Kaimos Editor v2.1

New version of Kaimos Editor (v2.1) with a new lighting system and important implementations on materials system. This version also features the biggest (and culminative) extension of the KME by adding a whole new big bunch of nodes of different types.

Changes from Last Version (v1.2)

Lighting System

• New Blinn-Phong Lighting system supporting directional and point lights
• Implementation of Normal & Specular Mapping in lighting calculations
• Light specularity & attenuation through radius with soft edges

Rendering System

• Improved rendering performance
• Unified things in Renderer instead of having them repeated in 2D/3D renderers
• Implemented Scene Color
• Implemented Shader uniform cache for performance

Materials System

• New feature for creation of new materials within the editor
• Normal Mapping Support
• Specular Mapping Support
• Single type of material supporting various rendering features at a time instead of various types of materials
• Default Material is now unmodifiable
• Implemented a Smoothness value for shininess of material

UI Changes

• Button & UI Methods to create new materials
• Reshape on MeshComponent UI
• New feature for creation of new materials within the editor
• Editor Window size on init is fullscreen now
• Implemented PointLight & DirLight components & its features (creation, deletion, switch, ...)
• Improved general UI & Fonts
• Display of FPS graphic

Resources & General Changes

• Improved resources serialization
• Implemented Editor Camera Serialization
• Improved messages on serialization/deserialization

Kaimos Material Editor

• Nodes spawned on mouse position
• Improved main node UI & Added Info Tooltip
• Different node types have now different header colors
• Fixed nan/infinite numbers on certain node values
• Made node pins bigger
• Implemented pins addition on operations nodes
• Improved input pins
• Implemented Maximization/Restore of KME window
• Improved and categorized Node Selector (right-click menu popup)
• Implemented new nodes (External/Constant Values): screen resolution, scene color, tau. ...
• Implemented new nodes (Camera Values): FOV, ...
• Implemented new nodes (Basic Maths): random number, subtraction, sum, multiplication, division, ...
• Implemented new nodes ('Advanced' Maths): absolute, square root, power, inverse equivalents, negate, log, exp, ...
• Implemented new nodes (Vectors): break, normalize, angle between two vectors, rotation, dot & cross products, distance ...
• Implemented new nodes (Other Maths): clamp, ceil, floor, lerp, step, smoothstep, mod ...
• Implemented new nodes (Trigonometry): sine, cosine, tangent, hyperbolic equivalents, ...
• Implemented new nodes (Conversions): Int-Float, Rad-Deg, RGB-HSV, Colors Normalization, linear-sRGB, ...