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Core

FileIO: http://fabricengine.com/2012/01/fabric-engine-to-provide-powerful-unified-file-io-system/

 

 

- Fabric now provides access to local files through abstract file handles: fabricio://…

- In JavaScript, FABRIC.IO can create these from user selected files or folder

- Operators can read or write to files associated to FileHandles using the new FileSTREAM extension

- ResourceLoadNode can now read from a FileHandle

- ResourceLoadNode can now store its data into a FileHandle

- Many extensions have been updated so they can parse directly from files using the input FileHandle

- New FileSYSTEM extension to provide access to the local files and folders (not part of the plugin; separate download for obvious security reasons)

- Initial Python support

- JSON parsing overhauled, now takes less memory and is three times faster when parsing large JSON files

 

Scene Graph

- Fabric scenegraph now uses requirejs to better manage dependencies between files.

- Fixed minor bug in locomotion system and removed excessive logging.

- Moved ‘Viewport’ into ‘Rendering’

- Moved Camera nodes into ‘Cameras’

- Removed default rootTransform from scenegraph.

- New Quat.setFromEuler() function

- ResourceLoadNode now use events instead of callbacks

- Calling importAssetFile with OBJ now works the same as DAE.

- Made all Collada file imports asynchronous.

- New Character Animation Tool demo showing interactive keyable character.

- Re-introduced Locomotion and Crowd demos with textured characters.

 

Known Issues

- On some installations of Ubuntu 32, Fabric is not installing on Firefox 10, claiming it is incompatible, when it should install correctly.

- Circular objects may be invisible or partially drawn; this issue was also present in previous releases. We have 100% repro steps on this issue and are working on a fix. The workaround is simply to reload the page, or restart your browser. This is likely to occur if you attempt to refresh the page as the Fabric application is loading.

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