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[Mário Luzeiro <mrluzeiro@xxxxx>]

Hello all,
Let me share with you some of the recent (by me and Cirilo) progresses related with the 3D-Viewer refactoring.

I believe at this moment we have almost every major aspects of the current KiCad 3D-Viewer and surpasses it in some other aspects and features.
I am myself very surprised with the results we were able to achieve so far.

>From a developer perspective this will allow to work easily in other future features and improvements since the source is much more logical structured and (do)commented.

Where you have some screenshots that compare the old(current) render, the new openGL and the (new) Raytracing render:
https://meocloud.pt/link/6c985c59-3b92-4abf-8179-7a522b17ecf9/20160213/
(Download the pictures if you want the full resolution)

You are able to try it at:
https://code.launchpad.net/~mrluzeiro/kicad/kicad_new3d-viewer

This is a working in progress; there are some minor features to implement and some tweaks to do. 
Still some work left in order to get a proper user experience...

Hope that inspires you!

Mario Luzeiro