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<TITLE>VRweb 1.5 Release Notes</TITLE>
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<H1>VRweb 1.5 Release Notes</H1>
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<H2>New in VRweb 1.5</H2>
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<LI><b><A href="edit.html">Editing functionality</A></b>
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<LI>Rendering <A href="display.html#transparency">transparent</A> polygons
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<LI>View pulldown menu with <A href="navigate/index.html#viewpoints">viewing</A> (new: view selection, world) and <A href="edit.html#selection">selection</A> functions
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<LI>select previous/next <A href="navigate/index.html#viewpoints">viewpoint</A> with PgUp/PgDn
<p>
<LI>Mesa 2.1: faster flat shading on 8bit displays (dithered)
<p>
<LI>Polygon <A href="display.html#options">anti-aliasing</A> (OpenGL only)
<p>
<LI>Passing <A href="install.html#vrml20">VRML 2.0</A> files to a helper application
<p>
<LI>Bugfixes (nested WWWInline nodes), destination URLs (#viewpoint) etc.
</UL>
<H2>New in VRweb 1.3.2</H2>
<UL>
<LI><A href="display.html#stereo">Stereo rendering</A> in red/green mode
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<LI><A href="navigate/modes.html#flip">flip</A> object: rotation about arbitrary point or (1.5) selected object
<p>
<LI>Documentation of <A HREF="mouse.html">Mouse</A> and <A HREF="keybd.html">Key</A> bindings (added Nov 28).
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<H2>Related Items on the <A HREF="http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb">Homepage</A></H2>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb-features">VRweb Features</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb-release-notes">Release Notes (backlog)</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb.FAQ.rendering">VRweb VRML Rendering FAQ</A>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.iicm.edu/vrweb.FAQ.UNIX">VRweb FAQ for UNIX</A>
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<LI><A HREF="http://www.iicm.edu/vrwave">VRwave, the Java/VRML 2.0 successor of VRweb</A>
</UL>
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<p>
<H2>What's new in VRweb 1.3.1</H2>
<UL>
<LI>Incorporation of <b><A href="http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html">Mesa</A> 2.0</b>
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<LI>new, triangle-based renderer fixes bugs at polygon boundaries
<LI>faster texturing and smooth shading
<LI>support for texture antialising: see <A href="display.html#options">display options</A>.
<LI>known bug: flat shading on 8bit visuals became slower<br>
(located and fixed in Mesa 2.1)
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<p>
<LI>After korean now also japanese user interface
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<LI>Bugfixes (BSP now also works on Linux/ELF and FreeBSD; again working unter X11R4)
<p>
</UL>
<H2>What's new in VRweb 1.3</H2>
<UL>
<LI><b>AsciiText/FontStyle</b>
<p>
VRweb is now able to render Text. First you have to install the font
files as described in the <A href="install.html#help">installation
guide</A>.
<p>
<LI><b>Proxy Support</b>
<p>
WWWinline/Texture requests can be made via a proxy. See <A
href="anchors.html#setup">anchor setup</a>.
<p>
<LI><b>Better VRML 1.0 conformance</b>
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Non-convex faces are triangulated, vertex normal vectors are
automatically generated (autosmoothing), face normal calculation is
more robust. Many scenes will look much nicer now.
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<LI><b>New rendering features</b>
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Optionally, you can use a <A href="display.html#rendering">BSP
renderer</A>, which is faster (especially with shadow volumes), but
consumes more memory and still has some bugs.
<p>
<A href="navigate/index.html#settings">Quadrics complexity</A>
(i.e. the no. of slices spheres, cones, and cylinders are split into)
can be set interactively or via Xattribute.
<p>
Some rendering issues concerning material settings have been
improved. Scenes with frequent material changes will render faster
(especially in the OpenGL version).
<p>
Nicer <A href="basics.html#toolbar">toolbar</A>.
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