1.1.0 Release
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Changelog:
New Important Features:
- Added direct scalars color rendering mode, see doc.
- Added a turntable interactor and made it default. The previous interactor can still be used using a dedicated option. Thanks @orangebowlerhat @filip.sund and @jjomier for your suggestions.
- Added animation support for glTF and Exodus files. Press space for playing the animation.
- Added animation related option, --animation-index, only for glTF when using the full scene.
New Readers and format compatibility features:
- Added skinning and morphing support with glTF files.
- Added TIFF format support. Thanks @proudot for your suggestion.
- Added exodus format support. Thanks @gvernon for your suggestion.
- Added support for OBJ with color directly inside of it instead of using a .mtl file. Thanks @Chenge321 for your suggestion.
Quality of life features:
- Added a hotkey (UP) to reload current file, thanks @caioaao.
- Improved Alpha blending performance, thanks @paul.lafoix.
- Changed the progress bar to a more nice looking one and made it appears only if loading takes time. Thanks @finetjul for the suggestion.
- Improved logging mechanism with color on all OS and a dedicated output window on windows.
- Added a warning when using RayTracing but it is not available.
Fixes:
- Fixed an issue with skybox and edges.
- Fixed a crash when an array had no name.
- Fixed a window naming issue on OSX.
- Fixed a symlink issue.
- Fixed a coloring issue with dataset containing only cell data.
Packaging:
- Upgraded the AUR f3d package to 1.1.0 : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/f3d.
- Added a Brew f3d 1.1.0 package : https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/f3d.
- FreeBSD now contains a f3d package, 1.1.0 should come soon, thanks to yuri@freebsd.org.
- NixOS new contains a f3d package, 1.1.0 should come soon, thanks to bcdarwin@gmail.com.
How to support F3D:
- Use the software.
- Share it with anyone interested.
- Star us on github: https://github.com/kitware/F3D.
Edited by Mathieu Westphal (Kitware)