From: Ilmari Heikkinen <ilmari.heikkinen@...>
Date: 2006-01-15T08:17:34+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Librend 0.4

Librend 0.4-----------
Real-time rendering on Ruby
Download now! http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=716
* Gracefully degrading functionality! No more installing 6 supportlibraries just to get a rotating cube going!* RMagick support!* Billboards!* Vertical text alignment!* Brings the Ruby interpreter to its knees with very little effort! IsYOUR machine up to the challenge?!
More information available at http://librend.rubyforge.org

Requirements:-------------  For 3D, you need SDL and OpenGL.  For playing sounds, you only need SDL.  For drawing vectors to PNG, you only need rcairo.

Recommended:------------  Input handling, sounds, window management:  Ruby/SDL bindings <http://www.kmc.gr.jp/~ohai/rubysdl.en.html>
  Basic 3D:  Ruby/OpenGL bindings <http://www2.giganet.net/~yoshi/>
  Loading images (Rend::Image, Rend::Texture):  Imlib2-Ruby bindings <http://pablotron.org/software/imlib2-ruby/>  or  RMagick <http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/>
  For drawing 2D vector scenes (Rend::Vectors::VectorScene):  rcairo Cairo bindings for Ruby. <http://cairographics.org/releases/>

Not so necessary, but nice to have:-----------------------------------
  If you want to use FTGL text (Rend::Text):  Ruby FTGL <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-ftgl/>
  Advanced 3D, shaders in particular (Rend::Shaders):  Ruby/GLEW bindings <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/rubyglew/>
  For a speed boost, get:  Ruby Inline <http://www.rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinline/>