The most significant improvement in MojoWorld 1.2 is the modular structure. This not only means that third party plugins can exist, but it also means that we don't have to wait for a whole new build to get bug fixes. I have some .dll files listed below which are in both categories - some are plugins which add new functionality and others are bug fixes in existing .dll files. These are only suitable for use with MojoWorld 1.2! Always save a copy of the old .dll file to another folder for those .dll's which replace existing ones, just in case!

To install, simply uncompress the file and put the resulting .dll file into the Plugins folder found in the same folder with your MojoWorld 1.2 executable.

ONE EXCEPTION: the mojo.dll file must go in the same folder with the MojoWorld 1.2 executable.

If you know C++ programming and are interested in creating your own MojoWorld plugins, the first thing you'll need to do is get the SDK. Hey, if I can do it, it can't be _that_ hard! If you only know a little bit of programming and just want to get an idea of what's involved in writing MojoWorld plugins, I have copies of the documentation available for your perusal:

• A Novice's Introduction
• MojoWorld SDK Reference

• Basis Function Cloning - all basis functions with parameters (save for Voronoi, which got fixed first) don't remember their parameters when cloned.
• Curve Flipping - curves where two control points share the same the X value will be flipped incorrectly. Too many successive flips of such a curve can cause MojoWorld to crash.
• NEW - the mojo.dll updated 18 June also fixes a bug where planet files containing complex graphs took a really long time to load and/or cloning objects that had complex graphs as part of their materials also took a very long time to complete.

• Surface Normal - returns the value of the surface normal vector at the current world position.
• Ray Direction - returns the direction of the vector between the camera eye point and the current world position.
• Sun Direction - returns the direction of the vector from where the sunlight comes at the current world position.
• Dot Product - calculates the dot product of two vectors.

This sample world file shows the use of the plugin on a cloud layer (and on the terrain).

UPDATED: KH fixed the "doesn't show up in the distortion menu" problem, so now his Complex Plane Fractal can be used as domain distortion, yay! If you d/l this before 31 May 2002, you'll want to get it again.

UPDATED: KH added a work-around for the "choosing a plugin as displacement and then choosing a builtin as a displacement crashes MW" problem, so now his Complex Plane Fractal can be chosen as a distortion without MW crashing if you change your mind and pick something else, yay! If you d/l this before 04 June 2002, you'll want to get it again...