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'''Release date:''' September 20, 2016

(C4 version 5.0 corresponds to Tombstone version 1.0.)

== Core Engine ==

* All C-style casts have been changed to constructor syntax.

* The <code>*</code> and <code>%</code> operators for dot product and cross product have been removed from the engine. The <code>Dot()</code> and <code>Cross()</code> functions should always be used instead.

* The container modification and iteration functions have been made more verbose.

* In all callback-type functions, the term "proc" has been changed to "callback".

* The <code>GraphEdge</code> class has been renamed to <code>GraphRelation</code>.

* The <code>Singleton</code> template has been named to <code>Global</code>.

* The <code>Manipulator</code> class has been renamed to <code>Director</code>.

* The <code>BuildSettingList()</code> and <code>CommitSetting()</code> functions have been added to replace the <code>GetSettingCount()</code>, <code>GetSetting()</code>, and <code>SetSetting()</code> functions.

* CPU timings have been added to engine, and they are displayed in the Time window.

* All of the various resource formats have been updated. There is now a common header followed by resource-specific data.

=== World Manager ===

* The cell graphs into which objects are organized for each zone are now octrees instead of tall quadtrees.

* Detail rings have been added to the engine. Each geometry node has a detail ring setting that determines at what distance the geometry starts to fade out. A world can have detail property that specifies the detail ring sizes. Indirect portals and camera widgets can specify a distance scale that modifies the sizes of all detail rings for geometry that is rendered through them.

* A special root region graph has been added for lights to solve shadowing problems when lights are rooted in multiple zones that can see each other through portals.

* The impostor system has been updated. Impostors now have better transition blends, and they are no longer required to be vertical.

* The remote portal cover render stage has been removed from the engine.

* Remote cameras have been renamed to indirect cameras, and remote portals have been renamed to indirect portals.

* Parallel code for shadow map generation has been added to the engine to improve performance.

* Multisampled rendering is now permanently on, and the engine uses a custom downsampling shader.

* Infrastructure necessary for upcoming secondary frame buffer effects has been implemented.

=== Graphics Manager ===

* The motion blur effect has been improved for discontinuous screen-space velocities.

* Clipping plane support has been added to vertex shaders. Clipping planes are exposed for widgets.

* The engine now has the ability to reference material resources from material objects.

* The fog rendering code has been enhanced.

=== Interface Manager ===

* All text rendering in the engine has been replaced with a new technology that renders glyphs directly from outline data directly on the GPU. Support for kerning and tracking have been added.

=== Sound Manager ===

* The engine now uses a new proprietary audio format.

* The sound streaming code has been changed to use triple buffering. This ensures that there can be no breaks when a streaming sound loops or starts a new file.

=== Controllers ===

* The <code>Controller::ScheduleSleep()</code> function and Schedule Sleep script method have been added to the engine.

* The ability now exists for a script method to delete the node to which the script is attached or one of its predecessors.

=== Physics ===

* The Shape node now supports dynamic shape substances.

* The Set Shape Substance modifier has been added to the engine.

=== Math Library ===

* Custom versions of all transcendental functions and inverse trig functions have been implemented in the engine.

* The various vector, bivector, and trivector classes have been improved.

== Tools ==

=== World Editor ===

* The [[World Editor]] now has a complete set of landscaping paint tools.

* The performance of radiosity space generation has been improved by breaking the work into parallel jobs.

* A new tilt setting has been added to the placement adjuster in the World Editor and [[Landscaping Editor]].

* A new director cell graph has been implemented in the [[World Editor]]. This drastically improves performance for scenes containing a lot of vegetation.

* The rendering code and picking code in the [[World Editor]] have been modified to use the cell graph. Director bounding spheres have been removed.

* The list of available materials in the [[World Editor]] is now displayed in the [[Material Page]], and the Material Manager has been renamed to [[Material Editor]].

* [[Material Editor]] functionality for external material resources has been added.

=== Script Editor ===

* The method appearance in the [[Script Editor]] has been changed to a larger box size.

=== Texture Tool ===

* The configuration files for [[Texture Importer]] have been updated to use the OpenDDL format.

=== Sound Tool ===

* A [[Sound Importer]] tool has been added, and it converts <code>.wav</code> files to the new format.

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