A new version of the engine has been released. Download it from the download page. There are more new features and changes in the 0.4 version of the engine than in any other release before. The highlights are:

• Collision Detection and Response. Add gravity, sliding and stair climbing to your application only by switching it on with 2 lines of code.
• Particle System for snow, fire, smoke, explosions.
• Scene node for creating realistic water surfaces.
• Fast and precise picking.
• Stencil shadows using the ZFAIL method.
• New materials like transparent reflection or 2 layer solid material.
• Simplified ISceneNode interface.
• Better MD2 animation playback interface.
• Better debugging features like text output and automatic boundingbox drawing.
• Video mode list.
• Interface for fading in and/or out the whole screen or parts of it.
• Better linux port: Lots of bugs have been fixed.
• Mesh manipulator.
• 2 brand new tutorials.
• New interactive techdemo.
• Lots of bug fixes, for example the blackscreen bug should be history.

For a detailed description of all changes take a look at the changes.txt file. I uploaded some new screenshots of the new version into the screenshot area, the two new tutorials into the tutorial section and the development status on the development page. In addition, there is a new shot of the week, showing a terrain renderer created by knighttoflight.