Coin 3.0.0
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Release Notes
| State | Final release |
|---|---|
| License | GPL and Coin Professional Edition License |
| Release Manager | Lars J. Aas |
Coin 3.0.0 is not a release with a massive roll-out of new features. Resources have at times been stretched, but we have managed to accumulate a decent set of features for a release anyway, and internal to Coin we have many new subsystems to build future features on.
It should also be mentioned that the Coin 3.0 series will be the last set of releases of Coin to support the archaic Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler, which has become a big pain to keep supporting at this point, C++ languagewise. Just a word of warning to VC++6.0 users out there. This is the beginning of the end of the line.
New
- Scene graph performance profiling subsystem
- SoDepthBuffer node for constrolling Z-buffer settings
- Shaders: SoVertexAttribute and SoVertexAttributeBinding nodes
- Shadows: SoShadowSpotLight node
- SoHeightMapToNormalMap texture conversion engine
- SoPickStyle: new styles SHAPE_ON_TOP, BOUNDING_BOX_ON_TOP, SHAPE_FRONTFACES
- New XML-based GL driver feature database for tagging buggy/slow features
in specific drivers
- Statechart XML engine (2007-draft based), used to implement examiner viewer
mode at the Coin level
- Foreign file format support through SoForeignFileKit w. example SoSTLFileKit
- Draggers: minTranslation/maxTranslation fields in SoTranslate1Dragger and
SoTranslate2Dragger
- OS X: Coin has become more bundle-aware and will loads external libs bundled
with Inventor.framework or the application bundle (better encapsulation)
- SoLineHighlightRenderAction and SoBoxHighlightRenderAction now only
supports one SoSelection node (performance and OIV-compatibility)
- SoBumpMap will now detect height maps stored as rgb(a)
- SoRayPickAction picking precision improvements
- Include SoFieldContainer userdata when doing a deep node copy
- Anti-aliasing is now done around the center of each pixel
- Boost.Test-based testsuite
Bugfixes
- ATi driver workarounds (VBO rendering related)
- Fixed SoToVRML2Action Transform handling bug
- SoTimeCounter now handles frequency == 0.0
- SoSceneTexture2 now properly restores the previous context
- Fix for remote rendering in SoGLDisplayList
- Workaround for nVidia texture format bug
- SoPathList::uniquify() now properly removes all paths that goes through
another path, not just one
- SoVRMLAppearance now checks material on the state
- SoComposeRotation. Default axis is now (0,0,1)
- Various SoShadowGroup fixes
- 3ds loader will no longer normalize the model (still not enabled by default)
- Workaround for nVidia line pattern bug
- Fixes for SoVRMLBillboard
- SoFile-SoSearchAction bugfix
- Correctly load bold/italic version of fonts with a single ttf file
- Bugfix for anti aliasing with numpasses > 16
- New Visual Studio 9 build files and other VS-related fixes
... and more
See the ChangeLog file if you want the really gory details. See the file RELNOTES on changes that might affect Coin usage.
Change log
http://svn.coin3d.org/repos/Coin/trunk/docs/ChangeLog.v3.0.0
