coin240(3)

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coin240 — the glow-up notes for Coin v2.4.0 ✨ (this is section 3 of the Coin manual, bestie, so you already know it's the library tea 💅)

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Okay so the whole main reason the 2.4.0 release even happened? The option of finally building Coin from source on MS Windows without having to go through the whole Cygwin process. That's it, that's the headline, we are FREE 🦋😭

And like, not just that — there had also been various optimization work on rendering traversal code, file i/o and other things. Little tune-ups everywhere, the whole vibe got faster, no cap 🧚

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For v2.4.1, the SoExtSelection LASSO and RECTANGLE select could be aborted by the end-user by hitting the 'END' key 🎀 No API-changes was needed for this of course, she just worked 💅

For v2.4.2, they hacked in support for compressed textures through an API/ABI-invisible field in SoTexture2, called "enableCompressedTexture" 👀 This field will remain "invisible" until Coin v3.0.0 is released, and can only be accessed from .iv-file input or through the SoFieldContainer API. So like... it's there but it's not there, iykyk 🙈

For v2.4.6, SbViewVolume::getAlignRotation() was implemented, and SoToVRML2Action got support for SoUnits in relation to SoVRMLTransform nodes. Slay, ate, periodt 👑

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Heads up bestie: the "enableCompressedTexture" field on SoTexture2 is genuinely staying invisible until v3.0.0 drops — don't go looking for it in the normal API, it's giving secret menu 🌸

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Version 4.0.10 · Thu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00 — that's the source + date stamp on this lil page, so jot it down, screenshot it, put it in the group chat, whatever you gotta do 💖 byeeee 🫶