OpenRM 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1

E. Wes Bethel — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 13:43:24 -0000

Tarballs for release candidate 1 of 1.6.0 openrm-devel, openrm-demo and openrm-gordo have been posted at the OpenRM beta web page, http://www.openrm.org/beta/. A formal release will happen after web and related documentation have been finalized.

1.5.2-3 maintenance release

E. Wes Bethel — Sat, 29 May 2004 18:58:15 -0000

Openrm-devel 1.5.2-3 is a maintenance release. It contains a fix for a bug whereby the quadrics objects (cones, cylinders, spheres) were not properly intialized during rmPipeMakeCurrent if you didn't let OpenRM create the OpenGL context. This bug would affect only those applications that create and manage their own windows and OpenGL contexts. There are no API changes between 1.5.2-1, 1.5.2-2 and 1.5.2-3.

mklib.macosx-X11 and 1.5.2 release

E. Wes Bethel — Tue, 04 May 2004 21:16:48 -0000

The mklib.macosx-X11 script didn't make it into the 1.5.2 release due to not being checked in to the CVS tree. We subsequently added it, then released version 1.5.2-2 of openrm-devel, which contains the missing mklib.macosx-X11 script.

OpenRM 1.5.2 Release

E. Wes Bethel — Sun, 18 Apr 2004 21:04:17 -0000

Today's release contains version 1.5.2 of openrm-devel, openrm-demo and openrm-cave-demo. We've added gordo to the list of project downloads, and its inaugural entry is 1.5.2.

Project website updates are in progress and should be completed soon (later today, 4/18/04).

The openrm-chromium tree will be updated within the next week or two for 1.5.2.

Thanks for your continued support.

OpenRM+Chromium Demo Progs Update for 1.5.1

E. Wes Bethel — Sat, 07 Feb 2004 17:12:52 -0000

The OpenRM+Chromium demonstration programs have been updated to use OpenRM 1.5.1 and Chromium 1.5.

OpenRM 1.5.1 release

E. Wes Bethel — Tue, 20 Jan 2004 06:04:43 -0000

Version 1.5.1 of OpenRM Scene Graph (devel, demo) is now on the web at openrm.sourceforge.net. New features and capabilities include:
- Constant-rate rendering support.
- Increased pick limits.
- Auto-spin mode for use with rmauxEventLoop.
- Texture objects are now shared, which will substantially reduce memory consumption in programs that instance textures.
- Preliminary support for FreeBSD.
- New routines to measure and manipulate time.
- New RMdemo program - fpsVis3d - used to benchmark rendering and test constant-rate rendering.
- Eradication of several small bugs.
- It just occured to me to mention two other new demo programs that failed to make their presence known in the documentation:
- spriteTest - generates lots and lots of sprites, was used as the test application for the increased pick limits.
- textureTest - like spriteTest, can generate lots and lots of textures, and was used to test the memory consumption on the new texture instancing code.

OpenRM 1.5.0 Programming Guide

E. Wes Bethel — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 02:58:35 -0000

The 1.5.0 Programming Guide represents a substantial body of work, including editing, beyond what is available in the older 1.4.3 version. In order to support the project, the 1.5.0 may be purchased for a nominal charge at http://www.r3vis.com/SSD/PGuide/index.html

OpenRM Scene Graph 1.5.0 implements parallel rendering

E. Wes Bethel — Mon, 28 Jul 2003 12:18:08 -0000

OpenRM is a 2D/3D Scene Graph rendering engine for Linux/Unix/Win32 layered atop OpenGL. Supports stereoscopy, volume rendering, 2D/3D texture mapping, picking, LOD and view-dependent operations, text, and image-based data. New in OpenRM Scene Graph 1.5.0 is direct support for distributed memory parallel rendering when combined with Chromium (chromium.sourceforge.net). This significant work is intended to be used by developers who need the utmost in parallel application performance, and is designed to drive extremely high resolution tiled displays in a distributed memory environment. The "parallel OpenRM" is built to be completely independent of all parallel programming frameworks, so developers can choose MPI, PVM, etc. to build parallel applications and still benefit from a parallel scene graph.

1.4.3 release now available

E. Wes Bethel — Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:03:50 -0000

There many improvments in this version, please refer to the RELEASENOTES in the openrm-devel-1.4.3 tarball for complete details. Highlights include renewed support for Win32 DLL builds, support for "an infinite" number of scene graph objects (subject to the amount of RAM and swap on your machine, of course), a new callback that can be used to set the rendering order for child scene graph nodes, a few new demonstration programs, and a few bug fixes.

The programming guide has been updated at r3vis.com. We are also making available for free download pre-built Win32 binaries of the 1.4.3 libraries and demo programs. We are asking for donations for both these products and services.

OpenRM Scene Graph Programming Guide

E. Wes Bethel — Tue, 22 Jan 2002 02:23:09 -0000

The RM Scene Graph/OpenRM Scene Graph Programming Guide is ready for download. Check the OpenRM website at Sourceforge, and follow the links. While still incomplete, this document will be a valuable resource to developers.

http://openrm.sourceforge.net/

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