F3d

A patch release dedicated to package managers that makes F3D v1.1 compatible with vtk v9.1.0

- Fix a render pass build issue with vtk 9.1.0
- Fix a renderer build issue with vtk 9.1.0

Contributors: Meakk mwestphal

New Important Features:

- **Added direct scalars color rendering mode**, see doc.
- **Added a turntable interactor** and made it default. The previous interactor can still be used using a dedicated option. Thanks orangebowlerhat filip.sund and jjomier for your suggestions.
- **Added animation support** for glTF and Exodus files. Press space for playing the animation.
- Added animation related option, --animation-index, only for glTF when using the full scene.

New Readers and format compatibility features:

- Added skinning and morphing support with glTF files.
- Added TIFF format support. Thanks proudot for your suggestion.
- Added exodus format support. Thanks gvernon for your suggestion.
- Added support for OBJ with color directly inside of it instead of using a .mtl file. Thanks Chenge321 for your suggestion.

Quality of life features:

- Added a hotkey (UP) to reload current file, thanks caioaao.
- Improved Alpha blending performance, thanks paul.lafoix.
- Changed the progress bar to a more nice looking one and made it appears only if loading takes time. Thanks finetjul for the suggestion.
- Improved logging mechanism with color on all OS and a dedicated output window on windows.
- Added a warning when using RayTracing but it is not available.

Fixes:

- Fixed an issue with skybox and edges.
- Fixed a crash when an array had no name.
- Fixed a window naming issue on OSX.
- Fixed a symlink issue.
- Fixed a coloring issue with dataset containing only cell data.

Packaging:

- Upgraded the AUR f3d package to 1.1.0 : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/f3d.
- Added a Brew f3d 1.1.0 package : https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/f3d.
- FreeBSD now contains a f3d 1.1.0 package, thanks to yurifreebsd.org.
- NixOS now contains a f3d package, 1.1.0 should come soon, thanks to bcdarwingmail.com.

How to support F3D:

- Use the software.
- Share it with anyone interested.
- Star us on github: https://github.com/kitware/F3D.

Note: Binaries have no raytracing support.

Contributors: Meakk mwestphal

- VisualStudio Runtime is now included into the windows release
- Ensure VTK compatibility
- Improve STL binary reader performances
- Fix default configuration issues
- Add support for Window icon on all OSes

Note: Binaries have no raytracing support.

Contributors: Meakk mwestphal

- Documentation
- Online documentation based on Hexo (https://kitware.github.io/F3D/)
- Rendering
- Add volume rendering for 3D images
- HDRI support (skyboxes, HDR files, Filmic tone mapping)
- Point sprites for displaying point clouds
- Color map customization (default one changed to “inferno”)
- Interface
- Drag&Drop files support
- Supports opening of several files (or folder), use left/right arrow to navigate
- Scalars field handling improvements
- Cheat Sheet
- Interactive hotkeys have been reworked
- File association on Windows and OSX
- Fullscreen mode
- No background mode (useful when saving image to a PNG file with alpha channel)
- Command line
- Camera configuration
- Metadata (field data) display
- File name display
- No render mode (useful to read information in the file)
- Shell completion (supports bash, zsh, fish)
- New readers
- CityGML
- PTS
- Packages
- Default config provide

Note: Binaries have no raytracing support.

Contributors: Meakk mwestphal hlngrandmontagne Paul Lafoix

- Fixes `--version` and `--help` crash

Contributors: Meakk mwestphal jpouderoux

First release!

Contributors: Meakk mwestphal jpouderoux