Development log: December 10, 2009
Physical force fields, particles improvements and Softimage plugin
Physics:
- New PhysicalForce, PhysicalWind and PhysicalWater objects (simulation of viscous medium, buoyancy and resistance forces).
- Fluid buoyancy for all physical shapes.
- Added a set of samples with physical force fields and a rope sample.
- JointPin can attach cloth to ragdolls.
- Physics visualizers are now shown only with the editor loaded.
- Particle systems are now affected by force fields.
- Fixed velocity calculation for ragdolls transformed with setVelocityTransform() function.
- Added 'world_show_physicals' console variable.
Particles:
- New Chain type of particles for shift emitters to generate a seamless flow.
- Particles reset emitter parameters on disabling/enabling of the node.
- Some renaming in world/node files: 'stretch' -> 'length_stretch' and 'point_force' -> 'force' (run upgrade.py script to convert your data). This affected ObjectParticles API as well.
- Removed 'emitter_velocity' and 'emitter_scale' parameters from the particle systems; added slightly different 'emitter_direction' and 'emitter_spread' instead.
Chain particle systems affected by force fields:
Other stuff:
- Export plugins for Softimage 2010 (static geometry, skinned mesh animation).
- Fixed AppWindow in Linux: it provides the same keycodes regardless of the current key layout.
- Fixed node type filter in UnigineEditor.
- Refactored tessellation shaders; there is some performance improvement.
- Added 'post_filter_rgb2yuv' post-process filter that is useful for TV broadcasting.
- Improved Unigine::Image C++ API: added more functions for image processing.
- Added WidgetSpriteShader object, which can be used with a custom shader for post-process material.
- Added Unigine::ObjectMeshDynamic::updateIndices() function.
- Shadow objects force node update, there will be no shadow stalls.
- Timestamps in log files.
- WorldTransformExpression is renamed to WorldExpression.
- Refactored stereo 3D launchers, now they can are not limited to dual view mode.
- Adding array of visible nodes into the world is possible via UnigineScript.
- Swizzling is now available in UnigineScript for functions; foo().x and foo()[2] is acceptable now.
- Added EngineAnalyzer system, output can be seen via 'engine_analyze' console command.
- Fixed occluders rasterizator.
- All GUI fonts have anisotropy enabled now.
- Updated documentation on particle systems ("Principles of Operation / Objects / Particle systems" section of the manual).
- Updated article on blending in materials ("Content Creation / Materials Overview / Blending Options").
Softimage export plugin GUI (see documentation for more information on options):
Last News
We continue to share the experience of UNIGINE Corp. team in creating interactive real-time 3D worlds.
A new article from our technical artists about some techniques used in development of Oil Rush naval strategy game is published, it contains a set of re-usable filters available for download.
Read the article: Procedural Content Generation for Real-Time 3D Applications Part 1: Oil Rush
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Read more in the official press-release.
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Read more in the official press-release.
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UNIGINE’s Valley Benchmark, which features an enormously vast outdoor 3D environment filled with lush forests, is coming bundled this spring with groundbreaking EVGA GeForce GTX graphics cards. This all-new comprehensive benchmarking tool from the lineup of trusted benchmarks from UNIGINE Corp., is already acclaimed by users and industry professionals as a miraculously beautiful yet efficient GPU stress-testing tool for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Read more in the official press-release.
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