Ogre3D 1.11 released

by Pavel Rojtberg | Apr 29, 2018 | News

We just tagged the Ogre 1.11″Rhagorthua” release, making it the new current and recommended version. We would advise you to update wherever possible, to benefit from all the fixes and improvements that made their way into the new release.
This release represents 1 year of work from various contributors when compared to the previous 1.10 release. Compared to the last Ogre 1.10 release (1.10.11), however we are only talking about 4 months. Here you will mainly find bugfixes and the architectural changes that justify the version number bump.

For source code and precompiled SDKs, see the download page. Currently the Android Java SDK is still missing. We will update the download page as it becomes available.

Changes

The 1.11 release focuses on preparing the codebase for future development instead of on new features. Some obsolete parts were removed and certain APIs adapted to be more generic. This is also reflected by the diff between v1.10.11..v1.11.0 as: 16336 insertions(+), 96329 deletions(-)

For an detailed overview of the changes see the New And Noteworthy Document. Among the highlights are:

• Usage of C++11 STL instead of custom containers where possible
• Reduced Memory consumption of core classes
• New SceneLoaderManager API to load scenes files
  • BSP scenes via the internal BSP plugin
  • X3D scenes via x3ogre
  • DotScenes via DotSceneFormat (as produced by blender2ogre)
• OgreMain is now independent of platform UI libraries like Cocoa or X11
• Standard OgreScript syntax for overlay scripts

For an overview of the bugfixes, see the v1.10.12 changelog.

We started removing the API deprecated in 1.10 with this release and together with the architectural improvements it means that your code might not compile any more. However we tried to keep API changes as non-invasive as possible. For an example of the expected changes to be made, take a look at this (backwards-compatible) diff on Ogitor.

We are keeping the time based release model for the 1.x branch. This means that you can expect OGRE 1.12 in April 2019.

Contributors

We would like to thank everyone who helped us make this release possible. The following list shows a list of contributors for 1.11 based on the git logs:

Pavel Rojtberg, Eugene Golushkov, Jean-Baptiste Griffo, Dmytro Yunchyk, SNiLD, Matías N. Goldberg, Erik Ogenvik, SerVerXPlanet, Florian Schoppmann, Marko Tsengov, Transporter, Christopher Christensen, Kolia P., Long Cheng, Peter Westerström, Bohdan Kornienko, Flavien Bridault, Tobias Schmidt, Naoto Kondo, Tim Rakowski, William Woodall, kPYKx7Ddw4n1aIKZ, Andreas Greimel, Bastien Bourineau, Dominik Frizel, Jack Stocker, Lior Lahav, Martin Idel, Raffaele Bratta, Sebastian Bugiu, Simon Hyll, Tobias Kunicke, Vlad Stoyanov, Feiyun Wang, majic79, xissburg

Ogre 1.10.12

If you are currently deep in the development cycle using 1.10.11 and do not want any disruptions, I have good news for you: relevant bug-fix only commits were cherry-picked from master (1.11) to 1.10.11 and accumulated in the 1.10.12 release, which you can find here.

Ogre 1.10 final release

by Pavel Rojtberg | Dec 31, 2017 | News

The 1.10.11 release marks the final (planned) release for the 1.10 series and kicks off the 1.11 cycle that will allow us to break the API. As announced in the mid-term report we will use this to move to C++11 and drop some of the deprecated functionality.

But the 1.10.11 release has also some highlights on its own, namely

Ogre3D 1.10 released

by Pavel Rojtberg | Apr 23, 2017 | News

We finally tagged the Ogre 1.10 branch as stable (tag: v1-10-4), making it the new current and recommended version. We would advise you to update wherever possible, to benefit from all the fixes and improvements that made their way into the new release.
This release represents more than 3 years of work from various contributors when compared to the previous 1.9 release. Notably, it includes the following three GSoC 2013 projects:

• OpenGL3+ RenderSystem
• DirectX11 RenderSystem
• Progressive Mesh improvements

The ResourceManager redesign GSoC was superceded by the strict mode CMake switch.
Enabling the strict mode is highly recommended, however the default is legacy mode to ensure compatibility with existing projects.

Additionally it includes the changes from the git fork that got merged back into default. The fork formally did the 1.10.0 release, thats how we ended up with 1.10.4 here.

Currently we don’t have any published SDKs yet, since we still rely on team and community members to help with the building and packaging process and that takes some time of course. We will update the download page as they become available and also try to update the announcement thread in the forums.

Changes

For an detailed overview of the new features see the New And Noteworthy Document. Among the highlights are:

• Python bindings as a component
• vastly improved GL3+/ GLES2 renderers with GL3+ now being the recommended choice on *nix systems
• Bites Component for rapid prototyping of applications
• Emscripten platform target – supporting Web Assembly & WebGL2
• improved build system, automatically fetching all required dependencies.
• A new HLMS Component implementing physically based shading
• Unified Documentation: the API docs, the manual and some Wiki pages have been merged and are now managed with Doxygen. As a consequence, the Wiki is outdated when it comes to OGRE 1.10. If you find something particularly missing, feel free to submit an additional tutorial.

Despite the amount of new features OGRE 1.10 provides the smoothest upgrade experience between OGRE releases so far. See the API/ ABI change overview for OGRE 1.7 – 1.10 that is kindly provided by ABI-laboratory.
Note that some components are marked as [BETA]. This does not mean that they are likely to crash, but that we can not give any API stability guarantees for them right now. You should expect their API to change without a deprecation period while we we iron the warts out as the Component get more exposure.

In turn for the core components, our deprecation list has grown considerably. You can keep using these APIs for now, as we intend to support them until OGRE 1.11. Speaking of which; to make OGRE releases predictable, we will switch away to a feature based to a time based release model for the 1.x branch. This means that you can expect OGRE 1.11 in April 2018.

Contributors

We would like to thank everyone who helped us make this release possible. The following list shows a list of contributors for 1.10 based on the git logs:

Pavel Rojtberg, Eugene Golushkov, David Rogers, Jesse Johnson, Murat Sari, Lior Lahav, Peter Szücs, Philip Allgaier, Matías N. Goldberg, Sasu Robert, Assaf Raman, Jannik Heller, lunkhound, Juan Borda, Daniel K. O., Jan Drabner, Transporter, Ahmed Allam, Flavien Bridault, Lf3T-Hn4D, J. Edward Sanchez, Mattan Furst, Shenjoku, arkeon, nxgraphics, 0xc0deface, Alexpux, Caleb Bartholomew, Christian Refvik, Harald Reingruber, Stefania Pedrazzi, Unknown, ja0335, threax, Al Reay, Andrew Piper, BAntDit-PC\BAntDit, Bastian Köcher, David Reepmeyer, Inifinity, Joel Croteau, Tomáš Kováč, tangren, Arroy One, Charles Prévot, Chris Burns, Daniel Brall, Daniel Gouvêa, Jean-François Verdon, Joël Lamotte, Matthew Fletcher, Misha, Oleksiy Ivanov, Simon Willshire, al2950, xantares, Alex Peterson, Alexey Knyshev, Andrew Fenn, Arroy, Bruno Sanches, Carsten, Crashy, Dainius Vaiksnys, David Avedissian, Denis CARLUS, Francesco Guastella, Gauthier POGAM–LE MONTAGNER, Glenn Ramsey, Holger Frydrych, J W, James Chen, Joe Brown, Justin Grant, KoenMertens, KungFooMasta, Mako_energy, Marcin Juszkiewicz, Michaël Broutin, Osamu Takasugi, Richard Plangger, Robert Hildebrandt, Robin Norrman, Ryan Thoryk, SNiLD, Sam Hocevar, Steve Peters, TheOnlyJoey, Ziriax, emilie.harquel, mkultra333, philiplb

BTW: if you want to contribute to OGRE, you can now use github as well.