What's new in Cortona 3D Viewer (formerly Cortona VRML Client) 9.0 Releasee 221
Feb 7, 2022- New renderer based on DirectX 11.
New in Cortona 3D Viewer (formerly Cortona VRML Client) 8.10 Releasee 219 (Jul 28, 2021)
- Addresses the issue with flashing black background when Idle time antialiasing is turned on.
- Zoom/rotate navigation is now possible around the point under the mouse pointer. The mode is toggled by the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + '.'.
- Adresses the issue with RapidManual procedure player when zero-duration steps are used.
New in Cortona 3D Viewer (formerly Cortona VRML Client) 8.3 Releasee 202 (Jul 27, 2018)
- Addresses the issue with rendering failure after system unlock or wake up when the Phong lighting model is turned on.
- Addresses the issue with rendering of dynamically changed clipping planes without caps.
New in Cortona 3D Viewer (formerly Cortona VRML Client) 6.0 (Oct 23, 2009)
- Unicode support
- Cortona3D Viewer 60 provides full support for UTF-8 in VRML
- Localization of the user interface
- Now the menus of Cortona3D Viewer can be easily translated into other
- languages (available only for licensed users of Cortona3D Viewer)
- Latest Web browsers support
- Cortona3D viewer now supports Mozilla Firefox v 30 and Google Chrome
- Phong lighting support
- The support for Phong lighting model is provided for graphical cards
- supporting the Shader Model 30 and higher Limited support for the Shader
- Model 2x is also provided
- Improved performance: new DirectX renderer
- Support for real-time anti-aliasing (multisampling)
- Support idle-time anti-aliasing by means of Direct3D
- Support for composite textures
- Improved processing of textures and 3D primitives
- Improved installation procedure
- The use of Microsoft Installer (MSI) allows for easier installation of
- Cortona3D Viewer within an enterprise and as a part of third party
- applications
- New VRML extensions
- The Transform2DEx node allows for positioning layers on the screen and
- specifying their size in pixels
- The CompositeTexture3D and CompositeTexture2D nodes allow for adding
- composite textures to the 3D scene
- GradientBackground node allows for creating horizontal or vertical
- gradient background that is static relatively to the camera movements
- ViewportSensor node returns size of 3D window in pixels
- Changes in VRML Automation interface
- Pick method has been changed:
- a) Layers without background: areas with no geometry are considered
- transparent for the picker
- b) One-sided surfaces: invisible side is ignored by picker
- c) Double-sided surfaces: the normal calculation is based on a visible
- side of the surface
- New method of geometry bounding box calculation
- Now the bounding box can be calculated in global coordinates
- Support for 3Dconnexion 3D mouse
- Note that only standard navigation modes are supported
New in Cortona 3D Viewer (formerly Cortona VRML Client) 5.1 (Apr 5, 2007)
- MPEG4-style layers support
- DirectX 9.0 shaders support
- Improved rendering speed
- Improved installation procedure
- VRML Automation for Mozilla-based browsers
- New properties of Cortona Control
- New VRML extensions
- Display of the logo in the 3D window