Heaps 2.0

This new Heaps releases contains the following major changes:

• changed h3d.Vector to be a 3 component vector (alias to h3d.col.Point), added h3d.Vector4
• unified all buffers (index, vertex, managedbuffer) into a single h3d.Buffer object and add a specific format to it
• unified DepthBuffer and Texture
• added ability to change vertex buffer attributes precision as part of buffer format and HMD convert
• added unified cache system with Driver.setShaderCache
• lots of graphics improvements and fixes by @clementlandrin
• fixes and improvements for DX12 driver which is now production ready
• cleanup of old deprecated code (flash, haxe3, etc.)
• compatibility with HashLink 1.14

... as well as many additional changes and fixes.

Full Changes 1.10.0...2.0

Heaps 1.10.0

This new Heaps releases contains the following major changes:

Graphics:

• added HashLink DirectX12 Driver (requires HL 1.13+)
• support for multimaterial and sub primitive mesh batches
• more support for DDS files (layers, etc.)
• added cascade shadows
• (hl) added threaded async texture loader
• many PBR improvements by @clementlandrin

Others:

• added HBSON
• added shaders matrix array access
• added clipboard support and TextInput copy/paste
• optimize PAK data management
• added HLVideo support

... as well as many additional changes and fixes.

Full Changes 1.9.1...1.10.0

Heaps 1.9.0

HL:

• Fixes compatibility with Haxe 4.2 (requires 4.2.1)

2D:

• More DomKit APIs
• Flow overflow: Hidden and Scroll support
• Text.letterSpacing is now 0 by default
• New Camera implementation (@Yanrishatum)
• Allow different textures for Graphics/TileGroup/SpriteBatch using BatchDrawState (@Yanrishatum)
• link support in HtmlText (@Azrou)

3D:

• Refactor PBR Renderer (begin/end), allow shader injection in RendererFX
• Support for Y-up exported FBX (auto convert to Z-up)
• Support for centimer exported FBX (auto convert to meters)
• Added Texture.lodBias support for mipmaps
• More detailed skin collider support based on joint bounding boxes
• Added HMD large index (models with >64K vertexes)
• PBR Forward support (@ShiroSmith)
• new MetchBatch implementation (unlimited instances)

HxSL:

• Added Mat2 type
• Added Array of textures support
• Added texture.size() / textureSize(tex) (@Yanrishatum)
• Added @borrow to import another shader var (@Yanrishatum)
• Added @sampler(groupName) to bypass 16 samplers DX limit

Other:

• Added DDS support for compressed/mipmaped/float textures
• Added HDR texture support
• More APIs/support for float/hdr/16 bit textures
• ... and many many other improvements

Full Changes 1.8.0...1.9.0

Heaps 1.8.0

2D:

• DomKit 0.3 support, more domkit properties
• added DomKit inspector (h2d.domkit.Style.allowInspect)
• fixed Graphics.drawRect with lines (#776)
• delayed Text rebuild and HtmlText refactor (@Yanrishatum)
• added HtmlText.defaultFormatText
• Flow : allow absolute+align for components
• fixed interactive handling wrt not uniform scaling + rotation

3D:

• allow inheritance of culling collider
• added h3d.prim.Disc (@tong)
• fixes for single channel textures

Other:

• JS : new WebAudio Driver (@Yanrishatum)
• added _FragCoord in HxSL
• alloc position now capture full stack (-D track-alloc)
• added hxd.Pad.axisDeadZone

Full Changes 1.7.0...1.8.0

Heaps 1.7.0

Install with haxelib install heaps

2D:

• DomKit v2 support (direct h2d.Object.dom property with -lib domkit)
• added h2d.Scene.scaleMode (Pavel Alexandrov)
• added hxd.App.setCurrent to switch current App
• fixed JS fullscreen support

3D:

• HMDv3 - more compact animation data
• reference counting on h3d.prim.Primitive (Pavel Alexandrov)
• PCF shadows
• completed support for DXT textures
• changed pass sorting API

Other:

• compatibility with Haxe 4.0-RC4+
• fixed GL with unused inputs (was causing some issue with recent Chrome)
• faster serializer for hxsl data
• added HXSL texelFetch (Pavel Alexandrov)
• improved shader cache file, support mesh batch
• move prefabs handling from Heaps to Hide
• added resource baking capabilities
• ... and many many other fixes

Full Changes 1.6.1...1.7.0

Heaps 1.6.1

Bug fixes wrt 1.6.0

Heaps 1.6.0

Install with haxelib install heaps

2D:

• added DomKit support
• added h2d.Camera
• review h2d filters wrt alpha handling
• added h2d.Flow.layout
• support for SDF fonts
• support for sub pixel Tiles (various coordinates/sizes are now Float instead of Int)
• added h2d.Interactive.onReleaseOutside and .shape for custom shape handling
• h2d.Object.onParentChanged is now onHierarchyMoved
• handle multiple Interactive onOver

3D:

• added h3d.col.Capsule
• added h3d.col.Collider.inSphere + changed inFrustum
• added Driver.capturePixels sub region
• added h3d.scene.MeshBatch
• optimized shadows maps culling
• optimized internal pass lists handling
• moved h3d.scene.DirLight/PointLight/LightSystem/Renderer to h3d.scene.fwd package
• more work on pbr renderer and terrain system
• various optimizations (less allocations)

Other:

• [js] heaps now defaults to canvas instead of window for events
• review hxd.prefab.Prefab API
• added mp3 sound support
• added S3TC dds texture support
• new samples : Camera2D, Domkit, Flows, FXView, Interactive2D, MeshBatch, Lights

Full Changes 1.5.0...1.6.0

Heaps 1.5.0

Install with haxelib install heaps

• haxe 4 preview5+ support
• h2d.Sprite becomes h2d.Object, and some other renaming
• hxd.Stage becomes hxd.Window
• improved JS audio (Pavel Alexandrov)
• added wireframe support to h3d Material (Pavel Alexandrov)
• changes in hxd.Timer : hxd.App.update dt is now in seconds
• h2d.Video JS support (Pavel Alexandrov)
• h2d.Particles "isRelative" support (Pavel Alexandrov)
• hxd.BitmapData drawLine implementation (TheTrueCalgari)
• and many other fixes

Full Changes 1.4.0...1.5.0

Heaps 1.4.0

ompatible with both Haxe 3.4.4 and Haxe 4.0-preview 4+

• haxe 4 preview5+ support
• added h2d.filter.Outline (Leo Bergman)
• added h2d.Graphics.drawEllipse (Josu Iga)
• added JS custom cursors + hl/js animated cursors support (Pavel Alexandrov)
• JS sound quality fixes (Pavel Alexandrov)
• renamed h2d.Sprite to h2d.Object and some other API changes
• added HtmlText textAlign support (Pascal Peridont)
• added spot lights and shadows (pbr only)
• added point lights shadows
• added 32 bit indexes support
• added binary FBX support (Pavel Alexandrov)
• added instanced drawing support
• ... and much more !

Full Changes 1.3.0...1.4.0

Heaps 1.3.0

Compatible with both Haxe 3.4.4 and Haxe 4.0-preview 4

• WebGL 2 support
• Added full PBR support
• Per Light shadows
• Faster Blur
• Added Prefabs for HIDE
• Added TGA support
• Maya FBX fixes
• ... and much more !

Full Changes 1.2.0...1.3.0