Gem 0.92.0

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Available downloads

Get Gem 0.92.0 for All platforms (3.8 MB)

source packages (compiles on linux, OSX, W32,...)

Get Gem 0.92.0 for Mac OS X (4.7 MB)

OSX universal binary + documentation (10.4 + 10.5)

Get Gem 0.92.0 for Windows (3.6 MB)

Windows Installer (binaries + documentation)

Release Notes

after a year of silence, we finally have a new release of Gem: 0.92

highlights

GLSL shaders

support geometry shaders: cool effects are waiting out there...

Geos

models use their stored UV-texture coordinates: finally you can build your textured models in your favourite modeller and fully use them in Gem

trapezoid object with correctly distorted textures

video capturing

on linux we now have native support for V4L2 devices (including your eee's webcam, the PS3-camera and whatever hot devices are on the market...)

film/movie reading

on linux we now use Gmerlin/avdecoder support which allows you to read more movie formats and faster than ever (from FLVs to HDV)

video effects

FreeFrame effects can now be initialized directly as (e.g.) [pix_GlowVFX] (for the GlowVFX effect)

pix storage

pix_writer is a new object for writing images to your harddisk

openGL

more openGL wrapper objects

you can now use symbolic constants with many openGL wrapper objects, which makes patching much more fun

bugfixes

like always we have removed (and introduced) numerous bugs, so all in all GEM should now run more stable for an incomplete list of fixed bug see the bug-tracker at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem

BUGS

known bugs in this release (FIXES in future releases; HACKS to workaround the problem for now)

• configure missing in release tarball

  HACK: run ./autogen.sh first

• building fails with s_stuff.h missing

  HACK: copy s_stuff.h from /src to somewhere Gem can find it (/src , /usr/local/include,...)

• on OSX pix_film (which really is pix_filmDarwin) is overwritten by the non-working pix_filmQT

  HACK: remove Pixes/pix_filmQT.cpp and 'Pixes/pix_filmQT.h'; then make clean && make

• MMX for pix_invert is broken (in YUV only half of the image is inverted, in RGBA (on OSX/i386) the colors look strange - R and A are swapped)

  HACK: send a "simd 0" message to all pix-operators that don't work to turn off SIMD (SSE2/MMX) accelerated code