Bullet physics, Node list, SSAO

Last time we had a lot of  hard work. Main new engine's feature is integration of bullet physics library and creation of physical editor. Also, we opened bug-tracker for our customers.

SDK:

• Added 31 script samples and 9 C++ API samples.

Engine:

• Bullet Physics Library 2.80 was integrated. Supports rigid bodies, compounds, convex hulls, terrains, joints, 2D physics, friction, elastisity.
• SSAO (screen-space ambient occlusion).
• Lua updated to 5.2.
• Removed bitwise operations from Lua API.
• Vignetting post effect.
• Detection of Intel video cards.
• Definitions in shaders for detection of video vendor.
• Added tonemapping.
• Texture coordinates animation.
• Texture coordinates scaling.
• Static mode for text rendering.
• New, more realistic atmospheric scattering model.
• Customizable night brightness.
• Lod settings for particles.
• Vertex normals factor for refraction distortion.
• Opacity accumulation mode for volume rendering.  
• Terrain generation is parallelized.
• Improved realtime terrain texturing by using fractal noise.
• Added ThreadPool() class.
• Added setGroup(), getGroup(), setActive(), getActive(), setData() and getData() methods for Node class.
• Added PlatformWindows::getHandle() and PlatformWindows::getGLRC() methods.
• Method 'Platform::setResolution' has been renamed to 'Platform::setVideoMode'.
• Custom position offset for camera.
• Added NodePhysical() class.
• Added Hardware() class.
• Added 'resizable' parameter for window in config.
• SmartPtr() class.
• Fixed OBJ reading.

GUI:

• New WidgetTreeView.
• Hold mode for WidgetButton.
• WidgetList supports multiselection.
• WidgetWindow supports scrolling with mouse wheel. It helpful for small displays, when window height is greater than  height of OS-native window.
• Added WidgetPanel::setRenderForm().

Editor:

• Node list (tree).
• Physics editor (you can edit common body properties, materials, shapes and joints).
• Added detailed profiler.
• Particles emitters number in profiler.
• Total frame time chart in profiler.
• HDR, SSAO,  FOV and double collision  settings.
• Improved surfaces list (multiselecting, open material editor by double click on surface, button for fast setting of default material).
• Nodes with disabled active flag don't selecting.
• New hotkey 'P' for play/stop scene.
• Copying of groups.

Difference between enabled SSAO and disabled:


















New smooth terrain editing:

Demo of our engine almost comleted and will be available for download in matter of days.