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Feel free to post and commit again.

We are switching servers within the next week or so.
The site might not be available for a short time during the transition.
That will, of course, also affect the source code repositories.

I will post again, when the transfer has been completed.

After a year, we finally released version 0.9.6 of Lightfeather.
As you can see from the version number, we found some last minute bugs in the version that was initially to be released as 0.9.5 two weeks ago.

When reading the release notes, you might wonder about the relatively short list of changes. At this point Lightfeather is 5 years in the making, so it is a very mature project. The changes become smaller and the small changes just do not get listed here. For a full list of changes see the Changelog.

We will now concentrate on bugfixes instead of new features and in 3-6 Months, we will release Lightfeather 1.0.
That does not mean that development is finished (far from it, when you look at the feature request list) but at some point in time, you just have to make this step. And after 5 years, Lightfeather is stable enough to finally leave the beta status.

That said, there are two notes here for windows developers using Lightfeather:
Feathered is not included in the binary because some of the plugins had trouble.

To users of codeblocks/gcc : due to a problem handling long command lines, you should, after running buildsys and opening the workspace, go to Properties->Build Targets on the Lightfeather project and change the Object output dir to something very short like r for release, d for debug and so on.

And while youre at it go to Build options ->search directories -> Linker and change the order of the first two directories listed here - that will make the (by now) good old "CG thunk null error" go awqay when linking the library.


And last but not least the release notes for version 0.9.6:

- Enhancements to buildsys making using LF from other apps easier
- Bug fixes for buildsys
- Many enhancements to the materialeditor
- Updated version of assimp used in modelconverter
- Support for animations through assimp in modelconverter
- Split functionality of modeltool and modelconverter into libraries so they can be used in other apps as well
- Lots of enhancements to feathered
- New bitmap font creator tool and much better support for bitmap fonts
- Skeletal animations have been reworked, animation blending now works correctly
- Lots of updates to the GUI
- New particlesystem-affectors
- And as always lots and lots of other enhancements and fixes

Read README.TXT for how to build Lightfeather on windows and Linux, and Readme.mac for MacOSX.


As always you can also download the files from sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightfeather/files/lightfeather/V0.9.6/

Sorry for the extremely long wait this time around. So without further ado here are the release notes and additional download link:

Release notes for Lightfeather V0.9.0

Changes in this version:
- SceneManager has been renamed to Scene which is more appropriate
- CRenderLayer has been renamed to CRenderLayer3D
- Many enhancements for the GUI
- Small enhancements to the modelviewer
- Added support for shared contexts
- Update of all Tutorials - thanks to kornerr
- New tool added: Materialeditor
- The ngplant factory has been moved into the resourcemanager. No extra instantiation needed anymore
- Fixes and enhancements for MacOsX support
- Added support for QT renderwindows
- The particlesystem-editor ped has been rewritten
- Feathered the sceneeditor is now included in the LF-distribution
- Resourcemanagement and loading has been split up. CResourcemanager handles all resources,
CLFPersistence handles loading
- Added basic cloth simulation
- Many enhancements to ped
- Updates to lte the terrain editor
- Some parts of LF have been made optional in compilation
- And as always lots and lots of other enhancements and fixes

General:
Read README.TXT for how to build Lightfeather on windows and Linux, and Readme.mac for MacOSX.
See Changelog for the whole list of changes since 0.8.5.

As always the files are also available for download through sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightfeather/files/

A rather big API change was just committed to the hg repository.
The loading/saving of data is now handled through CLFPersistence instead
of CResourceManager.
This should not cause many problems with existing programs.

Oh and by the way, yes we are still alive :)

We still have some things on the todo-list for the next release so it will probably come in about a month or so.