[K3d-development] CVS release notes - K-3D 0.3.0.58

[Timothy M. S. <ts...@k-...>]

Hmmm ... it's been 24 hours since I tried sending this the first time ...

* New feature: Polyhedron tool assigns different colors to faces, based
on the number of edges per face, e.g. triangles = red, quadrangles =
green, etc. - Romain Behar.

* New feature: added CropWindow support to RenderMan engine.  Using
Normalized Device Coordinates (NDC), you can specify a sub-region of the
display for rendering.  Very useful when tweaking shading & lighting on
slow-rendering scenes.

* New tutorials: "Basic Textures", "Basic Reflection Maps", and "Basic
Shadow Maps".  As Basic as they get, these tutorials are quick, dirty,
and unencumbered by exposition.  Frankly, I liked recording 'em that
way.  Expect more tutorials from me along these lines.  Of course anyone
who wants to pitch in and give them some polish, or contribute tutorials
of their own, is welcome to do so.

* Code cleanup - moved all UI code out of K3DSDK and into K3DUI.  This
is not the same thing as having a separate UI layer, since many of our
plugins continue to implement their own UI and link against K3DUI;
however, it's a step in the right direction.

* Converted k3dScriptButton to k3d::button::control, made scripts
optional, added a signal, and tutorial-enabled it.

* Converted k3dScriptMenuItem to k3d::menu_item::control, made scripts
optional, added a signal, and tutorial-enabled it.

* Tutorial-enabled k3d::color_chooser::control.

* Restored: "Path Extrusion" tutorial.

* Restored: "Radial Extrusion" tutorial.

* Restored: "Solar" tutorial.

* New: added "intensity" parameter to the k3d_constant shader.

* New: added analytic antialiasing and a "StripeColor" parameter to the
k3d_warningstripes shader.