Sh

This is the second release candidate for the
stable release of Sh. It fixes most issues related
to 64-bit operating systems, ATI GPUs, Visual
Studio 2005, and Mac OS X. Aside from a number of
small bugfixes, two memory leaks have also been
eliminated and the dead code remover has been
improved. An SDL example is now available in the
examples directory along with Visual Studio
project files for all other examples.

Shrike has been updated for Sh 0.8.0rc0.

New features include: support for generic input binding on the arb and glsl backends; support for the ATI draw buffers extension on the glsl backend; SH_RETURN, SH_BREAK, and SH_CONTINUE; and Andrew Lauritzen's optimizations for uniform update methods.

This release handles errors (such as running out of instruction limits or missing textures) much more gracefully, displaying a useful dialog on the screen when one occurs. A few new example shaders are also included, such as a demonstration of the new "palette" feature.

This release has several new features and many bugfixes. Palettes have been added ("vertex parameter arrays" in OpenGL terminology), allowing you to index into an array of uniform parameters from within vertex programs. Streams work under Windows, and several stream-related issues have been fixed (including a number of memory leaks). A simple particle system showing Sh's stream programming capabilities is now included. This release compiles cleanly with gcc 3.4 and continues to work with gcc 3.3 and MSVC++ 7.1 and 2005.