December 31, 2007

What's new:

• Intel Compiler 10.1 support for MS Windows builds.
• Screen-space ambient occlusion.
• ResourceEditor / Viewer can load animation from md5b and animb formats.
• Heavily improved Players: 2 frictions (min for moving and max for standing), new Offset matrix (for manual rotation of player's head) in addition to modelview one, added reference to controls (system ones by default).
• Correct work of PlayerSpectator and PlayerActor with arbitrary directions of Up vector, "turning" parameter is added to specify turning speed.
• Improved PlayerPersecutor, its "offset" renamed to "anchor".
• Improved controls, added dummy ones.
• A bunch of new Player samples.
• Safe Body transform without clearing speeds and contacts: setSafeTransform().
• Physics callbacks have 2 additional arguments now.
• Correct save/restore of all callbacks.
• engine.engine.* functions are renamed to engine.* in UnigineScript.
• Improved threads in UnigineScript: now they can be called with arguments and have their own scope, thus there can be a lot of them, working in parallel; "thread_create" function is replaced with "thread".
• New setFrameBone* and getFrameBone* functions, which don't call final blending of the animation.
• Small improvements of filesystem (reduced memory allocation count).

No Ambient Occlusion, a boring flat image:

Real-time Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion brings a lot of 3D look even for non-lit regions:

Some statistics for today:

	engine           5736 Kb  476 files  205649 lines
	shaders           862 Kb  215 files   31279 lines
	scripts            75 Kb    7 files    2287 lines
	editor            701 Kb   55 files   25090 lines
	tools             733 Kb   53 files   26442 lines
	app main           47 Kb   18 files    1812 lines
	app samples        69 Kb   29 files    2915 lines
	extern libs       120 Kb   12 files    3579 lines
	build system       34 Kb   24 files    1535 lines
	build scripts      44 Kb   48 files    1461 lines
	docs scripts       30 Kb    8 files     964 lines
	total            8456 Kb  945 files  303013 lines

Happy New Year!

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