v1.1.1

A patch release dedicated to package managers that makes F3D v1.1 compatible with vtk v9.1.0

Changelog

• Fix a render pass build issue with vtk 9.1.0
• Fix a renderer build issue with vtk 9.1.0

Contributors

• Michael Migliore @Meakk
• Mathieu Westphal @mwestphal

v1.1.0

Changelog

New Important Features:

• Added direct scalars color rendering mode, see doc.
• Added a turntable interactor and made it default. The previous interactor can still be used using a dedicated option. Thanks @orangebowlerhat @filip.sund and @jjomier for your suggestions.
• Added animation support for glTF and Exodus files. Press space for playing the animation.
• Added animation related option, --animation-index, only for glTF when using the full scene.

New Readers and format compatibility features:

• Added skinning and morphing support with glTF files.
• Added TIFF format support. Thanks @proudot for your suggestion.
• Added exodus format support. Thanks @gvernon for your suggestion.
• Added support for OBJ with color directly inside of it instead of using a .mtl file. Thanks @Chenge321 for your suggestion.

Quality of life features:

• Added a hotkey (UP) to reload current file, thanks @caioaao.
• Improved Alpha blending performance, thanks @paul.lafoix.
• Changed the progress bar to a more nice looking one and made it appears only if loading takes time. Thanks @finetjul for the suggestion.
• Improved logging mechanism with color on all OS and a dedicated output window on windows.
• Added a warning when using RayTracing but it is not available.

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue with skybox and edges.
• Fixed a crash when an array had no name.
• Fixed a window naming issue on OSX.
• Fixed a symlink issue.
• Fixed a coloring issue with dataset containing only cell data.

Packaging:

• Upgraded the AUR f3d package to 1.1.0 : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/f3d.
• Added a Brew f3d 1.1.0 package : https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/f3d.
• FreeBSD now contains a f3d 1.1.0 package, thanks to [email protected].
• NixOS now contains a f3d package, 1.1.0 should come soon, thanks to [email protected].

How to support F3D:

• Use the software.
• Share it with anyone interested.
• Star us on github: https://github.com/kitware/F3D.

Note: Binaries have no raytracing support.

Main Contributors

• Michael Migliore @Meakk
• Mathieu Westphal @mwestphal

v1.0.1

Changelog

• VisualStudio Runtime is now included into the windows release
• Ensure VTK compatibility
• Improve STL binary reader performances
• Fix default configuration issues
• Add support for Window icon on all OSes

Note: Binaries have no raytracing support.

Contributors

• Michael Migliore @Meakk
• Mathieu Westphal @mwestphal

v1.0.0

Changelog

• Documentation
  • Online documentation based on Hexo (https://kitware.github.io/F3D/)
• Rendering
  • Add volume rendering for 3D images
  • HDRI support (skyboxes, HDR files, Filmic tone mapping)
  • Point sprites for displaying point clouds
  • Color map customization (default one changed to “inferno”)
• Interface
  • Drag&Drop files support
  • Supports opening of several files (or folder), use left/right arrow to navigate
  • Scalars field handling improvements
  • Cheat Sheet
  • Interactive hotkeys have been reworked
  • File association on Windows and OSX
  • Fullscreen mode
  • No background mode (useful when saving image to a PNG file with alpha channel)
• Command line
  • Camera configuration
  • Metadata (field data) display
  • File name display
  • No render mode (useful to read information in the file)
  • Shell completion (supports bash, zsh, fish)
• New readers
  • CityGML
  • PTS
• Packages
  • Default config provide

Note: Binaries have no raytracing support.

Contributors

• Michael Migliore @Meakk
• Mathieu Westphal @mwestphal
• Helene Grandmontagne @hlngrandmontagne
• Paul Lafoix

v0.1.1

Changelog

• Fixes --version and --help crash

Contributors

• Michael Miggliore @Meakk
• Mathieu Westphal @mwestphal
• Joachim Pouderoux @jpouderoux

v0.1.0

Changelog

First release! 🎉

Contributors

• Michael Migliore @Meakk
• Mathieu Westphal @mwestphal
• Joachim Pouderoux @jpouderoux