Finally I was able to complete all of the new features!
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Please read the full release notes here: http://www.esenthel.com/community/showth...p?tid=8023

And for some highlights:


Rendering Pixel Density
Recently there is a trend for manufacturers to produce devices (laptops, tablets, phones, etc.) with insanely high resolution screens.
For example:
Asus Zenbook NX500 laptop - 15.6 inch, 3840 x 2160
Samsung Galaxy Note 4 - 5.7 inch, 2560 x 1440

While this may be good for 2D sharp text rendering, it may not be good for 3D rendering, as the more pixels you need to process, the slower your game will be.
That's why I've decided to redesign the old super sampling option, which only allowed to increase the rendering resolution, and replace it with new "D.density" option, that allows you to both decrease and increase the rendering resolution. You can specify values from 0.0 to 2.0 range.
For example 0.5 density, will render at 2x lower resolution (when including both width and height, that's 4x less pixels to process!).
You can control how to up-scale the lower resolution image onto the fullscreen, by using bi-linear or bi-cubic filtering, thanks to D.densityFilter function.

Here's an image so you can see how it works, the version on top has pixel density of 1.0, the version below has the density set to very low at 0.25 (for demonstration purposes).

   


Displaying Rendering Stages
With the new Renderer.stage member you can now request to display certain rendering stages, like unlit color, light, normal, depth, ambient occlusion, lit color, etc.

   


Greatly Improved Internal Render Target Management
All above features are possible thanks to the fact that the engine now manages render targets in a much better way. This was a complete redesign on the RT system, that's why it took some time to do.
Another benefit that the new system gives, is that now you can display 3D graphics in a 2D Window with full support of Window fade in/fade out effect.

   


Ambient Occlusion Quality and Performance Improvement
Ambient Occlusion effect has been improved, the codes have been simplified giving performance improvements, tweaked to improve quality, and the renderer can be configured to use 3 resolutions - full, half, quarter. Thanks to the new quarter resolution you can now boost AO performance even more!

   


Controlling the width of Mesh Outline
Ability to control the width of mesh outline has been added:




Skinning Editor now displays Bone Weights on faces
Previously this was visible only for mesh vertexes, now faces will also be colored properly.

   


Many more!
Please read the full release notes for many more new features and improvements!


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Thanks!

Great! I was waiting for this! I see few useful changes

Fantastic stuff! Will test when I get home this evening.

Very good job, Greg

Nice one, keep them coming

Very good update, solid and neat

Some useful updates, thank you

Wow ! thanks a lot !!

very good job Greg. Many Thanks!

Great update, Greg. Especially the density feature seems like it could become very useful to increase performance.
Keep them coming.

Although I haven't tested it yet, it looks great.
So thanks

The new density option is just great! I'm testing it right now and allows to increase precious FPS for mobile, in just a slight density decrease, without notice great quality loss...

Great job & thanks

You rock, Greg!
Thank you very much!

Awesome updates, great work!

Very happy to see this update.