v1.51.1

Bug Fixes

• Added same sprite check in Button component to break circular dependency (#3821)
• Fixed circular dependency for image element 'set:color' and 'set:opacity' events (#3817)
• Tweak env shiny reflection filtering (#3829)
• Fix clearcoat normals shader gen (#3823)

v1.51.0

Summary

There's a brand new method of rendering environment lighting, check out the details here: #3783
The clustered lighting has had an API changes to its final form (still in a preview), please update your code if you're testing it: #3763

What's New

• Refactor environment lighting #3783 #3789 #3810
• Implementation of the final API for clustered lighting, shadowType support #3763
• Improvement to clustered lighting shader loop #3738
• Clustered lighting uses single light texture on devices with small number of texture units #3793
• Clustered lighting uses textureLod to sample data textures to improve dynamic branching #3794
• Add support for DDS rgba16 #3743
• Remove left handed cubemap sampling #3751
• Make text-element color and opacity setter consistent with image-element. #3766
• Small refactor to ForwardRenderer.updateShaders #3757
• Add SHADOWPASS #define to shader #3746 (@Maksims)
• Internal Debug logging functionality #3754 #3775 #3777 #3802
• Create examples for the proper use of world-space screens and world to screen coordinates. #3771
• Update the assignAnimation function signature and documentation with blend tree support #3774
• Simplify NodeGraph.path and NodeGraph.root #3792
• Refactored gpu markers using Debug module #3801
• Improved DefaultMaterial to avoid circular dependency #3791
• Camera onPreRender and onPostRender callbacks #3818

Documentation

• Properly deprecated MeshInstance.syncAabb #3797

Examples Browser

• Revamp User Interface examples. #3753
• Updated cluster spot light example to add controls to add/remove light #3796
• RenderCubemap example switched from model to render component #3816
• New Box reflection example #3800 #3819

Bug Fixes

• Update the examples browser build process to correctly copy static files and clear the static folder each build (#3737)
• Correctly enable textureLod extension on webgl1 #3744
• Fix semantics string in documentation #3747
• Corrected aabb computation for morphed meshes #3750
• Remove deprecated shader chunks #3752
• Fixed standard shader generation when GGX is enabled but there are no lights #3764
• AnimComponent - First frame bug fix #3770
• Fix to the way createMesh handles blend indices #3779
• AnimComponent - fix a bug with the assignAnimation function
• fix to shader chunk naming related to skybox #3785
• Resolve animation nodes correctly and uniquify sibling node names #3787
• Search correctly when resolving nodes in default anim binder #3798 #3799
• Load vox without palette correctly #3803
• Fix aligned array buffer access on vox models #3806
• Fix embedded ktx2 loading #3812
• Fix material emissive logic #3822

v.1.50.2

Bug Fixes

• Added same sprite check in Button component to break circular dependency #3821
• Fixed circular call for image element 'set:color' and 'set:opacity #3817 (thanks @Sarletor!)

v1.50.1

Bug Fixes

• Always fire element set:color and set:opacity event when color and opacity is set (#3761)
• Assign animations events when animation asset is loaded (#3767)
• First frame bug fix (#3770)
• Fix to the way createMesh handles blend indices (#3779)
• Resolve animation nodes correctly and uniquify sibling node names (#3787)
• Anim controller update method fix (#3795)

v1.50.0

Summary

This release brings improvements to clustered lights and a ton of bug fixes.

Be sure to check out the newest clustered area lights example: https://playcanvas.github.io/#/graphics/clustered-area-lights

What's New

• Clustered Area lights (#3691)
• Small improvements to clustered lighting (#3728)
• Specular & Clear-coat support for clustered lights (#3668)
• Add vox loading script (#3655)
• Simplify skybox rotation (#3636, #3736)
• Add prefiltering helper functions (#3633)
• Expose collision point applied impulse. (#3682) - thanks to @LeXXik
• MeshInstance.skinInstance is now public (#3706)
• Deprecated Scene.defaultMaterial (#3709)

Documentation

• Set and Map are officially permitted in the engine, with limitations (#3662)
• Fixed jsdoc datatype on excludeFromLayout (#3670)
• Fix the pause animation description in the anim component layer (#3672)
• Updated description on follow camera script (#3703)

Examples Browser

• New example: Clustered Area Lights (part of #3691)
• Improved clustered spot light engine example (#3717)
• Improved lighting in Locomotion example (#3720)
• Examples debug watch update (#3722)
• UI updates (#3644)
• Fix for older mobiles (#3700)
• Debug build (#3713)
• Debug build now works on devices that only supports es5 (#3730)

Bug Fixes

• Animation updates (#3637)
• Small tweaks to clustered lighting to improve compatibility and performance (#3704)
• Grabpass functionality refactor and mipmap support for webgl2 (#3656)
• Small refactor to the way TextElement releases MeshInstances (#3595)
• Refactor some single iteration loops (#3659)
• When shader fails to link in debug mode, print out vertex/fragment shader source (#3669)
• Reimplement skybox handling in application (#3671)
• Update release script (#3690, #3692)
• Move the resizeobserver polyfill into the examples package.json (#3701)
• Follow camera lerp function is framerate independent (#3696)
• RenderComponent.material returns assigned material for primitives (#3665)
• Clustered lighting honors MeshInstance.noShadow (#3705)
• Update to msdf font rendering shader to lower the smoothing (#3707)
• Fix to lightmapper stats reporting (#3708)
• Area light optimization - shared functionality is executed one time for all lights (#3710)
• Fix to sphere area light specular reflection (#3711)
• Fixed null exception when button component is used with element group (#3712)
• Calculate compressed mipmap sizes correctly (#3716)
• Switch the watch lib to nodemon for multiple directory watching (#3721)
• Don't allow clustered area lights if less than 8 texture units (#3729)
• Fallback to uncompressed with invalid texture dimensions (#3731)
• Removed private and no longer needed debug.js (#3732)
• Various code maintenance improvements (NPM dependencies, linting)

v1.49.4

Bug Fixes

• Anim mask blending fix (#3698)
• Layer mask blending fix (#3697)
• AnimStateGraph asset change fix (#3694)
• AnimComponent syntax change (#3646)

v1.49.3

Bug Fixes

• Change to the ownership of defaultMaterial to allow easier access to it (#3685)

v1.49.2

Bug Fixes

• Glb parser handles a scene without nodes (#3677)
• AnimComponent layer mask path fix (#3679)
• Re-added entity references init event (#3680)

v1.49.1

Bug Fixes

• Lightmapper no longer leaks shadow map GPU memory (#3645)
• Fixed looping over Set to be compatible with old browsers (#3660)
• Fix undefined positions bug (#3653) - many thanks to @vmwxiong for this one!
• Replace usage of File with Blob (#3667)

v1.49.0

Summary

This is primarily a bug fix release along with a ton of code maintenance updates!

Bug Fixes

• Fix to ParticleSystem crash caused by recent refactor (#3598)
• Code maintenance (#3599, #3597, #3607, #3600, #3608, #3610, #3611, #3612, #3613, #3620, #3621, #3626, #3628, #3615, #3632)
• Used instanceof to check against Entity type directly in Anim rootBone assignment (#3619)
• Multi app support for triggers (#3624)