Short:        Allround 3D-Tool (Imagine, Lightwave, MaxonCinema4D)
Author:       epgbc@cluster1.urz.Uni-Halle.DE (Andreas Maschke)
Uploader:     epgbc cluster1 urz Uni-Halle DE (Andreas Maschke)
Type:         gfx/3d
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Dust2.48 is an object-sequence-processor creating 3D-F/X. The
programms Imagine, Lightwave3D and MaxonCinema4D
are supported directly.

Features:
 -local morph-operator producing exciting effects
  (morphs, animated boolean effects, ...)
 -object-smoothing using splines !
 -twirl-effect
 -Dust is some kind of a programming language:
   *creating of faces (programmed creation of objects !)
   *moving of points (programmed deformation of objects !)
   *for-loops
   *if-statement
   *global variables
   *string-formatting
   *numeric arguments
   *nice calculator-mode
 -metamorphosis between any two objects:
   *closed-surface-morph (like liquids)
   *triangle-morph (like explosions)
   *build-morph ("beam-me-up"-effect
 -1D/2D/3D-waves of different types
 -realistic water-waves
 -more realistic explosions
 -displacement-maps
 -easy-to-use particle-system
 -unlimited number of objects, preview-windows, ...
 -FAST Lightwave<->Imagine-converter keeping subgroups
 -powerfull online help, no command-description without an example
 -VERY FAST loading/saving/converting objects
 -UNIX-like feeling: shell, command-completion, external
  windows, speed, ...

There are more than 200 commands you can execute interactively.
Dust can process batch-files and has an ARexx-Port, too.
(You can treat it as "External ARexx-Port for Imagine/Lightwave")

This is the unregistered version which doesn't feature some
commands. To get registered send $25+postage to the author:

                         Andreas Maschke
                         Zenkerstraße 5
                         06108 Halle/Saale
                         Germany

                   Phone: ++49 (0)345/5170331
                   EMail: epgbc@cluster1.urz.Uni-Halle.DE