Changelog

0.44.0

!!! MSVC build fails. no time to fix !!!

• #388 allow file select dialogs to be closed using ESC
• #387 improved render of drag operation
• #395 all examples to use now projects
• if no config file (igor.xml) is found one will be created in the user folder with default values
• changed up cmake for igor subfolder
• moved igor data files in to src/igor to make clear they are part of the engine it self
• added interface to save resources (implemented for materials only so far)
• fixed an issue with checker board backdrop of iWidgetPicture
• creating a default material from asset browser context menu in Mica
• #401 iMaterial -> iShaderMaterial and iTargetMaterial is not iMaterial
• removed some examples. Want to reduce further to have less maintenance in future

0.43.1

!!! MSVC build fails. no time to fix !!!

• #393 fixed invalid node info issue
• #391 adding more docs to examples
• #383 thumbnails now respect aspect ratio

0.43.0

!!! MSVC build fails. no time to fix !!!

• reimplemented iMaterial and make it a iResource
• replaced iMaterialResourceFactory with iMaterialFactory which is now integrated in the iResourceManager
• some spring cleaning around plenty of TODOs
• improved random number generator using STL
• introducing resource dictionaries and using 64bit ids to primarily identify resources (resource ids are not generated from the resource name or filename anymore)s
• introducing projects
• added interface to create empty/default resources (depends on what the factories do with it)
• added iWidgetBoxLayout
• renamed iWidgetGrid to iWidgetGridLayout
• replaced iUserControlAction with iWidgetButton
• dialogs can now be moved, resized and docked
• added interface to change mouse cursor see iMouseCursorType for supported types
• added iWidgetSplitter, iMimeData
• added drag&drop
• added iWidgetViewport
• widget event handling now uses iEvent
• added iUserControlTreeView and iUserControlGridView and iItem for generic data
• added AssetBrowser to Mica
• fixed texture font vertical alignment
• added new widget selection interfaces
• Mica drag drop assets in viewport (models and textures on models)
• added iUserControlTextureChooser
• added background color and background checkerboard option to iWidgetPicture

Known issues:

• data not updated -> missing textures, invisible models -> need to do some work on ompf to get this all working again

0.42.0

• fixed threading sync in iResourceManager preventing resource being loaded multiple times
• reimplemented iModel and make it a iResource
• replaced iModelResourceFactory with iModelFactory which is now integrated in the iResourceManager
• removed iTaskFlushModels and iTaskLoadModel since this is now handled in iResourceManager
• auto start iTaskFlushResources after window is opened so the application does not need to do it anymore
• added quiet flag to resources

0.41.1

• added missing vsync control (Windows)
• fixed MSVC template specialization build issues

0.41.0

• improved iNodeTransform info string
• improved load time of instancing example
• lazy load audio device
• fixed mem leaks in iaDelegate, iWindow, iOctree
• going full DSA in iTexture
• refactored iTextureFactory
• added exit code to iApplication
• introduced load mode for resource manager
• fixed shutdown of voxel terrain
• added more settings to config file (min max threads and synchronous loading for resource manager)
• fixed black textures using mipmaps
• fixed physics integration
• added missing vsync control (Linux)

0.40.0

• improved renderer interface and fleshed out the docs
• fixed issue around texture fonts rendering and measuring size
• fixed more typos
• added more tests for iaux
• remove iTextureResourceFactory and have textures now handled by the iResourceManager
• new resources iAnimation, iSprite and iTexture (replaced previous iTexture)
• added state machine back in
• added pixmap to texture back in
• added new animation system running on top of the entity system
• replaced iAtlas with iSprite

0.39.0

!This release does not build with MSVC!

• wrapped entt. Let's see if this was so smart later
• implemented a whole bunch of components and systems
• added simple and probably slow home brewed components interface for custom user components (see iComponentMap)
• removed old entity system completely
• used Supremacy to make use of changed in ECS interfaces
• introduced application wide simulation pause/continue
• fixed lots of typos
• removed multi window support since it never worked anyway
• fixed issue in iaCircle
• added gray as standard color
• rewrote signal/slot aka event/delegate
• improved iAABox and iQuadtree interface
• changed profiler sections
• improved profiler visualization

0.38.0

• sorting files and directories alphabetically
• fixed scrolling of iWidgetScroll
• removed decompose/recompose matrix
• removed clipboard
• removed evaluation
• removed state machine
• removed memblock
• renamed iWidget setActive/isActive to setEnabled/isEnabled
• added align function to iaString
• improved profiler visualizer
• fixed selection sync issue in Mica

0.37.0

• allowing custom config file names
• fallback to default material when loading material fails
• moved all igor specific data under data/igor
• moved all mica specific data under data/mica
• removed unused shader folder
• added addPlane to iMeshBuilderUtils
• brought emitter node overlay back in mica

0.36.0

• minor improvements to entt wrapper interfaces
• cleaned up logging verbose modes
• removed console tests10

0.35.0

• worked on supremacy demo
• added multiline text widget (output only for now)
• changed iaEvent/iaDelegate naming to iaSignal/iaSlot
• iQuadtree uses std::any for user data instead of void*
• refactored iQuadtree
• introduced class iaRandom for cases where one does not need a unique random number generator instance
• added iaColor4::transparent
• added scalar operators for iaTime
• added more interfaces to the renderer
• updated and added some tests
• added non linear random numbers
• added triggerNow to iTimerHandle to allow to run a timed handle outside of the configured interval

0.34.6

• added missing texture tiling for particles
• added new tile index increment
• added missing multi texture support for particles
• fixed change of particle size over time

0.34.5

• introduced a particle system wrapper for easy use of 2D particle systems
• fixed iMaterialIO relative path to shader

0.34.4

• fixed text line edit clamping
• made iRenderer::flush public so we can force draw calls when needed for stencil testing
• activated 8bit stencil buffer for linux implementation

0.34.3

• Mica now can load and safe .mat files (material files)
• Mica is only displaying materials with public visibility
• ompf has a new chunk type which stores a reference to a material file

0.34.2

• Mica generally works again. But there is still a lot to do around materials ompf and mica
• fixed color id
• fixed selection highlighting

0.34.1

• fixed instancing

0.34.0 (unstable/incomplete)

!This version is incomplete. See below!

• wrote entirely new Renderer using batch rendering where ever possible
• replaced Glee with Glad
• switched to Direct State Access
• improved testing framework and added some more tests
• added some missing functions in iQuadtree and iIntersection
• improved top down 2d shooter example
• added start/stop to iTimer to start/stop "game time" which essentially can be used to pause a game
• introduced new material file format .mat
• set minimum OpenGL version to 4.5
• iNodeSkyBox now takes a cube map texture
• improved cmake configuration. Though there is more todo here
• new particle system replacing 2D and 3D ones
• support for geometry shaders

Known Missing features are:

• Instancing
• new particle system does not support all previous features yet
• Mica does not build
• missing world grid resolution feature
• missing color ID render mode feature used to select objects in the scene by Mica

0.33.0

• brushed up examples base
• implemented simple top down 2d shooter example
• using EnTT for the entity component system
• improved profiler interfaces

0.32.0

!Decided to drop MSVC support until I feel like it again!

• improved slider widget behavior
• log level DebugInfo is now called User
• default log level is now User
• improved error handling in iAudio
• textures are loaded cached by default now and do not get release immediately after nothing is referencing them anymore
• improved some debug output

0.31.0

!This release does not build with MSVC!

• improved rendering performance (still a long way to go though)
• replaced gtest with igorTest including writing more unit tests
• fixed material initialization problem in Ascent

0.30.0

!This release does not build with MSVC!

• introduced iModule and switched most singletons to modules
• removed iaSingleton class

0.29.0

• removed most of old event handling
• using AL_DIRECT_CHANNELS_SOFT for all multi channel sounds
• Mica: fixed framing by fixing bounding boxes
• Mica: fixed bake to world action
• improved behavior of menu and sub menus
• replaced gtest with own simple implementation and adding more tests
• fixed issue in cmake file regarding building igor as submodule
• DebugInfo is the default log level again
• renamed con_debug_endl to con_debug
• con_trace now has a message parameter
• renamed original con_trace to con_trace_call
• improved profiling visualization
• fixed performance issue in iScene where a queue was not cleared
• reduced setMaterial calls
• introduced one frame verbose output and render stats (F5 in examples)
• fixed problem with showing zero instances
• added vsync control on linux side

0.28.0 (unstable)

This is probably less stable than previous versions but I really needed to get this out before it get's even bigger.

• fixed how menus behave
• improved console output
• made instancing and the instancing example work again
• supressing auto key repeat under Linux
• created an example base class for quicker prototyping
• iaBSpline is a template now
• fixed problem with setting transformations dirty down the tree
• mapping thread IDs to igor internal IDs for more useful logging output
• fixed left and right audio channel being swapped
• ALSA required on Linux
• added regex to iaString
• introduced layer and layer-stack
• introduced new queue-able events and replaced some of the old ones using event/delegate
• killed the state machine example
• some improvements around mouse handling in widgets

0.27.0

• sound support using OpenAL Soft (www.openal-soft.org/) including audio listener and audio source nodes (see usage in sound example)
• introduced ExampleBase class for prototyping
• changed namespaces from Igor and IgorAux to igor and iaux

0.26.0

• Linux and Windows support using cmake

0.25.0

• added basic evaluation functionality to control animations on transform nodes
• added iaFile::getStem

0.24.1

• fixed iDialogColorGradient
• fixed crash in Mica related to widget ownership problems
• fixed exception in Mica related to wrong type cast of std::any
• did some maintenance

0.24.0

• Basic iWidgetMenuBar and iWidgetMenu implementation
• Added z value order for widgets. For now only used for dialog order
• Introduced event blocking (used in widgets)
• Introduced Actions
• Using std::any for user data instead of void* where possible
• Improved dialog close handling
• Improved node creation interface
• Exposed iRenderStateSet interface in iMaterial to reduce writing effort when using it
• Renamed ModelViewer in to Mica

0.23.0

• Scroll bars are now fully functional
• New interface to create and destroy widgets. Basically we can use new and delete on widgets now but the engine will keep track of them to prevent mem leaks.
• Added colored axis indication to orientation grid in ModelViewer
• Made iaMatrix2D more useful
• Made SpriteAnimation example more pretty (thank you opengameart.org)

0.22.0

• iSprite is now iAtlas and can read frames from file
• Created sprite animation example
• Ownership of widgets transfers to the engine the moment they are children of a dialog
• added mesh to world bake functionality
• Removed all using namespace std;
• Added some keyboard shortcuts to ModelViewer
  • Ctrl + N - clear scene
  • Del - deletes current selection
  • Ctrl + D - duplicates current selection
  • Ctrl + C - copies current selection
  • Ctrl + X - cuts current selection
  • Ctrl + V - pastes on current selection
  • Ctrl + S - opens save dialog
  • Ctrl + O - opens load dialog
• Improved getInfo implementation and pretty print node tree
• Renamed iStatistic* to iProfiler*

0.21.0

• Increased unit testing efforts
• Worked on iaQuaternion class
• Turned iaRandomNumberGenerator in to a template
• Improved character controller example
• Improved mouse handling in all examples
• Added interface to control vsync setting
• Improved pretty printing for scene graph
• Added vsync setting on window
• Fixed another bug regarding texture units in ompf

0.20.0

• Replaced vector and matrix conversions in iaConvert with conversion methods directly on the classes.
• Added log level to console. Controllable by config file and during runtime.

0.19.1

• Fixed cursor position in text edit field when text was not aligned left

0.19.0

• ModelViewer: UserControlTransform now handles components instead of a matrix and improved Manipulator
• Implemented matrix decomposition
• Fixed iRenderer::project
• Added some google tests for matrix functions
• Introduced iaTransform that potentially will replace matrixes in scene graph

0.18.0

• Improved OBJ loader. Now meshs get generated based on combinations of groups/objects and materials.
• ModelViewer: pan camera around like in Maya (LeftAlt + middle mouse button)
• ModelViewer: fixed problem when loading unknown file format
• Improved iaString to be able to be used as key in std maps
• When loading models not to join vertices is now the default behavior
• Material "IgorTexture" always available. Same as "IgorDefault" just for textured materials.

0.17.0

• Introduced tooltips to widgets
• Used tooltips in ModelViewer

0.16.1

• Fixed problem with loading files over existing scene in ModelViewer

0.16.0

• Adding tutorials to doxygen documentation
• Changing doxygen style
• Generall update of docs

0.15.0

• Visualizing emitters in ModelViewer when selected
• Added sphere to iMeshBuilderUtils
• Added alpha to target material
• Support alpha in target material in OMPF
• Updated the OMPF example models with new format