X-Git-Url: https://git.mxchange.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=df25664cdf4b72648905afbcd0dad0d319e2eab6;hb=a85da04601b94aaf55a63e613dae2b2d6a66ada6;hp=053a8d29a87eeb1a6404b710726ffd4565faddc0;hpb=c039ccdeb0508bd679c5d1baba779e4fb671f2f3;p=simgear.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 053a8d29..df25664c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,62 @@ -New in 0.3.8-pre2 -* January 3, 2005 - -* Configure script does a sanity check for the existance of openal. +New in 0.3.10 +* April 5, 2006 + +* Add a small accessor function to expose local timezone offset. +* Improved exception handling and made output more helpful in various places. +* Better pbuffer runtime detection. +* Add directory creation capability to file/path library. +* Added a basic reference counting class to improve robustness of + memory management in places. Use this for all scenegraph + references, sgmaterial references, sgmatmodel references, and + sgsoundsample references. +* Add support for point sprites. +* Updates to rain cone rendering. +* Add a new vector library and integrate that with improved coordinate + system conversion code. +* Mutex locking and cleanup improvements in the threading abstraction + library. +* Add MacOS RenderTexture support. +* Add a Nasal based io libarary that is not activated by default. +* Added a set of MS-VC8 project files. + +* Various platform related bug fixes. +* Various compiler related bug/warning fixes. +* Clean up some things that triggered valgrind warnings. +* Fix a Nasal cmp() bug. +* Removed ancient version of zlib from distribution. + + +New in 0.3.9 +* November 17, 2005 + +* Add support for OpenAL 1.1 (with a separate alut library.) +* Add support for volumetric shadows. Aircraft can cast shadows on themselves + as well as onto the ground (by Harald Johnsen.) +* New 3d volumetric clouds by Harald Johnsen (along with several rounds of + followup fixes and improvements.) +* Remove Mark Harris's old 3d clouds because they were never properly + integrated. And we now have new 3d clouds. +* Add support for seasonal textures (with a set of winter textures added + to FlightGear.) +* Updated Nasal scripting system. Adds several new syntax convenience + features, fixes parser bugs, fixes several internal bugs. +* Our 3d cockpit jitter problem is fixed (woohoo!) +* Add code to support rendering to a texture. +* Allow "tip" popups to pop themselves down after the appropriate + timeout, even if the sim time is paused. +* Various low model level animation fixes and additions ... color, + transparency, 'chrome' effects, randomized spin, etc. +* Create our own portable stdint.h implementation. +* Fixed several memory leaks. +* removeChildren() added to the property system. +* Fix many cases of 'const'. +* Fixes for cygwin, solaris/sun, Mac OS X, MSVC, gcc-3.4.x. + + +New in 0.3.8 +* January 18, 2005 + +* Configure script does a sanity check for the existence of openal. * Better pthreads detection for FreeBSD. * Abstract out the location of gl.h, glu.h, and glut.h so we can more easily support MacOS which puts these in an oddball location. @@ -14,6 +69,13 @@ New in 0.3.8-pre2 * gcc-4.0 fix. * Fixes to property tree loading and saving. * Make volume inaudible at startup. +* Solaris fixes. +* For low density cloud coverage, blend the layer to nothing as we pass + through instead of fully engulfing the aircraft in the cloud. +* Add several new capabilities to the texture management code for building + normal maps and doing some simple on-the-fly effects on textures. +* Better error message for sound problems. +* Add support for binding a thread to a specific CPU. New in 0.3.7 @@ -51,7 +113,7 @@ New in 0.3.5 * Support VASI/PAPI lights correctly. * Fixes to cloud animation. * Updates to sky dome coloring as well as sun/moon coloring. -* Vary environment lighting with visibility (subtlely.) +* Vary environment lighting with visibility (subtlety.) * Support control of alpha test in model animation. * Complete rewrite of the event manager. * Updates to low level socket code to make it more flexible. @@ -102,7 +164,7 @@ New in 0.3.2 management, basic model and model animation management, sky rendering, and low level loaders for the "TerraGear" tile object format. * Removed support of the flat shaded and non-textured material - property varients. You can still do these things, but extra states + property variants. You can still do these things, but extra states are no longer set up automatically. * Removed 3d clouds from the default build ... these need a maintainer or better yet, a complete plib-based rewrite. @@ -147,7 +209,7 @@ New in 0.2.0 * Removed efence support (in favor of valgrind.) * Added a javascript interpreter. -* SGSocket reimplimented on top of plib/net libs. +* SGSocket reimplemented on top of plib/net libs. * Added a new random number generation algorithm. * Total rewrite of the strutils package. @@ -157,7 +219,7 @@ New in 0.2.0 * Mac OS X fixes. * Irix fixes. * Code clean ups to remove warning messages. -* Optimizations in sg_binobj to reduce the amout of memory copying +* Optimizations in sg_binobj to reduce the amount of memory copying needed when loading a binobj format file. * Fixed a couple places where variables could be used before they were initialized. @@ -177,7 +239,7 @@ New in 0.0.18 * Upgrade to metakit-2.4.2-32.tar.gz (latest upstream release) * Added support for point objects in the scenery file format. * Additions to the binary file format to make it *much* more flexible. - For each major primative type: points, triangles, fans, and strips, you + For each major primitive type: points, triangles, fans, and strips, you can specify an index list of vertices, normals, colors, and texture coordinates. You can skip any of these you like to save on space. * Added support for new file features in the binary -> ascii scenery file @@ -228,7 +290,7 @@ New in 0.0.17pre1 New in 0.0.16 * July 12, 2001 -* Various changes to the property manager implimentation to better support +* Various changes to the property manager implementation to better support dumping out the desired portions of the property tree to file. * Don't compile the metakit demos by default (causes problems for Irix)' * Other various tweaks for Irix. @@ -271,7 +333,7 @@ New in 0.0.15 read/write routines. * Added doxygen comments for all public interface code. Documentation can be accessed via the SimGear web page. -* Many FG -> SG name space changes for better consistancy throughout +* Many FG -> SG name space changes for better consistency throughout this package. * Added property aliases, repeated name tags, and a general xml inclusion facilities. Many other property manager clean ups @@ -362,4 +424,4 @@ New in 0.0.4 New in 0.0.3 -* Release that conincides with FlightGear-0.7.2 +* Release that coincides with FlightGear-0.7.2