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Latest News: Virtual Paradise 0.4.6

Virtual Paradise version 0.4.6 is now available!

New in this version

• Add mask support to particle emitter objects
• Rectangle selection for terrain, by holding shift while pressing the arrow keys.
  • Unfortunately the selection rectangle is still invisible in this version
  • The maximum width of the rectangle to be selected is 10 by default. It can be set using the terrain_max_selection_width world setting up to a maximum of 32
• Add support for tag= to sign command
• Support for prelight in RWX models
• Support normal (norm) and specular maps (map_Ks) from OBJ MTL files
• Automatically adjust offset of md5mesh avatars and add avatarOffsetY and textOffsetY settings to allow overriding offsets
• World option to reverse diagonals in terrain mesh (terrain_reverse_diagonals)
• Experimental Vulkan graphics mode, still hidden from the UI. See below for more information
• Mac: Fog support in Metal renderer
• Mac: Set initial keyboard focus to 3D view
• Mac: Quit the application when the last window is closed
• Mac: Teleport to world feature
• Mac: Position display in status bar
• Mac: Add ability to change type for newly created objects
• Mac: Fill current position in teleport to coordinates window

Fixes

• Fix error in OpenGL 4 shaders: Replace deprecated texture2D calls in shaders with texture (use of deprecated function was unnecessary and unintentional)
• Fix possibly corrupted TLS connection if a lot of data is sent quickly, such as when importing a large object group
• Fix aworld:? URLs in web pages opened with web command
• Fix loop for MP3 sounds
• Fix corrupted text in saved object groups for special characters
• Fix crash when loading OBJ file with no valid faces
• Fix SEQ not correctly preserving scale and shear
• Fix bounding box and sphere for md5mesh models
• Mac: Fix collapsing of sidebar in newer macOS versions
• Mac: Fix crash when clicking on messages tab

Vulkan graphics mode

The Vulkan graphics mode is now approaching a usable state. It can be tested by setting renderer=6 in the virtualparadise.cfg file.

Here is what's new since the version described in the last blog post about it in April 2018:

• Clustered lighting similar to Direct3D 11, GL 4.x and Metal renderers
• Multisample anti-alias support
• Use uniform buffers instead of push constants for modelview matrix
• Materials
• All blending mode variations that VP uses are now supported
• Rendering of the 'basic' version of the gradient sky (as is also used for Direct3D 9 and OpenGL 1.x. Uses vertex colors)
• Textures including mipmap generation and anisotropic filtering
• Normal map materials
• Normal map materials with a specular map
• Lighting equations made equal to the ones used for Direct3D 11 and OpenGL 4.x (previously the light intensity was not clamped)
• Rotated terrain textures now render correctly
• Improved performance by reducing unnecessary updates of uniform buffers
• Particles are now rendered with the correct depth stencil state
• Support upload of clustered shading data using staging buffers when necessary (if a mapped buffer is not available)

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