[F4-users] Version 0.12 Released

[J. P. <ja...@37...>]

Hello everyone,

At last, version 0.12 is here. This is a milestone release, being the=
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first version to include a decent rendering system. The engine now=
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includes a full shader engine thanks to good folks at nVidia and thei=
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capable CgFX Runtime library. All of the other changes made in this=
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release are trivial compared to that.

An important note =97 the CgFX Runtime is difficult to access from C#=
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had to move the rendering code out to C++. Once I did that, it made=
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sense to move the entire platform abstraction layer out to C++. So th=
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codebase looks drastically different in 0.12 than in previous release=
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I like the new arrangement. In addition, until nVidia releases their=
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Linux version of CgFX (which they have stated is in the works), Flat=
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Four is stuck in Windows. I do have all of the Linux platform code=
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written and tested, so it should be an easy port once CgFX becomes=
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available.

Enjoy!

Jason
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