v2.1.0

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🏃 Animation Rework:

Many new feature for better animation in F3D!
Animation is now real-time based and there are many new animation options:

• --animation-speed-factor to slow, speed and invert time
• --animation-frame-rate to control the frame rate
• --animation-time option to set an animation time to load initially

🎥 Camera options:

Camera options have been improved greatly and now let you set a direction, great to generate screenshot for the same POV of different geometries. Default camera locations have been updated to get a better initial look at the data.
New options are:

• --camera-direction : Set the direction the camera is looking at, to use with --camera-focal-point
• --camera-zoom-factor: Set the initial zoom factor

✨ MatCap:

It is now possible to use MatCap textures to color your model.

🌄 HDRI Improvements:

Setting the HDRI has never been easier, now with .exr support and better caching performance!
Just drop a .hdr or .exr on the F3D window and the HDRI will be loaded!

📝 Complete changelog

For F3D users:

• Reworked Animation support and added many animation related options (see above)
• Added --camera-direction and --camera-zoom-factor and use it in default config file (see above )
• Added --texture-matcap option to load a MatCap texture (see above)
• Added support for opening HDRI background with Drop (see above)
• Added .exr support for HDRI and textures (see above)
• Improved HDRI caching performance (see above)
• Added a EGL headless binary release
• Added typo suggestion when failing to use the right option name
• Added --invert-zoom option (libf3d: interactor.invert-zoom) to invert zoom direction with right-click on mouse (thanks @DeveloperPaul123!)
• Added support for keeping camera position when reloading a file with UP key
• Added a --grid-absolute option (libf3d: render.grid.absolute) to position the grid instead of being below the model
• Added a "Drop Zone" when starting F3D without loading a file
• Added coloring support for STEP files in binary release
• Fixed an issue on Windows where the error window would popup even with --quiet
• Fixed an issue with 16 bit and 32 bit textures with assimp plugin
• Fixed an issue on Windows where errors where not visible
• Fixed an HDRI issue on reload
• Fixed a crash when with the progress bar on reloading a file
• Fixed an issue where certain options from config file would be ignored
• Fixed a crash with many GLTF files when an array does not have a name
• Fixed an issue where dropping a duplicate file would change the loaded file instead of not doing anything
• Fixed an issue when loading an unsupported file
• Fixed an issue with VRML files
• Improved config file for .ply files
• Improved config file regex so that they are case-insensitive
• Improved --up option to support no sign and better validation
• Improved F3D version reporting about itself and VTK (--version)
• Improved documentation, testing, help
• Excluded TIFF format from Windows Thumbnailer
• Changed the automatic camera position to a version more close to the data
• Reduced size of binary release by a factor of two

For developers:

• Added vcpkg support for dependency installation

For F3D packagers:

• Added a F3D_PLUGIN_OCCT_COLORING_SUPPORT CMake variable to control if this feature is compiled, default is ON
• Added SONAME support (thanks @bkmgit!)
• Added a F3D_PLUGINS_INSTALL_DIR CMake variable to control where to install plugins
• Added a new module: F3D_MODULE_EXR that depends on openexr
• Added support to use external cxxopts and external nlohmann-json (thanks @topazus!)
• Fixed a link issue with VTK modules
• Fixed a @loader_path issue on MacOS
• Added support for CMAKE_INSTALL_*DIR variables on installation (thanks @topazus!)
• Added support for building against a EGL enabled VTK
• Fixed a compilation issue with VTK master

Thanks to all our packagers that help F3D reach a wider audience: AndnoVember @kylosus @kevinsmia1939 @yurivict @bcdarwin @svenstaro @mzf-guest
Thanks to all our contributors for this release: DeveloperPaul123 @topazus @bkmgit @snoyer @Meakk @mwestphal

Credits:
Bristleback DOTA Fan-Art by Nikolay_Tsys.
Future Parking HDRI by Sergej Majboroda.
Luxray by Gianmarco.
Bell Park Dawn HDRI by Greg Zaal.