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   PyCloid, an enhanced particle engine for DAZ3D Carrara
               (C) 2011 Frederic Rible
	          http://www.f1oat.org/pycloid

This plugin is based on Particle System API by David K. McAllister.
             http://www.particlesystems.org/
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INTRODUCTION
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PyCloid is an enhanced particle system plugin for DAZ3D Cararra CGI software.

It provides advanced features :

    * Mesh destruction driven by a shader
    * Magnet effect for pulling particles toward a geometry
    * Align and bank function for particle orientation along motion path
    * Shader driven particle emission
    * Object tracking of a particle with lag time
    * Scatter effect for group of objects
    * Objects instantiation at particle position with per object presence factor


COMPATIBILITY
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PyCloid is compatible with Carrara 8 (32bit and 64bit) running under Windows.
Sorry, but Mac machines are not yet supported.
PyCloid has been validate with Cararra Pro 8.1.0.151 (32bit and 64bit) under Windows 7 64bit.
It should work with other Carrara 8 releases.

INSTALLATION
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Depending on the Carrara release your are using, copy the content of "C8_Win32\Extensions" or "C8_x64\Extensions" to your Carrara installation "Extensions" directory.

DOCUMENTATION
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The current release is delivred without documentation. However, you can learn how the plugin is working with the examples delivered in the "Samples" directory.

LICENSE
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See the file LICENSE.txt.
