Heaven DX11 benchmark released

What's new:

• Released the first DirectX 11 benchmark on the basis of Unigine.
• '-Os' replaced by '-O3' in GCC flags, which gave a 20% speed boost in Linux.
• Fixed water artifacts produced by overlaping waves.
• Line intersection functions for all physics shapes.
• Fixed detail textures with SRGB enabled.
• Added access to image pixels via C++ API.
• Vertex cache optimization is now optional (see export plugins settings).
• Optional axes flip on import in ResourceEditor.
• Added "frame based" flag for every bone of the ragdoll to mix physics-driven and skinned mesh animations.
• New Body::setVelocityTransform() function that calculates linear and angular velocities based on the body transformation.
• Fixed a rare startup crash caused by multi-threading access to archived files.
• More verbose XML parser.
• Fixed saving of materials into nodes.
• 'restitution' and 'softness' joint parameters splitted into linear_restitution / angular_restitution and linear_softness / angular_softness (don't forget to run the upgrade script).
• Optimized tessellation shaders for DirectX 11.
• Added documentation on sky ("Principles of Operation / Objects / Sky" section of the manual).

Here are some technical details on how tessellation works under the hood:

Release of the Heaven benchmark attracted a lot of attention in the Net (our webserver has had a near-death experience several times) since there are no DX11 benchmarks so far:news item on Tom's Hardware. Wow, we made it.