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6       coin400 - New Features in Coin v4.0.0 Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies
7       AS ended Coin as a commercial product and re-licensed it under the BSD
8       3-clause license as a service to the user community.
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10       The build system has been migrated from GNU Autotools to CMake.
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12       This is a brief summary of the new features in Coin v4.0.0:
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14       • Support for UNICODE text (starting with Coin 4.0 strings are UTF-8
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17       • View volume and projectors now support reverse perspective camera
18         settings
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20       • New SoReversePerspectiveCamera node added
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22       • New getRadius method added to SoRayPickAction
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24       • New virtual method getPickedPointForStart added to SoDragger to allow
25         dragging of (partially) covered objects by derived draggers
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27       • New greater than and less than operators added to SbString
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29       • Implemented SoTextureCoordinateObject for linear texture functions
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31       • New SoAlphaTest node added
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33       • Support for GLSL/ARB shaders has been added to
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36       • Support for linePatternScaleFactor in SoDrawStyle
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38       • Support for newer compilers
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40       • Support for DISABLE policy in SoSelection node
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42       • API changes in SbMatrix, SoPickAction, SoEvent, SoSFTime, SbPList to
43         improve conformance to Open Inventor 2.1 API
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45       • Created public API for converting geo coordinates
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47       • Auto-linking to the Coin library when using Microsoft Visual C++
48         compilers
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50       • Updated expat sources to version 2.2.6
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52       • Removed local Boost includes. Added configure option --with-boost
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54       • Support for BitBucket and AppVeyor as continuous integration service
55         providers
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57       Bug fixes:
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59       • Engine output referencing
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61       • SoTextureCoordinatePlane rendering bug
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63       • Memory leak during SoDB cleanup
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65       • Memory leak in SoVertexAttribute
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67       • Wrong vertical offset used in SoOffscreenRenderer
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69       • Driver bug when allocating render-to-texture capable pbuffers from
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72       • Incorrect normal binding for 3DS import
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74       • SoInteractionKit
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76       • SoRayPickAction incorrect matrix info in getViewVolume
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78       • SbTesselator triangulation errors
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80       • SoToVRML2Action handling of NurbsCurve and IndexedNurbsCurve
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82       • SoToVRML2Action handling TransformSeparator as Separator not Group
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84       • SoVRMLTransform transformation bug in getTranslationSpaceMatrix
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86       • SoVRMLExtrusion rendering
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88       • Numerous minor and major issues detected with static code analysis
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90       • Numerous documentation issues
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92       • Camera location is updated during interaction in SoDragger
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94       • Camera update handling in seek and spin modes
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96       • Bounding box center calculation of SoIndexedShape derived components
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98       • Intersection bounding box calculation between bounding box and view
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101       • Allow deletion of SoDraggers in callbacks
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103       • Crash in SoText2 when using non-integer font sizes
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105       • Out of bounds access to array in SoSceneTextureCubeMap
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107       • Numerical issues in computation of intersection between sphere and
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110       • Numerical issue in SbDPMatrix::multLineMatrix()
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112       • Markers are disappearing when clipping planes are present
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114       • Set of invalid VRML identifier characters extended with '(', ')', and
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117       • Replacement for OpenGL extensions string method, obsoleted since
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120       • Output of scenes containing SoGroup or derived nodes in SoWriteAction
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122       • Force setting color for all indices on TriangleStrips in
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