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However, while it has proven to be a rock-solid API, the time has come to retire the poor girl and send her off to the glue facto-eeeer, the farm.

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As such, we'll be looking into restructuring shadergen to not only make it easier to update and expand upon in the backend-sense, but also easier to build materials/shaders for the end user as well, up to, and probably including a node-based approach for engineering your fancy shaders for your fancy materials.ДirectX 9 has proven to be a monstrous workhorse of the graphical APIs, reliably serving well beyond what anyone though it would. Excellent peice of tech, but a chore to maintain, just like ye olde German tanks in WW2. This new PM will let you manage your updates, and hopefully in the future hook into online repositories for easier grabbing and integration of updates as well as fetching content packages without hassle.ДЄs great a job as the current workhorse does of generating shaders for all the many materials you need to make a game, updating and expanding it has proven to be a pretty annoying thing to deal with due to how it's structured. However, there's lots of management things CMake can't do, which is why the Project Manager will be making a comeback, it'll just be a graphical frontend sitting upon the more standard cmake project generation. The old project manager was useful, but was hacked together with QT and php, so maintaining it was a little sketchy and fell by the wayside for the more standard CMake gui.

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SDL's stuff is very nearly at parity with the Windows side, it's pretty much just a matter of jumping over the last bits and doing cleanup/bugfixes to make it rock-solid. It also offers a good bit of future proofing should any other platforms come into the equation down the line.

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This will drastically simplify the platform code and make it easier to maintain. For 4.0, that's changing and SDL will be adopted as the core platform layer with whatever glue needed sitting atop it. However, it's been a little bit of a red-headed stepchild to the Win32 platform code. Torque3D's supported SDL for quite a while now, and it's naturally the main platform layer for Linux(and MacOS). There's still some issues with rendering on some machines and catching errors and warnings that crop up, but it's looking very practical to have MacOS as an official platform for 4.0! You can see Timmy's screenshot in the 3.9 RC thread showing off T3D running on MacOS with his and JeffH's work now. The good news is, near the end of 3.9's development, with SDL and epoxy to take a LOT of the workload off, huge strides were made and it's actually almost completed. This was originally slated for 3.9, if you look at the 3.8 release blog, but a lack of machines to test on, and the age-addled old platform code made it impractical to really tackle initially. From there it would just be a matter of dialing in the supporting art pipeline and tweaking the math to make it look as good as possible. Luckily, it's also most of the way done! The only main piece that needs finishing is reflection probes, and the core features are in. This is, unsurprisingly a pretty big one. So, here's a main features list that we're looking at bringing into Torque for 4.0: So, we've been holding back on quite a number of big things for 4.0, and now that 3.9 is out, we can charge full-steam ahead to get all this stuff in there are really bring T3D back to where it should be. However, it also means that large improvements to the understructure, rendering, art pipeline, etc can't be implemented as those will, naturally, impact and probably break existing setups. For the released up until now, we've put a fair bit of effort into avoiding huge breaking changes because, well, that sucks to have to rework your project when that kinda stuff hits. The big aspect of 4.0 is that it's going to be the build where we're OK with breaking backwards compatibility in order to get stuff updated. If you've been chumming around on the forums or in chat, you may have gotten hints that 4.0 is slated to be a pretty big deal, and I'm more than happy to intimate why.

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Several big things to note with this release is the full and proper roll-over to deferred rendering, the initial implementation of the entity/component stuffs, switching over to epoxy for OpenGL handling and DirectX 11 integration.ДЄs always, you can nab it from the wiki's download page, found here.ДЄ capital question, question text! Indeed, the next major release will be 4.0. Here's a list of all the fine people that helped make this release possible:ДЄnd still more of you that helped file issues and test. A herculean effort on everyone's part for sure! It's my pleasure to be able to announce that version 3.9 is now released! This has been quite a big release, with a whopping 142 merged PR's totaling to 515 commits, which is more than DOUBLE what went into 3.8.