Panda3D v1.9.1 Release Notes
Release Date: 2015-11-25 // over 8 years ago-
🚀 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