.

Like with Babya Album, all images are imported into a database-you can have multiple databases to store thousands of photos.

That's it for this week's edition.

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-April 25, 2007

In today's reader mail & rumor report-we note the release of the first custom trivia pack for Apple's iQuiz (a iPod game) and the announcement of BabyaTV

BabyaTV:
BabyaTV is Babya's latest Mac application.

It's a easy to use but powerful audio/video capture application that saves to QuickTime formart (.mov)-which is ideal for use in iMovie, iDVD, websites or Final Cut Studio.

The outputted files can even be used on Windows PC's with QuickTime 7 or later and applications such as Babya OneVideo

Features include:
* Includes a set of Cocoa wrappers to Sequence Grabber classes
* The app itself is written in Cocoa
*Universal binary
* Captures movies using Sequence Grabber
* Performs real-time preview of audio and video
* Supports arbitrary numbers of source SGChannels
* Supports saving of Sequence Grabber settings files
* Supports restoration of previous captures from saved Sequence Grabber
settings files

Video-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates video preview outside the Sequence Grabber using the SGDataProc -> ICMDecompressionSession -> CIImage -> NSOpenGLView
sub-class
* Supports real-time scaling of video preview (live-resizing)
* Supports setting video preview codec quality (low, normal, high, etc.)
* Supports dynamic throttling of video preview fps
* Shows standard SGSettingsDialog for video channel configuration

Audio-specific points of interest:
* Demonstrates getting/setting most audio properties, including:
* Listing record devices
* Selection of record device
* Selection of record device input selection
* Selection of record device stream format
* Setting of record device master and per-channel gain (in hardware or software)
* Enabling/disabling source channels on record device
* Assignment of audio channel labels to source channels
* Solo'ing and muting of source record channels
* Record device per-channel level metering
* Listing of preview devices
*Selection of preview device
* Selection of preview device output selection
* Selection of preview device stream format
* Setting of preview device master gain
* Hardware playthru or software real-time preview
* Selection of output format (including VBR formats, sample rate conversion, down-mixing, etc.)

BabyaTV will be available in late May.

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik5jAMvx-vs

Babya Quiz Pack 1:
The first ever custom trivia pack for iQuiz called Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics has been released.

Babya Quiz-Windows XP Basics is a short quiz about Windows XP for Apple's iQuiz game for iPods.

How to install-unzip and copy the quiz pack and folder into: the iPod Games's iQuiz (in the iTunes folder on your PC or Mac). Then connect your iPod and sync it with iTunes 7.1 or later.


Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?31000000036763

That's it for this week's reader mail report.

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-March 26, 2007

In today's Reader Mail & Rumor Report, we note the release of Babya BookSmart and Babya Spotlight 1.1 and we preview some of the new features in Babya System '08.

Babya BookSmart

Babya BookSmart is now available to download.

BookSmart is a complete, customable and free library management system which you can be able to use it for any college school or institution and for other types of business (eg. book retailers) or personal use .

The system can be able to perform inventory process on books, borrowing books, returning borrowed books as well as monitoring them all.

It also comes with a secure user management system and security system and lot,lot more in one application.

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?30000000036587

Babya System '08 preview
Below is a sneak preview of some of the features that will be included with the upcoming Banya System '08.

Desktop4
A new feature in Babya System '08 will allow you to have multiple virtual desktops is Babya Desktop4.

Many other operating systems such as Linux or Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" include a virtual desktop.

Babya System '08's Desktop4 application does this in Windows via a attractive launcher.

You can have a desktop dedicated to a specific task-eg. you might setup Desktop4 like this: games on desktop #2, one for Office on #1, and for 2 different types of Babya apps on #3 & #4.

On each virtual desktop you can have different wallpapers, icons, folders, colors, etc.


Desktop4 is very unobstrusive-you can position it anywhere on your desktop.

Babya Virtual Drive

Babya Virtual Drive lets you create virtual drives from folders without using Subst.exe.

Babya Virtual Drive will also be available to run from the Babya System control panel

Using Babya Virtual Drive:
[1] Start Babya Virtual Drive.
[2] Select Drive Letter from list of drive Letters.
[3] See if you can use this Drive letter under Drive Type info.
[4] Select Folder which you want to mount as Drive. You also can Drag a folder into the textbox.
[5] Click on Mount button to Mount it or else click on the Unmount button to Unmount the virtual drive

You can also use two keyboard shortcuts:
Ctrl+M-mounts the virtual drive
Ctrl+U-unmounts the virtual drive

Babya Virtual Application Platinum

One of the features of the upcoming Babya System 2008 (15.0) will include is Babya Virtual Application Platinum-a remote desktop type server/client designed especially for applications-such as small utilities.

Babya System '08 will be released in mid-2007.

Babya Spotlight 1.1

Babya Spotlight 1.1 is now available to download.

It is a recommended update for users of Babya System '06.

Babya Spotlight 1.1 gives you quick access to multiple search engines-such as Google and Lycos from the system tray.

It's very unobustrive and can be run from a USB flash drive.

Download:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?29000000037376

That's it for today's reader mail and rumor report.

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-February 26 2007

In today's Reader Mail & Rumor Report, we note the release of Babya Discoverer RSS 12.5 and a preview of Babya Discoverer Express .


Babya Discoverer RSS 12.5:
Announced at the Babya media event -Babya Discoverer RSS 12.5 is now available-with support for IE 7.0 and Windows Vista.

Easy to use web browser that blocks popup ads by default.
New features include tabbed browsing and a built in PDF converter.

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?17000000037749
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Babya-Discoverer.shtml
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Babya_Discoverer_RSS/1042774953/1

Babya Discoverer Express:
Also at the event, a portable version of Babya Discoverer-the Express edition was previewed.

No release date was given-but we expect it be released in time for bSuite 3.

A screenshot can be found at:
http://babyasoftwaregr.livejournal.com/84324.html

That's it for this week's reader mail & rumor report.

Reader Mail & Rumor Report-January 27, 2007

In today's reader mail & rumor report, we note the release of E-Type 3.0 and the preview version of Film Central.

We also look at Babya Video Capture Suite 2007 and an update on Babya PhotoPro.

Rumors include-a Babya expo/media event next month, and a release date for Production Suite .

Babya E-Type 3.0:

Babya E-Type 3.0 is now available to download.

Features:

• MDI/tabbed interface (similar in style to Babya Discoverer)
• Easy access to files via a file explorer task pane
• Can be used as a programmer’s text editor/script editor
• Opens and saves text, Visual Basic .bas/module files (also can open other programming code files, eg. .asp, *.php or .html) and RTF files (can open files of unlimited sizes, unlike Notepad on Windows 95/98/ME systems)
• Can export documents to PDF
• Multiple item clipboard
• Encrypt and decrypt text files feature for extra file security*Document compare
• Can use/intergrate files from other Babya or third-party software-create compound documents
• Able to be run from a USB drive
• Windows Vista compatible

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?21000000038621
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Other-Office-Tools/Babya-E-Type.shtml

Film Central 2007 Preview:
A preview version of Babya's video graphics asset management application-Babya Film Central 2007 was released on December 18.

Features include:

• Everything is stored in a Access database
• Multiple asset databases

Download:

http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?29000000036608
Screenshot:
http://flickr.com/photos/babyasoftwaregroup/322660852/

Babya Video Capture Suite 2007:

Babya Video Capture Suite 2007 is Babya Production Suite's video capturing software.

You can use it to capture footage from DV/TV tuners/webcams/video-in and save the captured video in either a AVI file (using any of the available video codecs on your PC-such as VP61, uncompressed full frames, Microsoft video formats) or as a Babya MVF format file-with the ability to create a self-playing movie.

Babya Video Capture Suite can also be used for desktop screen captures.

For instance you can capture from a webcam (eg. MS Lifecam, Logitech QuickCam) to a AVI file for use in Babya Presenter DX.

Babya PhotoPro update:

Several new screenshots of Babya PhotoPro have surfaced earlier this month.

Interface:

http://flickr.com/photos/babyasoftwaregroup/343902645/

Of interest-beta 1 includes a despeckle tool, and several new drawing tools have been added.

Also the new icon is in place-but no splash screen yet.

File Browser:

A file browser has been added to beta 1-it's reminiscent of the file browser used in Babya Photo Workshop XL.

http://flickr.com/photos/babyasoftwaregroup/343901982/

And a bit of history:

Babya PhotoPro was first mentioned here on Babya Rumors in October 2005.

Babya Production Suite release date:

According to a post on the Babya LiveJournal last week, the release date for Babya Production Suite is rumored to be out by the end of April.

Babya Media Event

Apparently, there is speculation that a invite to a Babya event next month will be sent out next week to various Babya sites.

Rumored to be released at the event is a standalone release of bSync 3-previously available only with Babya System '06 and beta 1 of Babya PhotoPro

We'll follow up on the event in upcoming reports-such as posting a link to the invite, live coverage, our predictions and after the event-rumor winners & losers.

That's all for this week's reader mail & rumor report.

Reader Mail and Rumor Report-December 11, 2006

In today's reader mail & rumor report, we note the release of Babya Photo Workshop 12.0 and Babya Logic 2.5 plus also a preview of Babya PhotoPro.


Babya Logic 2.5:
The Babya Logic Express & Pro 2.5 update has been released.

It's recommended to install this update if you are intending to run Babya Logic on a widescreen monitor (eg. at 1680x1050 resolution)-otherwise on these types of displays, you'd have to temporarily run Windows at 800x600 or 1024x768 to use Babya Logic.


Download:

Babya Logic/Babya Logic Express updater:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?28500000036954
Babya Logic Pro updater:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?28500000036953


Babya Photo Workshop 12
A new version of Babya Photo Workshop-version 12 is now available.

Babya Photo Workshop Professional is a free and professional image editor. It has a range of image effects filters and can be used with TWAIN scanners. You could scan in a image and edit it.

You can add borders and frames to image, save custom colors in 'Babya Color Collection' *.bbc format and more. Also includes Babya Photo Workshop Standard - a basic bitmap editor.

Also Babya Photo Workshop includes Babya Photo Workshop Mini Lab that has a useful tone and color balance editing tool. Now includes Babya Presenter to create image slideshows, Babya Effects FX (standalone program)-for 30 extra image effects, and also Babya bCube-create and print photo cubes using images from Babya Photo Workshop.


New in Babya Photo Workshop 12:
-Babya Tree Studio-create realistic looking tree scenes with ease
New in Babya Photo Workshop X1:
-Babya 3D Photo Explorer:view your photos in a 3D space
-Babya Filter Factory-wild and wacky effects generator
-Babya Firestorm-amazing pyrotechnics/fire image generator
-3D Text support

New in Babya Photo Workshop 10.6 :
-Stability and bug fixes
-Babya ASCII Art Studio-turn images into amazing ASCII art


New in Babya Photo Workshop 10.5 :
-Babya Particle Studio-create particle based images
-Babya Mandela Painter-create fractal images
-Babya PhotoMasker-easy to image masking

New in Babya Photo Workshop 2006:
-Babya File Browser-a visual image browser (useful for previewing images before editing them in Babya Photo Workshop)
-Babya Photo Center-easy to use photo correction software
-Babya GIF Studio-easily optimise GIF files

Download:
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?19000000037114

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Babya_Photo_Workshop_Professional/1074152648/1



Babya PhotoPro

A new Babya photo application-Babya PhotoPro is to be released next year.



Babya PhotoPro is based on Babya Photo Workshop XL and has several new features such as 'sculptures', built in image tracing and a expanded set of drawing tools:

http://flickr.com/photos/babyasoftwaregroup/310229488/

Demo of PhotoPro beta on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOW_X3Io_hg





That's it for this week's reader mail and rumor report.