Good evening everyone,
it's release time for Tundra 2.3.0! Get it from
http://code.google.com/p/realxtend-naali/downloads/list .
Read the detailed changelog below. Very brief summary of major things:
- new rigid body network protocol, which is heaps better.
- rewritten Mumble VOIP plugin.
- switched to using a more stable and secure fork of ogre,
https://bitbucket.org/clb/ogre-safe-nocrashes/overview
- tons of performance optimizations, and crash fixes.
- tons of security fixes.
I cannot stress enough how important it is for everyone to upgrade to this
version. Seriously. Big thanks to everyone who contributed to this release.
Compatibility with 2.2.0:
- 2.3.0 clients can log in to 2.2.0 servers.
- 2.2.0 clients cannot log in to 2.3.0 servers.
- No known regressions/breakages with the scripting APIs.
Known issues for this release:
- https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues/394
- https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues/393
- https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues/392
- for other outstanding items, see
https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues/
A More Complete Changelog:
Note: The numbers with # signs refer to github issue tracker numbers, e.g.
#314 -> https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues/314 .
- Implemented a new path for streaming rigid bodies over the network.
This allows a far larger number of concurrent clients on a server. (#314,
#322, #354)
- Comparative profile of the Physics demo scene:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/Tundra/Tundra_RigidBody_PhysicsScene.png
- Old rigid body streaming code was about 70bytes/update:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/Tundra/OldRigidBodyStreaming_70b.png
- New code averages at about 11bytes/update:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/Tundra/NewRigidBodyPackets_11b.png
- User counts as large as 64 users are doable, but largely depends on
what is running in the scene:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/Tundra/kNetServer64users.png
- Updated Physics demo scene. Added a new Physics2 demo scene.
- Fixed security issues in SyncManager sync action filter hooks.
- Fix a crash that occurred with TransformEditor.
- Fix a bug where the avatar mouse controls would not work at all on some
scenes.
- Add support for launching Tundra from a web browser using the tundra://
protocol URL.
- Limit local asset file loads to keep at least 30fps rendering rate, if
possible.
- Added a new loading screen script to display scene/asset loading
status, for improved responsiveness. (#328, #330)
- Fixed several UI issues with the Profiler display window.
- Greatly improved scene loading performance for large scenes that are
loaded from the local filesystem. (#327)
- Added a --no_async_asset_load command line option to allow disabling
the background asset loader thread. (Can improve performance, see
https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues/332 )
- Added a new plugin: AssetInterestPlugin, which performs
runtime-unloading of unused assets to keep memory consumption down on
large scenes.
- Added a script-driven throttling mechanism to scene server->client
synchronization mechanism to improve user responsiveness when logging in
to a scene. (#302, #337, )
- Added a new "Open config folder" option to the Settings menu.
- Fix a regression bug introduced in 2.2.0 which broke .mesh file
importing by drag-n-drop.
- Added improved error logging in several situations: when loading bad
materials, when misusing animationcontroller and mesh components, and when
printing out script errors.
- Added script functions for tangent frame computations along the
terrain. (#298)
- Added a new shader program combination: DiffSpecflatNormal.
- Added a built-in material Wireframe.material for debugging aid.
- Fix several issues and enable calling more functions with the generic
function invoker.
- Add support for alpha-tested shadows.
- Old: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/Tundra/OldShadows.png
- New: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/40949268/Tundra/AlphaShadows.png
- Moved to build Tundra against a ogre fork ogre-safe-nocrashes
(https://bitbucket.org/clb/ogre-safe-nocrashes/overview), instead of the
ogre trunk to improve security and fix bugs.
- Fork based on Ogre 1.8.0 branch, instead of 1.7.3.
- Fixes issues with Ogre crashing on certain .dds files. (#345)
- Fixes an Ogre crash related to bad .material files. (#343)
- Fixes an Ogre crash when a .mesh does not contain any normals. (#386)
- Fixes a crash when editing a .hdx asset twice while Tundra is
running, caused by an Ogre crash to a dangling compositor pointer access.
(#41, #331)
- Fix crash issues with malformed mesh inputs. (#377)
- TextureTool: Added two different mipmap generation options for creating
mipmaps for alpha-tested textures.
- Fix a bug where underwater fog did not work for EC_WaterPlane. (#342)
- Fix a crash bug with bad EC_WaterPlane segments attribute values.
- Make Tundra consistently use UDP as the default protocol in every
situation. The use of TCP is in general discouraged, and should only be
enabled for testing or firewall penetration.
- Updated to newest stable kNet version.
- Fixed Scene::GetEntitiesWithComponent to actually work.
- Rewrote the Mumble VOIP implementation from scratch. (#349)
- Fixed a bug where asset dependencies could not be satisfied due to case
sensitivity issues on Windows.
- Added a new "Clear Asset Cache" menu option.
- Added support to Asset API to do asset live-upload. See
http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend-dev/browse_thread/thread/6f44c428b09c3a52
- Fixed a bug with mouse movement not working on Mac.
- Changed Tundra .dds loading to not automatically generate mip levels
for .dds textures that did not contain them. (#356)
- Fixed a crash if user attempted to cyclically parent entities to each
other.
- Added new command line parameters --opengl, --direct3d9, --d3d9 and
--nullrenderer.
- Note: The nullrenderer plugin is not however shipped with this
release, due to incompatibilities with Ogre 1.8.0.
- Added support for liveupdate (and liveupload) to work on assets that
reside in the asset cache.
- Improved "Open File Location" assets window context menu option to
select the asset file on Windows, instead of just opening the folder.
- Greatly improved the loading times of large terrains.
- Other closed issues:
- #98, #251, #340, #84, #323, #355, #48, #310, #351, #362, #375, #384,
#376, #387, #390, #321, #336, #389.
- +other changes. See the full comparison at
https://github.com/realXtend/naali/compare/tundra2.2.0...tundra2.3.0
and as usual, the github issue tracker is open throughout the night and
after-hours for your tickets serving purposes,
https://github.com/realXtend/naali/issues
Best Regards,
jj
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