News from SVN - RenderedTexture node, Viewpoint.camera*Matrix events, and more

New features in SVN:

• RenderedTexture node is implemented: a texture rendered from a specified viewpoint. Useful for many effects. The most straightforward use would be to make a "security camera" or a "portal", through which a player can peek what happens at the other place in 3D world. (Simple example).
• Viewpoint.camera*Matrix output events are implemented, very useful for shaders.
• WORLDSPACEREFLECTIONVECTOR, WORLDSPACENORMAL extensions are documented.
• We have a clear and precise specification how MultiTexture.mode/source fields work and how to separate them for rgb and alpha channel.
• Texture handling code was refactored last week: we have much cleaner implementation now, various bump mapping fixes were done by the way, and all texture generating nodes use now OpenGL framebuffer (possibly faster, and texture dimensions no longer limited by window size).
• Examine mode improved, to be more feature-rich like Walk mode: works nicely with LOD and ProximitySensor nodes, you can click on TouchSensor and such in Examine mode, you can initiate ray-tracer in view3dscene from Examine mode.

Still no official release, but view3dscene 3.4 should be released Really Soon :) For now you can try new features by using the nightly builds.