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Coin 2.4.2

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Systems in Motion is proud to release v2.4.2 of the Coin 3D graphics library. Coin 2.4.2 is a patchlevel release. Patchlevel releases contain mostly bugfixes, optimizations, documentation improvements, and configure and build setup fixes. This release does not extend the library API beyond the previous release.

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Available downloads

Get Coin 2.4.2 for all platforms (3.6 MB)

Source code archive

Get Coin 2.4.2 for Mac OS X (2.4 MB)

Mac OS X installer

Get Coin 2.4.2 for Mac OS X (2.7 MB)

Mac OS X framework, no installer

Release Notes

State Final release
License GPL and Coin Professional Edition License
Released 2005/07/06

New features:

- Support for compressed textures

- Windows: build settings are easier tunable from the Visual Studio
projects (edit include/setup.h), and also includes static library build options now

Optimizations:

- major improvements to SoOffscreenRenderer performance, approximately 3x faster for simple scene graphs

- OpenAL library now loaded only on demand, i.e. when sound is actually used

Bugfixes:

- Postscript output for the SoOffscreenRenderer was erroneously
disabled

- SoFaceSet with SoShapeHints::faceType set to UNKNOWN_FACE_TYPE
could come out wrong

- 64-bit windows port issues believed to be resolved

- Reinstanded missing default-2d-font characters

- Inventor V1.0 .iv file import fixes

- SoToVRML2Action fixes

- Font/glyph handling fixes

- and more...

Other:

- reference doc improvements with file format examples and defaults
sections for all scene objects.

Change log

http://source.coin3d.org/Coin-2/docs/ChangeLog.v2.4.2

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