So it has been quite a while since I have updated the site. Here is the general overview. In October I started working for Singlebrook Technology after leaving my first post-college job at RP Solutions. In my spare time I am working a few evenings a week as a door host (checking IDs) and a barback at Stella's. I love my co-workers at both places, they make them great places to go work at. I am still coaching swimming at the YMCA on top of all that.

In development news, I have been working on Carina when I can, and life should settle down next week and allow some time to do that. There is already quite a bit done including a new loading mechanism and the beginnings of a new (real) rendering engine.

I will try to update again soon.

After way too many months, another version of Carina is available. Mac users will enjoy the new universal binary build. Also included is a new XSLT manager and a new bookmark manager. All changes can be seen on the changes page and downloads are available. Please report bugs using the bug tracking system.

Also, birthday wishes for my brother Mike.

Update (May 21st, 2006 2:35PM EST): Sourceforge broke the original uploads, new uploads are posted.

Version 20051013 has been pushed up to the servers. Included in this release are some minor UI cleanups, animated gif support for image textures, a basic help system, and some bugfixes. Carina also is now using libxml and libxslt for transformations. This drops the java requirement, but Mac users need MacOS 10.3.9 or higher. Linux users building the source code will need libxml and libxslt installed. Most linux distributions have them installed already.

As usual, there are Mac and Windows installs, and Linux users can build from the source code.

I thank everyone who tried out Carina. There were over 800 downloads since the last release, and several websites had postings. I encourage people to submit bugs and feature requests. Telling me the VRML parser doesn't work on complex files is not needed, I know that one, and the parser will be rewriten soon.

I am pleased at the number of people interested in Carina. There have been 300 downloads in 4 days so far. The release was posted on the Web3D consortium's website. Whoever did that, I appreciate it. There is still much to be done, but I am pleased with the interest. Planning the next release is already in progress.

Along with that all, I have added a link to my resumé on the website, as I am currently unemployed and the site has enjoyed increased traffic with this release. I have not posted my mailing address or phone number so I can retain some level of privacy (if such a thing exists today). Contact me by e-mail at entigo at ariadne dot iz dot net. Ideally I would love to get paid to work on Carina, but I know that probably won't be happening.

Thanks for everyone's support of Carina. I appreciate it.

After five months of work, another development release is available. The release comes with many, many changes and is the best version of Carina to date. Some of the big changes include the addition of the Anchor, Avatar, PointLight, and SpotLight nodes, crease angles and texture coordinates in indexed face sets, as well as support for X3D classic and xml encodings. Also with this release comes a Windows installer. Carina is now available for Mac, Linux, and Window. For all of the changes since there are too many to list here, see the changes page.

This release marks the point where speed is now becoming an issue as people are making more and more complex scenes. Included is some image optimization along with some nice new features. This release also marks a point where Carina will move away from the plugin architecture it has to supporting xVRML and its related formats specifically. This change is seen as needed for the further support of some new features and the creation of a complete system for xVRML. Here is the changelog for the current release before the huge changes.

• Added Viewpoint node for xVRML and VRML, load and export
• Added backface culling
• Support solid and ccw attributes in IndexedFaceSet
• Use texture objects, images stored video ram when possible and speeds rendering of textured scenes
• Preferences look much better and are much more user friendly
• Bugfix: Fixed NavigationInfo to parse and save type attribute tokens properly
• Bugfix: Export of IndexedFaceSet now schema compliant
• Bugfix: Export of IndexedLineSet now schema compliant
• Bugfix: Export of PointSet now schema compliant

Source and Mac versions are available as usual.

This notice comes a day after the actual release. The original release posted on sourceforge was broken and has since been fixed.

• Added ability to replace a Texture with Use
• Cleaning of VRML97 parser and merging appropriate parts with the xVRML parser
• Fix parser to catch more errors
• Added debug output for entering data values of the wrong types
• Bugfix: Fixed WorldInfo and NavigationInfo exporting in the wrong order

The source release has the same filename. Remove the last source if you still have it sitting around before trying to build this one. The Mac version does not have this bug.

There has been nothing incredibly interesting in this release, several geometry nodes added and finishing up of other nodes. Some significant bugfixes too.

• Added center and scaleOrientation to Transform nodes
• Added PointSet node for xVRML and VRML, load and export
• Added IndexedLineSet node for xVRML and VRML, load and export
• Added color and colorIndex to IndexedFaceSet nodes
• Added PixelTexture node for xVRML and VRML, load and export, but does not support transparency
• Image handling now has only one GL formatted image per image loaded
• Bugfix: Fixed default material colors when loading VRML files
• Bugfix: Fixed minor normal issue in IndexedFaceSet nodes
• Bugfix: Fixed export bug where all inlined files were exported with filenames of all underscores
• Bugfix: Fixed export crash when inlined worlds did not load originally

Downloads posted as usual.

This weeks release comes with some nice new features and the standard fixes. Look for preferences for editing files, and extended image testure suuport. Here is the complete list of changes.

• Added export of texture nodes and textures to disk
• Support for VRML ImageTexture node
• Support for VRML TextureTransform node
• Finished support for the xVRML Texture node
• Cleaned up box drawing code, simpler, 100 bytes less memory per box, and should be faster
• Set default height to 1.6 meters
• Basic preferences system implemented
• Added preference to auto-reload file on change
• Added editing grid preferences to xVRML plugin
• Bugfix: Fixed warnings that were generated by the parser even though the node is supported
• Bugfix: Fixed possible overwrite of files when exporting files loaded locally that have the same name
• Bugfix: Fix Cylinder positioning
• Bugfix Linux: Fixed warning from an attempt to load a file as a plugin that wasn't a plugin

Download links to sourceforge are on the download page.