This revision of the guide documents OpenGL Performer 3.0, which has the following features:
New hardware support
- SGI Scalable Graphics Compositor
- InfiniteReality4
New OS platforms
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
Functional features
- Image-Based rendering using simplified 3D proxy geometry
- Other image-based rendering enhancements
- Occlusion culling using cull programs
- Cull helper processes (cull sidekick)
- New library libpfv, providing a feature-rich viewer
Integration with other graphics toolkits
- OpenGL Multipipe SDK
- Direct integration with OpenGL Shader 3.0
- OpenGL Volumizer
OpenFlight 15.7 support