coin400(3)

NAME
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:

•   Support for UNICODE text (starting with Coin 4.0 strings are UTF-8 encoded).

•   View volume and projectors now support reverse perspective camera settings

•   New SoReversePerspectiveCamera node added

•   New getRadius method added to SoRayPickAction

•   New virtual method getPickedPointForStart added to SoDragger to allow dragging of (partially) covered objects by derived draggers

•   New greater than and less than operators added to SbString

•   Implemented SoTextureCoordinateObject for linear texture functions

•   New SoAlphaTest node added

•   Support for GLSL/ARB shaders has been added to SoShaderStateMatrixParameter

•   Support for linePatternScaleFactor in SoDrawStyle

•   Support for newer compilers

•   Support for DISABLE policy in SoSelection node

•   API changes in SbMatrix, SoPickAction, SoEvent, SoSFTime, SbPList to improve conformance to Open Inventor 2.1 API

•   Created public API for converting geo coordinates

•   Auto-linking to the Coin library when using Microsoft Visual C++ compilers

•   Updated expat sources to version 2.2.6

•   Removed local Boost includes. Added configure option --with-boost

•   Support for BitBucket and AppVeyor as continuous integration service providers

Bug fixes:

•   Engine output referencing

•   SoTextureCoordinatePlane rendering bug

•   Memory leak during SoDB cleanup

•   Memory leak in SoVertexAttribute

•   Wrong vertical offset used in SoOffscreenRenderer

•   Driver bug when allocating render-to-texture capable pbuffers from SoOffscreenRenderer

•   Incorrect normal binding for 3DS import

•   SoInteractionKit

•   SoRayPickAction incorrect matrix info in getViewVolume

•   SbTesselator triangulation errors

•   SoToVRML2Action handling of NurbsCurve and IndexedNurbsCurve

•   SoToVRML2Action handling TransformSeparator as Separator not Group

•   SoVRMLTransform transformation bug in getTranslationSpaceMatrix

•   SoVRMLExtrusion rendering

•   Numerous minor and major issues detected with static code analysis

•   Numerous documentation issues

•   Camera location is updated during interaction in SoDragger

•   Camera update handling in seek and spin modes

•   Bounding box center calculation of SoIndexedShape derived components

•   Intersection bounding box calculation between bounding box and view volume

•   Allow deletion of SoDraggers in callbacks

•   Crash in SoText2 when using non-integer font sizes

•   Out of bounds access to array in SoSceneTextureCubeMap

•   Numerical issues in computation of intersection between sphere and line

•   Numerical issue in SbDPMatrix::multLineMatrix()

•   Markers are disappearing when clipping planes are present

•   Set of invalid VRML identifier characters extended with '(', ')', and '|'

•   Replacement for OpenGL extensions string method, obsoleted since OpenGL version 3.0

•   Output of scenes containing SoGroup or derived nodes in SoWriteAction

•   Force setting color for all indices on TriangleStrips in SoMaterialBundle