Initial V1.7 changelog.

Docs/Urho3D.dox

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+V1.7
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+- Inverse kinematics support.
+- Bullet %RaycastVehicle support.
+- AppleTV platform support.
+- 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(9 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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.
+- 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: 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.