Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Balder 0.8.8.9 coming

by einar@dolittle.com (Einar Ingebrigtsen) via Einar Ingebrigtsen on 8/10/2010 5:08:21 PM

Things are moving fast these days with Balder and I am closing in on the next release already. Keeping up with my target pace.

At this point these are the things already done or is in progress for the next release:

• New Skybox, utilizing built in Silverlight perspective projection, which can be hardware accelerated
  
• Perspective correct texture mapping - previous version had only affine texture mapping
  
• Bilinear filtering for texture mapping
  
• Performance boost for the entire rendering pipeline
  
• Better, faster and more accurate lighting
  
• Subpixel rendering
  
• Vertex-shader like functionality for SIlverlight
  
• Multiple "Games" in one page
  
• Multiple textures during rendering
  
• Semitransparent / alpha-channel support for texture mapping
• Introducing a control for no-game centric applications; Content3D
  
• A lot of bugfixing