Volume rendering with transfer function

Textpattern is used as a more lightweight engine for the website.

The SDK 0.5.88 source code patch is released. The latest changes include:

• New: .RAR pack files can be stored inside app’s resources and mounted as i.e. “Mount RESOURCE:datafile_rar”
• New: FreeImage library integrated instead of custom texture loaders
• Improved: normals loading from ASE
• Improved: creation of command line tools using the engine as a library becomes easier
• Fixed: removed .STL meshes loader
• Fixed: bug with textures animation
• Fixed: MD3 meshes support deprecated
• Fixed: keyframe animation support deprecated
  

Software mesh skinning from MD5 mesh file format. Also build process of the engine was greatly improved.

http://www.linderdaum.com/Downloads/Skinning.zip

This new demo implements a volume rendering technique using a GPU raycasting as described in the article by J.Kruger and R.Westermann.

The demo is compilable using the Patch 0.5.84 which also adds Visual Studio 2008 compatibility, skeletal animation support and MD5 meshes loading.