December 17, 2007

Recent changes:

• Caustics, foam, 4 geometry waves and underwater mode in ObjectWater.
• Speedup of ObjectWater.
• Shaders for 3D clouds via ObjectVolumeBox (PS 3.0 required).
• Fixed 3D textures on OpenGL.
• Refactored random generator (there is no Gaussian floats anymore), now it works faster.
• ObjectVolumeBox transfers basis for generation of 3D texture coordinates inside the cube to a shader (for various sfx).
• Per-texture anisotropy filtering in materials.
• Removed gl_render_use_nv_texture_expand_normal console variable (it is always on now).
• create_shaders console variable renamed to manager_create_shaders.
• Correct detection of RGB10A2 support for old ATI cards.
• Support of GL_ATI_shader_texture_lod extension.
• Fixed refraction rendering in stereo mode.
• Progress bar for world loading.
• New order of splash screens rendering: intro splash shows prior to system init function, outro one renders after shutdown function.
• Workaround on OpenGL TTF fonts for buggy Linux driver from NVIDIA.
• Normalmaps visualization mode: render_show_normals.
• ImageDDS prints an image info being run with -i option.
• SpriteRender sample.
• Updated reference manual, added ObjectWater class description.

3D clouds:

There are a lot of handles for water tweaking, so artists can be happy:

Plus there are real-time caustics in here:

and improved foam:

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