CHANGELOG.md

Black Engine: Changelog

v0.5.10

Changes

• Changed API: all static classes are moved into Black class
• Changed Input to Black.input
• Changed MasterAudio to Black.audio
• Changed Time to Black.time
• Changed AssetManager.default to Black.assets
• Changed Black to `Black.engine
• Changed bundler to Rollup
• Changed Engine, MasterAudio, Input, Viewport to use __initialize method for initialization so constructor can be overriden
• Changed Device to Black.device
• Changed Device#isLandscape to Black.viewport.isLandscape, same for isPortrait.
• Changed TextField#color to TextField#textColor

Bug Fixes

• Fixed all circular dependencies
• Fixed clipRect is not working for emitter
• Fixed AssetManager dispose logic
• Code and JsDoc cleanup

v0.5.9

New features

• Added new stage scale mode - Cover! (Thanks to m31271n)
• Added pivot and 9 slice grid support for Texture Packer exporter
• Added ability to presimulate emitter
• Added ability to dispose Black (WIP)

Changes

• Orientation lock reworked. Added extra div element to control the rotation of the canvas.
• Changed stage.orientation to viewport.orientationandStageOrientationtoOrientation`
• Simplified scale logic (Thanks to m31271n)
• Changed the way how native input events are iterated
• Minor texture packer exporter improvements (Thanks to m31271n)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect no audio warning
• Fixed Arcade Physics not working when stage is locked is rotated
• Fixed matrix vector transform in case when out vector is the same as input
• Fixed arcade physics world bound for letter box
• Fixed spine skip clipping (Thanks to rhyzx)
• Fixed input not working with Orientation Lock
• Fixed many incorrect JsDoc comments

v0.5.8

New features

• Added useHiDPR property to control render quality on high DPI screens
• Added ability to draw rounded rectangle
• Added ability to load custom asset in AssetManager using CustomAsset
• Added gradient and pattern support for Graphics

Changes

• Changed empty clip rectangle to clip everything instead of nothing
• Improved anchor performance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Orientation Lock still works when disabled
• Fixed many GCC comments
• Fixed bug causing colored sprite to render incorrectly
• Fixed slice9grid not working as expected on colored sprites
• Fixed bug causing Arcade physics to not cleanup colliders after removing objects from stage
• Fixed Arcade physics units to be always within stage
• Fixed clip rect not working on TextField
• Fixed getTextures returning null for backed vectors
• Fixed BVG quadratic curve math
• Fixed many BVG rendering bugs and glitches
• Fixed anchors not working in some cases

v0.5.7

Changes

• Changed license to Simplified BSD!!!
• Changed Emitter#state to be public
• Added TextField#getAllStyles method which returns all styles

Bug Fixes

• Fixed GameObject#relativeTo method
• Fixed tiling sprite causing incorrect rendering of other Graphics objects

v0.5.6

New features

• Added Graphics#cacheAsBitmapDynamic property allowing to disable auto refresh of bitmap cache

Bug Fixes

• Fixed few Cache As Bitmap bugs causing Graphics and tiling sprite to render incorrectly
• Fixed incorrect rendering of cached slice9grid texture
• Fixed incorrect rendering of tiled texture from texture atlas

Examples & Docs

• Added "Cache As Bitmap Dynamic" example

v0.5.5

New features

• Added support for Black Vector Graphics (beta)
• Added orientation lock support
• Added Graphics to optionally accept either string or GraphicsData instance
• Added skew via skewX and skewY properties in the DisplayObject
• Added support for 9 grid slice
• Added sprite tiling support
• Added sprite wrapping support
• Added svg2bvg tool which converts SVG files into BVG
• Added bsa-gen tool to generate sound atlases from multiple audio files
• Added Timer component
• Added GameObject#relativeTo method to calculates GameObject's position relative to another GameObject
• Added Graphics#quadraticCurveTo method
• Added Graphics#setLineDash method
• Added optional param isNonZero for Graphics#fill method to control winding order
• Added GraphicsData class. Now you can have many graphics objects inside one Graphics GameObject.

Changes

• Graphics internally changed and now supports nested graphics via GraphicsData object
• Changed Black Texture Atlas format to support version number (internal)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incorrect font bounds on different platforms by changing the way how its calculated. Now it checks font height using pixel by pixel method. Line height is a bit smaller from now. But overall font metrics looks good and exactly the same on different browsers.

Examples & Docs

• Added tutorial about how to use "bsa-gen" tool to generate sound atlas
• Added tutorial about how to use "svg2bvg" tool and vector graphics in your app
• Added tutorial about how to use texture atlases
• Added 3 timer examples
• Added "Vector As a Sprite"
• Added "Orientation Lock" example
• Added "Texture Repeat" example
• Added "Slice 9 Grid" example
• Added "Skew" example

v0.5.1

• Fixed broken visible property
• Fixed broken overhearing
• Fixed missing Stage#onUpdate calls
• Added TextField#highQuality property to control how TextField will be rendered
• Added many tests

v0.5.0

• Added Arcade physics system
• Added Black.ups property to control number of updates per second (render goes as fast as it can)
• Added Time.alpha - indicates how much time has been passed since last update in range from 0 to 1
• Added GameObject#onRender and Component#onRender methods - called only for subclasses of DisplayObject
• Added System#onRender method
• Reworked Canvas Driver and performance improved
• Reworked game loop - now onUpdate is a fixed time update
• Removed onFixedUpdate and onPostUpdate
• Removed Black.FPS getter
• Removed Black#uptime, use Time.now instead
• Fixed missing onRemoved call when removing children within onRemoved method
• Improved getBounds performance for clipped objects

v0.4.0

• Graphics reworked (now it has bounds and API similar to HTML canvas)
• AssetManager dramatically improved
• TextField now posts change message when text is changed
• Added Splash Screen

v0.3.5

• Improved MessageDispatcher
• Removed MessageDispatcher#off method, use MessageBinding.off instead
• Removed ability to post direct messages
• Removed capturing phase
• Changed MessageDispatcher to have path/parent/stage getters
• Added MessageDispatcher#once method
• Added Input.once method
• Added Glob class

v0.3.42

• Added Black#hasSystem method
• Added GameObject.scale property
• Added GameObject.getStageBounds helper method
• Added scale param to CanvasRenderTexture ctor.
• Added ability to not render stage in case it was not changed since last frame (Renderer.skipUnchangedFrames), false by default
• Fixed incorrect behavior when calling render from inside render method
• Fixed fixed/update/post loops to support removing of children element while in update
• Fixed clipping for nested elements
• Fixed clipping for cached elements
• Fixed incorrect blending/alpha after clipping
• Improved GameObject's children iteration
• Improved cacheAsBitmap by allowing DisplayObject to be changed while cached, cache will update itself automatically next time object will become static.
• Improved stage.localTransformation performance
• Improved Matrix.prepend method
• Improved emitter to not be dirty while not visible
• Improved documentation
• Changed debug defines to be visible in final builds
• Changed cacheAsBitmap to not work on DisplayObject's descendants
• Changed stage to not have InputComponent when there is no Input system
• Changed RenderTargetCanvas size to be rounded
• Changed ObjectPool.get method is no longer receive params
• Removed VideoNullDriver.renderResolution
• Minor refactoring

0.3.41

• Fixed incorrect alignPivot and alignPivotOffset

0.3.4

• Added BitmapTextField
• Added Audio support (spatial, audio atlas, sound effects)
• Added Stage, stage scale modes and orientations
• Added ObjectPool class
• Added Spine support
• Added rich feature to the TextField
• Added DisplayObject#cacheAsBitmap property
• Added anchorX/anchorY and now they updates automatically
• Added pivotOffsetX/pivotOffsetY
• Added AssetManager#addTexture method
• Added basic Graphics class
• Added RadialScatter
• Added render to texture support
• Added Font and Text metrics classes
• Added Colliders support (box and circle)
• Fixed incorrect blending for clipped sprites
• Fixed incorrect bounds calculations
• Improved Emitter and modifiers API and perforamnce
• Improved getBounds performance by caching results
• Improved performance for some classes that using math
• Reworked drivers, now only required calls will be made to drawing context (~50% less requests are made)
• Removed pivotX/pivotY, use pivotOffsetX/pivotOffsetY instead
• Typed 95% for GCC

v0.0.12a

• Fixed TextField align issues caused by new pivot logic
• Fixed DOMDriver align issues caused by new pivot logic
• Fixed Matrix::translate broken logic
• Changed VideoDriver::DrawImage now accepts bounds
• Minor jsdoc fixess

v0.0.11a

• Reworked Input
• Now Input is single target system
• Added pointerIn and pointerOut messages
• Added PointerInfo classes, posted as second argument
• Added GameObject::add sugar method, accepts array of GameObject and/or Component
• Added JSDoc's for most classes
• Added new JSDoc template
• Added message overhearing
• Added FontAsset class
• Added Black::isPaused method
• Added GameObject::displayDepth method - returns z-depth of GameObject.
• Massive input fixes
• Fixed many GCC comments
• Fixed GameObject::index not working method
• Fixed GameObject::setChildIndex not workign method
• Updated Viewport, now it will automatically add missing CSS styles on start.

v0.0.10a

• Added dist folder to github
• Added touchable to the Sprite
• Fixed package.json version mess
• Fixed bundling mess
• Fixed by adding missing GameObject::onAdded call
• Moved examples to external repo
• Renamed Assert to Debug

v0.0.8a

• Initial commit