0.45.0

Most examples do not work anymore. Focus was on Mica and Supremacy

#422 new entity based render engine (will eventually replace the scene graph based renderer)
#414 reintroducing home brew entity system (it's something like a game object component thingy)
IGOR_MAX_ENTITY_COMPONENT_TYPES is 64 but can be overridden
added random interface to iaColor3 and iaColor4
iaDirectory and iaFile do not automatically fix a paths anymore
#407 more renaming iShaderMaterial to iShader and related
removed widget example since Mica covers all you need to know about widgets in Igor
#374 using float32 for mouse position to reduce conversions
#408 cleaned up ompf from legacy data and broke compatibility with older ompf (set ompf to 2.0.0)
#404 made project a singleton and put project and user search paths on top in iResourceManager
igor data folder now installed under data
iProfiler now also tracks key value pairs per frame ie "draw calls", "triangles" etc
iEntityScene is registered with iView which eventually will replace iScene
#424 added sky box compatible to new render engine
#420 integrated json and replaced all xml files except for shaders
introduced prefab as resource
iaEvent now allows to add a delegate that only get's triggered once
introduced iaEventPool to handle events that only get called in main thread
fixed del key issue in iWidgetLineTextEdit
modal dialogs are allowed to be nested using a modal stack. The top one is the current modal one
added iClipboard copy pasting text and entity IDs
#412 bring entity system to use in Mica at least make a start
added iFilesystem to watch changes in the filesystem and trigger events like iEventFileCreated, iEventFileChanged etc
#441 cleared Mica form all scene node code so we can phase out the scene graph and replace it with entities
#436 made callstack more readable
added iEntityPrintTraverser for logging entity hierarchies in human readable format
#445 introduced iaTransform
added recursive watch to iTaskWatchFilesystem
fixed iWidgetScroll which was scrolling by the wrong amount
added more tests to iaux

0.44.0

#388 allow file select dialogs to be closed using ESC
#387 improved render of drag operation
#395 all examples to use now projects
if no config file (igor.xml) is found one will be created in the user folder with default values
changed up cmake for igor subfolder
moved igor data files in to src/igor to make clear they are part of the engine it self
added interface to save resources (implemented for materials only so far)
fixed an issue with checker board backdrop of iWidgetPicture
creating a default material from asset browser context menu in Mica
#401 iMaterial -> iShaderMaterial and iTargetMaterial is not iMaterial
removed some examples. Want to reduce further to have less maintenance in future

0.43.1

#393 fixed invalid node info issue
#391 adding more docs to examples
#383 thumbnails now respect aspect ratio

0.43.0

MSVC support discontinued
reimplemented iMaterial and make it a iResource
replaced iMaterialResourceFactory with iMaterialFactory which is now integrated in the iResourceManager
some spring cleaning around plenty of TODOs
improved random number generator using STL
introducing resource dictionaries and using 64bit ids to primarily identify resources (resource ids are not generated from the resource name or filename anymore)s
introducing projects
added interface to create empty/default resources (depends on what the factories do with it)
added iWidgetBoxLayout
renamed iWidgetGrid to iWidgetGridLayout
replaced iUserControlAction with iWidgetButton
dialogs can now be moved, resized and docked
added interface to change mouse cursor see iMouseCursorType for supported types
added iWidgetSplitter, iMimeData
added drag&drop
added iWidgetViewport
widget event handling now uses iEvent
added iUserControlTreeView and iUserControlGridView and iItem for generic data
added AssetBrowser to Mica
fixed texture font vertical alignment
added new widget selection interfaces
Mica drag drop assets in viewport (models and textures on models)
added iUserControlTexture
added background color and background checkerboard option to iWidgetPicture

Known issues:

data not updated -> missing textures, invisible models -> need to do some work on ompf to get this all working again

0.42.0

fixed threading sync in iResourceManager preventing resource being loaded multiple times
reimplemented iModel and make it a iResource
replaced iModelResourceFactory with iModelFactory which is now integrated in the iResourceManager
removed iTaskFlushModels and iTaskLoadModel since this is now handled in iResourceManager
auto start iTaskFlushResources after window is opened so the application does not need to do it anymore
added quiet flag to resources

0.41.1

added missing vsync control (Windows)
fixed MSVC template specialization build issues

0.41.0

improved iNodeTransform info string
improved load time of instancing example
lazy load audio device
fixed mem leaks in iaDelegate, iWindow, iOctree
going full DSA in iTexture
refactored iTextureFactory
added exit code to iApplication
introduced load mode for resource manager
fixed shutdown of voxel terrain
added more settings to config file (min max threads and synchronous loading for resource manager)
fixed black textures using mipmaps
fixed physics integration
added missing vsync control (Linux)

0.40.0

improved renderer interface and fleshed out the docs
fixed issue around texture fonts rendering and measuring size
fixed more typos
added more tests for iaux
remove iTextureResourceFactory and have textures now handled by the iResourceManager
new resources iAnimation, iSprite and iTexture (replaced previous iTexture)
added state machine back in
added pixmap to texture back in
added new animation system running on top of the entity system
replaced iAtlas with iSprite

0.39.0

!This release does not build with MSVC!

wrapped entt. Let's see if this was so smart later
implemented a whole bunch of components and systems
added simple and probably slow home brewed components interface for custom user components (see iComponentMap)
removed old entity system completely
used Supremacy to make use of changed in ECS interfaces
introduced application wide simulation pause/continue
fixed lots of typos
removed multi window support since it never worked anyway
fixed issue in iaCircle
added gray as standard color
rewrote signal/slot aka event/delegate
improved iAABox and iQuadtree interface
changed profiler sections
improved profiler visualization

0.38.0

sorting files and directories alphabetically
fixed scrolling of iWidgetScroll
removed decompose/recompose matrix
removed clipboard
removed evaluation
removed state machine
removed memblock
renamed iWidget setActive/isActive to setEnabled/isEnabled
added align function to iaString
improved profiler visualizer
fixed selection sync issue in Mica

0.37.0

allowing custom config file names
fallback to default material when loading material fails
moved all igor specific data under data/igor
moved all mica specific data under data/mica
removed unused shader folder
added addPlane to iMeshBuilderUtils
brought emitter node overlay back in mica

0.36.0

minor improvements to entt wrapper interfaces
cleaned up logging verbose modes
removed console tests10

0.35.0

worked on supremacy demo
added multiline text widget (output only for now)
changed iaEvent/iaDelegate naming to iaSignal/iaSlot
iQuadtree uses std::any for user data instead of void*
refactored iQuadtree
introduced class iaRandom for cases where one does not need a unique random number generator instance
added iaColor4::transparent
added scalar operators for iaTime
added more interfaces to the renderer
updated and added some tests
added non linear random numbers
added triggerNow to iTimerHandle to allow to run a timed handle outside of the configured interval

0.34.6

added missing texture tiling for particles
added new tile index increment
added missing multi texture support for particles
fixed change of particle size over time

0.34.5

introduced a particle system wrapper for easy use of 2D particle systems
fixed iMaterialIO relative path to shader

0.34.4

fixed text line edit clamping
made iRenderer::flush public so we can force draw calls when needed for stencil testing
activated 8bit stencil buffer for linux implementation

0.34.3

Mica now can load and safe .mat files (material files)
Mica is only displaying materials with public visibility
ompf has a new chunk type which stores a reference to a material file

0.34.2

Mica generally works again. But there is still a lot to do around materials ompf and mica
fixed color id
fixed selection highlighting

0.34.1

fixed instancing

0.34.0 (unstable/incomplete)

!This version is incomplete. See below!

wrote entirely new Renderer using batch rendering where ever possible
replaced Glee with Glad
switched to Direct State Access
improved testing framework and added some more tests
added some missing functions in iQuadtree and iIntersection
improved top down 2d shooter example
added start/stop to iTimer to start/stop "game time" which essentially can be used to pause a game
introduced new material file format .mat
set minimum OpenGL version to 4.5
iNodeSkyBox now takes a cube map texture
improved cmake configuration. Though there is more todo here
new particle system replacing 2D and 3D ones
support for geometry shaders

Known Missing features are:

Instancing
new particle system does not support all previous features yet
Mica does not build
missing world grid resolution feature
missing color ID render mode feature used to select objects in the scene by Mica

0.33.0

brushed up examples base
implemented simple top down 2d shooter example
using EnTT for the entity component system
improved profiler interfaces

0.32.0

!Decided to drop MSVC support until I feel like it again!

improved slider widget behavior
log level DebugInfo is now called User
default log level is now User
improved error handling in iAudio
textures are loaded cached by default now and do not get release immediately after nothing is referencing them anymore
improved some debug output

0.31.0

!This release does not build with MSVC!

improved rendering performance (still a long way to go though)
replaced gtest with igorTest including writing more unit tests
fixed material initialization problem in Ascent

0.30.0

!This release does not build with MSVC!

introduced iModule and switched most singletons to modules
removed iaSingleton class

0.29.0

removed most of old event handling
using AL_DIRECT_CHANNELS_SOFT for all multi channel sounds
Mica: fixed framing by fixing bounding boxes
Mica: fixed bake to world action
improved behavior of menu and sub menus
replaced gtest with own simple implementation and adding more tests
fixed issue in cmake file regarding building igor as submodule
DebugInfo is the default log level again
renamed con_debug_endl to con_debug
con_trace now has a message parameter
renamed original con_trace to con_trace_call
improved profiling visualization
fixed performance issue in iScene where a queue was not cleared
reduced setMaterial calls
introduced one frame verbose output and render stats (F5 in examples)
fixed problem with showing zero instances
added vsync control on linux side

0.28.0 (unstable)

This is probably less stable than previous versions but I really needed to get this out before it get's even bigger.

fixed how menus behave
improved console output
made instancing and the instancing example work again
supressing auto key repeat under Linux
created an example base class for quicker prototyping
iaBSpline is a template now
fixed problem with setting transformations dirty down the tree
mapping thread IDs to igor internal IDs for more useful logging output
fixed left and right audio channel being swapped
ALSA required on Linux
added regex to iaString
introduced layer and layer-stack
introduced new queue-able events and replaced some of the old ones using event/delegate
killed the state machine example
some improvements around mouse handling in widgets

0.27.0

sound support using OpenAL Soft (www.openal-soft.org/) including audio listener and audio source nodes (see usage in sound example)
introduced ExampleBase class for prototyping
changed namespaces from Igor and IgorAux to igor and iaux

0.26.0

Linux and Windows support using cmake

0.25.0

added basic evaluation functionality to control animations on transform nodes
added iaFile::getStem

0.24.1

fixed iDialogColorGradient
fixed crash in Mica related to widget ownership problems
fixed exception in Mica related to wrong type cast of std::any
did some maintenance

0.24.0

Basic iWidgetMenuBar and iWidgetMenu implementation
Added z value order for widgets. For now only used for dialog order
Introduced event blocking (used in widgets)
Introduced Actions
Using std::any for user data instead of void* where possible
Improved dialog close handling
Improved node creation interface
Exposed iRenderStateSet interface in iMaterial to reduce writing effort when using it
Renamed ModelViewer in to Mica

0.23.0

Scroll bars are now fully functional
New interface to create and destroy widgets. Basically we can use new and delete on widgets now but the engine will keep track of them to prevent mem leaks.
Added colored axis indication to orientation grid in ModelViewer
Made iaMatrix2D more useful
Made SpriteAnimation example more pretty (thank you opengameart.org)

0.22.0

iSprite is now iAtlas and can read frames from file
Created sprite animation example
Ownership of widgets transfers to the engine the moment they are children of a dialog
added mesh to world bake functionality
Removed all using namespace std;
Added some keyboard shortcuts to ModelViewer
- Ctrl + N - clear scene
- Del - deletes current selection
- Ctrl + D - duplicates current selection
- Ctrl + C - copies current selection
- Ctrl + X - cuts current selection
- Ctrl + V - pastes on current selection
- Ctrl + S - opens save dialog
- Ctrl + O - opens load dialog
Improved getInfo implementation and pretty print node tree
Renamed iStatistic* to iProfiler*

0.21.0

Increased unit testing efforts
Worked on iaQuaternion class
Turned iaRandomNumberGenerator in to a template
Improved character controller example
Improved mouse handling in all examples
Added interface to control vsync setting
Improved pretty printing for scene graph
Added vsync setting on window
Fixed another bug regarding texture units in ompf

0.20.0

Replaced vector and matrix conversions in iaConvert with conversion methods directly on the classes.
Added log level to console. Controllable by config file and during runtime.

0.19.1

Fixed cursor position in text edit field when text was not aligned left

0.19.0

ModelViewer: UserControlTransform now handles components instead of a matrix and improved Manipulator
Implemented matrix decomposition
Fixed iRenderer::project
Added some google tests for matrix functions
Introduced iaTransform that potentially will replace matrixes in scene graph

0.18.0

Improved OBJ loader. Now meshs get generated based on combinations of groups/objects and materials.
ModelViewer: pan camera around like in Maya (LeftAlt + middle mouse button)
ModelViewer: fixed problem when loading unknown file format
Improved iaString to be able to be used as key in std maps
When loading models not to join vertices is now the default behavior
Material "IgorTexture" always available. Same as "IgorDefault" just for textured materials.

0.17.0

Introduced tooltips to widgets
Used tooltips in ModelViewer

0.16.1

Fixed problem with loading files over existing scene in ModelViewer

0.16.0

Adding tutorials to doxygen documentation
Changing doxygen style
Generall update of docs

0.15.0

Visualizing emitters in ModelViewer when selected
Added sphere to iMeshBuilderUtils
Added alpha to target material
Support alpha in target material in OMPF
Updated the OMPF example models with new format

pre Igor

Before Igor there was openDC (Open Dirty Coding) starting in 2003. Back then it's primary function was to load stuff and render it for projects during my Study.

As curiosity following the original header.

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Grundfunktionalitaet fuer 3D - Applikationen

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and or modify it
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pre OpenDC

OpenDC came from easyGL. An OO wrapper for OpenGL. Started probably in 2001 or 2002.