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coin400 - New Features in Coin v4.0.0
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS ended Coin as a commercial product and re-licensed it under the BSD 3-clause license as a service to the user community.
The build system has been migrated from GNU Autotools to CMake.
This is a brief summary of the new features in Coin v4.0.0:
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Support for UNICODE text (starting with Coin 4.0 strings are UTF-8 encoded).
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View volume and projectors now support reverse perspective camera settings
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New SoReversePerspectiveCamera node added
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New getRadius method added to SoRayPickAction
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New virtual method getPickedPointForStart added to SoDragger to allow dragging of (partially) covered objects by derived draggers
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New greater than and less than operators added to SbString
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Implemented SoTextureCoordinateObject for linear texture functions
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New SoAlphaTest node added
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Support for GLSL/ARB shaders has been added to SoShaderStateMatrixParameter
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Support for linePatternScaleFactor in SoDrawStyle
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Support for newer compilers
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Support for DISABLE policy in SoSelection node
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API changes in SbMatrix, SoPickAction, SoEvent, SoSFTime, SbPList to improve conformance to Open Inventor 2.1 API
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Created public API for converting geo coordinates
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Auto-linking to the Coin library when using Microsoft Visual C++ compilers
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Updated expat sources to version 2.2.6
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Removed local Boost includes. Added configure option --with-boost
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Support for BitBucket and AppVeyor as continuous integration service providers
Bug fixes:
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Engine output referencing
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SoTextureCoordinatePlane rendering bug
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Memory leak during SoDB cleanup
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Memory leak in SoVertexAttribute
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Wrong vertical offset used in SoOffscreenRenderer
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Driver bug when allocating render-to-texture capable pbuffers from SoOffscreenRenderer
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Incorrect normal binding for 3DS import
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SoInteractionKit
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SoRayPickAction incorrect matrix info in getViewVolume
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SbTesselator triangulation errors
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SoToVRML2Action handling of NurbsCurve and IndexedNurbsCurve
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SoToVRML2Action handling TransformSeparator as Separator not Group
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SoVRMLTransform transformation bug in getTranslationSpaceMatrix
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SoVRMLExtrusion rendering
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Numerous minor and major issues detected with static code analysis
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Numerous documentation issues
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Camera location is updated during interaction in SoDragger
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Camera update handling in seek and spin modes
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Bounding box center calculation of SoIndexedShape derived components
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Intersection bounding box calculation between bounding box and view volume
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Allow deletion of SoDraggers in callbacks
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Crash in SoText2 when using non-integer font sizes
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Out of bounds access to array in SoSceneTextureCubeMap
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Numerical issues in computation of intersection between sphere and line
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Numerical issue in SbDPMatrix::multLineMatrix()
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Markers are disappearing when clipping planes are present
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Set of invalid VRML identifier characters extended with '(', ')', and '|'
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Replacement for OpenGL extensions string method, obsoleted since OpenGL version 3.0
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Output of scenes containing SoGroup or derived nodes in SoWriteAction
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Force setting color for all indices on TriangleStrips in SoMaterialBundle