Oct 7, 2011
0.3.3 has arrived!
I am pleased to announce that we have released FIFE 0.3.3! The official release date was October 6th,2011 but I didn’t get around to writing this announcement until today. All files are available in the download section of our wiki. This release was a long time coming but it includes a lot of changes.
Special thanks go out to the Unknown Horizons team for making this release possible. We were fortunate enough to get a student for GSoC this year through them so we are all very grateful. The summer of code turned out to be very successful and our student (kozmo) made some huge performance improvments in the OpenGL renderer and added a lot of great features. Thanks Kozmo!
There was so many changes to FIFE in this release so I’m not going to list them all. Here is a quick summary of all the key improvements:
- Many optimizations/improvements to the OpenGL renderer
- Colour overlays have been optimized
- Can now draw/modify images
- Resource pools have been completely re-written from the ground up
- Clients can now specify the colour to use when clearing the screen
- Some changes/optimizations to the light renderer
- Initial support for C++ map/object/animation loaders
- Image Atlas support and Atlas editor
- Optimizations to the Guichan graphics renderer
[...] – Unknown Horizons now requires FIFE 0.3.3 (released a few days ago). This was a bit of a pain-in-butt package, that started to build properly [...]