Balder 0.8.8.9 coming

Things are moving fast these days with Balder and I am closing in on the next release already. Keeping up with my target pace.

At this point these are the things already done or is in progress for the next release:

• New Skybox, utilizing built in Silverlight perspective projection, which can be hardware accelerated

• Perspective correct texture mapping - previous version had only affine texture mapping

• Bilinear filtering for texture mapping

• Performance boost for the entire rendering pipeline

• Better, faster and more accurate lighting

• Subpixel rendering

• Vertex-shader like functionality for SIlverlight

• Multiple “Games” in one page

• Multiple textures during rendering

• Semitransparent / alpha-channel support for texture mapping

• Introducing a control for no-game centric applications; Content3D

• A lot of bugfixing