| Qt 5.9 introduces many new features and improvements as well as bugfixes |
| over the 5.8.x series. For more details, refer to the online documentation |
| included in this distribution. The documentation is also available online: |
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| http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/index.html |
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| The Qt version 5.9 series is binary compatible with the 5.8.x series. |
| Applications compiled for 5.8 will continue to run with 5.9. |
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| Some of the changes listed in this file include issue tracking numbers |
| corresponding to tasks in the Qt Bug Tracker: |
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| https://bugreports.qt.io/ |
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| Each of these identifiers can be entered in the bug tracker to obtain more |
| information about a particular change. |
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| Third-Party Code |
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| - Updated assimp 3rdparty library to version 3.3.1 |
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| Important Changes |
| ----------------- |
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| - Added zooming with the mouse scroll wheel to |
| QFirstPersonCameraController and QOrbitCameraController. |
| - Updated assimp scene importer to load simple keyframe and morphing animations. |
| - New Animation module supporting key framed animations. |
| - New Scene2D module supporting rendering Qt Quick within Qt 3D scenes and |
| interacting with them. |
| - Level of details support. |
| - 2D distance field and 3D geometric text support. |
| - Physics Based Rendering support. |
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| Render |
| ------ |
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| - Added new QBufferCapture frame graph node to support QBuffer readback. |
| - Added new QMemoryBarrier frame graph node. |
| - Added EnvironmentLight type for environment mapping. Works well with PBR materials |
| in Qt3DExtras to give realistic lighting and specular reflections. |
| - Added support for level of detail with the QLevelOfDetail component and helpers. |
| Allows switching based upon distance from camera or projected screen size. |
| - Lots of performance and stability fixes. |
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| Scene2D |
| ------- |
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| - Added new Scene2D module, which allows rendering Qt Quick content to Qt 3D |
| texture and using it as part of a 3D scene. |
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| Animation |
| --------- |
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| - Added technology preview of new Animation module. |
| - Added new animation classes to support loading animations using assimp scene loader. |
| - Added support for defining key framed animations or loading them from file. |
| - Added an animation export script for Blender |
| - Added classes to play back simple key frame animations and apply the animation to |
| arbitrary QObjects or QNodes. |
| - Added classes to support play back and blending of key frame animations. This allows |
| dynamically combining libraries of animation clips at runtime. |
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| Extras |
| ------ |
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| - Added support for Physically Based Rendering with QMetalRough and QTexturedMetalRough |
| materials. |
| - Added new QText2Entity for distance field based 2D planar text in 3D scenes. |
| - Added QExtrudedTextMesh and QExtrudedTextGeometry classes to support 3D text rendering. |
| - Added new QMorphPhongMaterial to support mesh morphing and phong lighting model. |
| - Added new QTextureMaterial to support simple unlit textured geometry. |
| - Improved API consistency between QML and C++ |
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| Examples |
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| - Added new simple custom material and advanced custom material examples. |
| - Modified multiviewport example rendered content. |
| - Added new Scene2D example to showcase the new feature. |
