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Release of Cheetah3D 6.3
30. Dec. 2013
Today sees the release of Cheetah 6.3. This version improves the compatibility with OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and fixes many small bugs. But thanks to the new LLVM compiler Cheetah3D 6.3 also got a nice small speed boost of 5-10% throughtout the application.
Major new features in Cheetah3D 6.3:
- Improved Mavericks (OS X 10.9) compatibility
- Compiled with LLVM 5.0 compiler. 5-10% faster throughout the application
- Updated to FBX SDK 2014.2
- Improved dithering
- Improved max. resolution of light map renderer
- Improved application start-up time
- Faster rendering of material previews
- Fixed bug in IK solver
- Fixed crashing bug in properties editor
- Fixed sequence selection bug in object browser
- Fixed bug in OpenGL projection (Left and Right projection were mixed up)
- Fixed redraw bug in render manager (high CPU usage while idle)
- Fixed bug in create joint tool
- Fixed crashing bug in irradiance cache
- Fixed bug in delete spline control points command
- Fixed crashing bug in ABF unwrap tool
- Fixed shadow casting bug
- Fixed bug in target tag
- Fixed bug in timeline with Retina displays
- Fixed some localization bugs
- Fixed bug in text spline object
- Fixed bug in render manager when saving images
- Fixed memory leak in preferences window
- Fixed FBX export/import bug (specular shininess was exported incorrectly)
- Fixed FBX import bug with scenes where Z is the up-axis
- Fixed Collada export bug (incorrectly exported bind pose)
- Fixed bug which could cause corrupted FBX files
- Fixed crashing bug in LSCM/ABF unwrapping tool
- Fixed flipped icons when dragging objects
- Fixed redraw bug when resizing OpenGL views
- Fixed crashing bug when resizing window
- Fixed normal calculation bug
- Fixed crashing bug when normals were NaN
- Fixed redraw bug in take manager
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