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The very latest release of LexoView is available to download from the Files area of the project.

New features:

- Background image + camera view saving/loading.
- Lighting editor redesigned (simple sunlight direction control removed completely).
- Lighting settings can be saved/loaded.
- Clipping-plane controls.
- "Please wait" message panel pops-up when time-consuming calculations are being processed.
- Splashscreen is displayed while LexoView is starting.
- Dialogs' positions are stored.

The very latest release of LexoView is available to download from the Files area of the project.

New features:

- Completely new shadow engine (by Tomáš Burian).
- Lighting editor.
- Old shadow-controls window replaced by simple sunlight direction control.
- Groups manipulations using groups tree viewer - special scenegraph format is required for this feature.
- Off-screen image rendering with expand factor.
- Path from shac-script interpolation is possible when recording video (effectively slowing camera movement).
- Minor changes in walking and flight simulator modes.
- New LexoView icon. On Windows, it is compiled inside exe and is registered for extensions associated with LexoView.... read more

The very latest release of LexoView is available to download from the Files area of the project.

New features:

- User can choose between ASCII and binary format of .iv file when saving the model (binary format is considered as default, ASCII format is saved with .ivx extension from now).
- Information about model position displayed in Properties window.
- Test mode (Help->Test).
- Zooming behavior changed a little - zooming ends at 50cm (0.5 OpenGL units) distance, then moving through the object is allowed.
- "/shac" commandline switch (if used, program will look for the .shac script in the model's folder, load it and switch to the SHAC player mode right after start).
- SHAC player mode is now derived from standard examiner mode, that means, that zooming and rotating in this mode is allowed from now.
- Default FOV for first-person camera mode is 60 degrees, 45 degrees for orbiting camera mode.
- Associations of supported file-extensions are made inside Windows registry.... read more

Initial SourceForge release of LexoView is available to download from the Files area of the project.

Only Win32 precompiled binaries are available, the package includes all DLLs needed to run. Basic examples set was published too in order to give users chance to try all LexoView features.