GamePlay/CHANGES.md

v3.0.0

• Adds support for MacOSX 64-bit.
• Adds support for iOS 8+.
• Adds support for XCode 6+.
• Adds support for QTCreator 3.2+ for Linux.
• Adds support for Eclipse for Linux.
• Adds support for Eclipse for Android.
• Adds updates to FBX SDK 2015.1
• Adds support for Bullet Physics 2.82
• Adds support for C++11.
• Adds support for cubemap textures.
• Adds support for font kerning.
• Adds support for Android x86.
• Adds support for gamepads on Android.
• Adds supoprt for Android extensions through new custom native activity
• Adds new WaterSample to sample browser.
• Fixes Image to support grayscale PNGs.
• Fixes Android to build with arm instead of thumb.

v2.0.0

• Adds support for Visual Studio 2013.
• Adds support for iOS 7, MacOS X 10.9 and XCode 5.
• Adds support for BlackBerry NDK 10.2.
• Adds support for CollisionObject group mask filtering.
• Adds support in shaders for multiple lights using shader defines.
• Adds various improvements to Material binding support.
• Adds support for array MaterialParameter's.
• Adds support for encoding distance field based fonts.
• Adds support for multiple sizes of fonts encoded into single bundle.
• Adds improvements for simplified layout for forms and theming.
• Adds ControlFactory to instantiate core controls and support users registering custom controls.
• Adds support for percentage based layout definitions for controls in forms.
• Adds password mode on Textbox controls.
• Adds improvements to Textbox key repeat and cursor jump modifiers.
• Adds FileSystem::displayFileDialog on all desktop platforms.
• Adds Terrain support for material definition for user customization.
• Adds support to RenderState FrontFace.
• Adds Node::setActive, getActive and getActiveInHierachy.
• Adds ETC compressed texture support.
• Adds gameplay::strcmpnocase as a platform-independent case-insensitive string compare function.
• Adds new gestures for Long Tap, Drag and Drop.
• Adds support for Android pinch gestures.
• Adds version number to encoder output files.
• Adds support for variables like ${my_variable} in any Properties file formats.
• Fixes to specular and bumped shader for spot lights.
• Fixes to UI rendering quality from FrameBuffer usage which is no longer used.
• Fixes to Texbox focus related issues.
• Fixes to Label clipping and Labels to automatically re-size around their text.
• Fixes in Camera related to invalid project() and setActiveCamera() issues.
• Fixes for Linux VSYNC and mouse capture and mouse wheel values.
• Fixes various logging and warning problems and annoyances.
• Fixes bitmap font rendering quality in gameplay-encoder and Font class.
• Fixes Mesh CollisionShape's.
• Fixes for destroying CollisionObject that does not notify CollisionListener.
• Fixes to PhysicsVehicle where wheels detach and may collide with body.
• Fixes to encoder spotlight for properly extracting inner and outer angle from FBX.
• Fixes encoder computed Light falloff attenuation values.
• Fixes to invalid assertion in AnimationClip.
• Fixes for FrameBuffer width/height goeing out of date.
• Fixes for incorrect RenderState Type specifier.
• Fixes to FileSystem for Windows file paths.
• Fixes to improve speed of installation of binaries via install.sh/.bat scripts.
• Fixes related to disable and non-visible controls not receiving input.
• Fixes to Bundle, Font, Properties and SceneLoader to use GP_WARN and improve locations of errors.
• Fixes to encoder related to Material generation.

v1.7.0

• Adds -m parameter to encoder to support exporting Material from FBX scenes.
• Adds encoder animation grouping arguments for auto grouping and disabling grouping via -g:auto and -g:off
• Adds UI ImageControl
• Adds UI control events for enter and leave.
• Adds UI and theme support for focus state on controls.
• Adds Gamepad support in UI.
• Adds smooth interial mouse scrolling.
• Adds keyboard event handling code that was missed on some UI containers and controls.
• Adds Game accelerometer and gyro improvements.
• Adds XBox 360 controller support to MacOS X.
• Adds RenderState enum for supporting cull side definition for front, back and front-back culling.
• Adds a lua function "convert(object, className)" that will convert a gameplay userdata object to another class type by changing the metatable. (For example: This lets you convert Control to Button in lua)
• Adds gesture events to script.
• Adds script friendly verions of Camera:project(..)
• Adds support for defining lights in .scene file.
• Adds MaterialParameter setter that are script friendly.
• Adds methods to FrameBuffer for querying render target info.
• Adds FileSystem::getDirectoryName()
• Adds support so that Properties can be loaded relative to .property files.
• Adds methods on ScriptController for registering and unregisering global script callback functions.
• Adds Game::resizeEvent(..)
• Adds Game::getArguments()
• Adds Scene::load() so it can load from ".gpb" files.
• Adds some additional operators overloads for Vector classes.
• Adds RenderState::clearParameter method to allow existing material parameter values/bindings to be cleared.
• Adds loopBlendTime property for animation clips to support interpolating between the end points of an animation clip when looping.
• Fixes Xcode support to be up to date to version 6.1
• Fixes Form::projectPoint for forms that are scaled.
• Fixes Bullet NEON build problems.
• Fixes problem with static rigid bodies attached to nodes.
• Fixes problems with ghost objects and kinimatic rigid bodies.
• Fixes userData pointer that was not cloned properly when cloning a node.
• Fixes bug in createChannel with keyCount = 1.
• Fixes encoder to ignore 1 frame animations caused by FBX export on Blender.
• Fixes buggy tab order in UI.
• Fixes touch event problems not propagating up on mobile touch platforms.
• Fixes parent relationship on cloned Technique and Pass.
• Fixes Node to include light contribution for bounding volume computations.
• Fixed issue where multiple samplers pointing to the same texture would share the same state instead of using sampler-specific filter and wrap state.
• Fixes calculation of the transform matrix in FBX encoder for lights properly considering vectors like pre and post rotation scenarios.
• Fixes blurry borders on UI forms by using proper texture filtering.
• Fixes lua dofile on Windows.
• Fixes in colored shader when using spot ligts.
• Fixes issue in encoder which was converting point lights into ambient lights when they had no decay.
• Fixes to CMake projects on different platforms.
• Cleans up Platform by moving commong platform code to Platform.cpp
• Cleans up and changes Gamepad APIs.
• Cleans repo directory restructure dropping gameplay- prefix on many folders and files.
• Removes bin and external-deps folder/contents to external server with new install scripts that are now required to be run after cloning the repo.
• Removes pre-compiled api/html docs to reduce repository bloat.
• Removes support for COLLADA DAE and now support FBX.
• Removes middle mouse button simulated desktop accelerometer.

v1.6.0

• Adds file Stream interface for reading/writing files instead of using fread/fwrite.
• Adds Terrain class to support for heightmap based terrains featuring LOD, multiple surface layers, loading from PNG, RAW8/16, full transform, physics, patch culling and verticle skirt for cracks.
• Adds object-space normal map generation to gameplay-encoder for terrain normal map generation.
• Adds scene support for loading .terrain files in .scene files.
• Adds scene support for inline cameras to .scene files.
• Adds suppoft for defining .scene files without 'path' to gpb. New node can not be create in .scene file.
• Adds static Scene::getScene(const char*) to query currently active scenes in a game, helpful for script access.
• Adds support for multiple translate, rotate and scale commands in a single node entity within .scene files, processed in-order they are defined.
• Adds scene support for material auto binding scene ambient color, light color and light direction.
• Adds support for setting the depth compare function on materials.
• Adds support for texture/sampler arrays being passed to materials.
• Adds support for loading uncompressed DDS textures for the following formats: R8G8B8, A8R8G8B8, A8B8G8R8, X8R8G8B8, X8B8G8R8
• Adds improvments to prefer higher quality mipmap generation.
• Adds improved Gamepad API support for button enumeration, triggers and some mobile Gamepad support on BlackBerry.
• Adds additional gameplay-tests for billboards, forms, gamepads and lights.
• Adds support for launching the browser via launchURL(const char*).
• Adds physics support for setLinearFactor and setAngularFactor on rigid bodies.
• Adds methods to PhysicsCollisionObject to allow conversion to subclass types (i.e. PhysicsRigidBody, PhysicsCharacter, etc) from script.
• Adds option for fullscreen without width/height config to use native desktop resolution.
• Adds Linux support for OpenAL PulseAudio back-end.
• Adds support for latest Bullet Physics 2.81 with NEON optimizations for mobile targets.
• Adds support for preprocessor directive NO_LUA_BINDINGS in the gameplay project to omit inclusion of generated lua bindings in compilation for developer mode value.
• Adds optimizations to Lua generator to only write generated files if they differ from existing files, reducing both build times and committing of unchanged script binding files.
• Adds changes to Slider for setValueTextVisible, setValueTextAlignment, setValueTextPrecision and getters.
• Adds Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit support.
• Adds Apple iOS 6 support.
• Fixes to external-deps to reduce the size of the libraries on Windows.
• Fixes for Android to no longer need to copy files to the SD card before reading them. None of the Android samples require an SD card.
• Fixes for animation of opacity on UI and fonts.
• Fixes in UI for removing controls and also setVisible(bool).
• Fixes for UI controls missing on MacOSX.
• Fixes for setting UI alignment programmatically.
• Fixes for lighting shaders.
• Fixes to the texture minification mode from GL_LINEAR_MIPMAP_LINEAR to GL_NEAREST_MIPMAP_LINEAR for newly created textures with mipmaps.
• Fixes minor memory leaks and possible access violations when calling Game::exit() from script.
• Fixes physics debug drawing for large scenes causing the internal MeshBatch to grow to an enormous size.

v1.5.0

• Linux support. (tested on Ubuntu 12)
• CMake support for makefile generation for Linux.
• Gamepad API support for desktops.
• Touch gesture support for tap, swipe and pinch.
• Vehicle physics support via new PhysicsVehicle and PhysicsVehicleWheel classes.
• Adds new racer sample (sample06-racer).
• Adds gameplay-tests project as a test app for various basic engine features with some initial tests.
• Adds support for Scene files for wildcard identifiers.
• Adds Visual Studio Plug-in support for BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10.
• Adds configurable multi-sampling anti-aliasing support.
• Adds updates to latest FBX SDK 2013.3.
• Adds file formats documentation for game.config .scene, .material, .animation, .physics, .particle
• Adds Game/Platform::canExit for testing device capabilities to quit. (only ios)
• Web community forums at http://www.gameplay3d.org/forums.
• Changed keyTimes from unsigned long[] to unsigned int[]. (breaks compat. in AnimationTarget and Animation::Channel)
• Fixes inconsistencies from Bundle::getObjectID() to Bundle::getObjectId() (breaks compat. in Bundle)
• Fixes the texture coordinates of Mesh::createQuad(float x, float y, float width, float height).
• Fixes line-wise distortion when loading RGB png's into textures that are non-power of two.
• Fixes inconsistencies in createXXXX methods. (breaks compat. in Scene)
• Fixes Rectangle::contains.
• Fixes Lua print logging.
• Fixes Lua errors to be treated as runtime warnings.
• Fixes setVertexData to pointers instead of constant data.
• Fixes AudioSource so that it doesn't loop by default.
• Fixes minor UI scrolling issues.

v1.4.0

• Lua script bindings for all gameplay interfaces.
• Lua script binding generator tool (gameplay-luagen) for generating gameplay Lua bindings from doxygen xml output.
• AIController, AIAgent, AIStateMachine, AIState and AIMessage classes for scripted AI support.
• Sample for sample05-lua to demonstrate basic Lua with AI scripting.
• Gamepad class with virtual gamepad support.
• Pre-built versions gameplay-encoder added to bin folder with TTF, DAE and FBX support built-in.
• Improved modular shaders with support for #include in shaders. (breaks compat. for shaders)
• LightMap support into colored-unlit.frag and textured-unlit.frag shaders.
• Adds cloning and wireframing features to sample03-character.
• Adds kick the ball on the sample03-character to demonstrate 2 buttons and more physics.
• Fixes missing mouse events on UI controls.
• Fixes to gameplay-encoder to prompt user for font size if not specified.
• Fixes to add "-g" as short form argument for grouping animations.
• Fixes node cloning.
• Fixes to gameplay-encoder for output file path when encoding fonts.
• Fixes to FrameBuffer, RenderTarget and DepthStencilTarget.
• Fixes user switching in MacOSX to other applications with Apple-Tab.
• Fixes measureText with empty string to be proper size.
• Fixes for aliased text by applying linear filtering by default on Fonts.
• Fixes RenderState::StateBlock::bindNoRestore() issue where blend function was not restored to the proper defaults.
• Fixes some inconsistencies in Game event method names for menuEvent. (breaks compat. in Game)
• Fixes some inconsistencies with AnimationClip::getID() to be same as Node::getId() and other classes. (breaks compat. in AnimationClip)
• Fixes to gameplay-encoder and PhysicsRigidBody for heightmaps which adds height precision into generated heightmap png's.

v1.3.0

• Portrait mode games on mobile platforms.
• Fullscreen and configurable game resolutions on desktop platforms.
• User Interface support for scrolling with scrollbars on Container.
• PVRTC, ATC and DXT texture compression support.
• Performance improvements in user interface forms and text.
• Performance improvements in animations on transforms.
• Performance improvements using NEON math for BlackBerry and iOS.
• Fixes for improvements in error handling throughout all systems.
• Fixes supporting built-in Maya COLLADA exporter via DAE_FBX export.
• Fixes for latest FBX SDK 2013 support.
• Fixes for loading from some WAV files that were crashing.
• Fixes for From/By animations.
• Fixes allowing all inline properties loaded within .scene files. (breaks compat. for .scene)
• Fixes in .scene files for collisionObject definitions (breaks compat. for .scene)
• Fixes for depth/z-ordering of controls.

v1.2.0

• BlackBerry 10 support.
• iOS 5.1 support.
• Android 2.3+ support.
• User interface system with declarative forms and themes.
• Bluetooth keyboard/mouse support on BlackBerry platform.
• Developer guide.
• Sample/tutorial for sample03-character.
• Sample for sample04-particles to demonstrate particle emitters.
• Fixes for loading properties from URL.
• Fixes on Win32/MacOSX for when mouse pointer leaves the window and returns.
• Fixes to accelerometer for Android.
• Fixes in animation blending.
• Fixes to GPB for loading from single node and parent node. (breaks compat. for .gpb)

v1.1.0

• FBX support in gameplay-encoder.
• MacOSX platform support using XCode.
• Off-screen rendering functionality using FrameBuffer.
• Loading 3D scenes using declarative .scene files.
• Loading audio from .ogg files using vorbis.
• Loading AudioSources from .audio files.
• Loading Animations from .animation files.
• AnimationClip support for cross fading.
• Physics support using Bullet Physics.
• Cross-platform new project generator.
• Overloaded operators in Math classes.
• Font improvements for justify, clip, wrap and scaling.
• Fixes for Font::drawText to use point size and not float scalar.
• Fixes for memory leaks in and fixes to AnimationTarget.
• Fixes for bumped and parallax shaders.
• Fixes to simplify folders for resources in samples.
• Fixes to the material/shader system.
• Fixes to the ParticleEmitter.

v1.0.0

• Initial release.