[News] Ogre 1.9 RC1 is here

[Kojack]

To be specific, the Visual Studio 2012 sdks are now compiled using Update 2. You'll most likely need Update 2 installed as well to use them (Update 2 fixes a heap of bugs in the code generator, so it's a good thing to have installed).

[syedhs]

Grabbing the latest Ogre 1.9 from Mercurial. all RTShader samples don't work. The Ogre.log complains this:-

Code: Select all

19:16:40: OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource FFPLib_Transform.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
19:16:40: High-level program ab9e7e63-d8f9-b77a-79fa-62838e66e35d_VS encountered an error during loading and is thus not supported.
OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource FFPLib_Transform.hlsl in resource group General or any other group. in ResourceGroupManager::openResource at ..\..\OgreMain\src\OgreResourceGroupManager.cpp (line 756)
19:16:40: OGRE EXCEPTION(2:InvalidParametersException): Could not create gpu programs from render state  in ProgramManager::acquireGpuPrograms at ..\..\..\Components\RTShaderSystem\src\OgreShaderProgramManager.cpp (line 109)

Downloading SDK, and subsequently building the samples - it is okay. I think this has got to do with samples (not ogremain), and probably related to absolute path in resources.cfg which are the case when generating project using CMake..

[masterfalcon]

I believe I know what the problem is there. I'll be working on it later tonight so stayed tuned to mercurial.

[syedhs]

Thank you - it works fine now.

[Transporter]

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3630QM CPU @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 8 GB
GPU: nVidia Geforce GTX 660M
OS: Microsoft Windows 7 x64 Service Pack 1
OGRE: last changeset 4556:14b69a0871c3 (Wed Apr 24 23:40:53 2013 -0500)

• DirectX 9
  1. Bezier Patch
     Complete working
  2. BSP
     Not working
     Your card does not support the sahder model needed for this sample ...
  3. Camera Tracking
     Complete working
  4. Cel-shading
     Partly working
     Untextured gray head
  5. Character
     Complete working
  6. Compositor
     Partly working
     The compositor list is empty
  7. Cube Mapping
     Complete working
  8. Deferred Shading
     Not working
     Crash on start
  9. Bump Mapping
     Complete working
  10. Dual Quaternion Skinning
      Not working
      Exception on start
  11. Dynamic Texturing
      Complete working
  12. Endless World
      Complete working
  13. Facial Animation
      Complete working
  14. Fresnel
      Not working
      Crash on start
  15. Grass
      Complete working
  16. Instancing
      Partly working
      Instancing not working, only one object is displayed. Static geometry and Independent Entities are working well.
  17. Isosurf
      Not working
      Your render system/hardware does not support geometry programs ...
  18. Lighting
      Complete working
  19. Mesh Lod
      Complete working
  20. New Instancing
      Not working
      This params object is not based on a programm with named parameters.
  21. Ocean
      Not working
      Menu "MaterialSelectMenu" contains no item at position 0.
  22. Particle Effects
      Complete working
  23. Geometry Shader Particle System
      Not working
      Your render system/hardware does not support geometry programs ...
  24. Shader System
      Not working
      Exception on start
  25. ShaderSystem - Multi Light
      Not working
      Exception on start
  26. Shader System - Textured Fog
      Not working
      Exception on start
  27. Shadows
      Complete working
  28. Skeletal Animation
      Not working
      Exception on start
  29. Sky Box
      Complete working
  30. Sky Dome
      Complete working
  31. Sky Plane
      Complete working
  32. Smoke
      Complete working
  33. Sphere Mapping
      Complete working
  34. SSAO Techniques
      Not working
      Nothing to see, just gray background and gui elements
  35. Terrain
      Partly working
      Depth Shadows are not working
  36. Tesselation
      Not working
      Your graphics card does not support tesselation shaders
  37. Texture Array
      Not working
      Unknown TextureType
  38. Texture Effects
      Complete working
  39. Transparency
      Complete working
  40. Volume CSG and RTSS triplanar texturing
      Not working
      Exception on start
  41. Volume Terrain
      Complete working
  42. Volume Textures
      Complete working
  43. Water
      Complete working
• DirectX 11
  OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource FFPLib_Transform.cg in resource group General or any other group.
• OpenGL
  OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource shadows.glsl in resource group Popular or any other group.
• OpenGL 3+
  OGRE EXCEPTION(6:FileNotFoundException): Cannot locate resource shadows.glsl in resource group Popular or any other group.

Logfiles/Screenshots: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_ao-Cm ... sp=sharing

[masterfalcon]

Try the last 3 render systems with the latest 1.9 code, you should get better results now.

[jacmoe]

<off-topic:>
Off-topic discussion about Code::Blocks, QtCreator, the Universe and Ogre split out in this:
http://www.ogre3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=77890
</off-topic>

[iblues1976]

The one that comes after 1.9 RC1 is it 1.9.1?

When do you think 1.9 RC1 will move from Release Candidate to the next release?

Thanks

[spacegaier]

As I tried to tell you on IRC (but you were off two seconds after asking the question ), we haven't set a final date yet. There are some last open tickets we want to address for 1.9 and then we will remove the RC-tag. Sorry for being so vague, but that is all we can say at the moment.

[iblues1976]

Thank you. I meant to stay on IRC, but my wife called and needed me soon!

No, it is understandable that there is no date. I'm going to try 1.8.2 now, which is a step further from 1.7.3 that I'm using. Not to say that I needed any new features. I was just was wondering about it since I'm going to use pre-packaged binaries and I had 1.8.2 from snapshot (to use 64 bits) and the option from 1.9 RC1.

Thank you again!