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Thanks to Charlie Carley (snailrose)m Lagan and others, the new official 2.41 Blender release is out now: http://www.blender3d.org. It has support for OpenGL GLSL vertex and fragment shaders, Blender Materials and multi viewport. Get the full 2.41 demos here (10Mb, includes extras like Domino demo, ...

2.41 RC2 Win32 http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=blender-2.41RC2.zip 2.41 Demo http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=blender-241-demos.zip New Feature List http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/features.htm B...

A new win32 alpha build for Blender 2.41 with game engine improvements. It includes all files, so 13 Mb download... http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=blender2.41alpha1.zip If you have a nice graphics card, it should look like this: http://www.continuousphysics...

When Microsoft developed dos there was no Blender.

There are lots of issues indeed. To compensate, perhaps you want to try this new build and gfx demos: http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=blender-2.41-prewindows.zip http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=gameBlender241gfx.zip ...

Just to be clear, there is NO Mac/OSX version yet.
We need a Mac developer who can assist in building the latest changes.

Erwin

Cool! Do you know a shop (preferable in California) where you can buy them, or is it just on-line?

Sorry for the cross posting, but if you might want to check out this topic:
http://www.blender3d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7792

Erwin

Snailrose great work on the gameengine is running on Linux now. It works nice on an NVidia 6600GT. http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/2.41graphics_features.jpg Download this file: http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/index.php?dir=blender/&file=blender-2.40-linux-armature...

it is a side-effect that I introduced when I added 'write game physics to IPO'. If that option in the game-menu is switched off, it cleared the IPO's for dynamic objects. I will rethink the way this works for next version, thanks for the report. One way is to make the object non-dynamic, because dyn...

http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pu ... der241.zip is broken. Could you please recompress it?

It has been fixed. For fun there is Blender animation of the domino's in the Bullet logo, see the animated gif here:
http://www.continuousphysics.com/Bullet ... /index.php

I will support the current game engine (Ketsji) at least during 2006. Also snail has been doing some great work on the game engine graphics side. So in short, there will be better Bullet rigidbody support, multi texture and shader support, fixed armatures, new vehicles and new character control. Per...

2006 Domino simulation: http://www.continuousphysics.com/ftp/pub/test/blender/happy_2006_blend.zip You can use <ALT>-A to see the animation. For baking the Bullet rigidbody simulation yourself, it requires latest cvs build, so you have to wait for the next Blender version, or get the pre-build versi...

The gameengine was written independently from Blender to allow for a separate webplayer. Also the programming language is C++ rather then Blender C.

However over time more Blender internal structures have been introduced in the gameengine, so things are not completely separated anymore.

Bullet integration is work in progress, and Restitution and other values are not hooked up yet. I will add those in next version, thanks for the reminder. Physics is running realtime by default, which makes behaviour random. Did you try to set the 'Enable All Frames' setting in the games menu? This ...