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VERSION 1.9

 * ModelCombiner tool created
   A 'GameEngine like' tool to combine two models has been added.
   
 * LightmapGenerator tool created
   A 'GameEngine like' tool to generate lightmaps for the whole scene has been added.
   
 * ParticleAnimator tool created
   A 'GameEngine like' tool to animate a lot of particles/ sprites.
   
 * Entity class was more cleaned up
   Surface management has been redesigned.
   Each vertex/ texture/ surface modification functions are now crash safe.
   
 * Level of detail meshes added
   LOD (Level of detail) feature has been added in the Entity class. Use the "addLODMesh" function.
   
 * Surface optimization optimized
   Sounds funny but it's true, the process of surface optimization has been speeded up.
   
 * Volumetric sounds correction
   3D sound effect has been repaired and works very good now. Listener position
   and orientation is setable by the sound device
   
 * Goodbye for the GUI
   The in-house GUI (GraphicsUserInterface) has been removed from the project completely
   because of incompleteness and uselessness.
   The source code of this part is furthermore available in the "media" folder as a
   detached project.
   
 * Spline translations for node animations
   The node animatinos now support spline translations for smooth movements.
   
 * Better light manangement
   You can only see 8 light sources with OpenGL and Direct3D9 but the SoftPixel Engine
   sorts the lights in dependent of the distance to camera.
   
 * Mesh buffers in Direct3D9 driver completed
   Finally the vertex- and index buffer creation in the Direct3D9 driver works fine.
   Now the rendering is much faster! Like the VertexBufferObjects (VBOs) in OpenGL.
   
 * Mesh reference function added
   The Entity's "setMeshReference" function can be used to reduce costs of memory.
   This function allows you to link the entity to an other entity's mesh buffer list
   when drawing multiple equal 3d models.
   
 * Frustum culling
   Now each object can get a bounding box to be blended out when it is out of active camera's view frustum.
   
 * New standard primitive "Icosphere" (ENTITY_ICOSPHERE) and rebuild "Dodecahedron"
   Segments/subdevision is the same like in Blender and is in the range of 1 and 8.
   
 * ModelCreator supports Bezier patches now
   The standard primitive "Teapot" is now also created by Bezier patches.
   
 * RenderTargets created
   Using RenderTargets in Direct3D9 and FrameBufferObjects (FBO) in OpenGL.
   Use the function "Texture::makeRenderTarget".
   
 * Complete new SPM format architecture (v.2.0)
   Now the SoftPixelModel format saves much more memory and has a better structure.
   
 * Immediate mesh buffer update
   Now the engine is able to update the mesh buffers immediate, i.e. when changed a vertex coordinate
   the mesh buffer is updated for this single vertex. Can be enabled with "Entity::setUpdateImmediate"
   
 * OpenGL Index buffer support
   Finally the mesh buffers with OpenGL also have an index buffer.
   The time before the engine only used OpenGL vertex buffers.
   Further more there is now more control for the hardware mesh buffers. The following functions are now
   available in the Entity class:
   updateMeshBuffer, updateVertexBuffer, updateIndexBuffer, updateMeshBufferVertex, updateMeshBufferTriangle
   
 * ToxyVision Model (TMF) loading support discontinued.
   There is no longer a support for the unimportant TMF 3d file format.