Panda3D changelog

Changelog History

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• v1.9.3 Changes

  December 26, 2016

  🛠 This issue fixes several bugs that were still found in 1.9.2.

  • 🛠 Fix crash when using homebrew Python on Mac OS X
  • 🛠 Fix crash when running in Steam on Linux when using OpenAL
  • 🛠 Fix crash using wx/tkinter on Mac as long as want-wx/tk is set
  • 🛠 Fix loading models from 'models' package with models/ prefix
  • 🛠 Fix random crashes in task system
  • 🛠 Fix various race conditions causing threading issues
  • 🛠 Fix memory leaks in BulletTriangleMesh
  • 🛠 Fix loading old models with MovingPart
  • 👌 Improve performance of CPU vertex animation somewhat
  • 👉 Show framebuffer properties when fbprop request fails
  • Show error instead of crash on use of object before init
  • 🛠 Fix hang on exit when using Python task on threaded task chain
  • 🛠 Fix inability to get RGBA renderbuffer in certain cases
  • ↪ Work around GLSL issue with #pragma and certain Intel drivers
  • 👌 Improve performance of texture load and store operations
  • 🛠 Fix crashes with pbuffers on Intel cards on Windows
  • 👌 Support for Autodesk Maya 2016.5
  • ➕ Add shadow-depth-bits config var to control shadow map depth
  • 🛠 Fix cull issue when rendering cube map (or any multi-lens setup)
  • 🛠 Fix crash rendering with the same camera to different contexts
  • 🛠 Fix compile error when making static build with DX9 renderer
  • 🛠 Fix assertion when using aux render targets in DX9
  • ↪ Work around Cg bug generating invalid ASM for saturated tex loads
  • 🛠 Fix issues with certain Cg shader inputs in DX9
  • 👌 Support uint8 index buffers in DX9
  • 🛠 Fix occasional frame lag when loading a big model asynchronously
  • 🛠 Fix interrogate parsing issue with "const static"
  • ➕ Add back missing libp3pystub.a to Mac OS X SDK
  • 🛠 Fix RAM caching of 2D texture arrays
  • 🛠 Fix Ctrl+C interrupt propagation to runtime applications
  • 👌 Support for InvSphere, Box and Tube solids in bam2egg
  • Preserve "intangible" and "level" collide flags in bam2egg
  • ➕ Add normalized() method to vectors
  • asyncFlattenStrong with inPlace=True caused node to disappear
  • 🛠 Fix asyncFlattenStrong called on nodes without parent
  • 🛠 Fix is_playing() check when playing an animation backwards
  • 🏁 Windows installer no longer clears %PATH% if longer than 1024 chars
  • 🛠 Fix inoperative -tbn/-tbnall/-tbnauto options in egg-optchar
  • 🛠 Fix tinydisplay texture errors on shutdown
  • 🛠 Fix mipmap filtering issues in tinydisplay renderer
  • 🛠 Fix exception when creating intervals before ShowBase is started
  • 🛠 Fix rare X11 .ico cursor bug; also now supports PNG-compressed icons
  • ➕ Add keyword argument support to make() methods such as Shader.make()
  • 🛠 Fix compilation errors with Bullet 2.84
  • 🛠 Fix exception when trying to pickle NodePathCollection objects
  • 🛠 Fix error when trying to raise vectors to a power
  • GLSL: fix error when legacy matrix generator inputs are mat3
  • 🏁 Now tries to preserve refresh rate when switching fullscreen on Windows
  • 🛠 Fix back-to-front sorting when gl-coordinate-system is changed
  • 🐧 Now also compiles on older Linux distros (eg. CentOS 5 / manylinux1)
  • get_keyboard_map now includes keys on layouts with special characters
  • 🛠 Fix crash due to incorrect alignment when compiling Eigen with AVX
  • 🛠 Fix crash when writing 16-bit .tif file (now silently downsamples)

• v1.9.2 Changes

  December 25, 2016

  🛠 This is a minor bugfix release, fixing a few minor issues that
  🚀 remained in the 1.9.1 release, including:

  • 🛠 Fix compile errors with more recent versions of ffmpeg
  • 🏁 Include .lib files for pyd modules in Windows SDK
  • 0️⃣ packp3d now recognizes default egg-object-type definitions
  • 🛠 Fix issues with sphere-into-box and box-into-sphere collisions
  • Texture VRAM usage is now correctly reported by pstats
  • 👌 Support for reading BMP files with alpha channel
  • 🛠 Fix OpenGL crashes in very ancient OpenGL versions
  • 🛠 Fix rare compile issues and crashes with esoteric Python set-ups
  • 🛠 Fix crash when extracting texture that's not a multiple of 4 bytes
  • Work around buggy NVIDIA driver that reports main* shader inputs
  • ➕ Add version of transform_vertices that accepts a SparseArray
  • Clamp shininess to 0 to avoid GL error when shininess < 0
  • 🛠 Fix various bugs in RopeNode and NurbsCurveEvaluator
  • 🛠 Fix clock-mode Config.prc settings
  • NodePath render_mode setters no longer reset wireframe color
  • 🛠 Fix constant reloading of texture when gl-ignore-mipmaps is set
  • 🚀 BamReader now releases the GIL (so it can be used threaded)
  • 🛠 Fix AttributeError in direct.stdpy.threading module

• v1.9.1 Changes

  November 25, 2015

  🚀 This minor release fixes some important regressions and bugs found
  in 1.9.0, but also introduces a few minor features.

  🚀 It also reintroduces the deployment tools that were absent from
  🚀 the previous release.

  🛠 The following issues were fixed:

  • SDK now properly installs in Mac OS X 10.11 "El Capitan"
  • 🏁 Windows 8.1+ no longer applies DPI virtualization to Panda window
  • 🛠 Fix ffmpeg library load issue on Mac OS X
  • 🛠 Fix issues running maya2egg on Mac OS X
  • 🛠 Fix compiler errors on different platforms
  • 🛠 Fix various rare crashes
  • 🛠 Fix crashes on shutdown in threaded pipeline
  • 🛠 Fix low-level threading crash on ARM machines
  • More reliably and robustly handle failures opening OpenAL device
  • Textures were not being scaled to power-of-2 in some cases
  • Correct scaling of normal vectors with flatten operation
  • Correct positioning of viewing axis when showing lens frustum
  • ➕ Add dpi-window-resize option to auto-resize window on DPI change
  • 🛠 Fix assertions when alpha-file-channel references unknown channel
  • 💅 Use OpenGL-style vertex colors by default on non-Windows systems
  • 0️⃣ Default vertex column alignment is now 4 bytes
  • ➕ Add PNMImage premultiply/unpremultiply methods.
  • 🛠 Fix incorrect parsing of numbers with exponents in Config.prc
  • 🛠 Fix for reading URLs mounted via the virtual file system
  • 🛠 Fix shader generator memory leaks and runtime performance
  • 🛠 Fix shader generator scaling of binormals and tangents
  • Expose _NET_WM_PID to window managers in X11
  • 🛠 Fix a range of bugs in tinydisplay renderer.
  • Don't error when setting lens far distance to infinity
  • 👍 Allow passing custom lens to saveCubeMap/saveSphereMap
  • 🛠 Fix errors in saveCubeMap/saveSphereMap in threaded pipeline
  • 🛠 Fix DynamicTextFont.makeCopy()
  • 👉 Make Texture memory size estimation more accurate
  • 🛠 Fix various window resizing issues
  • 🛠 Fix PandaSystem.getCompiler() value for clang (it reported gcc)
  • x2egg no longer replaces face normals with vertex normals
  • 🏁 Include Eigen headers in Mac and Windows SDK
  • ➕ Added geomipterrain-incorrect-normals setting, default=true
  • 🏁 DisplayInformation resolution list was missing on Windows
  • ⬆️ Upgrade FMOD and Bullet versions on Windows and Mac OS X
  • 🐎 Various performance optimizations
  • 🛠 Fixed various other bugs not listed here.

  🛠 Fixes and improvements for the runtime:

  • 🛠 Fix splash screen freezing in the X11 web plug-in
  • 🚀 pdeploy will now handle extracted files (eg. .ico and .cur)
  • ➕ Added more options for customizing splash screen
  • 🛠 Fix missing xml and ast modules from morepy package
  • Certificate dialog is now localized to various languages
  • 🛠 Fix packp3d error when Python file is not in a package
  • 📦 Pass on failing exit status from packaged application
  • ✂ Remove annoying ":Packager(warning): No such file" warning
  • 🛠 Fix issue installing pdeploy-generated .pkg on OS X 10.11

  🛠 Fixes for the Python API:

  • 🛠 Fix mysterious and rare crash in tp_traverse
  • 0️⃣ Bullet step function accidentally defaulted to step size of 0
  • 🛠 Fix overflow of file offsets (eg. when seeking in huge files)
  • 🛠 Fix regression with memoryviews
  • 🛠 Fix hasattr/getattr of vector classes for invalid attributes
  • 👍 Allow passing a long to methods accepting an int
  • 🛠 Fix crash when passing None to Filename constructor
  • MouseWatcherGroup was erroneously not exposed in 1.9.0
  • 👉 ShowBase no longer unmounts VFS when shutting down
  • No longer requires setting PATH to import panda3d.*
  • 0️⃣ DirectDialog default geom is once again respected
  • DirectDialog no longer overrides custom frameSize
  • 🛠 Fix WebcamVideo/MicrophoneAudio.getOptions() methods

  🔄 Changes relating to the OpenGL renderer:

  • 🐎 Various performance improvements
  • 🛠 Fix point/line thickness setting
  • 👌 Improve GLSL error reporting
  • 🛠 Fix Intel driver issues, particularly with geometry shaders
  • ➕ Add more error checking for parameter types
  • Integer shader inputs were not being converted to float properly
  • 🛠 Fix crash passing an undersized array to a GLSL shader input
  • p3d_ColorScale et al may now be declared as vec3
  • Fix flickering when using trans_model_to_apiview in Cg
  • 👌 Support wireframe and point rendering modes in OpenGL ES
  • 🛠 Fix issue with model disappearing in rare cases with GLSL
  • 🛠 Fix ColorWriteAttrib not working as it should
  • 👍 Allow deactivating PStats collectors for GPU timers
  • Memory residency of graphics buffers now tracked by PStats
  • 👍 Allow changing OpenGL coordinate system with gl-coordinate-system

  🛠 Fixes for libRocket integration:

  • libRocket did not work on Mac OS X in 1.9.0
  • 🛠 Fix inconsistent behavior with non-power-of-2 textures in rocket
  • 🍱 Use model-path for finding libRocket assets
  • ➕ Add missing keys to libRocket keymap
  • libRocket elements showed up white in tinydisplay

  🆕 New features:

  • ➕ Add -L (lighting) and -P (graphics pipe) pview options
  • ➕ Add M_confined mouse mode that keeps cursor in window
  • ➕ Add sample program demonstrating mouse modes
  • 👍 bam2egg supports collision sphere and plane solids
  • p3d_TransformTable GLSL input backported from 1.10 branch
  • ➕ Add openal-device setting for selecting OpenAL audio output
  • ➕ Add limited modification timestamp tracking for Ramdisk mounts
  • 👌 Support for Autodesk Maya 2016

• v1.9.0 Changes

  April 01, 2015

  🚀 This is a major release with many exciting new features!
  Beware of bugs.

  The list below contains a subset of the changes introduced:

  • 🏁 We now offer 64-bit Windows and Mac OS X builds.
  • Switch to MSVC 2010; no more assembly manifests.
  • 👍 Cocoa port for better Mac OS X support, esp. newer versions.
  • We now compile the Python modules into panda3d/*.pyd modules;
    no more imp.load_dynamic hackery needed.
  • 👌 Support for GPU profiling in OpenGL, see pstats-gpu-timing
  • 👀 sRGB framebuffers, see framebuffer-srgb
  • 👀 sRGB texture support, see Texture::F_srgb et al.
  • 👍 Integer vector support, including passing to shaders
  • Native .ogg vorbis and .wav loader (does not require ffmpeg)
  • 👍 FFmpeg support is a separate plug-in module now, libp3ffmpeg.
  • Sample programs are now part of the source code repository
  • Can be built with Python 3 (highly experimental)
  • 👌 Improvements to Windows installer
  • M_filled_wireframe rendering mode
  • 👌 Support specifying sampler state separate from textures
  • 👌 Support for bindless texture clearing
  • Texture LOD bias and min/max LOD settings
  • Framebuffer properties allows separate red/green/blue bits
  • Explicit float color and float depth specification in fbprops
  • Coverage samples settable via FrameBufferProperties
  • Stereo buffer implementation in OpenGL via FBOs
  • 👌 Support enumeration of pixel formats in WebcamVideo
  • 🔧 Frame rate meter can be configured to show milliseconds
  • 🔄 Changes to improve font crispness with default settings
  • 🛠 Fix assertion error when using more than one GraphicsEngine
  • raw-w, raw-a, etc. keyboard events for layout-independent input
  • Allow querying active keyboard layout via win.get_keyboard_map()
  • Distinguish between lmeta and rmeta keys on Mac OS X
  • 👍 Floating-point image manipulation API, support float tiffs
  • Various new 16-bit and 32-bit and int texture formats
  • Man pages are now available for the majority of utilities

  Pipeline:

  • 🛠 Fix bugs with group transformations in .egg
  • Don't create unnecessary intermediate node when loading .egg
  • 👍 bam2egg supports materials, and correctly converts animations
  • 👍 dae2egg has some skeletal animation support
  • 👌 Support Maya versions up to 2015

  OpenGL renderer changes:

  • 🐎 Error checking is now OFF by default for performance reasons,
    set gl-check-errors or gl-debug to true to enable.
  • GL 4.2 shader_image_load_store support (incl. multi-bind)
  • Layered render-to-texture (using geometry shaders)
  • 👀 Seamless cube maps (on by default), see gl-cube-map-seamless
  • ➕ Added gl-debug for improved debug output support
  • ➕ Added GL object labels when gl-debug is enabled
  • gl-dump-compiled-shaders can be used to dump program binaries
  • Direct3D-style NT_packed_dabc vertex arrays now directly supported
  • Native rendering of line strips, using primitive restart
  • 0️⃣ Immutable texture storage support (disabled by default)
  • 0️⃣ Bindless texture support (disabled by default)
  • Specular component is now computed separately in FFP

  Shader system:

  • 👌 Support for tessellation shaders
  • 👌 Support for compute shaders via ComputeNode
  • 👍 GLSL preprocessor with "#pragma include" support
  • 👍 Much better coverage of shader inputs in GLSL
  • GLSL error messages now show source filename
  • Fixes apiclip_of_x shader inputs
  • Matrices can be passed directly to setShaderInput
  • 👌 Support binding images to shaders
  • 👍 Viewport array support

  🐎 Optimizations and performance improvements:

  • 🚚 Use of C++11 move semantics to reduce refcounting overhead
  • 🏗 Build with Eigen by default for faster linear math
  • Dramatic overhead reduction of generated bindings
  • Streamline culling process
  • Tighter bounding volume generation
  • Take advantage of CPU features for bit operations
  • Circumvent bounding volume generation when not required
  • Optimizations for interned strings
  • 🐎 Use of GCC atomics should improve 64-bit Linux performance

  API features:

  • 👍 Buffer protocol support for textures and arrays
  • 👍 Interrogate supports various C++11 features
  • 🔦 Expose TextGlyph interfaces for making custom text renderers
  • 👍 Better handling of default arguments for many functions
  • Cyclic references can sometimes be tracked through tasks
  • 👉 ShowBase clean teardown possible
  • 📚 API documentation is more accurate
  • 👌 Improve interfaces for interop with other applications

  🗄 Deprecated features:

  • 👉 Use of pandac.PandaModules is discouraged; use panda3d.core
  • 🗄 Deprecate DirectStart and global run() function; use ShowBase
  • ✂ Remove old decal system
  • ✂ Remove Direct3D 8 renderer
  • Remove M_light_vector tex gen mode and FFP-based bump mapping

  🐛 Bug fixes:

  • 🛠 Various point rendering issues are fixed now
  • 🛠 Fix pview issue with 1-frame and/or multiple animations
  • 🛠 Fixes for multisampling in FBOs
  • 🛠 Fix aspect ratio of frame rate meter
  • 👌 Support NaN and infinity values in Config.prc variables
  • 🛠 Fixes for webcams on Linux that do not output Huffman tables
  • 👍 Better support for non-basic Cg shaders on non-NVIDIA cards
  • Many others

• v1.8.0

  February 13, 2012

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