Monthly Archives: October 2004

GPAC Release 0.2.1

GPAC is on the road to nowhere – Come on inside. Many new things in this release:

  • Stable 3D renderer supporting all common nodes between MPEG-4 and VRML 97. Overview:
    • Many 2D & 3D graphic primitives (and extruded text through hardcoded protos 🙂
    • MPEG-4 special nodes: Layer2D, Layer3D, CompositeTexture2D and CompositeTexture3D
    • Lighting, texture mapping, viewpoints & navigation
    • User interactions supported in main scene, layers and composite textures
    • User navigation supported in main scene and layer3D
    • Collision detection & gravity – still buggy, you may walk through walls or get stuck on the ground like “Le Passe Muraille”…
  • Support for BT/XMTA/WRL and basic SWF in the players.
  • Good VRML support, including the powerfull CreateVrmlFromString (but no compressed wrl support).
  • Much more stable SDL/Linux support.
  • Faster and more reliable javascript support.
  • MP4Box now supports >2GB files (avi importer should also).