New Features in Coin v4.0.0

The build system has been migrated from GNU autotools to CMake.

Note that Coin 4.0 is still work in progress.

This is a brief summary of the new features in Coin v4.0.0:

• Support for UNICODE text (starting with Coin 4.0 strings are UTF-8 encoded).
• View volume and projectors now support reverse perspective camera settings
• New SoReversePerspectiveCamera node added
• SoShaderStateMatrixParameter class now supports GLSL/ARB shaders in addition to Cg
• Support for linePatternScaleFactor in SoDrawStyle
• Support for newer compilers
• Auto-linking when using Visual Studio compiler
• ...

Bug fixes:

• Engine Output Referencing
• SoTextureCoordinatePlane Rendering Bug
• Memory leak during SoDB cleanup
• Wrong vertical offset used in SoOffscreenRenderer
• Incorrect normal binding for 3DS import
• SoInteractionKit
• ...