realXtend crossplatform viewer update
KirstenLee, who is one of the realXtend project members at sourceforge, reports that he achieved a breakthrough in realXtend crossplatform viewer development.
He says that now the most parts, including OGRE rendering works with OS X and Linux. The cross platform viewer will be probably released with version number 0.45 or 0.5 when it is ready and tested. The release date is still unknown.
The cross platform viewer is based on realXtend 0.4 viewer and the latest SL Viewer enhanced with the best patches from the community. If you are in a hurry and want to run realXtend on Linux now, take a look at this earlier post: Take Wine and view realXtend on Linux.
There is also a completely new viewer, code name rex NG, under development at realXtend, read more about it here: realXtend starts a new from-scratch viewer. Lasse Öörni hinted in the recent interview that the rendering engine for rex NG will be integrated during the summer, so there is still a long wait expected.
realXtend rearranges community presence
realXtend project opens a new realXtend-dev mailing list for the discussion of developing realXtend on http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend-dev. The new list replaces realxtend-architecture mailing list.
reallXtend also opens a new GForge installation at http://dev.realxtend.org, where the new viewer will be hosted.
The wiki has also been moved to http://wiki.realxtend.org, and will be getting a face lift in the coming weeks.
The realXtend official forum will be closed, and CyberTech News offers a community driven replacement for that. This was agreed with the realXtend program manager Antti Ilomäki.
Important note to realXtend users: there is a fix available to the 0.4 viewer, it fixes at least one critical bug that prevented some 3d model import. The fix has been avaiable for some time already, but it is not marketed anywhere (except now, here).
