Some notable new features:
- first version of the Application Layer plus a small sample app
- now also works on ATI cards which support shader model 3.0 (X-above-1000)
- a new global light source type
- resources now loaded from zip archive
- many bugfixes
There are a quite few known issues in this release:
- some (new) VSM-related visual artefacts in the shadow system (light leaking and shadow grain near some shadow casters), this must be fixed by tuning some VSM parameters which I didn't quite have the time to do right
- new Application Layer sample app has clumsy controls and camera
- shadows are not rendered when shadow caster is not visible which leads to shadow pop-up in the App Layer sample application
- re-building assets requires the Nebula2 Toolkit For Maya
- some new Doxygen docs pages are messy
- ODE, OPCODE and GIMPACT not credited yet in the docs
So this release is a bit rough, I hope the next one will be more polished. But I really wanted to push it out the door instead of spending even more time to fix stuff.
Here are a few screenshots:
The next one is a screenshot of the new testgame.exe sample application, with a player-controllable avatar and some physics boxes to play around with:
Enjoy!
-Floh.
