.TH "coin400" 3 "Tue Dec 26 2023 17:59:22" "Version 4.0.2" "Coin" \" -*- nroff -*-
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coin400 \- New Features in Coin v4\&.0\&.0 
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Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS ended Coin as a commercial product and re-licensed it under the BSD 3-clause license as a service to the user community\&.
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The build system has been migrated from GNU Autotools to CMake\&.
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This is a brief summary of the new features in Coin v4\&.0\&.0:
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Support for UNICODE text (starting with Coin \fB4\&.0\fP strings are UTF-8 encoded)\&.
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View volume and projectors now support reverse perspective camera settings
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New \fBSoReversePerspectiveCamera\fP node added
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New getRadius method added to \fBSoRayPickAction\fP
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New virtual method getPickedPointForStart added to \fBSoDragger\fP to allow dragging of (partially) covered objects by derived draggers
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New greater than and less than operators added to \fBSbString\fP
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Implemented \fBSoTextureCoordinateObject\fP for linear texture functions
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New \fBSoAlphaTest\fP node added
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Support for GLSL/ARB shaders has been added to \fBSoShaderStateMatrixParameter\fP
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Support for linePatternScaleFactor in \fBSoDrawStyle\fP
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Support for newer compilers
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Support for DISABLE policy in \fBSoSelection\fP node
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API changes in \fBSbMatrix\fP, \fBSoPickAction\fP, \fBSoEvent\fP, \fBSoSFTime\fP, \fBSbPList\fP to improve conformance to Open Inventor \fB2\&.1\fP API
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Created public API for converting geo coordinates
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Auto-linking to the Coin library when using Microsoft Visual C++ compilers
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Updated expat sources to version 2\&.2\&.6
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Removed local Boost includes\&. Added configure option --with-boost
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Support for BitBucket and AppVeyor as continuous integration service providers
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Bug fixes:
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Engine output referencing
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\fBSoTextureCoordinatePlane\fP rendering bug
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Memory leak during \fBSoDB\fP cleanup
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Memory leak in \fBSoVertexAttribute\fP
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Wrong vertical offset used in \fBSoOffscreenRenderer\fP
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Driver bug when allocating render-to-texture capable pbuffers from \fBSoOffscreenRenderer\fP
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Incorrect normal binding for 3DS import
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\fBSoInteractionKit\fP
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\fBSoRayPickAction\fP incorrect matrix info in getViewVolume
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\fBSbTesselator\fP triangulation errors
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\fBSoToVRML2Action\fP handling of NurbsCurve and IndexedNurbsCurve
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\fBSoToVRML2Action\fP handling TransformSeparator as Separator not Group
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\fBSoVRMLTransform\fP transformation bug in getTranslationSpaceMatrix
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\fBSoVRMLExtrusion\fP rendering
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Numerous minor and major issues detected with static code analysis
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Numerous documentation issues
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Camera location is updated during interaction in \fBSoDragger\fP
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Camera update handling in seek and spin modes
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Bounding box center calculation of \fBSoIndexedShape\fP derived components
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Intersection bounding box calculation between bounding box and view volume
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Allow deletion of SoDraggers in callbacks
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Crash in \fBSoText2\fP when using non-integer font sizes
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Out of bounds access to array in \fBSoSceneTextureCubeMap\fP
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Numerical issues in computation of intersection between sphere and line
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Numerical issue in \fBSbDPMatrix::multLineMatrix()\fP
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Markers are disappearing when clipping planes are present
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Set of invalid VRML identifier characters extended with '(', ')', and '|'
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Replacement for OpenGL extensions string method, obsoleted since OpenGL version \fB3\&.0\fP
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Output of scenes containing \fBSoGroup\fP or derived nodes in \fBSoWriteAction\fP
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Force setting color for all indices on TriangleStrips in \fBSoMaterialBundle\fP 
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