Open Inventor Release Notes

Open Inventor 6.1 (March 2007)

You may recognize some of the new features described below that were "previewed" in patch releases of Open Inventor 6.0. It would still be a good idea to read about them in case there have been changes since their initial implementation.

Features and Improvements Overview

Please read this entire section for new features and improvements that may benefit your applications. Below is a partial list that highlights the more significant improvements in this release. Note that for this release, most of the enhancements were made to ScaleViz and VolumeViz. DirectViz, an extension for doing photorealistic ray-traced rendered, was added.

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• SoPreferences now supports reading of $ENVVAR in configuration files.
• SbTime.Sleep(int msec) is a new OS independent method.
• New SbVec2String basic type.
• New fields SoSFVec2String / SoMFVec2String
• New fields SoSFFilePathString / SoMFFilePathString
• New fields SoMFVec2FilePathString
• Third party decompression library Zlib updated from 1.4 to 1.2.3.
• Third party decompression library BZip2 1.05 added.
• A new stereo method, SetStereoAbsoluteAdjustments , was added to allow you to specify the stereo offset ( SetStereoOffset ) and the stereo balance ( SetStereoBalance ) as absolute parameters instead of factors. For example: viewer.SetStereoAbsoluteAdjustments(true); A corresponding query, IsStereoAbsoluteAdjustments , was also added.
• A new method, SetPickRadius , was added to SoHandleEventAction and SoSelection . The corresponding query, GetPickRadius , was added as well. (Enhancement request #1430)

Release 6.0 (September 2006)

First release of Open Inventor .NET.