omegalib 3.3 released

omegalib 3.3 integrates various changes merged from the 4.0 branch, mostly involving advanced GUI support, optimizations and GUI render-to-texture. Prebuilt version is much better on windows, and python scripts can now be launched from any directory on all platforms. Major revisions on cyclops shader, material and light support.

C++ and python API documentation has also been updated to reflect 3.3 chances. A new page on the wiki lists python examples, here: https://code.google.com/p/omegalib/wiki/PythonExamples

Major Changes

omega

• various bugfixes 
• followTrackable moved from cyclops Entity to SceneNode?
• Equalizer CUDA support disabled by default 
• ISceneObject >> NodeComponent?
• SceneNode? facing camera support 

omegaToolkit

• removed obsolete SceneRenderable? classes

misc

• updated MakeDistro? batch 
• updated examples 
• new examples 
• python scripts can run from any directory now 
• merged changes from v4.0 branch

cyclops

• Started revising Effect support to use Materials for high-frequency property changes to objects. 
• Separate cyclops light functions and Custom light shader function support 
• Entity.castShadow 
• shaders - ambient accumulated for all lights 
• added Spot and Directional lights 
• added support for light attenuation 
• added support for custom light functions 
• shader uniforms can be specified in Python scripts 
• shaders can be embedded in code instead of loading them from a separate file 
• added shader source caching. 
• revised examples