An update about the possibility of an OS X version: My mac's still running OSX 10.3.9, which means I can't build universal binaries. I was going to release a ppc-only version, but it turns out that with one of the recent updates to Quicktime, Apple decided they needed to include a new version of libstdc++. A version that is completely incompatible with the version included with XCode. As such, not only can I not build universal binaries, I can't even build a ppc-only executable, since Heilan uses SDL, which uses Quicktime.

So, unless anyone is willing to buy me an upgrade to Tiger, it doesn't look like there's going to be an OS X version of Heilan.

I've just uploaded a new version, v0.12. The major things in this release are an EXAMINE navigation mode that works correctly, multitexturing now being implemented (though only with the MODULATE mode for now), a bloom filter post-processing option that really isn't very good, and support for the ProgramShader and ShaderProgram X3D nodes (so you can implement vertex and fragment shaders now). There's a bunch of other updates too which you can see in the ChangeLog, though I think they're probably only of interest to me. This release also includes the tentative beginnings of my Ashitaka instrument.

Also, I'm not aware of any developers creating extra nodes/navigation types for Heilan, but if you're out there, you should note that I've refactored the way audio is handled in nodes, so you'll have to update your code. I've also updated and cleaned up the doxygen documentation.

Sorry, I just realised my instructions for generating a video from the offline rendering output were out of date compared with my current methods, and probably wouldn't have generated a particularly good-quality video. I've updated them now, to what I used for the two videos on the videos page.

Just a quick note for anyone interested: the videos are now on youtube too (the download links remain, since they're higher quality).

Following on from my last post, I've now uploaded the new version of Heilan - both the browser and the front end have been updated to v0.11. As well as the things noted in the last post, this version also has the ability to record and playback OSC events, so you can record any performances you do. There's various bug fixes too - the full list of changes is in the change logs included in the two *-src.tar.gz files.

I've finally got Heilan's offline rendering working, so I've uploaded a couple of videos of Heilan in action. The first one's an audiovisual piece I did for a concert at the university (no real-time interaction involved), and the second one's a simple example of what's possible when you connect a MIDI fader box to Heilan via OSC. I'll upload the updated version of Heilan once I've finished the other updates I've been working on for it (USE support, some more nodes for libheilanextras, a slightly upgraded OSC implementation, a fully implemented Background node...).

The first version of Heilan is released, along with this website. I've included as much information as I could think of here, which is maybe a bit optimistic - I'm not sure how many people are actually interested in such a specific (and only moderately useful, at this stage) X3D browser, but we'll see how things go. There's no OSX version of the software yet since I don't have the ability to build universal binaries, but that should come eventually, as I aim to support Windows, Linux and OSX.