Improved support of mobile devices, render fixes

Render:

• Added light dispersion (chromatic aberrations) for refractive materials: use engine.render.setRefractionDispersion(vec4), enable Render settings -> Postprocess (disabled by default, uses vec4(1)).
• Added a new glow mode that uses a the full-screen buffer ('render_glow 2' console command).
• Render can work without GL_ARB_map_buffer_range OpenGL extension.
• Fade LOD distances have no effect if 'render_alpha_fade' console variable is set to 0.
• Heavy refactoring of all shaders: performance has been improved. All standart shaders were moved to 'data/core/shaders/default' directory.
• Added a set of simplified shaders for mobile GPUs: they support only OpenGL/OpenGL ES and are limited to 8 texture slots. This set is available by using RENDER_SIMPLE define. All settings of simplified materials are compatible with default shaders.
• Added support of Adreno 200 mobile GPU.
• All materials use cubemaps for static reflections (mesh_reflection_2d_base, water_base materials).
• Fixed ObjectWater waves orientation in Direct3D.
• Added distance-based fading of refraction ('refraction_power' parameter).
• Added a new mesh_noise_base material with two sets of diffuse/normal/specular textures and one mask for both sets. It can be used to create various procedural effects like water, foam, clouds, lava, etc.
• The color of water foam is now tweakable.
• Negative refraction value in all materials is available (it inverts the direction of refraction).
• No more crashes on mobile GPUs without MRT support.
• Added samples with light dispersion and mesh_noise_base material.

Tools:

• Available OpenGL extensions are no longer checked in ResourceEditor.
• By importing COLLADA files, surfaces get their original material names.
• Fixed viewport corruption when the ResourceEditor is resized to a small window.
• Fixed skinned mesh export plugin for 3ds Max.
• Added flipping for terrain height maps and holes textures by importing/exporting them into UnigineEditor.
• Fixed a bug when reloading WorldTransform in UnigineEditor.

Other:

• Added PPM and PGM texture formats (P2, P3, P5 and P6).
• Increased the number of threads in the pool - no more thread shortage.
• CPU and GPU count is logged in log.html on startup.
• Opening/closing the console doesn't affect a permanent GUI focus.
• SOFT_MOUSE define is renamed to MOUSE_SOFT, USER_MOUSE is renamed to MOUSE_USER.
• Added 'extern_define' and 'extern_plugin' console variables.
• Added handling of button events in Flash movie clips.
• Fixed rendering of dynamic text in WidgetFlash.
• Fixed gotoAndStop() gotoAndPlay() and similar functions in Flash player.
• Fixed issues with binary XML format.
• Added support of &#dec; entities by XML parser.
• Fixed issues with Visual Studio C++ 2010 code generation.
• Added a new Package interface into C++ API for external file system access (can also be used to stream data from remote servers).
• Added support of C++ plugins for the Android version.
• Added support of assets directory in the Android version.
• Refactored an Android launcher (UnigineActivity Java class).

Documentation:

• Updated UnigineScript library documentation.
• Added "Using Tessellation" tutorial.
• Added "Adding Physics for Object" tutorial.
• Added "Principles of Operation / Rendering / Tessellation" article.

Apple taste

Unigine-powered OilRush, a naval strategy game running on a Macbook:

Unigine demos running on Mac OS X (one of the latest 13" Macbooks) and iOS (iPad):

Hang on, the moment when both Mac OS X and iOS versions of Unigine will be available for licensing is coming very, very near.