G3D

This release adds built-in video screen capture, video textures, a native OpenGL skinnable GUI for use in games, performance enhancements, Visual Studio 9.0 and Windows Vista support, support for additional 3D file formats, and new sample code and demos.

This release contains a hardware accelerated,
skinnable OpenGL GUI, a new user manual, a new
unified build system for all platforms, zipfile
loading, and hundreds of other new features.

This release fixes minor bugs related to mip mapping and mesh processing, introduces a new widget for manipulating 3D objects with the mouse, and optimizes some coordinate frame methods.

Rendering is now approximately 20% faster for applications using the
high-level ArticulatedModel and IFSModel objects. A new Half-life-style
interactive text console and World of Warcraft-style camera controller
enable more sophisticated debugging and interaction. Other new features
include querying texture dimensions from GLSL shaders, support for
Mesa3D software rendering, and high-quality Bayer-to-RGB conversion for
video frames.

This release has many new features, including an
improved user manual, cross-platform
multithreading, and framebuffer and renderbuffer
support. Furthermore, there are many code
optimizations and a high precision timer to
measure them. It also fixes about forty minor bugs
that were reported since last August.