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2006-11-18

Batching and billboards

Unigine reference manual has been filling with chapters about UnigineScript built-in library for a pair of weeks. We must say that this means a heap of work since UnigineScript has way too rich library, there are more than 1000 functions. Gosh, all of them need to be documented properly!

This week changes:

Automatic batching of objects for rendering.
ObjectBillboard (oriented in parallel with camera plane or rotate around Z axis, arbitrary rotation center offset) with support of alpha-testing, emission, normal and specular mapping.
Memory allocations optimization.
Smart rendering into deferred buffer for particles and transparent objects.
Height-fading volume fog.
Changing of blending for detail material.
Two speeds of camera movement in UnigineEditor - normal and fast (with SHIFT) ones.
Displaying of video memory used for meshes and textures.
Minor bugfixes and improvements.

We've forgotten to mention, ATI Catalyst 6.10 and 6.11 really solved win32/OpenGL crashes, now everything is fine.