Babylon.js/dist/preview release/what's new.md

2.5.0:

Major updates

• New StandardRenderingPipeline effect to support screen space lens flare and depth of field. []Demo](http://www.babylonjs.com/Demos/StandardRenderingPipeline/) - (Julien Moreau-Mathis)
• New HighlightLayer object to enable highlights rendering. Demo - (sebavan)
• Babylon.js now supports right handed system with scene.useRightHandedSystem = true (deltakosh)
• Babylon.js is now compiled with optimize-js to get faster initial load (deltakosh)
• Canvas2D moved to a separate folder in main repo. Now you need to also include babylon.cavans2d.js to get Canvas@D feature (deltakosh)
• New BoneIKController Demo - (abow)
• New BoneLookController Demo - (abow)

Updates

• Added node.doNotSerialize to prevent specific nodes to be serialized by SceneSerializer (deltakosh)
• Added scene.multiPick and scene.multiPickWithRay to return an array of pickedMesh objects (deltakosh)
• Added Effect.GetVertexShaderSource() and Effect.GetFragmentShaderSource() (deltakosh)
• New Texture.LoadFromDataString() to help loading base64 encoded textures (deltakosh)
• You can now specify an array of string when loading a texture (they will be considered as fallbacks) (deltakosh)
• Added Bone.getAbsolutePosition and Bone.getAbsolutePositionToRef (abow)
• Added Bone.setYawPitchRoll (abow)
• Added Bone.rotate (abow)
• Added Bone.scale (abow)
• Added Node.getDirection (abow)
• New Tools.CreateScreenshot function will capture all canvas data. Previous implementation is now called CreateScreenshotUsingRenderTarget (deltakosh)
• Cube textures are now cached by texture cache (deltakosh)
• Added onAnimationEnd callback for sprite.playAnimation (deltakosh)
• Added support for non square textures for sprites (deltakosh)
• Added support for texture arrays (deltakosh)
• Added camera.isInFrustum and camera.isCompletelyInFrustum. Can be used with meshes, submeshes and boundingInfo (deltakosh)
• Several memory allocation reduction (benaadams)
• Several GPU state change reduction (benaadams)
• MapTexture: add supersample mode to double font quality. (nockawa)
• New SPS feature : solid particle intersection with other solid particle or with any mesh particle.intersectsMesh() (jerome)
• New invertUV parameter an all ribbon based shapes : ribbon, tube, lathe, basic and custom extrusion (jerome)
• Text2D: new fontSuperSample setting to use high quality font (nockawa)
• PerfCounter class added to monitor time/counter and expose min/max/average/lastSecondAverage/current metrics. Updated engine/scene current counter to use this class, exposing new properties as well to access the PerfCounter object (nockawa)
• Better keyboard event handling which is now done at canvas level and not at window level (deltakosh)
• New scene.hoverCursor property to define a custom cursor when moving mouse over meshes (deltakosh)
• Canvas2D: (nockawa)
  • Performance metrics added
  • Text2D super sampling to enhance quality in World Space Canvas
  • World Space Canvas is now rendering in an adaptive way for its resolution to fit the on screen projected one to achieve a good rendering quality
  • Transparent Primitives are now drawn with Instanced Array when supported
  • New property in Canvas2D (instances) that contains all instances of canvas2d Temechon
• WebVR Camera was updated to be conform with the current specs. (RaananW)
• New "CubeTextureTask" function will allow you to load a CubeTexture in the assetsManager. (agallouin)
• Scene.stopAnimation has now an optional second parameter, the name of the animation to kill. Usefull if a mesh has multiple animations. (agallouin)

Exporters

API doc

Bug fixes

• Fixed issue with instancse and viewports (deltakosh)
• Fixed issue with FreeCamera not working in fullscreen or when pointer locked (abow)
• MapTexture: Font Characters are now correctly aligned on Chrome (nockawa)
• Fixed some missing parameter default values in MeshBuilder.CreateGroundFromHeightMap() and MeshBuilder.CreateTiledGround() (jerome)
• Fixed cross vector calculation in _computeHeightQuads() that affected all the GroundMesh.getHeightAtCoordinates() and GroundMesh.getNormalAtCoordinates() methods (jerome)
• Fixed Mesh.CreateDashedLines() missing instance parameter on update (jerome)
• Added BBox update on each ribbon based shape (ribbon, tube, extrusion, etc) on dynamic updates (jerome)
• Fixed model shape initial red vertex color set to zero not formerly being taken in account in the SolidParticleSystem (jerome)
• Fixed billboard when the SPS mesh is parented in the SolidParticleSystem (jerome)
• Fixed RenderTargetTexture meshes selection (deltakosh)
• Fixed camera speed computation (deltakosh)
• Fixed bug with instances, LOD and edgesRendering (deltakosh)
• Canvas2D: (nockawa)
  • WorldSpaceCanvas2D:
  • Intersection/interaction now works on non squared canvas
  • Primitive:
  • ZOrder fixed in Primitives created inline
  • Z-Order is now correctly distributed along the whole canvas object graph
  • Sprite2D:
  • texture size is now set by default as expected
  • can have no id set
  • Text2D:
  • Fix bad rendering quality on Chrome
  • Rendering above transparent surface is now blending correctly

Breaking changes

• Removed legacy shaders support (deltakosh)
• Canvas2D: (nockawa)
  • WorldSpaceCanvas2D:
  • WorldSpaceRenderScale is no longer supported (deprecated because of adaptive feature added).