fix of a bug with visible property and cache system

change in the skybox class and orientation of the roof texture

addition of a dispose method to materials

advanced reference counting system on material which makes the dispose method to be called as soon as no more polygon use it (if the autoDispose property of Material is set to true which is the default value)

fix memory leak when clipping was enabled

improvement of Mode7

fix sorting issue with clipping and useSingleContainer = true modes

minor improvements

parsers improvement, and automatic texture loading added to all parsers

extrusion package with several utility tools

Really smart cache system to save a lot of cycles, without adding a single line to your existing code.

Startfield class, to create pixels based 3D effects, check our tutorials list

MD2 animated models format support.

addition of visitor pattern to smoothly integrate and customize Sandy into your complex apps

Mode7 renderer to render infinite planes/floors with high quality and good perspective correction for very few rendering cycles.

Better management of interactivity and handling of the requested MOUSE_OUT event.

and lot more…

ParserStack to preload and parse several files sequentially

Phong shading

CelShading

Sprite2D/3D attributes management

Sprite2D/3D new properties plus event managment

Material tiling

Sound3D object

Light color managment in shading attributes

Some major bug fixes and memory optimization.

Performance has also been improved up to 20% in some cases.

Addition of GouraudAttributes to simulate Gouraud smooth shading. As each attribute, it can be used with any material.

Collada parser rotation bug fixed

ColorUtil class has been removed.

Speed improvement in BitmapMaterial perspective correction method.

Addition to a property to change the level of recurssion in perspective correction.

Addition of material interactivity. Shape3D has enableInteractivity property which when set to true and applied with a MovieMaterial, enables interactivity with that material.

USE_FAST_MATH is now set to false by default for more accuracy but less performance. This can be changed if user needs top speed.

make rectClipping enable by default on scenes.

Correction of visible property.

Correction in BBbox transformed points computation.

Fix Vector.getAngle division by zero error.

General ressources free has been improved.

Scenes are unregistered from SceneLocator when disposed.

BitmapMaterial, MovieMaterial and VideoMaterial setTransparency method optimization.

Small bug fix in Sprite3D at some certain angles.

Correction of the ZshaderMaterial

Addition of a new property autoCenter to Sprite3D and Sprite2D to specify if sprite center or sprite top left corner shall be at the screen point location.

General optimization, code cleaning and documentation

AS3 power and AMV2 speed !

Flat shading attributes for color and bitmap materials.

Introduction of perspective corrected mapping for BitmapMaterial (based on Away3d.com code).

New Skybox primitive

More freedom about clipping settings, you can now specify, no clipping, front plane clipping or full frustum clipping depending on your needs.

Scene viewport rectangular clipping.

And a lot of bug fixes and minor additions … :)

Interpolators modification. An interpolator is not a Leaf anymore. Interpolators do not need to be attached to a transformGroup as it used to be. An interpolator is used as a Transform3D, TransformGroup.setTransform( Interpolator )

CameraPositionInterpolator and PathCameraInterpolator do not exist anymore.

Camera.setInterpolator and Camera.removeInterpolator has been added.

More stable cache system.

You can now change the quality of the Box primitive!

SAParser created. A parser for Sandy's Animation (SA) file format.

You can have the percentage of parsing of your files.

You can obtain the equivalent Sandy's code of the parsers thanks to export method

Sprite2D are now centered as Sprite3D

World3D.update do not exist anymore.

We can now change the angles of rotation of the Rotation Interpolator

Skin sytem more complex, and better structured.

New VertexInterpolator allowing you to load some 3DS animations, but this is very pre-alpha

New Line3D primitive, new Edge3D/CurvedEdge3D classes.

Possibiliy to get the object3D position

INode interface has been added

Possibility to get the Bounding box of the object3D.

a refresh method has been added to object3D and Face.

capability to get the vertex of a face

New architecture appears with Groups, transformGroups and addChild connection. The 3D scene is completely a tree from now.

New Sprite2D and Sprite3D objects.

Performances improvments thanks to a cache system and the possibility to enable/disable events.

Multiples camera managment.

Flash 8 filters managment.

WRL and ASE parsers.

New Zlighen, VideoSkin, MovieSkin, skins.

Sandy is now under Mozilla public licence 1.1 rather then GNU GPL. Commercial use is now possible.

Possibility to draw curved faces with 3, 4 or N points. This new features brings a lot of new possibilities.

Object vertices properties aren't modified anymore after a transformation. They always stay in the same frame.

The skin system is now much simpler and certainly faster.

Rotation3D, Translation3D, Scale3D are now Transform3D. This allows a more flexible system.

Package refactoring. Now package is sandy.* rather than mb.sandy.*

Move on Path interpolator appears. Also available for the camera.

DirstortImage is now included in Sandy's package.

Pixlib is required to use Sandy but Pixlib is externalized from the Sandy library.

Integration of Pixlib library, mainly for the Event system !

change world.render use. You must call it once! You must register to some events to get the possibility to add some actions in the same time.

You change the framerate of the animation with world3D.getInstance().setFPS() method.

Modification of Rotation3D, Scale3D and Translation3D use. Now you can apply those transformations like it was before, BUT the effect will be applied only once.

Add “quad” and “tri” mode available for some 3D primitives.

Implemented render4 in all Skins.

Add camera movements. pitch, yaw and roll for the rotation and translations methods too

Renamed Vector4 to Vector.

add NumberUtil class.

add preRendered methods to Group.

performance improvment in Group.render

Depth-sorting completely changed . It’s not ever done in Group.render, but in Object3D.render, and the sorting system is done face per face (no more object per object)

add implementation of NFace3D class

Cylinder primitive use NFace3D for the top and the bottom face with “quad” mode.

Add ObjectEvent class.

Add the possibility to reveive some Events from the objects. Look at the ObjectEvent static properties. Basically we can listen the onPress, onreleaseOutside, onRollOver and onRollOut events. but it seems that onRollOut doesn’t work everytime! To check.

Change MixedSkin constructor parameters order. Now it’s the fill color and alpha then the lines color, alpha and thickness.

minor change of TranslationInterpolator parameters effect

add start and stop method to World3D.

Add addChild method to Group class. It allows a tree representation of Objects(needs to be tested and completed)

Add Quaternion and QuaternionMath classes. It’s still unused and untested! So be careful with it.

Add getMatrix method to Transform3D.