Ardor3D Free 3D engine for your Mac
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Free 3D engine for your Mac Ardor3D is a free and open source, Java based 3D engine brought to you by Joshua "Renanse" Slack and Rikard "MrCoder" Herlitz (formerly developers of the jMonkeyEngine.) Ardor3D began life as a fork of jME with the goal of making a more professionally oriented engine with a community based on accepted open source principles. Requirements: · Java What's New in This Release: What's new: · New CPU/GPU capable skeletal skinning framework. · TextureClipMap (Megatexture) for use in Terrain or other geometry texturing. · Ardor3D based UI System · Completely rewritten Collada Importer - now much more functional and no longer requires JiBX. · 3D Math functions (noise, fbm, etc.) and utilities for visualizing these as procedural textures or height-maps. · BloomRenderPass, allowing simple addition of a "bloom" effect. · Much improved, automatic resource cleanup - now handles detection of GPU referenced items being gc'd and automatically removes them from the card for you. · Basic support for applets in place. API Improvements / Changes: · Terrain system now supports non-wrapping terrain, terrain transformations, improved fog, user definable height ranges and user initiated height-map updates. · Water use "Oblique near frustum clipping" instead of OpenGL clip-planes to enable clipping on objects with shaders and has the ability to blur reflections. · Terrain and Water now work a lot nicer together (see TerrainWaterExample) · FBO texture rendering now supports multi-sample. · Curve-based transform controllers for smooth character/camera control. · ResourceLocator system now uses an extensible ResourceSource interface for finding resources. · Transparency render type hint added allowing control over one and two pass transparency rendering from within the Scene itself. · Game task queues now ref'd by Object instead of RenderContext allowing for custom or cross context queues. · AwtCanvas is now split into jogl and lwjgl versions to disconnect ardor3d-awt from an lwjgl dependency. · Shadow system now supports directional lights and casting shadows through alpha test enabled textures. · Shadow system now respects Mesh flag "castsShadows" · Older shadow systems have now been dropped in favor of our PSSM implementation. · Texture's "blendColor" field renamed to "constantColor" to more accurately reflect use. · Added image loader for Ardor3D binary format (.abi) · Added ability to update the face of an existing cube map texture via the renderer. · Support added to the Renderer for setting scissor area. · Now supports compilation on OpenSolaris · Now supports Solaris SWT in maven config · Lots of javadoc and comments added. · Lots of other small API tweaks and cleanup. Bugs Addressed: · Fixed bug in AWT that prevented grabbed from working properly. · Bounding transforms now correctly apply non-rotational matrices properly from the Transform class. · Fixed full screen mode issues happening on some Linux distros. · Fixed bug in Transform.getGLApplyMatrix where matrix was missing a "1" at 3, 3 · Fixed bug in Texture state texGen application where wrong mode might be set. · Fixed bug in Triangle class where point A was returned for getB and getC.

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