From: lisa@criterion.canon.co.uk (Lisa Garvey)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 13:11:32 +0000
Subject: Renderware Latest News

RenderWare Latest News - March 1995
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Contents

1)  RenderWare 1.4  SDK Now Shipping
2)  RenderWare 1.4 DDK Now Shipping
3)  RenderWare Licensees Surge Past 350 Mark
4)  Spatial - CAD Market Incorporates RenderWare
5)  Crystal Graphics - Flying Fonts Pro Includes RenderWare
6)  RenderWare wins prestigious award
7)  SPEA- New Fire GL Accelerator Supported 
8)  UDAC/3D-Max - 3D Stereo Glasses for the PC 
9)  Omnicomp - New 3D Glint accelerator supported
10)  RenderWare Goes Down A Storm At Cebit95
11) RenderWare on Display world-wide

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1) RENDERWARE 1.4  SDK NOW SHIPPING

Criterion is pleased to announce that RenderWare 1.4. SDK for
DOS and Windows 3.1/95/NT is now shipping.

New features in RenderWare 1.4 include; 

* Tiled textures
* Lit textures
* Antialiased textures
* Arbitrary palette support
* Material by reference
* Colored light sources
* Improved fixed point geometry range
* Improved floating point range
* Improved clipping robustness
* Far clipping plane
* Pentium optimizations
* General performance improvements
* Support for RenderWare 1.4 DDK
* Source to CyberStreet demo
* Improved debugging library functionality
* Windows version normalisation. One source builds for All. 

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2) RENDERWARE 1.4  DDK NOW SHIPPING

Hardware accelerator card vendors can now use the 
RenderWare DDK to develop loadable RenderWare 
drivers.

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3) RENDERWARE LICENSEES SURGE PAST 350 MARK

RenderWare's market dominance continues to increase with
over 100 new developers licensing RenderWare in the first 
10 weeks of 1995

As a result, the number of RenderWare licensees has increased
sharply to over 350 in the past month. 

Many of our customers are now shipping titles and we expect
a further 100 titles to ship by the end of 1995.

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4) SPATIAL - CAD MARKET INCORPORATES RENDERWARE

See Previous Release

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5) CRYSTAL GRAPHICS - FLYING FONTS PRO INCLUDES 
   RENDERWARE

See Previous Release

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6) RenderWare wins prestigious award

CyberEdge Journal, the world's leading newsletter of virtual reality,
announced on 12th March that RenderWare has won it's most prestigious
 award, for software making the most valued contribution to virtual 
reality in 1994. 

RenderWare beat 5 other nominees for this award including Reality Lab.
 

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7) SPEA- NEW FIRE GL ACCELERATOR SUPPORTED

See Previous Release

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8) UDAC/3D-MAX - 3D STEREO GLASSES FOR THE PC

See Previous Release

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9) OMNICOMP - 3DEMON ACCELERATOR SUPPORTED

Omnicomp and Criterion announced a strategic alliance for
3D graphics development that will provide RenderWare 
support for Omnicomp's new 3DEMON 3D accelerator.
Criterion's RenderWare based applications, such as CAD,
Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Simulation, will be 
accelerated by the 3DEMON graphics accelerator.

"We are delighted to be working with Criterion Software.
RenderWare has a proven customer base who will now be able
to take advantage of our 3DEMON 3D accelerator. Our
partnership will also ensure our customers who are looking
for a fast 3D API for the 3DEMON accelerator, will be able
to use RenderWare" said Kelly Stuart, Vice President at 
Omnicomp.

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10) RENDERWARE creates a buzz at CEBIT95

The tremendous response to RenderWare was reflected
throughout the CeBIT show with RenderWare based
applications being exhibited on many different platforms
in over 10 booths. These booths included:

Asymetrix
Canon
Datamodul
IBM
Matrox
Mitsumi/Qsound
Motorola
Omnicomp
Yamaha
3DLabs
Spea
UDAC

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11) RENDERWARE ON DISPLAY WORLDWIDE

RenderWare will be on display at  major entertainment
and graphics shows through 95.  Criterion will be exhibiting
at the following  shows;

* Computer Game Developers Conference
 - San Jose - 22-25 April 1995
* E3 - Los Angeles - 11-13 May 1995
* Creativity - San Francisco - 5-6 June 1995
* Creativity - London - 29-30 June 1995
* Siggraph - Los Angeles - 8-10 August 1995
* CG95 - London - 28-30 November 1995




Lisa Garvey
Criterion Software Ltd., A Canon Company.
lisa@csl.com