I’ve created a new screenshots album to contain screenshots from the new material framework which is now in the final stages; we hope to get the 0.13 release out containing this by the end of the month. I’ve uploaded one screenshot to get it started, of a cel shading effect on the OGRE head. If you want to try out the new material framework, grab the CVS version and get playing!
Just a quick update on things that are going on in the community, incase you don’t keep up through the forums or on irc:
In short – busy times!
It’s been long overdue, but I finally got around to registering our own domain name. We’ll still be hosted on Sourceforge so the old address will continue to work, but please start updating your bookmarks / favorites to point at www.ogre3d.org.
We’ve just released patch 2 for the Ogre 0.12 release. We now maintain the branch of the last major release separately from new development so people can take advantage of bugfixes and minor enhancements while still remaining on the stable release. You can get it from the Downloads page as per usual. Full details of the changes in this release are available in the full text of this article.
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The Mac OS X build setup, using XCode, has been put into CVS. Much thanks to jder and tcleu for their efforts in getting the original work together. Expect more mac improvements in the future.
The new material framework for 0.13 is approaching completion; this version does not simply introduce the binding of vertex and fragment programs to the pipeline, it adds a whole new level of flexibility to the use of materials in OGRE. People have been asking for ‘shader’ support for some time, but we’ve waited until we had enough time to do it properly, to give people a fully rounded framework in which to use them rather than just tacking them on. We hope you approve..
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