Please tell me this version is going to have dual screen support (unique for each monitor)..

Anybody know?

dspDrew,

Welcome to the forums!

The background will extend over both monitors, showing something different on each monitor, with fish swimming from screen to screen.

Thanks guys, can't wait for this version to come out :)

Hmmmm..its November now right? Almost end of the year? Do I see a beta on the horizon?

It's still October here in Oregon.

:D hahahahahaha same here.

By Jims standards we should have one anytime now..and I do mean ANYTIME. Tomorrow, next year..as long as it comes out right:lol:

Just having a look see to see if anythings developed as yet and more importantly to keep in touch from Sydney down here.
yes as mentioned above , Christmas is almost here and it would be such a nice one to unwrap a new updated fish tank or even just an addition to the MAT tank, meanwhile time and tide etc etc , and my hair groweth white and suitable for a father Christmas. Maybe Grandpa will get something new to show the yougsters in the 'puter tank' . hope the beta works well and a release is pending . Thanks Jim , for the years of the fish screens .
pAUL Downunder

I'm back to working on MA3 full-time now that the big move from California to Oregon is over. Forward progress is being made.

:drool: It's still october!

Well, I can say right now that nothing significant will be happening before the end of the month. I'm currently stuck in the busy-work of reversing every texture used by the fish. The old program needed the images to be upside-down, while the new one uses rightside-up textures. I spent the last few days getting the first fish working in the new tank, finding a lot of changes that have to be made to each fish. It took me a while to realize that the eyes and fins were not moving because when you use shaders you are responsible for manually supplying all the transformations for objects; the parts are not automatically multiplied by the World Matrix or their local matrices. Ha, ha - more technical details than you need to know?

Anyway, one fish is now happily swimming around a rather blank tank. In fact, right THROUGH the few objects that are there, since there is no collision-avoidance yet.

Sounds like still a long way to go! - But thanks for the update, Jim. It's nice to hear about progress, (or even lack of!). Much better than hearing nothing at all.... Thanks! :)

Which fish? Is is yellow? :D

Thanks for the great update, Jim!

Well the Yellow Tang is Jim's favorite fish in the tank -- to my knowledge.