Babylon.js/what's new.md

• 2.3.0:
  • Major updates
  • Sponza demo
  • Support for procedural cube textures Demo here (deltakosh)
  • New UniversalCamera which support keyboard, mouse, touch and gamepad (davrous)
  • Point lights shadow mapping. Demo here (deltakosh)
  • Introducing Materials Library (deltakosh)
    • Water material: http://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/Water. Demo here (julien-moreau)
    • Fire material: http://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/fire. Demo here (julien-moreau)
    • Normal material: http://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/normal (temechon)
    • Lava Material: http://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/lava (temechon)
    • PBR Material: http://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/pbr (deltakosh)
      
    • Fur Material: http://doc.babylonjs.com/extensions/Fur. Demo here (julien-moreau)
  • Introducing Procedural textures Library (meulta
  • New cache mechanism for StandardMaterial (deltakosh)
  • New Solid Particle System Demo here (jerome)
  • New StandardMaterial.lightmapTexture which can be controlled with StandardMaterial.useLightmapAsShadowMap (deltakosh)
  • Support for reflection probes. See documentation here (deltakosh)
  • New serializers folder to host .babylon serializers (deltakosh)
    • New .obj serializer (BitOfGold)
  • Sprites now can be picked and can use actions (deltakosh)
  • New Mesh.CreatePolyhedron() method (jerome)
  • New Mesh.CreateIcoSphere() method Demo here (G'kar)
  • Introducing babylon.core.js (deltakosh)
  • Introducing AnimationRanges for Skeletons and Animations (deltakosh)
    • Added parsing / serialization, copying between similar skeletons & better deletion (Palmer-JC)
    • Expanded AnimationRanges for Nodes (Mesh, Lights, Cameras) (Palmer-JC)
    • Support for added to Blender Exporter (Palmer-JC)
  • Support for glTF files loader (julien-moreau)
  • Updates
  • Audio files are now saved for offline access (davrous)
  • New CubeTexture.CreateFromImages() (deltakosh)
  • Bounding info can be locked and updated (bb.isLocked and bb.update()) (deltakosh)
  • 2D layers now have a scale and offset properties (deltakosh)
  • TouchCamera can now fallback to regular mouse/keyboard controls (deltakosh)
  • Added ability to skip current prepared Action to next active Action (chained by Action.then(Action)) (vouskprod)
  • Added new event triggers ActionManager.OnLongPressTrigger and ActionManager.OnPickDownTrigger (vouskprod)
  • new Mesh.convertToUnIndexedMesh() to create meshes with no indices (which could be faster when vertex reuse is low and vertex structure is small) (deltakosh)
  • Unity3D exporter will recognise instances of prefabs (ozRocker)
  • New parse mechanism (for loading .babylon file) (deltakosh)
    
  • New button to log the camera position in the debug layer (temechon)
  • Shader files (fragment and vertex) can now be specified via direct URL (vouskprod)
  • Added Animatable.goToFrame() (deltakosh)
    
  • Fixed behavior or Animation.CreateAndStartAnimation and added Animation.CreateMergeAndStartAnimation to reproduce previous behavior (deltakosh)
  • Adding StandardMaterial.linkEmissiveWithDiffuse to, well, link emissive with diffuse value. (With)[http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#2FPUCS#2] and (without)http://www.babylonjs-playground.com/#2FPUCS#1
  • Adding support for equi-rectangular mapping. See demo here (deltakosh)
  • Sprites and particles scheduler updated to be resolved before transparent objects (deltakosh)
  • Added ability to deactivate ArcRotateCamera panning mechanism (by setting panningSensibility to 0) (vouskprod)
    
  • Added DirectionalLight.autoUpdateExtends to prevent directional lights to adapt to scene extends (deltakosh)
  • Added a new parameter to debugLayer.show() to define root element to use (deltakosh)
  • New MeshBuilder class used to create all kind of mesh shapes (deltakosh)
  • Added Scene.constantlyUpdateMeshUnderPointer to improve performance when moving mouse (deltakosh)
  • Added StandardMaterial.disableLighting (deltakosh)
  • Improved reflection shader performance (deltakosh)
  • New Material.sideOrientation property to define clockwise or counter-clockwise faces selection. Demo here (deltakosh)
  • It is now possible to create a custom loading screen. PR (RaananW)
  • Per face color and texture feature in MeshBuilder.CreateCylinder() (jerome)
  • Arc feature in CreateCylinder, CreateSphere, CreateTube, CreateDisc and CreateLathe (jerome)
  • Slice feature in MeshBuilder.CreateSphere() (jerome)
  • closed parameter in MeshBuilder.CreateLathe() (jerome)
  • cap parameter in MeshBuilder.CreateLathe() (jerome)
  • diameter, hasRings, enclose parameters in MeshBuilder.CreateCreateCylinder() (jerome)
  • added getNormalAtCoordinates() and getNormalAtCoordinatesToRef() methods in MeshBuilder.CreateLathe() (jerome)
  • Material.dispose() now removes disposed material from meshes (deltakosh)
  • New Material.getBindedMeshes() function (deltakosh)
  • OimoJS Plugin now uses Quaternions exclusively and calculates body rotations correctly. PR (RaananW)
  • It is now possible to get the physics engine's body and wolrd objects using the physics engine. PR (RaananW)
  • new Heightmap Impostor for Cannon.js physics engine. PR, Demo (RaananW)
  • A plane mesh can be created with a source plane (math). PR (RaananW)
  • AbstractMesh.onPhysicsCollide will be triggered when a physics-enabled mesh collides against another. PR (RaananW)
  • Added scene onPointerMove public callback. PR (RaananW)
  • Added streaming support for BABYLON.Sound (davrous)
  • Added collisionsEnabled and workerCollisions for serialization PR (Dad72)
  • Changed from a fixed maximum of bone influencers, 4, to variable, 1-8 (Palmer-JC)
    • Support for added to Blender Exporter (Palmer-JC)
  • Float32Arrays can now directly be specified for vertex data attributes, Mesh.updateVerticesDataDirectly deprecated (Palmer-JC)
  • Added panning axis to the ArcRotateCamera PR (mstdokumaci, RaananW)
  • Added Tmp class for internal use in order to improvement the memory management, jerome)
  • Added Scene.swithActiveCamera(newCamera, attachControl) to go from one camera active to another. (dad72) PR
  • Bug fixes
  • Fixed IDB for offline support (davrous)
  • Fixed a bug with spherical mapping (deltakosh)
  • Fixed a bug with clone and createInstance which was forcing the recomputation of bounding boxes (deltakosh)
  • Fixed a bug with CSG when submeshes are kept (deltakosh)
  • Fixed a bug with texture coordinates matrices (deltakosh)
  • Fixed Sphere texture coordinates generation (deltakosh)
  • Fixed a bug with Mesh.attachToBone when bone's matrix has a negative determinant (deltakosh)
  • Fixed a possible but with the active camera while taking a screenshot. PR (RaananW)
  • Fixed a bug with worker-collisions and instances. PR (RaananW)
  • Fixed a bug with removed meshes and geometries from the worker-cache. PR (RaananW)
  • Fixed getHeightAtCoordinates() : brand new ultra fast algorithm, can be used for many objects at once in the render loop now (jerome)
  • Fixed closePath and closeArray ribbon parameter now working back together (jerome)
  • Fixed morphing on capped tubes (jerome)
  • Fixed morphing on extruded shapes (jerome)
  • Fixed tube and extruded shape cap light artifact (jerome)
  • Fixed lathe light artifact with dedicated new geometry (jerome)
  • Fixed a bug calculating velocity during collision with gravity enabled. PR (RaananW)
  • Fixed a bug in instance serialization. PR (RaananW)
  • Fixed a memory leak with textures (deltakosh)
  • Breaking changes
  • ActionManager.OnPickTrigger now acts as a single click/tap and is not raised on drag or swipe anymore. To get the old behavior, ActionManager.OnPickDownTrigger should be used instead (vouskprod)
  • VertexData.CreateCylinder() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateRibbon() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateBox() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateSphere) now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateTorus() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateTorusKnot() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreatePlane() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateDisc() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateLines() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateDashedLines() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateGround() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateTiledGround() now supports only the single options parameter (jerome)
  • VertexData.CreateGroundFromHeightMap() now supports only the single options parameter (deltakosh)
  • Tools.IsExponantOfTwo() renamed to Tools.IsExponentOfTwo() (deltakosh)
  • Tools.GetExponantOfTwo() renamed to Tools.GetExponentOfTwo() (deltakosh)
  • Updated Cannon.js plugin to the newest version (0.6.2). New cannon.js must be used. PR (RaananW)