Oficial website

You can find more info, tutorials, sample project and a community forum at http://nineveh.gl

Installation

NinevehGL is compatible with iOS 7 or later. NinevehGL is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "NinevehGL"

Now just add to your Prefix Header (.pch):

#import "NinevehGL.h"

Roadmap

1.0.0 (future)

• Major Release
• NGL Binary Conversor (On-line)

0.9.9 (future)

• Physics system

0.9.8 (future)

• Particle system

0.9.7 (future)

• Real time Shadow and Reflections.
• Bone, Rigging and Animations.
• Mesh Morph.

0.9.6 (future)

• Metal compatibility
• Vulkan compatibility
• OpenGL ES 3 compatibility

0.9.5 (future)

• Swift made
• Modular (Packages)
• Nodes

0.9.4 (future)

• Full Touch API.
• You can add gesture recognizers to 3D objects. The same gestures of UIKit.
• NinevehGL can tell which specific surface of a mesh is being touched.
• There are 3 different kind of touch recognition with different kind of precisions and performance.
• The background color is now the same as UIKit view, in fact they are now the same thing.
• Bug fixed on "compileCoreMesh" flicking.
• Bug fixed on custom shaders Attributes/Uniforms.

0.9.3 - Sat, March 10 2012

• Full MultiThreading.
• It's more than just MultiThread safe!
• NinevehGL works on private threads, letting the main-thread free.
• Loading and Parsing 3D files are done on many background threads, don't affecting the render threads.
• Loading/Parsing threads can send notifications about its own progress.
• NinevehGL automatically creates and manages its threads.
• AR Ready. The Qualcomm AR is now natively supported by NinevehGL. Perfect integration.
• New NGLGroup3D. You can set a group with any kind of NGLObject3D.
• The NinevehGL's old limit of ~120.000 triangles per mesh is improved to ~4 billions.
• The NinevehGL accepts non-POT textures and there is no size limits anymore.
• New features on NinevehGL Tween API (NGLTween).
• New Tutorials and Sample projects.
• New installer. NinevehGL has now Xcode 4 templates.
• Lens methods on NGLCamera has changed.
• Many methods on NGLMesh has changed.
• More rotation options to all 3D objects.
• The antialias filter has now a global property.
• Bug fixed on Retina Displays.
• Bug fixed on armv6 architecture.
• Bug fixed on NGLTween pause.
• Bug fixed on Alpha blending (PNG).
• Bug fixed on Mesh scale (appearing in black).
• Bug fixed on Screenshots (off-screen renders).
• Bug fixed on Orthographic projection (NGLCamera).

0.9.2 - Wed, Sep 14 2011

• New Interactive API.
• Camera auto adjust to device orientation.
• Draw directly to an image (UIImage), texture (NGLTexture) or data (NSData as image).
• New Tween API.
• Create tweens to move any scalar properties of your objects.
• Use predefined ease functions or create your own ease equation.
• The new copying methods "copy" and "copyInstance".
• NGLTexture also accepts UIImage instances.
• Major improvements on render cycle.
• Major improvements on Shaders.
• Automatically Handles background application.
• Some changes on methods and classes' names.
• The Frame Rate (FPS) becomes a global property.
• Import settings also have global properties.
• Full remake of NinevehGL Docs.
• Bug fixed on textures with spaces in OBJ files.
• Bug fixed on "minimum" values of the NGLMesh's BoundingBox.
• Bug fixed on transparent layer (RGBA).
• Bug fixed on Collada files from XSI.
• Bug fixed on reinitializing the same NGLView.

0.9.1 - Tue, Jun 28 2011

• Bug fixed: "Flickering Mesh".
• Small optimization in fragment shaders.

0.9.0 - Wed, Jun 22 2011

• NinevehGL goes public - Open Beta.

Author

NinevehGL, ngl@nineveh.gl

License

This software is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.