New Features in Coin v4.0.0

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.

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

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
• New getRadius method added to SoRayPickAction
• New virtual method getPickedPointForStart added to SoDragger to allow dragging of (partially) covered objects by derived draggers
• New greater than and less than operators added to SbString
• Implemented SoTextureCoordinateObject for linear texture functions
• New SoAlphaTest node added
• Support for GLSL/ARB shaders has been added to SoShaderStateMatrixParameter
• Support for linePatternScaleFactor in SoDrawStyle
• Support for newer compilers
• Support for DISABLE policy in SoSelection node
• API changes in SbMatrix, SoPickAction, SoEvent, SoSFTime, SbPList to improve conformance to Open Inventor 2.1 API
• Created public API for converting geo coordinates
• Auto-linking to the Coin library when using Microsoft Visual C++ compilers
• Updated expat sources to version 2.2.6
• Removed local Boost includes. Added configure option –with-boost
• Support for BitBucket and AppVeyor as continuous integration service providers

Bug fixes:

• Engine output referencing
• SoTextureCoordinatePlane rendering bug
• Memory leak during SoDB cleanup
• Memory leak in SoVertexAttribute
• Wrong vertical offset used in SoOffscreenRenderer
• Driver bug when allocating render-to-texture capable pbuffers from SoOffscreenRenderer
• Incorrect normal binding for 3DS import
• SoInteractionKit
• SoRayPickAction incorrect matrix info in getViewVolume
• SbTesselator triangulation errors
• SoToVRML2Action handling of NurbsCurve and IndexedNurbsCurve
• SoToVRML2Action handling TransformSeparator as Separator not Group
• SoVRMLTransform transformation bug in getTranslationSpaceMatrix
• SoVRMLExtrusion rendering
• Numerous minor and major issues detected with static code analysis
• Numerous documentation issues
• Camera location is updated during interaction in SoDragger
• Camera update handling in seek and spin modes
• Bounding box center calculation of SoIndexedShape derived components
• Intersection bounding box calculation between bounding box and view volume
• Allow deletion of SoDraggers in callbacks
• Crash in SoText2 when using non-integer font sizes
• Out of bounds access to array in SoSceneTextureCubeMap
• Numerical issues in computation of intersection between sphere and line
• Numerical issue in SbDPMatrix::multLineMatrix()
• Markers are disappearing when clipping planes are present
• Set of invalid VRML identifier characters extended with '(', ')', and '|'
• Replacement for OpenGL extensions string method, obsoleted since OpenGL version 3.0
• Output of scenes containing SoGroup or derived nodes in SoWriteAction
• Force setting color for all indices on TriangleStrips in SoMaterialBundle