Sceneform 1.7pr2

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.7.

List of changes since sceneform-1.7pr1:

Features

Engine

• View::setFrontFaceWindingInverted can be used to change the winding order of front faces. This is useful for mirrored rendering (reflections, etc.)
• Added View::setRenderQuality API. It currently allows the use of an R11G11B10F HDR color buffer instead of RGB[A]16F
• Added the ability to set the polygon offset on a material instance
• Added API to compute tangent frame from vertex data (in VertexBuffer)

Materials

• Use getUserTime() to get the current time in seconds. See Renderer::resetUserTime() for more information

Tools

• matc features are now part of libfilamat to generate materials at runtime
• resgen tool to embed data in binaries (pre-compiled materials, etc.)

Samples

• Samples: snorm16 UVs if UVs are in the range -1..1
• Samples: New webpack/TypeScript demos
• Samples: Added gltf_viewer sample

Enhancements

Engine

• Improved skinning memory usage
• Improved job system performance
• Set CPU affinity on job system threads on Android to avoid core hopping/cache thrashing
• Froxelization now runs during the shadow pass for improved parallelism
• Lights culling is now parallelized with renderables culling
• Various performance and code size optimizations
• Use compile-time hashing in StaticString

Materials

• Shader optimizations are now on by default
• Shader optimizations can now be applied to materials that use external textures
• Use smol-v to compress SPIR-V shaders

Android

• Android: API level requirement on Android was lowered from 24 to 21
• Android: Reduced the size of the release AAR by ~150 KiB
• Android: UiHelper can now create transparent render targets
• Android: Added a transparent render target demo

Web

• The JavaScript API now supports compressed textures
• Disabled depth prepass in the WebGL builds

Distribution

• Linux CI builds are now compiled with clang 7.0 instead of clang 5.0

Bug fixes

Engine

• Fixed overflow issue when exactly 256 bones were declared in a renderable
• Fixed potential crash when copying a texture stream
• FADE materials are now properly sorted with TRANSPARENT materials

Vulkan

• Fixed mipmapping of 2D textures
• Fixed validation warning
• Fixed texture anisotropy in the Vulkan backend
• Depth offset and face culling now work

v1.1.0

Summary of changes since v1.0.0:

Features

• Web: added support for TypeScript, import, and JPEG textures
• C++ clients can now read KTX textures using the image library
• matc features are now part of libfilamat to generate materials at runtime
• Added the ability to set the polygon offset on a material instance
• Added API to compute tangent frame from vertex data (in VertexBuffer)
• Added View::setRenderQuality API

Enhancements

• Added NOOP backend to allow headless regression testing
• Added compression to filamesh via meshoptimizer
• Added snorm16 quantization for UV's in filamesh
• Use smol-v to compress SPIR-V shaders in materials
• Many Code size and performance optimizations
• The JavaScript API now supports compressed textures
• Disabled depth prepass in the WebGL builds
• Added gltf_viewer sample
• Introduced resgen tool to embed data in binaries (pre-compiled materials, etc.)

Bug fixes

• Synchronization fixes: switched to utils::Mutex, fixed sporadic test failures
• cmgen / mipgen: fixed format in KTX header
• Fixed texture anisotropy in the Vulkan backend
• Depth offset and face culling now work in the Vulkan backend
• Fixed the documentation
• FADE materials are now properly sorted with TRANSPARENT materials

Sceneform 1.7pr1

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.7.

List of changes since v1.0.0:

Features

• Added the ability to set the polygon offset on a material instance
• matc features are now part of libfilamat to generate materials at runtime
• Added API to compute tangent frame from vertex data (in VertexBuffer)
• Added View::setRenderQuality API. It currently allows the use of an R11G11B10F HDR color buffer instead of RGB[A]16F

Enhancements

• Use smol-v to compress SPIR-V shaders in materials
• Many Code size and performance optimizations
• The JavaScript API now supports compressed textures
• Disabled depth prepass in the WebGL builds
• Added gltf_viewer sample
• Introduced resgen tool to embed data in binaries (pre-compiled materials, etc.)

Bug fixes

• Fixed texture anisotropy in the Vulkan backend
• Depth offset and face culling now work in the Vulkan backend
• Fixed the documentation
• FADE materials are now properly sorted with TRANSPARENT materials

Sceneform 1.6pr6

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.6.

Bug fixes

• Many threading issues related to the JobSystem

v1.0.0

This is our first release using a new version scheme.

Features

• Introduced iOS build
• Added tutorials / demos for JavaScript API
• Overhauled uniform buffer management

Enhancements

• Updated Android samples to Kotlin 1.3
• Consolidated WebGL code into root-level web folder
• Added KTX and PNG support to JavaScript API
• Added support for ANDROID_get_frame_timestamps

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues with job system
• Fixed buffer lifetime bug with JS API
• Fixed FXAA alignment issue that caused unwanted borders
• Fixed normals issue with JavaScript IcoSphere

Sceneform 1.6pr5

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.6.

Features

• Added a proper JavaScript API
• Added new TextureHelper in the Java API to upload Android Bitmap objects easily, without an extra copy
• Added Stream::getTimestamp() to query the update timestamp of a stream texture
• Added buffer usage hints to the driver interface
• Added new Android sample project to demonstrate how to texture meshes
• Added new filameshio library to read files generated by filamesh

Enhancements

• Improved Java APIs when used from Kotlin
• Updated release archives instructions to detail how to link against prebuilt libraries

Bug fixes

• Fixed tangent frame computation on mobile when a scale is present
• Fixed a shader typo that caused GPU skinning to fail
• Fixed normals transformations when skinning with non-uniform scales
• Fixed an INVALID_OPERATION bug in the OpenGL backend

Sceneform 1.6pr3

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.6.

Features

Runtime

• Added WebGL/WASM support
• Skinning supports non-rigid transforms
• Add the ability to mirror a frame (for video recording for instance)
• Removed dependencies on OpenGL ES 3.1 for iOS
• The clear coat layer's roughness influences the roughness of the base layer

Tools

• Added ASTC/S3TC/ETC2 texture compression support (cmgen can output compressed textures for instance)
• Added KTX export
• Added mipmap generation tool mipgen
• cmgen can generate equirectangular maps
• Many improvements to Tungsten, Filament's visual material editor (IBL, textures support, lighting, etc.)

Samples

• New Android sample applications in Kotlin
• Added WebGL samples

Optimizations

• Skip a copy when updating per-renderable uniform buffers
• Store all per-renderable uniform blocks in a single buffer
• Use slightly optimized Fresnel term on mobile
• Folded the Lambert BRDF in the Spherical Harmonics
• Skip lighting and shadowing in the shaders when possible

Bug fixes

• Fixed division by 0 in the froxelization pass
• Fixed division by 0 in cmgen
• Fixed Vulkan crash
• Fixed invalid SPIR-V generation
• Fixed the anisotropic BRDF on mobile
• Fixed Fresnel term when f90 was less than 1 on desktop
• Fixed cubemaps mirroring in cmgen
• Make shadowMultiplier objets transparent when not lit

Improvements

• Revamped RGBM support
• Improved the quality of the IBLs generated by cmgen
• Improved cubemap generation and handling in cmgen
• Improved Java APIs for Kotlin
• Better support fo grayscale images in tools
• Moved from OpenEXR to TinyEXR
• Various other fixes for minor bugs and crashes

Initial public release update

This release of Filament is a small update to the initial release. Windows binaries are now available.

Features

• Added clearCoatNormal property to set a normal map on the clear coat layer
• Switch the cloth material model to a more intuitive parameterization/BRDF

Optimizations

• Optimizations in the lights assignment process
• Better multi-threading of the lights assignment process
• Reduced memory usage of the lights assignment process
• Post-processing shaders do not use highp computations anymore

Bug fixes and improvements

• Complete revamp of libimage
• Bug fixes to lights assignement
• cmgen did not process cross cube maps properly
• cmgen could sometimes use uninitialized memory when computing spherical harmonics
• Updated glslang, spirv-cross and spirv-tools
• Various fixes in the Vulkan backend