fracplanet

This application was ported to Qt4, with a significiant code rework. Apart from the shinier Qt4 "look", and automatic use of multisampled rendering when supported by OpenGL, there are no new features.

Updates were made for Debian Etch and Ubuntu Edgy.
No new program functionality was added.

The main addition in this release is the ability to export the terrain as a texture map, with or without relief shading. A DEM (Digital Elevation Model, or height field) and normal map are also written. For planets, the textures are a cylindrically projected latitude/longitude map (this is directly usable as a spheremap in POV-Ray). The illumination direction is now controllable from the GUI, and swirly spiral weather systems can be added into the clouds.

Now also builds .debs for Debian Sarge and Ubuntu Breezy (available
from sourceforge). There is little reason for users with a working
0.3.0 to upgrade: one minor GUI improvement, and the random
number generator switches to use the boost mt19937
implementation. For those building the code themselves, please note
that the boost C++ library is now required ("libboost-dev" package
on Debian).

This version adds the ability to export meshes to Blender, the option of generating a layer of clouds, control over the viewer window's background colour, and some built-in documentation.