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Checks on set Bounding and Layout Rectangle New methods Node2D::IsBoundingRectangleSet and Node2D::IsLayoutingRectangleSet have been introduced. BoundingBox calculation of groups and layout of DefaultLayouter now also consider set bounding boxes on groups. ...

Camera: Set up and lookAt vectors in one call Camera::SetUpAndLookAtVectors allows setting the up and lookAt vectors at once. It is useful to avoid situations like when setting one of them could cause fail because is collinear with the default value of the ot...

Release Orphaned Cached Objects A new method DefaultAssetProvider::ReleaseOrphanedObjects has been introduced to release all cached shared objects that are only referenced by the DefaultAssetProvider. Objects referenced also from other places are maintained s...

Mapping from OpenGL to Candera for Blend Settings The GlTypeMapper has been enhanced to map blend factor and operation from OpenGL type to Candera enums. The functions are used to resync the render state cache for blend factor and blend operation.

Configuration for Hinting and Anti-Aliasing New interfaces allow configuration of hinting. According functionality is supported by FreeType integration. The new method TextRendering::Font::SetRequestedGlyphFormat allows also to choose value "Monochrome" as C...

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Shader Warnings Shader warnings generation was activated (deactivated in previous version, 3.0.0). See also: Shader Consistency Checker in SceneComposer User Manual Shader Consistency Checker Shader Consistency Checker refers to validation...

Release Info Release Date: July 10, 2014 Interface Changes Candera Engine 3D Candera Engine 2D Candera Base Candera System Candera Device Candera AssetLoader Text Engine Migration Guide and Backwards Compatibility In ...

OpenGL ES 3.0 Support RenderDevice for OpenGL ES 3.0 In order to support OpenGL ES 3.0 a new RenderDevice.cpp has been added, which implements RenderDevice.h with OpenGL ES 3.0 functions. Additionally GlInclude.h, GlTraceMapper and GlTypeMapper have been ada...

Deterministic Render Order In the past, RenderNodes with the same depth value have been rendered in an order which was dependent on the point of time the node has been added to the scene. The result was that in SceneComposer the render order could look differ...

Camera Groups CameraGroup is a container that groups cameras from multiple scenes. CameraGroup has an arbitrary number of 2D and/or 3D cameras from different scenes and it is used by applications to easily access and change camera settings uniformly, e.g. in ...

Property Validation A new macro CdaValidityTest allows the definition of a validation function for Widget, Effect2D and Gdu properties. In case of failed validation the property will be highlighted in SceneComposer property list and an error message will be d...

Automatic Context Resource Pools Context resource pools are created automatically, and assigned automatically to Device objects. If all objects attached to a display share a context resource pool, the display is associated to the context resource pool. Otherw...

AssetDescriptor AssetContext class has become deprecated and its functionality is taken by the new AssetDescriptor class. Old Interface: Candera::DefaultAssetProvider* provider = m_assetProvider; Candera::AssetContext* assetContext = provider->GetAssetCont...

Text Alignment Enumeration type TextAlignment has been replaced by new enum types HorizontalAlignment and VerticalAlignment. HorizontalAlignment: HLeft, HCenter, HRight, HStretch VerticalAlignment: VTop, VCenter, VBottom, VStretch Integrate...

Following a guide how to uprade application code from V2.10.0 to V3.0.0 Candera Interfaces. Migration Guide for Backward Compatible Interface Changes Migration Guide for Breaking Interface Changes Besides interface changes, also the build sy...

3.0.0-1 Courier CMake Switches Note: For detailed information on Courier configuration please see Application Development > Courier > Tutorial 5 > Build Process V2.10.0 V3.0.0 COURIER_ENABLE_ENHANCED COURIER_...

Note: For detailed information on FeatStd configuration please see Application Development > FeatStd > FeatStd Features V2.10.0 V3.0.0 CGIFEATURE_ENABLE_LOG has been unified with FEATSTD_ENABLE_LOG FEATSTD_LOG_ENABLED CGIFEATURE_ENA...