Change Log

From Digital Spaces

Release 0.12.2

23 September 2008

• Fixed Billboard creation from scene files
• Significant SGManager performance increase when dealing witha large number of self-animated objects
• Correct handling of wide-screen screen modes
• FMOD based sound component replacing the OpenAL based sound component
• Improved keyboard event support

Release 0.12.1

31 August 2008

• User experience during loading improved
• SGManager performs delayed/progressive loading when possible
• Options menu allowing screen resolution changes

Release 0.12.0

22 August 2008

• SGManager reimplemented. The changes to the SGManager API may break some scripts.
• 3DScenegraphManager API removed. This will break some scripts.
• SGManager can now track skeletally rigged mesh bones, and in future other sub-objects.

Release 0.11.0

10 July 2008

• Upgraded the Ogre library to use 1.4. This does mean a change in the Ogre specific DInterfaces, which may break some scripts.

Release 0.10.3

12 March 2008

• Optimized and improved physics collision calculation.

Release 0.10.2

6 March 2008

• Space file accepts multiple <scene src=""> entries
• Dropped Scenegraphmanager source
• Physics groups optimized, limit lifted from 31 to 255

Release 0.10.1

26 February 2008

• Updated logos

Release 0.10.0

21 February 2008

• Support for Ogg Vorbis audio files
• Physics based ray-casting added

Release 0.9.6

29 November 2007

• Multiple gravity selection works again
• AgentManager_Waypoint works again

Release 0.9.5

15 November 2007

• Vehicle Controller fixes, returns to old behaviour
• Help and About boxes added

Release 0.9.4

27 September 2007

• Bugfix for Rover type vehicle agents

Release 0.9.3

13 August 2007

• Bugfixes, and optimization of renderTarget's

Release 0.9.2

8 August 2007

• Fixed and enhanced Human Avatar.

Release 0.9.1

6 August 2007

• Added API access to rendered textures contents.
• Added support for non-DSS Python modules.

Release 0.9.0

12 July 2007

• ScenegraphManager replaced with SGManager.
• Added support for rendering to textures.

. Release 0.8.5

• Added support for programatic control over texture unit state, allowing for texture animation.

. Release 0.8.4

• Fixed Window-Hide All hiding the system bar.

. Release 0.8.3

• CEGUI Tab control support added.
• Improved developer documentation.
• Vehicle Agent Controller now allows user to release control of all vehicles, now starts in this state.

. Release 0.8.2

• Scripting updated to use Python 2.5.
• Certain lockups and crashes experienced during loading spaces with scripting in earlier versions (especially 0.8.1) have been resolved.
• Additional control and interogation of the Physics simulation added.
  • If a script used DIPhysicsBase::Set previously, this will need to be changed to DIPhysicsBase::SetFloat, SetBool, SetQuaternion or SetVector

. Release 0.8.1

This release primarily focused on making the source easier to build. Also:

• Physics is enhanced, allowing for post-creation inspection and alteration of previously static properties.
• Support for Cylinder physics shapes added.

. Release 0.8.0

• Physics_Gangsta offically depreciated, Physics_ODE now offical physics module. This release may break spaces that were dependant on specific behaviour of Physics_Gangsta.
  • If the globalSettings scale parameter was not 1.0 in index.space/environment.xml, this change will break the space behaviour.
  • If you had physics objects (joints, bodies, shapes) with duplicate names, the repeated instances will no longer be created.

. Release 0.7.2, 0.7.3

• Compatibility release for older spaces.
  • Last release to use Physics_Gangsta.
  • Dust and Boost features re-implemented.

. Release 0.7.1

• Implemented Physics_ODE. This is a reimplementation of Physics_Gangsta, without the extra levels of abstraction. The same interfaces are used as were provided by Physics_Gangsta, this may be considered a drop-in replacement.

. Release 0.7.0

• Added splash screen and related functions to show it during startup and shutdown
• Added error message dialog when loading/parsing a space file fails
• Change layout of system menu
• Load -> Bookmark now has Bookmark current space
• Bookmark submenu's Rename and Delete now function
• Changes to bookmarks are saved
• Added Bookmark Renaming dialog to GUI

. Release 0.6.0

• Core checks for existance of space file before attempting to parse it
• Core checks for valid XML result from space file parsing before processing
• Updated DICore to use Space instead of Environment in function names
• Removed all GUI handling from the Core - NOTE: Code still exists, is no longer called though
• Added access to ODE joint 'fudge' parameter
• Scengraph Loading doesnt return from PerformPublicStartupStep until loading is complete (NOTE: Revert this is progress bar is implemented)
• Loading process no longer checks for existence of scene nodes and entities before creation, now attempts to create and handles failure due to existing. Faster in general case.
• Added support for static tag in scenefile loading
• Updated Release build to use updated OpenAL
• Fixed audio error on certain machines
• Updated Open AL to 1.1 API
• Updated 3DAudio:OpenAL to use freeALUT 1.1

. Release 0.5.1

• Removed all usage of the Resource Manager, is broken when opening non-existant files
• Improved Audio implementation to allow (hacky) loading of sounds after startup
• Fixed a bug in DIList conversion that decref'ed too much
• Fixed a crash where Python objects were referred to after the interpreter was shut down.
• Added Python Scripting code to SVN
• All GUI related configuration files updated to work with new CEGUI
• CEGUI Wrapping implemented
• Removing upstream CEGUI from source control
• Merged changes from trunk - Fixed screenshot crash bug
• Re-implemented an exception catch that occurred through normal use (displaying a message to gui console would cause it)
• Re-disabled the Options entry in the DSS menu.

. Release 0.5.0

• Added effectrefresh setting to Space Vehicle Agent, to limit GUI refreshes. Also adjusted precision show on GUI
• Set up Space Vehicle Agent to accept initial velocity and target velocity parameters
• Moved environment to space
• Added XML compression to project pre-build

. Release 0.0.4

• Default environment renamed to space
• Added requirement for OGRE to sefault space. Updated GUI to show 0.5.0
• Agent related fixes in preparation for 0.5.0
• Renaming EntityManager to ScenegraphManager
• Renaming EntityManager to ScenegraphManager
• Removed DSS code
• CEGUI module seperated from OGRE module
• CEGUI module seperated from OGRE module
• CEGUI module wraps CEGUI classes
• DSS code removed from CEGUI
• Fixed VehicleAgent Controller not exporting its configurationID through DIFactory1
• Added gradiated keyboard control of the vertical speed.
• Limited horizontal speed to allow faster reactions
• Added Space Vehicle Control

. Release 0.0.4-H

• Entity Manager now sets the shadow color to the scene ambient
• Added Speed Support into Motor Driven states, so that individual motors can be run at different speeds for different states.
• Attempting to work with an animation that didn't exist will no longer causes crashes
• Fixed spotlights being specified in Radians in Scene File
• Animations that are weight 0 are now marked as not applied.
• Fixed smooth turning, as well as smooth turning causing drifting when at a full stop.
• Also fixed problem where smooth turning being applied during Long Frame at startup would the agent to end up who knows where.
• Human Agent really does smooth turning now
• AgentManager - Added in Robot Agent.
• Temporarily changed Human Agent turning back to insta-snap
• Human Agent now turns gradually to face set orientation
• Human Agent now turns gradually to face set orientation
• Avatar Agent ignores rotation except around the Y axis
• Avatar Agent ignores rotation except around the Y axis
• Brought in changes made to HEAD for the demo that marks this release/tag

. Release 0.0.4-G

• Added SpaceVehicle Agent to Agent Manager
• Added logging to debug console during parsing of .scene XML
• Adjusted Ogre Particle Effects
• Slider Joints adjusted scaling direction with powerSpeed
• Slider Joints accept powerSpeed, powerMin and powerMax as Settings to enable automatic power adjustment code on a joint. This is designed to provide a shock-absorber style joint

. Release 0.0.4-E

• Human Avatar (Agent Controller) has had some optimizations done in Receive Event
• Human Avatar (Agent Controller) provides a GUI for setting the camera position states
• Physics_Gangsta only logs excessive Release calls in Debug mode
• Entity Manager now allows calls to Set on its DIPhysicsBody interface, by passing the values directly to the real physics interface
• Human Agent (Avatar) now supports a FLYING state, which will cause it to ignore gravity and move faster.
• Human Agent (Avatar) Supports states 1STPERSON, 3RDPERSON and 3RDPERSONFAR, which will make it move the CAMERA Scenenode to appropriate positions
• Added in Slider joint motor function to the ODE Pass through
• SetAnimationSpeed added to DI3DEntity1 functions.
• Added in normalise function for Quaternion.
• Added in path looping support.
• Fixed waypoint Finding for multiple Paths.
• New waypoint settings changed so that if a waypoint is created and there already exist at least one point it will use the values of the last waypoint in the path, not 0,0,0
• Completed basic waypoint system, with in program editing of waypoint and ability to save waypoints after they have been changed to both the original file, or a new one.
• Initial Version of the waypoint system, currently functioning with vehicles capable of following a single path.
• VehicleAgent uses both drive speed and "nudge force" code to reach the values assigned in SetPosition and SetOrientation
• VehicleAgent corrects its orientation to the value used in SetOrientation gradually/using correction, rather then "Teleport"
• Human Avatar changed to use agent controls instead of FPS camera
• StringFromDUID added
• Vehicle Agent's GetVelocity and GetRotation now return useful values
• Vehicle Agent GetStates returns more states
• Vehicle Agent implements StoreConfiguration, can provide AgentSpecification and AgentState
• Agent Manager now stores a list of Templates (.agent files) and creates Agents from Templates
• AgentManager uses Agent's StoreConfiguration to provide Template update/save
• Agent Manager allows Agent instancing via a GUI
• AgentManager now registers as listening with DIDataTransfer, calls DIDataTransfer once per second with State built from Agents
• Added in code to control speed of car type steering.
• Ported fix to engine torque ramping in Vehicle Agent
• Agent Manager now shows an options GUI
• Vehicle Agent GUI shows Boost checkbox as selected by default

. Release 0.0.4-B

• Added DIOGREAnimation implementation
• Added DIOGREAnimation implementation
• Adding missing files for resources.
• Added SceneEditor project to Solution
• Added function to build up a DIXMLNode1 from a SettingMap
• Vehicle Agent now applies HANDBRAKE state immediately, rather then next Velocity/Rotation setting (which previously occured every frame)
• Vehicle Agent allows application of new properties to collisions - Removal of properties not supported.
• Vehicle Agent supports saving its changed settings (uses agent name as file name)
• Vehicle Control saves the chase/no chase camera setting
• Vehicle Control sets HANDBRAKE state before switching vehicles
• Added to functions to Entity manager interface for the Scene Editor.
• Added to functions to Entity manager interface for the Scene Editor.
• AgentManager now provides a GUI that allows (partial) adjustment of collision and perfomance parameters in real time
• AgentManager also orovides "car" mode steering
• Vehicle Agent control now supports multiple agents
• Added Gangsta support for ODE Hinge2 joints
• Added a DICEGUISlider1 interface
• Adjusted CEGUI components handling of attached DIEventSubscriber1's
• Added more Agent definition XML properties
• Added dependency between VehicleAgent and ContainerImplementations (due to DUnion)
• Added TinyXML to headers of projects that needed it
• Added DUnion data container
• Added function to build a DUnion from a DIXMLElement1
• Added function to build a map of DUnions from a DIXMLNode (SettingMap data type)
• Added stream output operators for DUnion and SettingMap
• Added VehicleAgent Control, that uses HAPTIC input
• Added ability for <agent> specs to specify the type of agent implementation, currently Human (default) or Vehicle
• Created basic Vehicle Agent implementation
• Added SceneScaler utility to project
• Added ability for Scaler to do all meshes in current dir if no environment.xml found.
• Added licence notes to all source files that didn't have them

. Release 0.0.04-A

• Added step of installing the DirectX SDK
• Added extra debugging info regarding Perform*StartupStep
• Add some useful constructor and convertor functions to DIPtr. Also addec clear() to DIPtr
• Added SetRelativeLinearVelocity,SetRelativeAngularVelocity and LocalPointToWorld to DIPhysicsBody
• Added better build process description to README.txt
• Added Project Dependancy for 3DVisuals on OGREGUIRenderer
• Added Quaternionf stream operator <<
• Added missing functions to OGRE Camera class/Interface
• Added clear operator to DIPtr
• Added OGRE Interfaces for Billboard Sets
• Added container interface to Vector4
• Added SetDisplayObject to DIPhysicsBody, to allow inter-module creation of physics objects
• Added some automatic type casting functions to DIPtr
• Added a iostream operator for Wml::Vector3, to allow easier debugging
• Added Ogre to Source Tree, and to DigitalSpacesCore project
• Added linear joints to Physics::Gangsta

. Release 0.0.3-H

• Enabled Exception catching in 3DVisuals::Ogre renderer in Release versions - Reset's Ogre configuration
• Added screen-capture code, presing PrintScreen will capture to [environment filder]/screenshots/DigitalSpaces-[Year][Month][Day]-[Hour][Minute][Second].jpg
• PrintScreen key is hard-coded as always available into UserInput::DirectInput. Can be allocated to other keys as well, but can't be removed from PrintScreen key

. Release 0.0.3-G

• Added options.xml - Core option for home environment
• DSS GUI Menu stays visible now
• Added support for Title in shortcuts.xml and Core
• Added Particle Effects plugin for Ogre
• Added some heirachy control to DI3DVisualsNode1 and DI3DVisuals1
• Added control for particle effects in DI3DVisuals1
• Added interfaces DICEGUIButton1 (very bare bones) and DICEGUICheckbox1
• Added DIUserInput2DPointer1 - **very** minimal so far
• Added mouse and keyboard event handling to UserInput_DirectInput

. Release 0.0.3-E

• Added altered Ogre files to repository
• Added missed WindowsLook WidgetSet makefiles to repository
• Added CEGUI sources to repository
• Added some use of MS C Runtime memory tracking to some plug-ins, in attempt to hunt down remaining leaks
• Added Physics_Gangsta to DSS Visual C++ solution file. Again.
• Added code for new conept of in-GUI console
• Added getChildCount and GetChildAtIdx to DICEGUIWindow1
• Added DICEGUIListbox1

. Release 0.0.3-D

• Added initial work on PuppetInterface
• Added new "system" GUI, which is created by Core, using the CEGUI interfaces
• Created DIEventSubscriber1 and DIEventProvider1 interfaces
• Added SetTimeoutEvent and RemoveTimeoutEvent to DICore1
• Added code for reading the button and POV Hat from the joystick - Thanks Ed Jones

. Release 0.0.3-C

• Added file-specific documentation
• Added exception handling into GUI_CEGUI so requesting a non-existant window returns NULL instead of an exception.

. Release 0.0.3-B

• Added SetFloatingText to DI3DVisualsEntity1
• Added AddDebugMessage to DICore1
• Added some exception handling into 3DVisuals_OGRE for requesting Nodes/Entities that didn't exist.

. Release 0.0.3-A

• Added <includeplugin> element to environment.xml specification
• Added Vibration effect to DIHapticDevice1, implemented by UserInput_DirectInput
• Added DIWin32Window1 interface (3DVisuals::Ogre provides this now)

. Release 0.0.2

. Release 0.0.2-C

• Added DIObjectBaseImpl
• Added MS C++ Debug runtimes to dependancies packages

. Release 0.0.2-B

. Release 0.0.2-B

. Release 0.0.2-A

• Added License information to all .h and .cpp files