Balder - 3D engine for Silverlight

Fixed lighting for Texture mapped materials - use specular property of the material, not just WHITE.. Damn oversight!

Fixed Programatic sample to override OnUpdate() not replace it - making it not getting called from Balder.

Get the Dispatcher from the Deployment instead of from the root visual - it will cause an UnauthorizedException when running on a different thread because the RootVisual is a FrameworkElement, non accessible from other threads!

Added dispatcher support for Notifications

Ditto - same as previous, only this time for the SL5/Xna based SpriteContext

Added null check for the World matrix - it appears to be Null at times. This is more of a symptom from something else, but temporarily sticking in the null check and setting the Identity matrix if so, for now.

References added by adding MVVM Light as a Nuget package has now been removed and fixed for the sample browser

Added null check for Matrix - it should never be null, but there might be some synchronization issues

Added locking around sorting of nodes

Updated ignore file

Switching to using Nuget for dependencies - also using Nuget Powertools to get dependencies directly at first time compile

Minor cleanups - moving NodeStatistics into the Diagnostics namespace. Might not be its final destination, just getting to grips with the structure

Removing more platform support other than Silverlight

Officially started killing of iOS, Desktop and general Xna support - Silverlight FTW

Started working on the fallback scenario for untrusted SL5 sites and Mac OSX - for now the fallback will be software rendering. Aiming for an inbetween fallback with WebGL for browsers that support it.

Added CreateFromAxisAngle were one specifies an axis and the number of degrees around that specific axist you want to create a transformation matrix from

Cleaning up repository

Serious clean up.
Balder is now officially becoming a Silverlight only library - all other platform support is being removed.

Status Quo - Balder working as before on SL5 RTM now. Will continue to work on Material and lighting to get it as I want it.

A lot of refactoring going on that is not done, but just need to push this to move along.
First of all - rendering for SL5 partially up and running again. But something wrong with texturing, need to look at this.
Secondly, software rendering for SL4 and what will be the fallback rendering is being rewritten.
In general when all rewriting has been done, deferred rendering will the way rendering happens inside Balder for both software and hardware rendering. Gives better performance and more possibilities. This will take a few more weeks till is done.

Started working on deferred rendering - first off for software rendering

Start and stoping animation testing.

Return back to Animation.

Removed a TAB.. :) A biggy..

Reordered initialization of game - kinda helpful doing it before we initialize the rest of game based upon what happens in a derived class