Development log

Recent changes:

• Destroyable joints (maximal force and torque can be set independently).
• Saving of joints into world and prefab files.
• Damping in joints.
• Linear motors.
• Cone friction approximation instead of pyramid one.
• Independent linear and angular damping in particles (don't forget to replace "friction" by "linear_damping" in all particle nodes).
• Fixed tunneling bug in physics at low render FPS.
• Correct "slow motion" mode in physics.
• Play/Pause button in UnigineEditor (controls physics simulation).
• Visualizer improvements.
• Set of new functions: setWorldParent, addWorldChild and removeWorldChild, which preserve position of the object in the world space.
• Quaternions improvements: unary operations, operations with scalars.
• Saving of MeshDynamic geometry into world files.
• Maya 8.5 plugins.
• Fixed "force_no_shadows" bug with reflections.
• Bugfix of soft hardware shadows at ATI/Direct3D9.
• Deferred texture is available in the world_end pass and in postprocesses now.
• Auto detection of videocard capabilities in Direct3D9 and OpenGL.

Frustum has made funny stereo mode as a proof of concept (you need stereo glasses like ones using in cinema to view this screenshots):

This prototype effect works only under OpenGL/NVIDIA for the moment.

By the way, today is 2nd anniversary of Unigine v0.3, our first commercial release (4 May, 2005). Here is some statistics about it:

binstream@binstream:~/work/unigine/Unigine_v0.3$ ./size.py
shaders           139 Kb   64 files    4459 lines
examples           94 Kb   18 files    3648 lines
levels             16 Kb    3 files     585 lines
src              1732 Kb  126 files   58521 lines
tools             118 Kb   30 files    4212 lines
total            2100 Kb  241 files   71425 lines

...and about the current state of Unigine v0.4:

binstream@binstream:~/work/unigine/Unigine_v0.4/source$ ./size.py
editor            568 Kb   49 files   20600 lines
scripts            59 Kb    5 files    1925 lines
shaders           634 Kb  166 files   23106 lines
tools              31 Kb   17 files    1230 lines
app                 9 Kb   21 files     303 lines
engine           4651 Kb  393 files  168415 lines
libraries         123 Kb   13 files    3649 lines
samples            69 Kb   29 files    2890 lines
tools             618 Kb   66 files   23842 lines
total            6764 Kb  759 files  245960 lines

Size isn't the most important parameter of the software project, but having the same quality level (even more higher for v0.4) you can estimate the progress.

PS: Don't forget to check out our updated screenshots gallery.