The following changes were made for RC1:
- Demos have been deprecated, Samples and Sample Browser replace that functionality
- Visual Studio 2005 No longer supported
- Visual Studio 2010 Projects and solutions have been added
- Updated XNA to 3.1
- RenderWindow"window" now consistently returns an IntPtr to the window.
on the OpenTK OpenGL renderer use "nativewindow" to get the NativeWindow instance
- Removed Commandline browser
- Closed Ticket 226 : Renderables with missing Materials generates exception ( now uses BaseWhite Material )
- Fixed DX Renderer incorrectly disposing BackBuffer and DepthStencilBuffer
- Implemented Font generation using FreeType
- OverlayElements intialized from Templates now works correctly
- Many Disposal errors corrected
- Fixed Singletons being reinitialized correctly
- Fixed detaching objects from bones
- Updated SharpInputSystem used in Samples
- Added Axiom.Framework used in Samples
- fixed PixelFormatDescription (alpha shift value was never assigned)
- Updated PortalConnectedZoneSceneManager
- Added Terrain Component
- Added Paging Component
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Please see Beta2 Release notes for more changes