jMonkeyEngine 3.1.0 Beta 2

And so we finally progress to the next incremental beta. Will it be the last?

Shadows

• Fixed an issue where some occluders were wrongly culled out from the shadow map at very steep light angle, and when the view cam was almost align with light direction.
• Fixed shadow fade and zfar computation as it was breaking shadow border filtering.
• Fixed edge filtering Nearest that was causing a crash
• Various fixes in glsl 1 and 1.5 of the shaders (especially on mac)

Env maps

• Fixed a HDR file loading issue that was causing color glitches on HDR textures.

Post process

• Various fixes with anti aliasing, and some filters

Optimization

• Some internals were changed for iterations with less garbage generated.

Inputs

• Added new joysticks to default configuration, and better way to add your own configuration.

Nifty

• Upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 allowing to fetch it from maven central for gradle/maven builds.

Build

• Several enhancements and upped gradle version to 2.13

And a lot more… see the complete log here.