Ogre 2.1.1 Baldur Released!
This is a maintenance release. Efforts to port from 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 should be minimum.
For a full list of changes see the Github release
Source and SDK is in the download page.
Discussion in forum thread.
Ogre 2.1 Baldur Released!
Thank you to everyone who has been along all these many years! This release wouldn’t have been possible without you!
Thank you to every contributor (code, documentation, forum posts, art assets), to every user, to every tester that made Ogre 2.1 as stable as it is now.
This is my first experience building a binary SDK distribution. I’m used to linking to binaries built from source. If you see issues with it, ping me in the forums.
Codename Baldur
First major release
For more information, see the manual
See SW & HW Requirements
See platforms supported
See Ogre 2.1 FAQ
- Hlms (High Level Material System) to generate shaders automatically. Replaces RTSS and manual shaders
- PBS – Physically Based Shading
- New Compositor. More flexible, faster and powerful
- Refactored Ogre 1.x to increase performance by several factors; using cache friendly techniques (Data Oriented Design), SIMD instructions, AZDO (Aproaching Zero Driver Overhead), auto instancing, and multithreading
- Windows Vista/7/8/10 support, macOS via Metal and OpenGL, iOS via Metal, Linux via OpenGL
- Many new features: Area lights, Parallax Corrected Cubemaps, Forward Clustered lights, HDR, Exponential Shadowmaps and more
Relevant posts:
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/02/09/ogre-2-1-now-publicly-available-previously-dubbed-azdo-branch
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/03/05/ogre-progress-report-february-2015
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/04/05/ogre-progress-report-march-2015
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/07/08/ogre-progress-report-june-2015
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2016/01/01/ogre-progress-report-december-2015
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2016/03/14/ogre-progress-report-march-2016
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2016/12/23/ogre-progress-report-december-2016
- https://www.ogre3d.org/2018/01/01/ogre-progress-report-december-2017
Ogre Progress Report: December 2015
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
If you don’t celebrate any of those two, then don’t worry. Best wishes to you too!
We’re not dead. Just been busy, and very busy.
First of all, I need to clarify that Ogre 2.1 is very stable. Several users in our forums have been under the impression that 2.1 is unstable (both in terms of crashes or codebase constantly changing) and that is not true. Several teams are actually using 2.1 in production. We’re still away from an official release because we don’t run on Android, iOS and OS X yet; which for some, it can be a deal breaker. But if you work on Windows or Linux (or support for these other platforms can come later), then you can clone the repo and start working on 2.1
Beware most of the CMake option configurations haven’t been checked. Stick to defaults at first, and once you get the samples compiling and running, start experimenting with the other CMake options.
Also bare in mind the wiki and most plugins/addons are for 1.x; your starting point would be the samples (select OGRE_BUILD_SAMPLES2 in CMake) and the porting manual. (Recommended to view in OpenOffice or LibreOffice, then export to PDF. MS Word can open it, but it tends to screw the formatting).
Second, a community user, miki3d, has suggested a new logo/rebranding. What do you think? Don’t forget to stop by.
So… what’s new?
1. Added TagPoints to the new Skeleton system! This has been a sort of unfinished business for me. I’m glad it’s finally done!