V1.7
- Inverse kinematics support.
- Bullet RaycastVehicle support.
- AppleTV platform support.
- WebAssembly support on the Web platform.
- IME support on Linux platform.
- Several font rendering improvements and TypoGraphy sample.
- WebP image loading support.
- Sparse navigation meshes and navmesh streaming support.
- AutoRemove bool removed. Replaced with more general AutoRemoveMode mechanism.
- Free functions supported in attribute accessors.
- IntVector3 class.
- EnumAttributeAccessorImpl is now compatible with enum classes.
- Use default continuous physics & substepping values for Box2D world.
- Node-specific 2D physics collision events.
- Improved Box2D joint handling.
- Use GetDerivedComponent() when getting PhysicsWorld2D to allow subclassing it. PhysicsWorld2D members no longer private also for this reason.
- ApplyLinearImpulseToCenter() function in RigidBody2D.
- Additional info exposed in 2D physics events.
- CollisionShape2D scale allowed to be signed.
- Refactor PhysicsWorld2D contact info.
- ParticleEmitter2D can be made to stop / restart emitting.
- CSV and base64 encoding options when loading TMX files.
- Several tilemap / TMX file improvements.
- Improved convex hull debug draw.
- Bool & int shader parameters on D3D11 / OpenGL.
- Maximum extrusion distance for directional light shadows.
- Shader compilation defines added to materials.
- Shader compilation defines added to renderpath commands.
- Shader compilation define exclusion mechanism in Pass.
- Multisampled rendertargets.
- Mipmapped rendertargets.
- Alpha-to-coverage can be enabled in pass or material. Requires D3D11 or OpenGL.
- Line antialiasing support.
- Optional soft particles support.
- Improve VSM shadows by moving z/w divide to pixel shader.
- Anisotropic-nearest filtering mode, when supported.
- Optional per-texture max anisotropy setting.
- Physical light values support.
- Area light support.
- Multisample option for VSM shadows.
- Shader cache location is configurable, and defaults to a user-writable directory.
- Renderer events for screen buffer allocation & global shader parameters having been set.
- Renderer event for all views having been rendered.
- DecalSet optionally sizes vertex & index buffer only based on use.
- New face camera mode in BillboardSet & Text3D.
- Support defining neighbor terrains to avoid LOD discontinuities.
- AnimationController internal control structures can be accessed as part of its public API.
- AnimationController can be queried if any animation is playing on a layer.
- Allow to get animation tracks by index.
- Custom projection matrix support.
- Implement GetMultiSampleLevels() on OpenGL.
- Monitor and refresh rate options for Graphics::SetMode().
- Allow unclamped morph weights.
- Static helper function for calculating VertexBuffer element offsets.
- Model metadata support.
- PBR improvements.
- Clean up PBR shaders & techniques; do not require tangents in PBR shaders unless using normal mappings.
- Possibility to set mouse mode or visibility before Input class initialization.
- Mouse centering / position setting moved to Input public API.
- Seek method for audio streams.
- Anchors and pivots can optionally be specified for UI elements.
- ProgressBar UI element added.
- UI root element custom size support.
- UIElement child XML loading returns created child instead of success bool.
- Add delta parameter to UI element resize event.
- SDF font supersampling.
- FontType enum exposed to public API.
- NAVIGATIONPUSHINESS_NONE mode in CrowdAgent.
- NavArea solid debug geometry.
- To/from string conversions in JSONValueType / JSONNumberType.
- Add function to test for Rect / Rect intersection.
- Resize overloads in Vector / PODVector.
- Remove ineffective static TypeInfo checking functions.
- Node & UIElement child query function overloads that return a collection.
- Node IsChildOf() function.
- Temporary parameter added to Node CreateChild() function.
- Sprite2D can define its draw & texture rectangles.
- UniquePtr class.
- Several math API functions added.
- Stable random generator added.
- Add FloatToRawIntBits function.
- Variant can hold Rect objects.
- Variant can hold 64-bit integers.
- Mipmap manipulation support in Image.
- Image class SaveDDS() function.
- Text3D GetHeight() function.
- Console auto-completion.
- Console text highlighting according to message type.
- XMLFile GetOrCreateRoot() function, and XMLElement GetOrCreateChild() function.
- Urho3DPlayer attempts to read CommandLine.txt from resource system on all platforms, if cannot read from filesystem.
- Improve use of SDL_Init() so that Context keeps track of initialized SDL subsystems.
- IES cookie generation in RampGenerator.
- AbstractFile as a parent class for those that implement both Serializer & Deserializer.
- Allow specifying child node by name in attribute animation paths.
- Functions to get rotation axis & angle in Quaternion.
- Improved AngelScript API dump.
- Consts exposed to AngelScript API.
- OS query functions added to ProcessUtils.
- Add resource to cache before sending background load event.
- Prevent sending event to subscribers added during event handling.
- Prevent rendering of unnecessary shadow maps.
- Prevent rendering of deferred light volumes which would be masked out due to lightmask being only 8-bit in deferred rendering.
- Move "cold" parts of Node into NodeImpl class to improve performance.
- Populate rapidjson value before adding to parent.
- Update to AngelScript 2.31.2.
- Update to FreeType 2.7.1.
- Update to SQLite 3.18.0.
- Update to LibCpuId 0.4.0.
- Update to Box2D 2.3.2.
- Update to Assimp 3.2.
- Update to LZ4 1.7.5.
- Update to Bullet 2.86.1.
- Build system: ensure empty CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET on iOS build.
- Build system: auto-disable PCH on Android Clang build.
- Build system: prefer CMake's regex instead of grep.
- Build system: turn off PCH on bad ccache version.
- Build system: Bash on Ubuntu on Windows -support.
- Build system: work around MinGW 6.1.0 linking issue.
- Build system: MinGW 6.1.0+ fix (narrowing conversion / internal compiler error.)
- Build system: consider MinGW as multilib compiler.
- Build system: make URHO3D_64BIT option applicable on MinGW.
- Build system: use absolute output path for MinGW sysroot auto-detection.
- Build system: fix Wayland build.
- Build system: autodetect availability of clock_gettime() on Apple platforms.
- Build system: fix package metadata for RPI & ARM platforms.
- Build system: fix Urho3DAll.h generation in non out-of-source build.
- Build system: avoid special chars in paths in MRI script passed to ar utility (Web build.)
- Build system: Always use export header for auto-discovering build options.
- Build system: use -O2 option for MinGW release build
- Build system: add option to control how to share resources on web platform.
- Build system: check availability of native compiler toolchain.
- Build system: remove older CMake constructs that are no longer necessary.
- Build system: new Android toolchain.
- Build system: several Web build related improvements.
- Build system: MODULE library type support option for Web build.
- Build system: disable exception handling codegen for Web DEBUG build.
- Build system: remove unused options from define_source_files() macro.
- Build system: Prevent resource symlink creation during resource packaging.
- Build system: Skip try_compile test when not appropriate (iOS debug build.)
- Build system: use no_weak_imports linker flag.
- Build system: workaround struct redefinition on newer MinGW.
- Build system: search for DirectX path both rooted & non-rooted.
- Build system: make clean for MinGW / Android / Web platforms.
- Build system: enable multi-threaded compilation in Visual Studio.
- Build system: fix mklink test when current path is not sources dir.
- Build system: fix symlinked batch files not being launchable from Windows Explorer.
- Build system: generate PCH files using naming convention expected by Clion.
- Build system: generate dummy PCH only in out-of-source build tree.
- Editor: do not attempt to parse extensionless files as XML.
- Editor: draw navigation debug geometry.
- Editor: prevent unnecessary attribute inspector refresh on resource reload.
- Editor: allow drag-drop of generic XML files into attribute edit fields.
- Editor: improved handling of structure attributes.
- Editor: optimization to avoid updating temporary objects when they are not shown in hierarchy.
- Editor: optimize update during object spawn.
- Editor: paint selection.
- Editor: show origins option.
- Editor: fix UI element internal var indexing so that editing user-defined variables works right.
- Editor: restore window positions on viewport mode switch.
- Editor: terrain editor.
- Editor: color wheel for Text3D.
- Editor: double size on high DPI display.
- Editor: fix resource browser node add/removal shown in hierarchy window.
- Editor: fix resource browser preview camera position.
- AssetImporter: possibility to export animation without skinned mesh.
- AssetImporter: $fbx node suppression.
- AssetImporter: fix animation start/end times when saving multiple animations.
- AssetImporter: fix incorrect applying of model's root node transform.
- Documentation: explain how to setup Windows MKLINK privilege.
- Documentation: add section on scene graph events.
- Documentation: explain EMSCRIPTEN_WASM build option.
- Documentation: note on simultaneous network server & client usage.
- Documentation: update on the define_resource_dirs() macro.
- Documentation: do not include RapidJSON classes.
- Documentation: inverse kinematics page.
- Sample content: Kachujin model, used in SkeletalAnimation sample.
- Sample content: new Urho3D logo.
- Sample content: mutant model added to the CharacterDemo.
- Sample content: Vertex colors in the standard primitive models.
- Sample content: fix normals / lighting on the cylinder.
- Sample content: Line primitive models.
- Sample content: material preview model.
- Fix broken off-mesh movement for CrowdAgent.
- Fix Bullet assert / crash when collision shape was changed from compound to non-compound.
- Fix unintended update of wordwrapping text's width.
- Fix uninitialized fields in FontFaceBitmap.
- Fix recreation of CollisionChain2D shape.
- Fix positioning of borderless window (if not filling the whole monitor.)
- Fix RigidBody2D not returning to original transform.
- Fix copypaste error in SpriteSheet2D load code.
- Fix out-of-bounds text buffer access when compiling an AngelScript module.
- Fix VariantMap to JSONValue and back conversion.
- Fix handling /./ in executable path in SanitateResourceName().
- Fix crash if script object constructor throws.
- Fix incorrect optimization in UIElement::GetElementAt().
- Fix potential crash when erasing sibling nodes during component destructor.
- Fix blend modes for 2D particles.
- Fix use of asGetActiveContext() in template code, as it could leak undesirably to user application and cause undefined symbol.
- Fix jumping Slider knob.
- Fix AngelScript temp variable corruption and problem with handle-reference argument.
- Fix Constraint2D body connection serialization (other body nodeID.)
- Fix instancing in vegetation shader.
- Fix SDL keyboard input on RPI platform.
- Fix fixed size billboard not properly realculating size in all cases.
- Fix multisample quality handling on D3D11.
- Fix Text3D batches beyond the first not showing correctly.
- Fix input scaling for high DPI displays.
- Fix differentiation of alpha & RGBA textures in text shader.
- Fix crash in usedGlyphs mode.
- Fix zero sized UI root element causing divide by zero.
- Fix various missing script API functions.
- Fix terrain UV coordinates generation.
- Fix shader define update when Text3D changes its rendering between SDF / non-SDF.
- Fix erroneous fadeout of other AnimationController animations, if playback of new animation failed.
- Fix nearest filter mode not using mipmaps on OpenGOL.
- Fix skinning matrix pointers changing erroneously after late creation of bones.
- Fix BillboardSet 16 bit indices limitation.
- Fix CrowdAgents getting erroneously included in navmesh geometry.
- Fix calculation of UI element combined screen rect.
- Fix world space tangent for billboards.
- Fix ValueAnimation's time range not getting expanded by adding event frames.
- Fix ValueAnimation removal during event handling causing crash.
- Fix word wrap text char positions.
- Fix WorkQueue item insertion; insert last if no other option possible.
- Fix unnecessary mouse centering in screen mode change handling.
- Fix unsafe removal of event receivers.
- Fix string corruption in SQLite queries.
- Fix error in skybox HLSL shader when instancing is forced on.
- Fix erroneous reuse of backbuffer depth buffer when multisampling.
- Fix uninitialized memory in Material.
- Fix out of bounds array access when material quality is higher than high.
- Fix shadow-related shader function signatures on GLES.
- Fix shaky water shader on GLES.
- Fix memory leak in AngelScript Dictionary.
- Fix weight fade erroneously affecting animation after weight was set manually.
- Fix LookAt mixed rotation mode.
- Fix skydome GLSL shader.
- Fix depth bias not getting cloned in Material::Clone().
- Fix CrowdAgent removal to be safe during reposition event.
- Fix keeping track of RigidBody2D constraints.
- Fix double shader parameters passed from e.g. Lua, convert to float.
- Fix navigation system obstacles not observing their scene node movement and updating themselves.
- Fix self-insertion in Vector.
- Fix slowed down navigation agent when scene node dirtied during reposition event.
- Fix slope-scale bias adjustment on OpenGL.
- Fix incorrect hashing of rasterizer states on D3D11.
- Fix AnimationController animation search differentiating slash and backslash when it shouldn't.
- Fix LineEdit text & cursor not being centered by default.
- Fix potential flipped normals in physics collisions (double manifold issue.)
- Fix undefined __cpu_model symbol in shared lib on GCC.
- Fix cache datatype for URHO3D_LIB_TYPE
- Fix Android black screenshot (use RGBA format.)
- Fix missing network update if node is added to the scene late.
- Fix crash when setting model resource to drawable component that is not attached to a scene node.
V1.6
- Physically based rendering shaders, techniques, renderpaths and example materials / demo scene.
- AngelScript support on Emscripten and 64-bit iOS, based on generic bindings.
- JSON load/save option for scenes, nodes and materials.
- Tags added to nodes & UI elements.
- EventProfiler subsystem.
- Improved mouse mode handling on Emscripten.
- Texture2DArray class added.
- RibbonTrail class added.
- Variance shadow mapping option.
- Normal offset option as an alternative to reducing self-shadowing artifacts.
- Arbitrary (freeform) vertex declarations. Legacy bitmask based vertex declarations emulated using them.
- API-independent graphics class headers. Should ensure Urho library ABI compatibility between builds made on different APIs.
- PackageFile support also on Android from within the .apk.
- Optional additive animation blending mode. Based on calculating difference from the bind pose on the fly.
- Directional billboard mode.
- Fixed screen size option for billboards & Text3D.
- Rendering scale added to UI.
- Context-wide global variable implementation. Replaces the previous script-only global variables mechanism.
- Aggregate initializers for containers.
- C++11 binding to Urho events using std::bind.
- C++11 variadic template version of SendEvent().
- 64-bit integer support in Serializer / Deserializer.
- Template versions of math functions.
- Container class API improvements.
- SharedPtr / WeakPtr implicit upcasting support.
- Matrix2 class.
- Rename escape key name to KEY_ESCAPE for consistency with SDL.
- Make keycodes lowercase for consistency with SDL.
- API to get joysticks by name.
- Detect number of CPU cores on Emscripten if possible.
- Utilize SDLActivity's get arguments feature.
- Configurable minidump write location.
- Engine parameter for enabling/disabling high DPI window mode.
- Skip using the engine frame limiter on iOS when targeting 60 fps or above, to prevent erratic frame rate from sleep calls.
- Text effect enhancements.
- TmxFile2D & SpriteSheet2D improvements.
- Sprite2D edge offset parameter for removing bleeding artifacts.
- Drawable2D distance sorting.
- Interpolation mode IM_NONE (no interpolation) added to ValueAnimation.
- Segmented PhysicsWorld ray query for performance optimization.
- Hit fraction added to physics cast results.
- Allow custom collision shape subclasses & custom Bullet collision configuration.
- Expanded data returned from NavigationMesh path queries.
- Clone() added to Technique, ParticleEffect & ParticleEffect2D classes.
- SetFontSize() added to Text & Text3D.
- IntRect / IntVector2 setters & getters added to XMLElement.
- TryAcquire() added to Mutex class.
- Vector2 Angle() function added.
- StringUtils ToInt() & ToUInt() take an optional base parameter.
- Convenience function Context::CreateObject<T>.
- Convenience template version of ReleaseResource().
- Allow Vector4 to substitute for Color in Variant::GetColor().
- Additional Variant types can function as parameters for AngelScript function / method calls.
- Improve FixedUpdate event to allow it to originate from either PhysicsWorld or PhysicsWorld2D.
- Particle effect, animation playback & sound playback finish events.
- CrowdAgent emits events also from its node.
- Event sent after cloning a Node or Component is done.
- b2Contact pointer added to PhysicsWorld2D collision events.
- Execute DelayedStart() before FixedUpdate() if FixedUpdate comes sooner than the first Update.
- Allow updating AnimatedModel's bone bounding box manually.
- Texture SetData() functions modified to use raw Image ptr for consistency and script bindings simplicity.
- Graphics::SetDither() for controlling backbuffer dithering, relevant on mobiles with 16bit backbuffer.
- Graphics::Draw() & DrawInstanced() overload with base vertex index.
- UIBatch::AddQuad() with arbitrary positions & UVs.
- Use glReadPixels() to get pixel data from rendertargets on GLES.
- Highp precision used for GLES shadows.
- Change deferred shaders to use proper world space to be easier to understand.
- Send ElapsedTime uniform to UI rendering.
- Allow overriding culling mode in a pass.
- SendEvent renderpath command that can be used to interleave custom low-level rendering.
- TRANSLUCENT lighting option in shaders, which takes absolute value of N dot L.
- NOUV shader option added for D3D11 compatibility when model data does not contain UVs.
- Buffer variants supported as shader parameters; will be interpreted as an array of floats.
- View & inverse view uniforms supplied to shaders. Obsolete camera rotation uniform removed.
- Skydome shader & technique added.
- Optional object index vertex attribute that can be used by custom instancing schemes.
- Optional additional per-instance Vector4 data, supplied to the shaders as extra texcoords.
- Logging of D3D9 / D3D11 HRESULTs and proper failure check discipline for D3D object creation.
- Improved occluder sorting.
- Optimize to not render invisible View3Ds.
- Optimized Image::Clear() for RGBA case.
- Optimized SinCos() function added to speed up e.g. billboard calculations.
- Optimized IsPowerOfTwo() function.
- Optimization to amount of Frustum::UpdatePlanes() calls in rendering.
- Update to Civetweb 1.7.
- Update to GLEW 1.13.0.
- Update to libcpuid 0.2.2.
- Update to LuaJIT 2.1.0.
- Update to LZ4 r131.
- Update to nanodbc 2.12.4.
- Update to pugixml 1.7.
- Update to SDL 2.0.4.
- Update to SQLite 3.13.0.
- Update to stb_image 2.12, stb_image_write 1.02, stb_rect_pack 0.08 & stb_vorbis 1.09.
- Use Readline library if available for Lua & SQLite.
- Generic ARM on Linux platform support.
- Android NDK r11 & r12 support.
- Reduce exposure to SDL headers from Urho's headers.
- Support for Codelite CMake invocation.
- Improved multiarch support in auto-detection.
- Scaffolding rake task improvements.
- Build speedup improvements.
- Avoid SDL when building mini Urho3D for PackageTool.
- Avoid hardcoding sample list in build script.
- Output option in PackageTool.
- Enhance Urho3D-CMake-common module to auto find Urho3D library.
- Automatical bumping of year in the source code when crossing to a new year.
- Move to use subtrees for some thirdparty libraries.
- For downstream use: auto detect Urho3D lib type from build artifact.
- Refactored mechanism to detect CPU instruction extensions for build.
- Set PCH flags at target level, not compile unit level.
- Perform cleanup when installing headers to the build tree.
- try_run logic to auto-discover build options.
- try_compile mechanism to verify ABI compatibility of found Urho3D library.
- SDL build options added: PulseAudio, EGL, Wayland, Mir.
- LuaJIT related build fixes.
- Eliminate the need for KNET_UNIX define.
- Enable class index in documentation.
- Editor: if original node selected when pasting, do not paste as its child, but rather behave similarly as if performing a Duplicate action.
- Editor: particle editor improvements.
- Editor: node & UI element tag editing.
- Editor: use fixed size billboards for the debug icons.
- Editor: add gamma correction & HDR rendering toggles.
- Editor: reorder components, nodes & UI elements by holding down Ctrl when drag-dropping.
- Editor: fix sharp edges in UI when opacity is reduced.
- Editor: fix "is enabled" checkbox moving to wrong location when node is edited.
- AssetImporter: allow saving animations without actual skinned geometry.
- AssetImporter: allow saving a subset of an animation.
- AssetImporter: generate non-deforming skinning information when a model has non-skinned subgeometries.
- AssetImporter: support multiple color & UV channels.
- Fix various missing script bindings & missing export specifiers for classes.
- Fix various uninitialized variables.
- Fix hardware shadow support always returning false on OpenGL after the Graphics headers refactor.
- Fix wrong UV index in drawable OBJ export.
- Fix backbuffer not getting cleared when just UI & texture viewports are being rendered.
- Fix DirExists() on Android.
- Fix potential crash when using MessageBox from C++.
- Fix erroneous fog shader uniform being set in some rendering cases.
- Fix serialization of localized Text elements.
- Fix use of deprecated usleep() function in favor of nanosleep().
- Fix UI slider knob behavior when it's fixed size.
- Fix toggling mouse visibility right at application start.
- Fix instancing in HLSL water shader.
- Fix Android / iOS reporting mouse as grabbed.
- Fix update event subscription in Material class.
- Fix window getting maximized after fullscreen -> windowed change on Windows + SDL 2.0.4.
- Fix bogus SDL joystick registration on Android.
- Fix AngelScript ScriptInstance variable hot reload. Removes the need for a specific implementation from the editor.
- Fix OgreImporter animation save & Jack's walk animation.
- Fix incorrect enemy orientation on spawn in NinjaSnowWar.
- Fix insertion of further drawable updates during threaded drawable update.
- Fix runtime DLL not being installed to tool directory.
- Fix Emscripten performance loss due to enabling SSE mode incorrectly.
- Fix ODBCConnection compile error on windows.
- Fix incorrect terrain index data generation.
- Fix AssetImporter to handle potential multiple root node situations better.
- Fix incorrect 2D drawable culling optimization.
- Fix transform applying order for parented 2D rigidbodies.
- Fix incorrect rendering caused by not updating shader parameter has when a material is cloned.
- Fix FileWatcher getting in stuck on read() on Linux.
- Fix WorldToHeightMap() in Terrain.
- Fix 2D particle emitter potentially causing memory overwrite by emitting more particles than allocated.
- Fix culling issues when non-master AnimatedModels are larger than the master.
- Fix potentially incorrect viewport update order.
- Fix D3D11 dynamic textures to use only 1 mip level, as more does not work.
- Fix SDL Windows-specific mouse move internals not working in some cases (e.g. without Aero) leading to wrong relative mouse input.
- Fix basepath not being applied to file entries in PackageTool.
- Fix initial position of kinematic rigidbodies after being loaded.
- Fix temporary AnimatedModel's bones to be temporary as well.
- Fix SSE / ABI incompatibility related crashes with Bullet.
- Fix HasSubscribedToEvent() missing from scripting.
- Fix UI scrollbar snap epsilon attribute default value.
- Fix error in DropDownList serialization.
- Fix String::DecodeUTF16().
- Fix deploying .pak files to Emscripten samples.
- Fix UI style late applying when a child element is added.
- Fix CustomGeometry bounding box update when committing new data.
- Fix sprite textures to use clamp addressing by default instead of wrap.
- Fix depth test potentially disabled in OpenGL by third party programs such as MSI Afterburner (re-enable every frame.)
- Fix writing rendertarget inverse size uniforms incorrectly (Vector2 instead of Vector4.)
- Fix off by one error in mipmap data size counting.
- Fix FindUrho3D CMake module behaving incorrectly when called more than once.
- Fix PhysicsWorld::GetRigidBodies() to use immediate contact test for static bodies.
- Fix sampling of depth buffer in read-only mode on D3D11.
- Fix ForwardDepth renderpath potentially missing depth clear on OpenGL.
- Fix DropDownList placeholder text not auto-hiding when an item is selected.
- Fix possible crash issue when exiting engine with background loaded resources still in queue.
- Fix FindDirect3D CMake code for CMake old versions.
- Fix issues with parented rigidbodies when moving them from code.
- Fix math class equality operator in SSE builds on specific Visual Studio versions.
- Fix ScreenToWorldPoint() to return the specified Z distance.
- Fix vegetation shadow shader on D3D11.
- Fix & simplify setup of the "universal" builtin target in iOS build.
- Fix build system to install/package Emscripten shared js & data files.
- Fix Application.h to be usable without other include files.
- Fix lighting interpolator order in D3D11 shaders.
- Fix node's Z coordinate not retained in 2D physics movement.
- Fix potential crash and performance issues in Octree raycasts by making them non-threaded; in practice the spin-up time for work items could override any threading benefits.
- Fix missing DelayedStart functionality in LuaScriptInstance.
- Fix point fill mode on D3D11.
- Fix input focus loss when using an external window handle.
- Fix missing D3D SDK search on VS2010 and earlier.
- Fix ABI incompatibility in BoundingBox class depending on URHO3D_SSE flag.
V1.5
- Database subsystem with either SQLite or ODBC support.
- Localization subsystem.
- Improved the navigation / crowd navigation API and examples.
- SSE and animation performance optimizations.
- Enable BT_USE_SSE on Linux and MinGW platforms, enable BT_USE_NEON on Android and Raspberry-Pi platforms.
- Urho3D macros such as OBJECT, EVENT, HANDLER renamed to have URHO3D_ prefix to prevent ambiguity with other libraries.
- Double support to Variant, Deserializer, Serializer & JSONValue. Store Lua object attributes accurately as doubles.
- Support for moving nodes & components between scenes, or creating components "sceneless" and moving into a scene later.
- Cubemap loading from DDS files.
- Refactored the object class registration mechanism to store the object's base class for "Is this class derived from this" queries.
- Optional "raw" Lua file loading through direct filesystem access for easier debugging.
- Configurable blend mode in renderpath quad commands.
- UV coordinates added to raycast results.
- Allow submitting bare function names instead of full signature to Execute() & DelayedExecute() in AngelScript, similar to specifying event handler functions.
- Allow negative scale for nodes.
- Culling camera optimization for viewports, to allow rendering multiple viewports with the same culling data set.
- Refactor Urho2D animation playback. Add optional Spine support (user must supply Spine runtime.)
- Refactor Urho2D sprite atlas handling.
- CollisionShape acquires model resource from StaticModel in same node automatically if collision model undefined.
- Request the high-power GPU on AMD multi-GPU setups.
- API for programmatic animation track & keyframe creation.
- Added AnimationController IsAtEnd() function.
- Added "remove on completion" mechanism to AnimationController.
- Added function to remove all components of type to Node.
- Added GetParentComponent() function to Node.
- Added resource memory usage stats to DebugHud.
- Support for ScanDir() on Android.
- Improve Variant / VariantMap bindings on Lua.
- Improve internal mechanisms for Lua bindings, e.g. store Urho3D context inside Lua state global table.
- Improve API for kNet connection stats.
- Improve AngelScript GetChildrenWithClassName() to return also derived classes.
- Improve UI tab behavior
- Improved navigation debug geometry
- Improve ConvexCast by taking into account CollisionShape's offset position & rotation.
- Spline class cleanup & improvements, including linear interpolation mode, and looping Catmull-Rom mode.
- Refactored JSONValue class to be more JSON-like.
- Material render order support within a pass.
- MM_FREE mouse mode, which disassociates cursor visibility from being confined inside the window.
- Allow doubleclick event in UI over emptiness
- Make Octree::Raycast() threadsafe.
- GetGLContext() added to GraphicsImpl on OpenGL to allow the application to perform manual context switching.
- Fixes for vertex texture fetch on D3D11.
- Allow optional forced creation of CPU-only vertex & index buffers also in non-headless operation.
- Unified texture upload behavior: half-float formats need to be provided as such on both D3D & OpenGL. Added float/half-float conversion functions.
- Automatic generation of intermediate directories in FileSystem::CreateDir().
- Warn if attempting infinite distance physics raycast. Remove erroneous infinity default value from AngelScript physics raycast bindings.
- Allow non-strict numeric type to be returned from Variant, e.g. GetFloat() succeeds for an int.
- Allow to disable PhysicsWorld or PhysicsWorld2D automatic simulation stepping during scene update. When disabled, the physics world can still be stepped manually.
- Support for manual advancing of value animations.
- globalVars VariantMap for AngelScript to allow easy cross-ScriptFile parameter passing.
- Improve ConvexCast() to return distance using the hit fraction.
- Ensure normalized vertex weights in AssetImporter, and clamp to 4 weights maximum instead of error, by dropping the smallest weights.
- Configurable layer count in DynamicNavigationMesh to control memory usage.
- Emscripten ETC1 & PVRTC extension support detection.
- Emscripten hardware instancing support.
- emscripten_get_now() for better timer precision and less CPU use.
- Disable frame limiter Sleep() on Emscripten.
- Disable audio output in C++ samples where it isn't necessary.
- Remove redundant glEnable() / glDisable() calls related to OpenGL texture types.
- Removed defined_ member variable from BoundingBox, Sphere & Rect in favor of determining the definedness from the bounds being valid.
- Invalid order checking for Lua binding overloads.
- Dangerous math class constructors marked explicit.
- Properly enabled multithreading in GCC/Clang builds.
- Emscripten toolchain & build related fixes and improvements.
- Clang tools support in the build.
- Annotator & script binding extractor skeleton tools in preparation for generated script bindings.
- Build improvements for CLion IDE.
- Support Android NDK r10e.
- Support non-PCH build.
- Support spaces in path for build.
- Install d3dcompiler DLL to bin directory for Windows / D3D builds.
- Improved Urho3D DLL installation logic.
- More user-friendly operation for missing HTML help compiler or dot.
- Symlink assets to the build binary directory.
- Allow installed sample executables to run out-of-the-box on Windows.
- Reformatting of source code to get rid of indents on empty lines.
- Script subdirectory in the engine source renamed to AngelScript.
- Option to build Urho3D without threading (URHO3D_THREADING). Normally disabled on Emscripten but can be enabled for experimental development on browsers with included support.
- Improved documentation on contributing and 3rd party library policy.
- Update AngelScript to 2.30.2.
- Update Assimp to September 2015 revision.
- Update Bullet to 2.83.6.
- Editor: setting for new node position preference.
- Editor: particle editor improvements.
- Editor: function to assign child nodes into a spline path.
- Editor: center camera on object with HOME key.
- Editor: selectable MMB functionality.
- Editor: language selector and localizations.
- Editor: Blender hotkeys mode.
- Editor: HSV color wheel.
- Editor: event handling refactoring.
- Editor: 3D debug icons.
- Editor: make showing IDs optional.
- Editor: cubemap generation support.
- Editor: export scene to .obj.
- Editor: accelerator keys for reset pos/rot/scale.
- Editor: quickmenu select topmost option with Enter key.
- Editor: local offset added to spawn editor.
- Fix missing bindings in navigation / crowd navigation script API.
- Fix missing Lua bindings for Component class.
- Fix SplinePath AngelScript bindings.
- Fix failure to add / remove obstacles due to DetourTileCache queue being full.
- Fix UI element debug draw.
- Fix quantized AABB bug with large collision meshes.
- Fix incorrect viewport size when rendering to both backbuffer & textures.
- Fix flashing of 2D sprite animations due to misreported animation length.
- Fix AssetImporter single keyframe animations.
- Fix GetData() from rendertarget textures on D3D9.
- Fix handling of lightmap textures in AssetImporter.
- Fix debug geometry rendering if backbuffer resolve was used.
- Fix blend mode of Urho2D material getting overwritten.
- Fix terrain shader quality on mobile devices.
- Fix partial rendertarget clear on D3D11.
- Fix URHO3D_PACKAGING build option on Windows shared lib build.
- Fix PackageFile::GetEntryNames() to return filenames with original case.
- Fix FXAA3 shader on OpenGL.
- Fix Depth shader on D3D11.
- Fix Blur shader.
- Fix shader code which attempts to use 3D textures on GLES.
- Fix objects getting removed from physics simulation due to zero Node scale on some axis.
- Fix line height of included SDF fonts. Fix corrupt rendering if Text3D changes font from SDF to non-SDF or vice versa.
- Fix inaccurate terrain occlusion.
- Fix ValueAnimation resource not loading properly.
- Fix RigidBody2D body type enum.
- Fix RigidBody2D & CollisionShape2D to be resilient of the add order.
- Fix Drawable2D's not using viewmask in rendering & raycast.
- Fix Quaternion::FromLookRotation() zero cross product case.
- Fix RigidBody2D custom mass handling.
- Fix multiple value children created into XMLElement.
- Fix TmxFile2D loading according to the updated Tiled spec.
- Fix integer overflow in Random() functions.
- Fix potentially unreleased Lua function references.
- Fix UIElement functions that may crash at UI deletion time.
- Fix mistaken commenting out of GLSL source code.
- Fix animation "freezing" due to model being invisible while the animation finishes.
- Fix Graphics::ResolveToTexture() on D3D11, especially for less-than-fullscreen viewports.
- Fix potential crash or error during animation event processing, if animations are added/removed.
- Fix potential null pointer access at navmesh destruction time.
- Fix not allowing collision geometry from multiple CustomGeometries in the same node.
- Fix space glyph not getting loaded in some fonts.
- Fix missing resource dependencies tracking when resource autoloading is switched on during runtime.
- Fix crash on MinGW build with SSE optimizations.
- Fix windowed / fullscreen switching on Emscripten.
- Fix missing URHO3D_API specifiers from some classes / structs.
- Fix improper rounding during TrueType loading, which would displace some glyphs.
- Fix incorrect bounding box of StaticSprite2D.
- Fix lost font texture (OpenGL only) not being handled for Text3D.
- Fix crash with CollisionChain2D with not enough vertices. Allow to create CollisionChain2D in the editor.
- Fix crash caused by querying HashMap or HashSet while it's being cleared.
- Fix erroneous hardware keyboard input on Android.
- Fix Android MIPS build.
- Fix UI element layouting changing the user-defined minimum size.
- Fix crash in 64bit build when opening the console window.
- Fix potential edge artifacts in dynamically created spritesheets.
- Fix Spine animation playback thread safety.
- Fix mouse button release while cursor hidden not releasing drag elements.
- Fix too heavy-handed skybox shader Z adjustment on GLES, which caused objects to be obscured by the skybox.
- Fix protected AngelScript class variables showing up as serializable/editable.
- Fix ResourceRefList serialization bug caused by String::Split() not returning empty strings.
V1.4
- Direct3D11 and OpenGL 3 rendering. Shader Model 2 support removed.
- Experimental Emscripten support.
- Raspberry-Pi 2 support.
- Overhauled build system with better out-of-source build support & source tree reorganization.
- Add host-tool building support for cross-compiling build which makes enabling of Lua/LuaJIT on Android build easier to configure than before and also makes new URHO3D_PACKAGING build option possible.
- Add new engine parameter to set the location of the asset/resource prefix path. This addition makes new URHO3D_MACOSX_BUNDLE build option possible.
- Add proper precompiled header (PCH) support for GCC/Clang compiler toolchains (and their derivatives).
- Add compiler cache (ccache) support to build system for host systems where ccache is installable. The support is available for both native and cross-compiler toolchains.
- Crowd navigation and dynamic navigation mesh using the DetourCrowd and DetourTileCache libraries.
- 2D rendering improvements and optimization.
- Allow materials to use any texture unit; up to 8 consecutive material texture units available for desktop graphics.
- Depth-only rendering pass and readable hardware depth support.
- Cubemap support and using programmatically defined rendertargets in renderpaths.
- Vertex and index buffer access from script through VectorBuffer.
- UI can be rendered to a texture with a renderpath command.
- Uncompressed DDS support: generic decode to 8-bit RGBA.
- Dynamic audio types instead of hardcoded.
- Dynamic cursor image type definitions.
- Added various material techniques.
- Allow reading Data/CommandLine.txt on all platforms, if Urho3DPlayer is started without parameters.
- LOD level support in Terrain collision shape.
- Reduce cost of rendering multiple materials with same shader parameter values, reduce shader switching cost on D3D9, and other rendering efficiency optimizations.
- Refactored event subscription mechanism with Lua.
- Add SpritePacker utility.
- User configurable indentation for XML and JSON files.
- Controls class moved away from Network subdirectory to allow using when Urho3D is built without networking.
- MOBILE_GRAPHICS & DESKTOP_GRAPHICS defines for graphics capability level, to avoid hardcoded platform checks.
- Remove bell sound when pressing Alt key combinations on Windows.
- 8-bit time stamp added to client controls sent over the network. Allow to intercept attribute updates from network. These features should allow writing custom clientside prediction.
- Return hit submesh index in raycast to StaticModel.
- Fill mode added to materials.
- AngelScript script objects can be stored in a Variant.
- Improved attribute registration: class name and variant type not needed.
- Add new rake tasks to facilitate configuring/generating and building Urho3D project, including downstream project using Urho3D library.
- Update PugiXml to 1.5.
- Update STB libraries to latest.
- Editor: particle effect editor window.
- Editor: sound type editor window.
- Editor: remember script attributes and restore them if a compile error occurs.
- Editor: remember custom var names globally in the editor configuration.
- Editor: button-based editor for bitmask attributes.
- Editor: duplicate operation.
- Editor: resource browser improvements.
- Editor: renderpath can be chosen.
- Editor: allow running without Urho2D compiled in.
- Editor: inspector lock.
- Editor: ensure correct gizmo size in orthographic mode.
- Editor: copy camera transform operation.
- Editor: do not allow to set a dialog modal in the UI editor.
- Fix mouse stutter by using SDL_PollEvent() instead of SDL_PumpEvents().
- Fix various missing script bindings.
- Fix missing editor grid after scene revert.
- Fix StaticModelGrup alpha materials rendering only 1 instance.
- Fix missing attribute side effects (ApplyAttributes) in attribute animation.
- Fix billboard render sorting from several views on the same frame.
- Fix editor to load UI assets from executable directory to prevent using old UI assets from user's resource directories.
- Fix UI element drag showing "not accepted" mistakenly.
- Fix WritePackedQuaternion() always returning false.
- Fix uninitialized variable in Shader class.
- Fix wrong camera aspect ratio after modifying orthographic size.
- Fix "lightvolumes" render path command not allowing custom shader defines.
- Fix AnimatedSprite2D not hiding child sprites when disabled.
- Fix missing export specifiers for some Urho3D classes.
- Fix additive particle scale modification making the particle size negative.
- Fix screen orientation issue on iOS 8.
- Fix multiple view rendering for 2D drawables.
- Fix Bullet friction on Clang compiler.
- Fix textures left bound in multiple units on OpenGL.
- Fix infinite loop in ResourceCache::AddPackageFile().
- Fix corrupt network message reception by updating kNet library.
- Fix NaN check working incorrectly on GCC.
- Fix possible wrong logic when a component is removed from a scene node, as opposed to being destroyed.
- Fix tab escape sequences in the generated script documentation.
- Fix warnings that leak into Urho3D applications.
- Fix being able to create a REPLICATED component into a LOCAL node.
- Fix negative light direction from Assimp with certain 3D file formats.
- Fix spot light FOV handling with Assimp.
- Fix incorrect partial terrain update and improve terrain update worst-case performance.
- Fix incorrect rendering to backbuffer after post-process pingponging on OpenGL.
- Fix crash when calling FixInterpolation() incorrectly on a compressed sound resource.
- Fix AngelScript compile on VS2015.
- Fix crash with null materials in 2D rendering.
- Fix kNet WinXP compatibility.
- Fix possible threaded resource load issues with XML files.
- Fix missing null checks in AnimatedSprite2D.
- Fix window drag behavior with hidden mouse on Linux; require click in window before re-enabling hidden mouse on all desktop OS'es.
- Fix erratic hidden mouse move when used together with touch input.
- Fix black screen on OSX after fullscreen/windowed switch.
- Fix incorrectly working AngelScript native calls on Clang / Windows.
- Fix building of 32-bit Linux software package on 64-bit host system and add options for build system to produce correct "LIB_SUFFIX" for 64-bit Debian and RPM packages.
V1.32
- Finalized Urho2D functionality, including 2D physics using Box2D, sprite animation and tile maps.
- Threaded background resource loading. Must be manually triggered via ResourceCache or by loading a scene asynchronously.
- Attribute and material shader parameter animation system.
- Customizable onscreen joystick for mobile platforms. Used in examples.
- Touch camera control in examples on mobile platforms.
- Touch emulation by mouse.
- Multi-touch UI drag support.
- Consistent touch ID's across platforms.
- Absolute, relative and wrap modes for the operating system mouse cursor.
- Support for connecting & removing joysticks during runtime.
- Negative light & light brightness multiplier support.
- Transform spaces for Node's translate, rotate & lookat functions.
- Scrollable console.
- Selectable console command interpreter (AngelScript, Lua, FileSystem).
- Touch scroll in ScrollView & ListView.
- UI layout flex scale mode.
- Custom sound streams from C++.
- LogicComponent C++ base class with virtual update functions similar to ScriptObject.
- Signed distance field font support.
- JSON data support.
- Matrix types in Variant & XML data.
- Intermediate rendertarget refactoring: use viewport size to allow consistent UV addressing.
- ParticleEmitter refactoring: use ParticleEffect resource for consistency with ParticleEmitter2D and more optimal net replication.
- Expose LZ4 compression functions.
- Support various cube map layouts contained in a single image file.
- Configurable Bullet physics stepping behavior. Can use elapsed time limiting, or a variable timestep to use less CPU.
- Default construct math objects to zero / identity.
- Mandatory registration for remote events. Check allowed event only when receiving.
- Teapot & torus builtin objects.
- FXAA 3.11 shader.
- Triangle rendering in DebugRenderer (more efficient than 3 lines).
- Material/texture quality and anisotropy as command line options and engine startup parameters.
- Spline math class, which the SplinePath component uses.
- Console auto-show on error.
- DrawableProxy2D system for optimizing 2D sprite drawing.
- Possibility to decouple BorderImage border UV's from element size.
- Editor & NinjaSnowWar resources split into subdirectories.
- UI hover start & end events.
- UI drag cancel by pressing ESC.
- Allowed screen orientations can be controlled. Effective only on iOS.
- Rendering sceneless renderpaths.
- Define individual material passes as SM3-only.
- Support for copying ListView text to system clipboard.
- Async system command execution.
- Generic attribute access for Lua script objects.
- Use Lua functions directly as event subscribers.
- Touch gesture recording and load/save.
- AssetImporter option to allow multiple import of identical meshes.
- Automatically create a physics world component to scene when necessary.
- GetSubimage function in the Image class.
- Possibility to clone existing components from another scene node.
- Improve terrain rendering on mobile devices.
- Refactoring of camera facing modes in BillboardSet & Text3D.
- Additive alpha techniques for particle rendering.
- Possibility to use CustomGeometry component for physics triangle mesh collision.
- Access to 2D node coordinates for convenience when using 2D graphics features.
- Save embedded textures in AssetImporter.
- Use best matching fullscreen resolution if no exact match.
- Use SDL_iPhoneSetAnimationCallback instead of blocking main loop.
- Allow fast partial terrain updates by modifying the heightmap image.
- API for setting image pixels by integer colors.
- Refactor to remove the separate ShortStringHash class.
- Deep clone functionality in Model resource.
- Zone can define a texture which is available to shaders. Not used by default.
- Allow logging from outside the main thread.
- Log warnings for improper attempts to use events from outside main thread.
- Improved CustomGeometry dynamic updates.
- ConvexCast function in PhysicsWorld.
- Screen to world space conversion functions in Viewport class.
- Allow sending client rotation to server in addition to position.
- Allow accessing and modifying the engine's next timestep.
- DeepEnabled mechanism for disabling node or UI element hierarchies and then restoring their own enabled state.
- Allow to prevent closing a modal window with ESC.
- Per-viewport control of whether debug geometry should render.
- Optional interception of resource requests.
- Readded optional slow & robust mode to AreaAllocator.
- Optionally disable RigidBody mass update to allow fast adding of several CollisionShape components to the same node.
- Runtime synchronization of resource packages from server to client.
- Disable multisample antialiasing momentarily during rendering. Used by default for UI & quad rendering.
- Glyph offset support in Font class.
- Font class internal refactoring.
- Allow to create AngelScript script objects by specifying the interface it implements.
- Window position startup parameters.
- Functions to get time since epoch & modify file's last modified time.
- Optionally auto-disable child elements of a scroll view when touch scrolling.
- Allocate views permanently per viewport to allow querying for drawables, lights etc. reliably.
- Allow to specify material techniques/passes that should not be used on mobile devices.
- Reduced default shadow mapping issues on mobile devices.
- Minor rendering optimizations.
- Build system: possibility to build Urho3D without networking or 2D graphics functionality.
- Build system: improved generated scripting documentation.
- Build system: improved support for IDE's in CMake scripts.
- Build system: support up to Android NDK r10c and 64-bit ABIs.
- Build system: numerous other improvements.
- Editor: resource browser.
- Editor: spawn window for random-generating objects.
- Editor: allow either zoom or move from mouse wheel.
- Editor: locate object by doubleclicking node in hierarchy.
- Editor: take screenshots with F11, camera panning.
- Editor: button in value edit fields that allows editing by mouse drag.
- Updated SDL to 2.0.3.
- Updated AngelScript to 2.29.1.
- Updated assimp.
- Updated Recast/Detour.
- Fix MinGW build issues.
- Fix techniques referring to wrong shaders.
- Fix Node::LookAt() misbehaving in certain situations.
- Fix resize event not reporting correct window size if window is maximized at start.
- Fix PhysicsWorld::GetRigidBodies() not using collision mask.
- Fix zone misassignment issues.
- Fix Lua not returning correctly typed object for UIElement::GetChild() & UIElement::GetParent().
- Fix uninitialized variables in 2D physics components.
- Fix quad rendering not updating elapsed time uniform.
- Fix forward rendering normal mapping issues by switching calculations back to world space.
- Fix wrong logging level on Android.
- Fix multiple subscribes to same event on Lua.
- Fix missing Octree update in headless mode.
- Fix crash when using FreeType to access font kerning tables.
- Fix ReadString() endless loop if the string does not end.
- Fix shadow mapping on OS X systems with Intel GPU.
- Fix manually positioned bones being serialized properly.
- Fix file checksum calculation on Android.
- Fix accelerometer input on Android when device is flipped 180 degrees.
- Fix missing or misbehaving Lua bindings.
- Fix crashes in physics collision handling when objects are removed during it.
- Fix shader live reload if previous compile resulted in error.
- Fix named manual textures not recreating their GPU resource after device loss.
- Fix skeleton-only model not importing in AssetImporter.
- Fix terrain raycast returning incorrect position/normal.
- Fix animation keyframe timing in AssetImporter if start time is not 0.
- Fix storing Image resources to memory unnecessarily during cube/3D texture loading.
- Fix to node transform dirtying mechanism and the TransformChanged() script function.
- Fix returned documents directory not being writable on iOS.
- Fix click to emptiness not closing a menu.
- Fix FileWatcher notifying when file was still being saved. By default delay notification 1 second.
- Fix .txml import in the editor.
- Fix erroneous raycast to triangles behind the ray.
- Fix crash when multiple AnimatedModels exist in a node and the master model is destroyed.
- Fix missing Matrix4 * Matrix3x4 operator in script.
- Fix various compile warnings that leak to applications using Urho3D.
- Fix DebugHud update possibly being late one frame.
- Fix various macros not being usable outside Urho3D namespace.
- Fix erroneous layout with wordwrap text elements.
- Fix debug geometry rendering on flipped OpenGL viewports.
- Fix kNet debug mode assert with zero sized messages.
- Fix not being able to stop and restart kNet server.
- Fix AreaAllocator operation.
- Fix possible crash with parented rigidbodies.
- Fix missing network delta update if only user variables in a Node have been modified.
- Fix to only search for June 2010 DirectX SDK, as earlier SDK's will fail.
- Fix wrong search order of added resource paths.
- Fix global anisotropic filtering on OpenGL.
- Fix animation triggers not working if trigger is at animation end.
- Fix CopyFramebuffer shader name not being used correctly on case-sensitive systems.
- Fix UI elements not receiving input when the window containing them is partially outside the screen to the left.
- Fix occlusion rendering not working with counterclockwise triangles.
- Fix material shader parameter animations going out of sync with other animations when the object using the material is not in view.
- Fix CPU count functions on Android.
V1.31
- Extensive build system improvements, especially for using Urho3D as a library in an downstream project.
- LuaJIT support.
- Improved Lua bindings, Lua coroutine support, automatic loading of compiled Lua scripts (.luc) if they exist.
- HDR rendering, 3D textures, height fog and several new post process shaders.
- Shader refactoring. Need for XML shader descriptions & ShaderCompiler tool removed.
- Reflection / refraction rendering support.
- 2D drawable components: StaticSprite2D, AnimatedSprite2D, ParticleEmitter2D.
- ToolTip & MessageBox UI elements. UI logic improvements.
- Optimized text rendering + dynamic population of font textures for improved batching.
- AngelScript DelayedExecute for free functions, and event handling for any script object, not just ScriptInstances.
- Editor: added grid, toolbar, camera view presets, camera orbit, mouse wheel zoom, multiple viewports and orthographic camera.
- Borderless window mode, possibility to change application icon.
- SDL GameController support, raw key codes support.
- Optimized shadow rendering on mobile devices. Low quality mode avoids dependent texture reads.
- HttpRequest class runs in a background thread to avoid blocking.
- Compressed package file support using the LZ4 library.
- Cone parameters in SoundSource3D for directional attenuation.
- Variant GetPtr() safety refactoring. Uses WeakPtr's to store RefCounted subclasses. Use GetVoidPtr() to store unsafe arbitrary pointers.
- Improved work queue completion events. Work items are now RefCounted to allow persisting them as necessary.
- Allow to disable automatic execution of AngelScript & Lua from the engine console.
- Added shader variations, for example ambient occlusion texture and better emissive color support.
- Added examples.
- Update SDL to 2.0.1.
- Update AngelScript to 2.28.1.
- Update FreeType to 2.5.0.
- Fix partial texture updates, both Direct3D9 & OpenGL.
- Fix long-standing audio click bug.
- Fix kinematic rigidbodies to apply impulses correctly to dynamic bodies.
- Plus many more improvements and bugfixes.
V1.3
- Lua scripting support.
- Optional build as a single external library, static or dynamic.
- Raspberry Pi support.
- 64-bit build support.
- HTTP client using the Civetweb library.
- Enhanced CMake build scripts. Android build also uses CMake. Use out-of-source build on platform that supports it.
- Rendering performance optimizations, optional StaticModelGroup component for culling and lighting several objects as one unit.
- A set of sample applications implemented in C++, AngelScript and Lua.
- Automatic node/component handle member variable serialization for AngelScript script objects.
- New UI theme.
- Shadow & stroke effects in Text & Text3D.
- Boolean shader uniforms.
- Quick menu in the editor.
- Material editor and preview in the editor.
- Editable attributes for particle emitters.
- Components are grouped into categories in the editor.
- Update SDL to stable 2.0.0 release.
- Several other improvements and bugfixes.
V1.23
- UI layout editing in the editor.
- Undo/redo in the editor.
- Recast/Detour library integration for navigation mesh generation and pathfinding.
- Open Asset Import Library update, enables FBX file support.
- "Is Enabled" attribute in scene nodes and components for an uniform mechanism to temporarily disable unneeded audiovisual, physics or logic objects.
- Script object public variables editing and serialization.
- New components: Text3D and Sprite.
- UI library functionality improvements.
- sRGB texture and framebuffer support.
- Switched to GLEW library for OpenGL extension handling.
- Vegetation and lightmapping example shaders.
- Engine configuration through a parameter map.
- Lots of refactoring, code cleanup and bugfixes.
V1.22
- Configurable render path replaces hardcoded forward/prepass/deferred modes. Render path system also used for postprocessing now.
- Threaded task priorities; long-running tasks (more than one frame) can coexist with the time-critical tasks.
- Possibility to use also RGB normal maps.
- CustomGeometry component, which allows geometry to be defined similarly to OpenGL immediate mode.
- Elapsed time shader parameter for material animation.
- Cubic environment mapping example shaders.
- Separate physics collision start & end events.
- Visual Studio 2012, Eclipse & Xcode build support.
- Many bugfixes, including iOS 6 orientation & shadow mapping bugfixes, and skinning on some Android devices.
V1.21
- Bugfixes and code cleanup.
- External window support (experimental).
- UI elements refactored to use attributes for serialization.
- Animation state editing and animation trigger events.
- Scene update time scale can be modified.
- Improved the delayed method call system.
V1.2
- Android and iOS support.
- Decal rendering.
- Terrain rendering.
- Joystick input support.
- Use SDL library for windowing and input on all platforms.
- KTX and PVR image loading (for ETC1 & PVRTC compressed textures).
- Removed need for shader preprocessing; reorganized shaders to be more friendly to base custom shaders on.
- Inbuilt geometry shapes in the editor.
V1.16
- Switched to Bullet physics library.
- More physics constraint types.
- Rendering and networking performance optimizations.
- Use Squish library to implement software DXT decompression when not supported in hardware.
V1.15
- New deferred rendering pipeline.
- Unicode support.
- Live resource reloading in the editor (Windows only so far).
- More accurate frame timing.
- Bugfixes to physics jittering and FBO performance issue on Linux.
V1.14
- Object (partial scene) load/save.
- Post-processing.
- Switched to pugixml library, scene load/save optimizations.
- Bugfixes to rendertexture views and component attributes.
V1.13
- Task-based multithreading.
- Vertex lighting option.
- Forward and light pre-pass rendering pipelines.
V1.12
- Manipulator gizmo and multi-editing in the editor.
- Switched to forward rendering exclusively, which is optimized to do more work in the vertex shader.
- Zone system refactoring. Objects check the zone they belong to for per-zone light masking, ambient light and fog settings.
- Scripting API fixes and improvements.
V1.11
- Bugfixes and performance optimizations.
- Added GraphicsTest example from V1.0 (now called TestSceneOld).
- Added fallback mode, which is used if multiple render targets or hardware shadow maps are not available.
V1.1
- Object and scene model refactoring.
- Automatic serialization of scene objects via attributes.
- Added OpenGL and cross-platform support.
- Switched to kNet library for networking.
V1.0