ScriptENGINE 2010 Prerelease

We're currently coming out the end of a very heavy development cycle that has upgraded the ScriptENGINE 2010:3D Engine to it's latest version 3.x. It's currently under test, and we have released a Free Version on our website to tie in with our new licensing model.

The major changes include:

• Upgrading the Lua interpreter from 5.0 to 5.1 - a significant upgrade,
• Upgrading the Irrlicht graphics driver used by the ScriptENGINE to 1.5.x,
  
• Publishing C++ static libraries and headers (Professional Package Only) for all the ScriptENGINE components. These can be intergrated into your VC++ projects to build applications that interface directly with the ScriptENGINE in C++,
• Migrating the old ScriptENGINE extensions to the new Lua package framework. Also added a lot of new Lua modules in the ScriptENGINE Runtime distribution. The new Lua modules include SQL for databasing, TCP & UDP sockets for networking (including FTP, HTTP, POP3 & other protocols), ZIP file management, Threading, COM, Cryptography, AVI movie readers and more. the new Lua modules are loaded into the ScriptENGINE using the require("module_name") function,
• Updating the demos, tutorials and documentation,
• All the details are available in the ScriptENGINE documentation, included with the Free Download on our website.

Carmine Fantarella
Director, Capricorn 76 Pty. Ltd.