*************************************************** Version 0.5.5 release date : October 7, 2005 *************************************************** This is a bug fix / minor (?) improvements version * widgets are now mostly packed in tables ( Vincent ) * property notebook pages can now be detached ( Vincent ) * changed file selectors to file choosers ( Vincent ) * changed gnome color pickers for gtk color selector ( Vincent ) * changed deprecated combo boxes for new gtk ones ( Vincent ) * quit confirmation dialog bug fixed ( Christian ) * font path changed to default font path ( Vincent ) * menu organisation changed, View / Render menu added ( Vincent ) * fullscreen mode added ( Vincent ) * added an 'edit' button to material selector ( Vincent ) * added direct render shortcuts F11/F12 and menu items ( Vincent ) * povray front end bug fixed ( Vincent & Christian ) * add Del short cut to delete current object ( Vincent ) * improved headers for property panel ( Vincent ) * added scene pack export ( Christian ) * added unparent object button to selection tree ( Vincent ) * updated material library ( Vincent ) * invalid font warning at file load added ( Vincent ) * added cut/copy/paste to editors ( Vincent ) * Updated toolbar & menu to GtkUIManager / GtkAction system ( Vincent ) * parametric adaptive resolution system added ( Vincent ) * added radius interpolation ( cubic & bezier ) to sphere sweeps ( Vincent ) * added Ctrl-wheel & Shift-wheel shortcuts ( Christian ) * added Python plugins support ( Christian ) *************************************************** Version 0.5.4 release date : June 11, 2005 *************************************************** * fixed splash screen bug - #1176464 ( Christian ) * change cursor mode icons ( Christian ) * added Julia fractal, without preview ( Vincent ) * fixed object selection / deletion bug ( Vincent ) * fixed athmospheric media selection bug ( Vincent ) * fixed media save bug ( Vincent ) * fixed conic sweep prism preview ( Vincent ) * change grid display in previews ( Christian ) * added function parser, without pattern / logical operators support ( Vincent ) * added isosurface ( Vincent ) * fixed density definition deletion bug ( Vincent ) * added parametric surface object ( Vincent ) * added povray script object ( Vincent ) * added projected_through to lights ( Vincent ) * added Python scripting engine ( Christian ) * added man page ( Cyril ) * added sphere sweeps ( Vincent ) * added bicubic patches ( Vincent ) * heightfield preview speedup ( Christian ) *************************************************** Version 0.5.3 release date : March 30, 2005 *************************************************** This version is only a bug fix. A major problem was found in OpenGl preview initialisation on many systems. This was considered as a major bug, so version 0.5.3 was released. * Fixed no preview bug ( Cyril & Vincent ) * Fixed link object reference bugs ( Vincent ) * greatly improved help ( Vincent ) *************************************************** Version 0.5.2 release date : March 12, 2005. *************************************************** This version corrects a few new bugs and add some new features : * CSG material preview now works better * undo/redo now works with lathe splines * material tree bugs fixed ( most of them i think :) * enhanced povray export, now generates ini file * link object added * added "looks like" to light objects * added group object * added prism object * several other bug fixes... *************************************************** Version 0.5.1 release date : January 8, 2005. *************************************************** This version corrects the first reported bugs : * Lack of precision in light fading and fog settings * Added split_union to CSG Union object * Area light density infinite loop bug fixed * Material Finish paste bug fixed * Texture tree refresh bug fixed * Camera DND bug fixed * CSG GL color bug fixed ( still need improvement ) * Density map bug fixed * Help file loading bug fixed ( Oops :) * It also seems that mime type settings works better with '--prefix=/usr' in configure... *************************************************** Version 0.5.0 release date : December 29, 2004 *************************************************** Here are the major changes : * added Blob object ( with GL preview ) * added Lathe object ( with GL preview ) * added Text object ( with preview from FTGL lib ) * added Heigthfield object preview * added ligth groups * added photon interface * added help framework & some help files ( wip ! help needed ) * improved extra materials package ( install ) * better gnome integration ( mime type etc... ) * and global update to match pov 3.6 specs * and some minor enhancements * and a lot of bug fix *************************************************** Version 0.4.0 release date : October 15, 2003. *************************************************** There is almost no bug fix and no new features but i now compile with gtk2 / gnome2 and GtkGLExt. *************************************************** Version 0.3.10 release date : January 1, 2002. *************************************************** new features / changes : * New scene for material preview ( fisheye also added ) * Undo / Redo * SuperEllipsoid object ( Christian ) * Fog object( Christian ) * Many new materials ( Raymond ) and installation script * Progress bars for scene save / Load & status * Material library loading progress bar * Improved performances * Material map item duplication function * New percent control bug fix : * gcc 3.0 compile bug fix * material copy / paste bugs fix * layered / patterned textures bug fix * temp files bug fix ( now stored in /tmp ) * DnD crashes fix * deleted material edition bug fixed