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OSG News (most significant items from ChangeLog)
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OpenSceneGraph-0.9.6
12th September 2003 - OpenSceneGraph-0.9.6
>>> osgFX Special Effects nodekit, support for double Matrix traversals,
>>> improved build support, thread safety and robustness.
The new osgFX nodekit, written by Marco Jez, adds a set of decorator
nodes that add can be conveniently added above subgraphs in your scene
to add special a range of special rendering effects. Effects include AnisotopicLight, Scribe, Specular Highlights
and Cartoon rendering.
to add special a range of special rendering effects. Effects include
AnisotopicLight, BumpMapping, Scribe, Specular Highlights and Cartoon
rendering.
Support for double Matrices has been added with the new Matrixd class,
and complimented by the a Matrixf class. The original Matrix class is
now a typedef which can be set to either Matrixf (the default) or
Matrixd, When the Matrix typedef is set to Matrixd and the OSG and
now a typedef which can be set to either Matrixf or Matrixd (which is
now the default), When the Matrix typedef is set to Matrixd and the OSG and
dependent apps are recompiled all internal operations such a cull traversals
will now be double with double matrices which much improved numerical
precision, making it ideal for datasets where a large values are contained
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Threading problems which caused crashes in recent updates of the Terrapage
loader have also been fixed, and additional internal changes have been made
to improve the Terrapage loader's ability to hit constant frame rates.
to improve the Terrapage loader's ability to hit constant frame rates.
Support has also been added for loading light points directly from the
Terrapage database.
A new .iv/.wrl loader plugin, written by Vivek Rajan, at Magic Earth,
has been added to the distribution which uses with OpenInventor or Coin
to load model, converting them into OSG equivalents. Coin has support
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Windows .dsp project file does to current exist, but should be
possible to add this.
To help handle running applications of graphics cards/drivers that exhibit
bugs with certain OpenGL extensions, support has been added to the GLextensions
code to allow extensions to be disabled via the new
osg::setGLExtensionDisableString(std::string) function or by setting an
OSG_GL_EXTENSION_DISABLE environmental variables. Follows is an example of
the disable string:
set OSG_GL_EXTENSION_DISABLE =
"ATI:GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap;Sun:GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic:"
23rd July 2003 - OpenSceneGraph-0.9.5