Lightfeather physics engine (lfpe) Version 0.1.0 is released

lfpe is a ODE integration into Lightfeather.

This version only works with Lightfeather Version 0.5.5 or the current development sources.

Supported features:
- Collision
spheres, boxes, planes, capsules, meshes
- Gravity
- Applying forces/torques to bodies
- ForceAffectors (verry basic atm., not well tested)

Also included:
- docs by doxygen
- 4 tests
- 1 tutorial

The only way to get it atm is to clone the Mercurial repository:
for Version 0.1.0:
hg clone http://anonymous:guest@lightfeather.de/cgi-bin/hg/lfpe [local dirname]
hg update -C "version 0.1.0"
[local dirname] is the name the lightfeather directory should have on your harddisk.
for current head just don't call hg update...

Here are the release notes, a few more details after them.

Changes for this version:
- Rendertargets now have an updateinterval
- ClearColorbuffer and ClearDepthbuffer handled per rendertarget, not per cam
- All rendertargets can now have a startSceneNode to render only part of the scene
- codeblocks project-files now without use of scripts and in separate
versions for win/linux
- LargeTerrain now uses the resourcemanager's filesystem for path-consistency
- Splatting now also works with geomipmapterrains
- Modelscenenode now allows to not render certain meshes of a model
- The size of cubemodels had been calculated wrongly - corrected
- GUITheme and GUISkin have been combined into one file
- All GUIWidgets now have CamelCaseNames
- Scenenodecontrollers now use a more consistent approach on time/timing
- Guidesigner now supports multiple selections
- Changed default font for gui to Bitstream Vera
- Contentpanes have been removed, tabbedcontentpane->tabcontrol, scrollingpane->scrollcontrol
- Removed all gui-widget constructors with position and/or size parameters as announced a while ago.
Use setPosition() and setSize() instead.
- Many changes and enhancements to LTE
- Many updates to modeltool and modelconverter
- fixed longstanding bug with mac cursor position; it now matches real cursor position.
Lots and lots of bug-fixes as usual, see ChangeLog for details.

New in this version:
- LFM section parser to add independent section in lfm files and read them
- Method to prevent loading of certain resources, for example for not loadign textures on a server
- Added Filesystem-Handler to handle different kinds of filesystems for access through LF (dbs, webdav, ftp)
- Example of a sqlite filesystem-handler (see contrib/ dir)
- Resources can now be grouped and removed as a group
- Renderwindows now hold 0..X CRenderLayer3D instead of a scenemanager,
scenemanager and cameras are now attached to the renderlayer3d
- Stringtokenizer
- Added CGUIMessageBox and CGUIModalLoop classes for easy GUI modal dialogs
- Implemented property manager for all supported widgets in guidesigne
- Implemented IRenderWindow::getVideoModeList() for Linux
- Added CHtmlLogChannel
- Added PNG write support for RGBA and GRAY8 images (previously only supported RGB)
- Added TGA write support for RGBA images (previously only supported RGB)

- New tutorial: Tutorial 0 - Introduction


For the change to renderlayer3d, all you need to do is:
replace
renderwindow->getSceneManager()
with
renderwindow->getRenderLayer3D(0)->getSceneManager()

and
scenemanager->add(cam)
with
renderwindow->getRenderLayer3D()->add(cam)

For the change in the guithemes, just remove the loading of the skin and remove the skin and theme parameters from the guimanager-constructor call.

These should be the only interface breaking changes this time.

As always the files are also available through sourceforge.net at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=185273

Now have fun with this new version of Lightfeather!

The next version of Lightfeather will be released next weekend.
If you know of any bugs that should be fixed for the release, please let us know.

We are switching from cvs to mercurial ( http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ ).

Under the CVS link, i have put up a small explanation on how to use mercurial (because everyone will look for cvs when he looks for a repository, the link name will not change :) )

This switch also enables you to always get an up-to-date snapshot without any scm-software.
Simply go to http://lightfeather.de/cgi-bin/hg and click one of the (gz)(bz2)(zip) links to get the snapshot compressed as you like. On Windows systems, you might have to do a line-ending conversion.

We will, of course, still provide releases for download, so if you want security that you have a stable version, download one of those. Even though we try to keep the mercurial version stable, we dont guarantee that it always is.

The gui update is not finished yet but the gui in cvs is usable again. There are only a few minor things that dont look exactly like they should, so its quite safe to use.
One note: if you have used relative possitioning/sizing, the values need to be changed. The relative values now go from 0.0 to 1.0 instead of 0.0 to 100.0.