In previous papers we discussed results from fully time-dependent radiative
transfer models for core-collapse supernova (SN) ejecta, including the Type
II-peculiar SN 1987A, the more "generic" SN II-Plateau, and more recently Type
IIb/Ib/Ic SNe. Here we describe the modifications to our radiative modeling
code, CMFGEN, which allowed those studies to be undertaken. The changes allow
for time-dependent radiative transfer of SN ejecta in homologous expansion. In
the modeling we treat the entire SN ejecta, from the innermost layer that does
not fall back on the compact remnant out to the progenitor surface layers. From
our non-LTE time-dependent line-blanketed synthetic spectra, we compute the
bolometric and multi-band light curves: light curves and spectra are thus
calculated simultaneously using the same physical processes and numerics. These
upgrades, in conjunction with our previous modifications which allow the
solution of the time dependent rate equations, will improve the modeling of SN
spectra and light curves, and hence facilitate new insights into SN ejecta
properties, the SN progenitors and the explosion mechanism(s). CMFGEN can now
be applied to the modeling of all SN typesComment: 20 pages, 10 figures, to appear in MNRA