Omegalib 3.7 released

The omegalib model viewer. Source code at https://omegalib-apps.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/modelView2/modelView.py. Saturn V Model(c) Arthur Nishimoto

This is an intermediate release, before some major planned API additions for 4.0.

Major Changes

general

• Improved support for building custom external modules.
• Additional fixes to runtime application switching.
• added mission control -m flag to the default command line options. (see the Command Line Wiki page).
• added support for multi-instance launching (using the -I command line option). Now multiple intances of omegalib can easily run on a cluster driving a display system, sharing the same configuration and each controlling a subsection of the display space.

omega

• DisplayConfig.verbose mode
• New python functions: getViewRay(x, y), broadcastCommand()
• number of lines in the onscreen console can be customized.
• Stereo eye separation can be customized at runtime through Camera.setEyeSeparation

cyclops

• Fixed material and effect color and alpha overrides
• Fix to emissive texture shader (would not render correctly with lighting enabled).
• API CHANGE: Material setDiffuseColor and setEmissiveColor have been merged into setColor(diffuse, emissive) to make it clear material color override both emissive and diffuse.
• API Additions: Entity.listPieces(), Entity.getPiece().
• Fixed optimization error for animated models.
• polygon offset and wireframe options for setEffect (-o, -w)

omegaOsg

• FIX: queueCommand(':autonearfar on') done before osg module initialization was being ignored.
• Added support for depth partitioning, to correctly render large scale scenes.

omegaToolkit

• API Additions: Widget.getCenter()
• API Additions: Menu.getContainer()
• Improved support for 2D mode menus