Hello Lebeau-Software subscribers,

I forgot to mention one more MSAgent-related product being planned for a
future release:

ACE Replacement
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The Agent Character Editor (ACE) that is provided by Microsoft is currently
the only software publically available for producing MSAgent-compatible
files. I wish to produce an application that will do everything that ACE
can do, and then some! ACE only supports 256-color bitmaps, icons, and WAV
audio files. I want to support importing of PNG and MP3 files as well, and
maybe also importing and real-time rendering of common 3D file formats (3DS,
3DX, Lightwave, Wavefront, X3D, etc) directly. Many MSAgent characters
currently available have images produced by 3D rendering software (3D Studio
Max, Hash Animation Master, Truespace, Xara 3D, etc), so it would be
beneficial to have an ACE-style editor that can render the wireframes in the
same software that compiles the final ACS file.


Until next time.


Remy Lebeau
Lebeau Software