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Balder 0.8.8.6 is out

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By Einar Ingebrigtsen 1 min read

UPDATE 8th of July 2010 : 0.8.8.7 is out - read more here.

Finally after a couple of months of hard work and polishing the code, API and performance, version 0.8.8.6 ofBalderis out. A SampleBrowser can be found here for viewing most of the features ofBalder.
The features that has changed or is new are as follows:

* Introduced Silverlight in Core, but still maintaining platform independence
- Using core objects directly in Xaml can now be done

* Removed all controls in Balder.Core.Silverlight.Controls - not needed anymore

* Introduced View namespace with IView interface and Camera implementing it

* Viewport has View property insted of Camera

* Moved rendering from a multithread environment to run synchronously on the CompositionTarget. It gives better performance, due to synchronization issues between all threads. Will be revisited in the future.

* New drawing routines, optimized

* Heightmap primitive

* Box primitive

* Rotation, Scale on nodes

* Cylinder primitive

* DebugLevel is known as DebugInfo

* Material system in place

* Support for ReflectionMapping on materials

* Double sided materials

* Sprite rendering with alpha channel

* NodesControl - datadriven nodes control with templating - In Balder.Silverlight.Controls

* NodesStack - datadriven stacking of nodes with templating - in Balder.Silverlight.Controls

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silverlight
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