The new Murl Engine Build 1.00.4754Beta is available for download.

Release Highlights:

• LUA scripting support.
• Native Android x86 support.
• Several bugs and issues got fixed.
• Documentation has been reworked.
• Android build scripts have been reworked.

For an detailed overview on what's new, please read the change log.

Please notice the following API changes:

• Changed Murl::IApp class interface: Added 2nd parameter to Configure(IEngineConfiguration* engineConfig, IFileInterface* fileInterface)
• Changed Murl::Logic::IState class interface: Renamed GetRecentTickDuration() to GetCurrentTickDuration()
• Changed Murl::Logic::BaseProcessor class interface: Renamed GetEngineProcessor() to GetProcessor()
• Changed Murl::ILoader class interface: Added overload for AddPackage() with 3 parameters only.
• Introduced shared pointers for Murl::Logic interfaces:
  typedef SharedPointer<GraphSoundObject> GraphSoundObjectPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IAppGraph> IAppGraphPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IAppProcessor> IAppProcessorPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IAppStage> IAppStagePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IAppStepable> IAppStepablePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IAppTimeline> IAppTimelinePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<INodeObserver> INodeObserverPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IObservableNode> IObservableNodePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IProcessor> IProcessorPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IStage> IStagePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IStageProcessor> IStageProcessorPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IStageTimeline> IStageTimelinePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IStepable> IStepablePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<IStepableObserver> IStepableObserverPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<ITimeframe> ITimeframePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<ITimeline> ITimelinePtr;
typedef SharedPointer<ITouchArea> ITouchAreaPtr;
typedef SharedPointer<SoundFader> SoundFaderPtr;
Changed several interfaces to accept shared pointers instead of raw pointers. To adjust existing code simply replace all * by Ptr, e.g. IProcessor* to IProcessorPtr.
• Renamed all addon files to a consistent naming scheme: murl_addons_[name]_factory.h, murl_addons_[name]_i_addon.h.
• Renamed all addon interface classes to a consistent naming scheme: Murl::Addons::[name]::Factory, Murl::Addons::[name]::IAddon.
• Introduced shared pointers for Murl::Addons interfaces:
  typedef SharedPointer<IAddon> IAddonPtr; for namespace Murl::Addons::Facebook, Murl::Addons::Filepanel, Murl::Addons::Openmax and Murl::Addons::Vuforia. To adjust existing code simply replace all * by Ptr, e.g. Addons::Facebook::IAddon* to Addons::Facebook::IAddonPtr.
• Changed Murl::IAppAddonRegistry class interface methods to accept IAddonPtr shared pointers only.
• Changed vuforia addon graph nodes XML namespace: e.g. Vuforia::DataSet to Vuforia::Graph::DataSet
• Changed addon libraries to separate files for each addon on all supported platforms.
• Renamed file murl_logic_graph_sound_fader.h to murl_logic_sound_fader.h
• Moved methods from Murl::Util to Murl::Math namespace: Abs(), Min(), Max(), Clamp() and IsEqual().
• Changed Murl::Util string conversion methods StringToDouble() and StringToFloat() to locale independent comma separator ..
• Changed Murl::Enum class interface: Changed GetEnumValue() to GetEnumValueByName(), GetEnumName() to GetEnumNameByValue(), and IsEnumAvailable() to IsEnumValueAvailable(). Added methods to query values/names by index.
• Cleaned up enum definition macros in murl_enum.h
• Allow multiple controllers per node (see Graph::INode::AddController() and related methods). In addition to specifying a single node controller by e.g. controller.animationResourceId="...", it is possible to create multiple controllers via XML by defining a trailing index after the "controller" attribute part, e.g. controller.0.animationResourceId="..." and controller.1.scriptResourceId="..."

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