Thanks and Credits

First, and absolutely most important, I wish to thank my wife, Linda, for supporting me in this effort for the last year and some change. Between working my day job and working on TAFA through the night and early morning hours, I have been extremely busy. She has not only supported me directly and helped with testing, but has taken over the load for all of the things that need doing, but I haven't had time to do. I could not have done this without her. Without her support and faith in me, I would have given this up long ago, and missed my chance to make something that I hope will change the world.

Now, in somewhat more chronological order, I would like to thank:

• My parents, Joe and Lynda Reiter, for starting me off with an excellent education and love of learning, supporting my computer addiction even when times were tight, and always being there for me.
• Marcus la Grone, for thinking I could do this and for getting me in contact with Timothy Albee.
• Timothy Albee, for dreaming some really big dreams, and sharing them with us all.
• Tim Dunn, for a truly amazing job during beta testing, and for creating some thinking-outside-the-box tutorials in time for the release.
• And, definitely not least, you for your enthusiasm, feedback, and patience.

News

October 19, 2007

Well, I haven't been making progress on features or cross platform support, but at least I can do this: TAFA is now $200 for the downloadable version ($250 for physical delivery). If you've wanted to use TAFA but been held off by the price (or know someone else who has), now's your chance!

July 29, 2006

It still doesn't do anything particularly useful, but now it's entirely up to my coding ability. All the library references and everything are in place. And I'm using static linking, so hopefully I will have few or no problems with different versions of Mac OS X with dynamic libraries in different places.

July 28, 2006

Unfortunately, it still doesn't link, since all I've got are the stub declarations for the Windows-to-Macintosh routines, but without the backing logic. For the non-programmers out there, that basically means there's still a lot of work to do. But at least some progress is being made... More importantly, it means I'm getting to devote some serious time to the project again, so progress should be much faster.

March 20, 2006

• LW9 adds Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces. TAFA does not use the CC algorithm, but it does at least recognize those surfaces as of v1.2.2.7.
• At some point during the addition of the new file formats, I introduced a bug that affects objects with different morphs in different layers. That kind of object appears to be somewhat rare, so hopefully it hasn't been too much of a problem. Symptoms include crashing on loading the model or failing to animate the model properly. Again, this is fixed in v1.2.2.7.
• Unfortunately, my ISP changed my IP address somewhere after March 13, so TAFA can't access the update server. It should be fixed tomorrow, and the fixes should roll out the next time you run TAFA.

January 13, 2006

Please let me know if you encounter any issues.

January 11, 2006

I have now had a user go completely non-LW with TAFA! Using the OBJ loader, MDD files, and Point Oven Pro, one of my users has been able to use TAFA with 3DS Max without needing any intermediate LW steps.

If you are in a similar situation, however, you will need to contact me to get version 1.2.2.4. Previous versions have issues with MDD export. Normally, this would just roll out on the update server, but since it's offline we're reduced to email.

December 19, 2005

Other items of interest include preliminary FRAW2 output for XSI. I hope to replace this with dotXSI integration, but for now it does at least provide a way to get TAFA curves back into XSI (even if it is somewhat tedious).