version 2.6 [10/08/2007]

New Features

• Added full Python language frontend support
• Python demos added
• Added new IRSensor classes
• Objects now have a "display" shape and a "collision" shape, which can be set separately.
• Stationary objects can now be positioned and rotated dynamically during a simulation.
• Shapes can now be changed dynamically for stationary objects during a simulation.
• Shadow drawing can be disabled on a per-object basis
• Drawing quality of lines improved
• Removed long-deprecated Data and Genome classes, updated demos
• Added breveIDE intergrated documentation
• Modified plugin API for list access
• Removed separate "breve_cli" program, use "breve -x" to run a simulation with no graphics
• Changes to accommodate new Python front-end

The following changes were required in order to avoid conflicts between steve and Python. In rare cases they may require minor changes to existing simulations written in steve.

• Some method arguments have been reordered.
• Many methods have been moved from Stationary or Mobile to their parent class Real
• One of the "set-rotation" methods has been renamed to "set-rotation-matrix"

Bug Fixes

• Fixed missing collision callbacks for "fully embedded objects"
• Fixed archiving/dearchiving problems for some classes.