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Owl season is afoot, with OpenGL
Mar 31, 2008
Montreal Game developers have put together a fun little game using OpenGL. The game is fully cross platform comptable—Mac OS X and Windows. Simply put, “During GDC this year, a few of us decided that it’d be really fun to pool our talents and make a game together during the conference.”
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Lightfeather 3D v 0.7.0 has been released - now supports GLSL and Cg shaders
Mar 26, 2008
The new version of Lightfeather 3D engine, an open source 3D Engine for Mac, Windows and Linux, now supports the use of GLSL and different renderpipelines. The Wx-Renderwindow integration was improved, the scene-loading and saving has been enhanced, particle systems can now have multiple emitters and the guidesigner has been improved.
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GLM 0.7.1 released - based on GLSL specification
Mar 26, 2008
GLM is a C++ math library based on GLSL specification and extended to provide math tools required by 3D software. Version 0.7.0 is now released under MIT license with new documentation.
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AMD GPG Developer Tools Group has released an Open Source COLLADA OpenGL FX Viewer
Mar 13, 2008
Based on OpenSceneGraph 2.2 the viewer is ideal for rendering COLLADA FX output from RenderMonkey 1.8. As well as including a binary viewer, the release has comprehensive instructions on how to build the viewer using OpenSceneGraph 2.2, and the COLLADA DOM. The project is a useful starting point for developers wanting to support COLLADA OpenGL effect content in their asset pipeline.
Grome Version 1.2 Released with New Tools and Speed Improvements
Mar 13, 2008
Quad Software announced today the release of version 1.2 of Grome modeler. Grome is a terrain and game scene modeling application used by professional game developers and companies from 3D simulation industry. Grome uses OpenGL 2.0 for real-time scene preview by storing geometry in optimized formats (Vertex Buffer Objects) and OpenGL Shading Language for terrain layer shading. Support for OpenGL based OpenSceneGraph engine export is provided out-of-the-box. The 1.2 update include support for automate tasks by scripting and new editing brushes while improving existing tools processing speed. Integration with client developing pipelines and engines was enhanced with new data exporting plug-ins capable of exporting very large data sets.
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myOSX-less, Linux based OpenGL development system updated
Mar 13, 2008
myOSX-less, Linux based OpenGL development system without X has been updated, its now initramfs build so it fits in only 64mb RAM disk, it features WebKit based Trolltech’s Qtopia demo browser, statically compiled working on framebuffer, Qtopia Windowing System(QWS) there is also myOSx, X11 based linux, that will base development tools around Trolltech Qtopia so to be able to produce above mentioned WebKit based browser and other framebuffer apps for the original myOS system.
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Eyeshot version 1.3 released
Mar 11, 2008
Eyeshot is a 3D Graphics component for the Windows Forms platform based on OpenGL and .NET Framework. With Eyeshot you can easily create a 3D model and change it on the fly while the user interacts with your program user interface. Recent updates include: improved DWG/DXF and IGES support.
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ActiveSolid Freeware v2.6.2 released
Mar 11, 2008
ActiveSolid, an OpenGL based 3D modeling, dimensioning and view markup application, adds Fillet and Chamfer tools.
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InstantReality Framework beta4 using OpenGL and X3D released
Mar 10, 2008
The instantReality Framework is a VR/AR system which uses a superset of X3D ( from Web3D ) as application description language to ease the development process. It supports a wide number of different devices and clustering utilizing OpenSG and OpenGL for rendering. It supports the full X3D ISO standard, GLSL shader and ECMAScript. External interfaces are available for JAVA and .NET programmers. The whole system is available on Windows, Mac and Linux. beta4 simplifies the cluster setup and brings various improvements to the automatic optimizer of static data and multitouch support for all virtual sensors.
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OpenGL Graphics Through Applications
Mar 10, 2008
OpenGL Graphics Through Applications is a practical introduction to Computer Graphics with an emphasis on understanding through practice. Throughout the book, theory is followed by implementation using C / C++ to support student centred learning and complete programs are provided on the publishers website.
