melonJS

Fixed

• WebGL: fix shader attribute for the projection matrix not being properly updated when using the flex scaling mode

Fixed

• Renderer: fix a regression when zooming the canvas in WebGL mode
• TypeScript : fix definition of the base Renderable class

Changed

• Physic: set collision shapes as static by default (those should be fixed anyway)
• Renderable : refactor of Draggable and DropTarget base objects

Fixed

• Physic: fix improper behavior for static bodies responding to collisions (thanks @dynamo-foundation)
• Physic: static bodies are now properly filtered out if within the same node or overlapping
• Renderable : fix a me.Sprite bug when reusing the same image/texture with different frame width/height (thanks @dynamo-foundation)

Added

• Renderable : containers now define a backgroundColor property allowing to defined a background color for a specific container
• Renderable : new inset[x/y] property setting allowing to define the size of a corner for NineSliceSprite (thanks @dynamo-foundation)

Changed

• Renderer: the video.renderer.Texture class is now directly exported (and available) as TextureAtlas

Fixed

• TypeScript : fix all typings and other issues with the typescript definition file (now with 0 warnings and linting errors)
• Input : fix a regression (undefined error) with the releasePointerEvent method (thanks @siauderman)

Added

• TMX: melonJS will now throw an error if collision polygons defined in Tiled are not forming a convex shape
• WebGL : vertex element and buffer size are now dynamically calculated based on attribute definition

Changed

• WebGL : switch from drawElements to drawArrays when drawing quads
• WebGL : optimize ColorLayer rendering and clearRect method by using clipRect & clearColor instead of drawing primitives
• Device : modernize the pointerLock implementation (2.0 specs) and moved it under me.input

Fixed

• Renderable : properly delete me.Text cache WebGL texture upon deactivation (if created)
• WebGL : Optimize vertex buffer allocated size following tint color packing into Uint32
• Device : fix pointerLock feature detection

Fixed

• Core: fix a regression with the quadtree implementation and non floating objects
• Preloader: optimize defined cache canvas size in the default loading screen when using WebGL2

Added

• Renderable: new isFloating getter returning true if the renderable is a floating object or contained in a floating container

Fixed

• TypeScript: fix most of method parameters and return type declaration when applicable
• Input: fix an issue with pointer event detection on nested floating items

Added

• Bounds: faster condition assessment for the overlaps method
• Renderable: added a basic NineSliceSprite renderable object
• Renderable: new offScreenCanvas option for me.Text allowing to use an individual offscreen canvas texture per text element

Fixed

• Input: fix a regression with me.input.pointer not being updated on pointer events
• Loader: fix a "double initialization and double reset" bug with the default loading screen

Fixed

• documentation: add missing pages for Container and World object
• Renderable: also flag as "dirty" when changing opacity, or when viewport change is triggering an ImageLayer update

Changed

• Input: refactor me.Pointer by extending me.Bounds instead of me.Rect (simplify implementation and memory usage when using pointer Event)
• WebGL: refactor/simplify the WebGLCompositor implementation to be more generic
• WebGL: prevent temporary Array Buffer Allocation when using WebGL2
• WebGL: tint color are now packed into Uint32 before passing them to the Vertex Shader
• Device: replace use of deprecated onorientationchange() event listener by the standard ScreenOrientation one

Fixed

• Input: fix a regression, throwing an undefined property exception, when accessing me.input.pointer before registering on any events (thanks @kkeiper1103)
• WebGL: fix initial declaration of the WebGLVersion property

Fixed

• Documentation: fix missing class definition after the 10.0.0 release

Fixed

• Physic: fix a regression (crash) with undefined reference in the minified ES6 module

Added

• melonJS is now a pure ES6 library, for class definition, inheritance and semantic
• melonJS now includes typescript definition for the ESM melonjs.module bundle (thanks @qpwo)
• Core : new me.event.BOOT event that will be triggered when melonJS is initialized
• Physic : physic bodies can now be configured as static bodies (which do not move automatically and do not check for collision with others)
• Event : new system events at the beginning and end of both the update and draw "loop"

Changed

• Jay Inheritance has been replaced with ES6 standard inheritance
• Core : object using the pooling function must now implement a onResetEvent method and use the recycling flag when registered
• Core : manually pushing a non recyclable object into the object pool will now throw an exception instead of silently failing
• Physic : physic body update and collision check is now automatically done through the world simulation update loop
• Physic : fixed gravitational acceleration (thanks @neilsf)
• Event: minPubSub event based implementation has been replaced by a nodeJS event emitter based implementation
• Renderable: calling flipX/Y() without argument will now flip the renderable as expected

Deprecated

• all deprecated API from the legacy melonJS version have been removed

Fixed

• Renderer: fix the stencil masking feature on renderable components (for both WebGL and Canvas mode)
• Loader: fix a graphic glitch in the default preloading screen

https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS/wiki/Upgrade-Guide#80x-to-91x-stable

Fixed

• fix a regression with state pause & resume when losing & gaining window focus
• remove duplicated translate method for basic shapes and add missing shift method to Polygon

[9.1.0] - 2021-09-26

Added

• Renderable : simplify ImageLayer implementation by extending Sprite object
• TMX : add missing tinting support for Image Layers (was added "only" for Tiled Layer in 9.0.0)
• TMX : add support for the new Tiled Parallax Layers x and y ratio properties

Fixed

• TMX : fix a regression with Parallax scrolling ratio

[9.1.1] - 2021-09-26

Fixed

• Renderable : fix the error message in me.Sprite on undefined image/texture source

• Audio : Howler audio core update (2.2.3)
• Core : overall code rewrite to comply with ES6 module and class semantic (at the exception of #1021)
• Core : melonJS build process now automatically output one ES5 umd "legacy" bundle, and one pure ES6 module
• Core : the "legacy" es5 umd bundle is now automatically transpiled (from ES6 to ES5) using rollup and bubble
• Core : internal rewrite on object bound implementation, with all Renderable now fully using/relying on the me.Bounds object introduced in last version
• Container : Unified bound management between Container and Renderable (Container now follow its parent Renderable implementation)
• Container : Containers defines an additional enableChildBoundsUpdate flag to enable full bounds update, including child bounds (disabled by default)
• Entity : me.CollectableEntity is now deprecated and replaced by a more generic me.Collectable base object that do not extend me.Entity anymore
• Entity : me.LevelEntity is now deprecated and replaced by a more generic me.Trigger objects that do not extend me.Entity anymore
• Math : add missing applyInverse() method to the Matrix3d implementation
• Math : fix Matrix3d translate method when passing a 2d vector as argument
• Renderable : fix Renderables bounds not correctly respecting the anchor point.
• Renderer : WebGL2 is now the default mode when using the WebGL renderer (use preferWebGL1 = true calling me.video.init if you need to force WebGL1)
• Tiled : add TMX tintcolor parsing for tile and object layers
• Stage : me.Stage constructor now accept new argument properties to specify the onResetEvent and onDestroyEvent functions
• Stage : fix a crash with legacy API when using the deprecated me.ScreenObject object
• TMX : fix crash when trying to add collisionType to text nodes (thanks @framp)
• TMX : fix a regression with the Tile Layer preRender feature
• TMX : fix tile properties import for the new Tiled JSON format (thanks @3ck0o)
• TMX : "unnamed" object in Tiled will now instantiate base Renderable object (with a physic body) rather than an "sprite-less" Entity object
• Tween: allow to pass a set of tween properties to the '.to' method instead of just the duration (thanks @0xf0f0f0)

8.0.0 release fix for NPM and jsDeliver, see https://github.com/melonjs/melonJS/releases/tag/8.0.0

• Audio : audio core update (2.2.0)
• Audio : me.audio.stop() will now stop all sounds if none is specified
• Color : new lerp() method to provide linear interpolation between two different colors
• Color : allow specifying minimum and maximum value range when generating random colors
• Core : new me.event.VIDEO_INIT system event that will be triggered once the display canvas is initialized
• Core : a default stage is now instantiated at boot time, allowing to more easily write basic examples to test features
• Input : improved input detection when the canvas is embedded into a complex css layout and the page is being scrolled up/down
• Input : Changed the device accelerometer and orientation detection to comply with the latest API changes where a user permission is now required
• Input : fix an issue with uncorrect horizontal delta value for wheel event
• Input : all registered events for a specific renderable are now automatically released upon the object destruction
• Physic : me.game.world is now a specific container (based on me.Container) that will hold and manage all related physic updates
• Physic : gravity for physic bodies is now defined globally under me.game.world.gravity, and can be scaled individually using me.Body.gravityScale
• Physic : added a rotate method to me.Body to allow rotating all the body shapes properly (by default around the body bounding box center)
• Physic : melonJS will now automatically enable body physic when when a me.Body object is added to any renderable
• Renderable : add support for free-texture-packer (http://free-tex-packer.com), the free Texture Packer alternative (thanks @PLAYERKILLERS)
• Renderable : optimized and tidied up me.Text and me.BitmapText implementation
• Renderable : new isFlippedX & isFlippedY getter to check the current renderable "flip" state
• Renderable : fix implementation and usage of the isDirty flag across Renderables
• Renderable : fix a regression with transformation when a renderable is directly added to a me.Container object
• Renderable : apply a tint color to BitmapText if a fillStyle is specified in the constructor
• Renderer : new optional parameter for createCanvas() to request an OffScreenCanvas if supported by the browser
• Renderer : use OffscreenCanvas by default for all secondary canvas (e.g. debugPanel, double buffering, font texture in WebGL)
• Renderer : properly fallback to the Canvas Renderer including when the WebGL renderer is not able to compile the built-in shaders
• Renderer : dynamically activate WebGL texture sampler instead of pre-indexing them (accordingly to GLSL 1.30 specifications and later)
• Renderer : added support for WebGL2 (disabled by default, use preferWebGL1 = false to enable it when calling me.video.init)
• Renderer : enable use of NPOT textures when in WebGL2 mode for texture mapping and pattern drawing
• Renderer : allow specifying the default powerPreference value for the WebGL Renderer (on Safari and Chrome 80+ default is now low-power)
• Renderer : display GPU information in the console when available (WebGL)
• Renderer : implemented sprite tint support for the Canvas Renderer
• Shapes : vectors and shapes can now be rotated around a given (optional) point instead of the default origin point
• Shapes : added a center vector property for me.Rect, giving the center point of the rectangle
• TMX : fix parsing of tileset image when the "last" tile spacing was truncated
• TMX : fix staggered map rendering, where computed tiles coordinates were non integer values (thanks @siauderman)
• TMX : fix parsing of animated tile with the latest version of Tiled (thanks @alcor)
• TMX : fix anti-diagonal tile flipping (thanks @alcor)
• TMX : fix world bounds not being updated if a level is added manually using addTo (thanks @siauderman)
• Video : fix an issue when using the "flex" scaling mode, and where the reported parent container size could be floating values
• Video : the scale parameter is now optional if scaleMethod is specified (auto-scaling will then automatically be enabled)

• Core : fix a crash when a game reset is triggered manually before any default stage has been defined
• Core : new option to automatically change to a newly define stage
• Input : fixed a regression with gamepad polling
• Renderer : fixed an issue where a failed attempt at creating a WebGL context would then prevent from creating a canvas context as fallback