scenery 0.7.0 beta 7

Release Highlights

• RaycastResult includes more metadata (BREAKING CHANGE)
• H264Encoder now writes videos that are compatible with QuickTime without re-encoding
• Camera got a showMessage(text) method to show messages to the user
• OpenVRHMD has support for key repeats
• fixes wrong default blending options in Blending and TextBoard
• fixes wrong UV coordinate generation in Icosphere

The release also includes further small changes and fixes. For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.7.0 beta 6

Release Highlights

• wireframe rendering (see Material.wireframe)
• JavaFX support has been factored out to a separate project (BREAKING CHANGE)
• support for all Vulkan/OpenGL texture repeat modes (BREAKING CHANGE)
• CPU-based ray sampling for volumes

The release also includes a lot of bug fixes. For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.7.0 beta 5

Bugfix release

• fixes a breaking issue from beta 4.
• introduces unit tests for Settings and InputHandler
• updates lighting setup for tests

Further Release Highlights

• support for jitpack.io -- use any commit in the repository as version
• multithreaded video encoding for H264 created by the renderers
• Volume: support for sampling from volumetric data
• switch to 16bit HDR rendering targets for improved performance
• various fixes for distributed rendering

For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.7.0 beta 4

DON'T USE

This release has a breaking issue. Please use scenery 0.7.0-beta-5 instead!

Release Highlights

• support for jitpack.io -- use any commit in the repository as version
• multithreaded video encoding for H264 created by the renderers
• Volume: support for sampling from volumetric data
• switch to 16bit HDR rendering targets for improved performance
• various fixes for distributed rendering

For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.7.0 beta 3

Release Highlights

• Volume: Use same coordinate system as meshes, and make 1 voxel equivalent to 0.001 world units (= 1mm)
• Volume: Remove autosetProperties (BREAKING CHANGE)
• SceneryBase: Allow replaceRenderer() to be blocking, set wait=true to use this
• VulkanRenderer: Take texture repeat settings into consideration and recreate samplers on update (#236)
• Volume: Update outdated SPIRV binary shaders

For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.7.0 beta 2

Release Highlights

• introduces frustum culling
• refactors instancing (BREAKING CHANGE!)
• adds device connect/disconnect handlers to TrackerInput (and therefore OpenVRHMD, TrackedStereoGlasses, and Hololens)

For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.7.0 beta 1

Release Highlights

• adds preliminary support for BigDataViewer datasets

For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.6.2

Bugfix release

• VulkanRenderer/OpenGLRenderer: Revamp and improve handling of renderers when embedded in JavaFX panels (SceneryPanel)
• Volume: circumvent race condition when updating volumes with improved locking code
• VulkanRenderer/OpenGLRenderer: initialize spirvcrossj statically (once-per-process)

For full details, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.6.1

Bugfix release

• Volume: Fixes normalisation for all volume rendering methods
• REPL: Fixes a typo in the startup script

For a full list of changes, see the CHANGELOG.

scenery 0.6.0

Release Highlights

• introduces on-the-fly switchable renderers
• adds HBAO as default ambient occlusion algorithm
• Breaking change: This Release changes the way shaders are handled by Nodes. It removes Node.useClassDerivedShader and replaces it with a unified and more flexible system that also allows for shader factories. See Shaders and ShaderFactory (#203)

For full details, please refer to the CHANGELOG.