[x3d-public] View3dscene 3.16.0 release, and our Patreon page

[Don Brutzman]

wow looks really great Michalis!  totally impressive.  8)

retweeted your announcement, also included some of your screenshots, online at

	https://twitter.com/Web3DConsortium/status/833098424090193921

and also inserted an additional link in

	X3D Resources: Conversions and Translation Tools
	http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Conversions

	"Castle Game Engine has Blender export plus Castle Animation Frames, Skyboxes, Static Cube Environment Maps and more."

Thanks for keeping everyone informed, and congratulations on your awesome progress!

v/r Don


On 2/18/2017 1:32 PM, Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're proud to release view3dscene 3.16.0, our open-source
> cross-platform X3D and VRML browser (and a viewer for other 3D
> formats). Download it from
>
>   https://castle-engine.sourceforge.io/view3dscene.php
>
> This release is accompanied by Castle Game Engine release 6.0. Castle
> Game Engine is a unique 3D and 2D game engine using X3D as it's scene
> graph (and interchange format, too). The engine information and
> downloads are available on
>
>   https://castle-engine.sourceforge.io/
>
> This release is a culmination of more than a year of intensive engine
> development. We have various new X3D extensions:
>
> - Shape.shading = "WIREFRAME",
> - fields "slices", "stacks", "divisions" to specify geometry triangulation,
> - using normal maps from a MovieTexture,
> - Shape.render,
> - many shadow maps and shadow volumes improvements.
>
> Of interest is also our new animation format (using X3D internally)
> that allows to export any Blender animation (with armature, shape
> keys, physics simulation, particles...) to our engine (and
> view3dscene). It is called castle-anim-frames, and the detailed
> description is on
> https://castle-engine.sourceforge.io/creating_data_blender.php .
>
> The release announcement, with a complete list of changes and links to
> new features documentation, is on
>
>   https://castle-engine.sourceforge.io/wp/2017/02/18/castle-game-engine-6-0-release/
>
> Last but not least, I wanted to mention our new Patreon page. You can
> support the engine and view3dscene development and get some real
> rewards --- in particular, I'm devoting a weekend per month
> exclusively to the features requested by Patrons. So you can request
> any view3dscene feature you miss! Please check out our Patreon page
> on:
>
>   https://www.patreon.com/castleengine
>
> Best regards,
> Michalis

all the best, Don
-- 
Don Brutzman  Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br       brutzman at nps.edu
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