Engine and API

• Added missing API documentation.
• Fixed crash for sandboxed macOS apps using Filament.
• Fixed an issue that limited the camera near plane to ~1mm.
• Added Android sample for Camera Stream.
• Fixed an Xcode assertion when rendering skinned meshes using the Metal backend.
• Added support for Core Animation / Metal frame synchronization with Metal backend.
• Fixed an issue with culling in MaterialInstance.

Tools, Builds, and Infrastructure

• Fix additional compatibility issues with MSVC, including the Vulkan backend.
• matdbg: fixed missing symbol issue when linking against debug builds.
• filamat: fixed crash when using the "lite" version of the library.
• matinfo: Fix a crash with on Windows.
• gltfio: fixed an animation loop bug.
• gltfio: added support for sparse accessors.

Language Bindings and Utilities

• Add JS binding to unary Camera::setExposure.

Engine and API

• API Breakage: Simplified public-facing Fence API.
• Face direction is now reversed when transforms have negative scale.
• Minimum API level on Android is now API 19 instead of API 21.
• Added missing API documentation.
• Improved existing API documentation.
• Added Camera::setExposure(float) to directly control the camera's exposure.

Materials Enhancements

• Added the ability to modify clip space coordinates in the vertex shader.
• Backface culling can now be toggled on material instances.
• Dielectrics now behave properly under a white furnace (energy preserving and conserving).
• Clear coat roughness now remains in the 0..1 (previously remapped to the 0..0.6 range).

Tools, Builds, and Infrastructure

• Filament can now be built with msvc 2019.
• Windows: Fixed linker error in debug builds.
• gltfio: Fixed several limitations with ubershader mode.
• gltfio: Fixed a transforms issue with non-uniform scale.
• matdbg: Web server must now be enabled with an environment variable.
• matdbg: Added support for editing GLSL and MSL code.

Language Bindings and Utilities

• webgl: Fixed an issue with JPEG textures.

Engine

• Added an internal texture cache for render targets.
• Fix bad normal mapping with skinning.
• Added basic #include support in material files.

Tools and Infrastructure

• Improved diagnostic output in matc and matinfo.
• Added a web server for real-time inspection of shader code.

Language Bindings and Utilities

• Java clients can now call getNativeObject().
• Fixed intermittent memory overflow with JavaScript clients.

Backends

• Fixed potential Metal memory leak.

Engine

• IndirectLight can now be queried for dominant direction and color.
• Introduced custom attributes, accessible from the vertex shader.
• Added support for vertex morphing.

Tools and Infrastructure

• Improved cmgen SH with HDR images. ( ⚠️ makes brighter IBL's)
• Unified release labels for Sceneform and npm.

Language Bindings and Utilities

• Added Java / Kotlin bindings for KtxLoader.
• Added JavaScript / Typescript bindings for the new RenderTarget class.
• Added base path to glTF loadResources method for JavaScript.

Backends

• Added support for iOS CVPixelBuffer external images with the OpenGL backend.

Our npm package was last updated in April. Some of the changes since then:

⚠️ this version breaks compiled materials, use matc to recompile
⚠️ this version breaks IBL cubemaps, use cmgen to recreate them

Enhancements

Engine

• Added support for RGB_11_11_10
• Removed support for RGBM ( ⚠️ source compatibility breakage)
• IBL cubemap can now be of any size
• Texture::generatePrefilterMipmap can be used for runtime generation of a reflection cubemap
• Introduced RenderTarget API that allows View to reference an offscreen render target.
• Added Screen Space Ambient Occlusion support (SAO)
• Implemented hard fences for the Metal backend, enabling dynamic resolution support.
• Stable mode for shadows
• Improve shadows depth resolution for large scenes
• Add support for polygon offset in shadow map parameters
• Bake the constant bias into the shadow-map
• Better clamping for dot(N, V) (#1106)
• Decouple tone-mapping, FXAA, MSAA and dynamic resolution
• MSAA is now disabled when post-processing is disabled

Materials

• Added specular ambient occlusion to compute a new AO term applied to specular reflections
  (see specularAmbientOcclusion property in materials)
• Added multi-bounce ambient occlusion to brighten AO and preserve local color
  (see multiBounceAmbientOcclusion property in materials)
• Micro-shadowing is now applied to material ambient occlusion
• Use a smaller 64x64 DFG LUT on mobile to reduce binary size
• The material property curvatureToRoughness has been replaced with specularAntiAliasing.
  This new specular anti-aliasing solution offers more control via two new properties:
  specularAntiAliasingVariance and specularAntiAliasingThreshold. They can also be set on
  material instances if needed
• New blending modes: multiply and screen
• Add postLightingColor property to materials (#1057)
• Add new shading model to Filament for specularGlossiness. (#1083)
• Allow dynamic two-sided lighting and materialThreshold

Language Bindings

• Added getMaterialInstanceAt to the Java version of RenderableManager.
• Fix JNI bindings for setting values in parameter arrays.
• Added JNI bindings for the gltfio library.
• JavaScript MaterialInstance now supports vec4 colors.

Samples

• Added lucy_bloom desktop C++ sample to demonstrate the new RenderTarget API.
• Added gltf_bloom Android Kotlin sample to show gltfio and the RenderTarget API.

Tools, Libraries and Infrastructure

• Created a RELEASE_NOTES.md file, to be updated with significant PRs.
• Fix support for parameter arrays in .mat files.
• Added a distance field generator to libimage.
• Further reduced filamat binary size by removing reliance on stdlib.
• Added a new, smaller, version of the filamat library, filamat_lite. Material optimization and
  compiling for non-OpenGL backends have been removed in favor of a smaller binary size.
• Improved SurfaceOrientation robustness.

Bug fixes

• Fix FBO leak when using MSAA in some cases
• Honor clear color, fixes #1125
• Better frustum/box intersection, make code more robust
• Fix the calculation of the shadow constant bias
• Fix LISPSM warping frustum computation
• Actually set the IBL rotation from the builder
• Don't flip the normals (#1060)
• Fix min/max calls in Box::unionSelf (#984)
• Fixed an issue when sorting blended objects with different blending modes

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.9.

List of relevant changes since sceneform-1.9pr3:

⚠️ this version breaks compiled materials, use matc to recompile
⚠️ this version breaks IBL cubemaps, use cmgen to recreate them

Enhancements

Engine

• Added gltf_bloom Android sample to show gltfio and the RenderTarget API.
• Added getMaterialInstanceAt to the Java version of RenderableManager.
• Fix JNI bindings for setting values in parameter arrays.
• Added JNI bindings for the gltfio library.
• Added support for RGB_11_11_10
• Removed support for RGBM ( ⚠️ source compatibility breakage)
• IBL cubemap can now be of any size
• Texture::generatePrefilterMipmap can be used for runtime generation of a reflection cubemap

Tools

• Fix support for parameter arrays in .mat files.

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.9.

List of relevant changes since sceneform-1.9pr2:

Enhancements

Engine

• Introduced RenderTarget API that allows View to reference an offscreen render target.
• Added lucy_bloom sample to demonstrate the new RenderTarget API.
• Added Screen Space Ambient Occlusion support (SAO)
• New blending modes: multiply and screen
• Fixed an issue when sorting blended objects with different blending modes
• The material property curvatureToRoughness has been replaced with specularAntiAliasing.
  This new specular anti-aliasing solution offers more control via two new properties:
  specularAntiAliasingVariance and specularAntiAliasingThreshold. They can also be set on
  material instances if needed
• Added specular ambient occlusion to compute a new AO term applied to specular reflections
  (see specularAmbientOcclusion property in materials)
• Added multi-bounce ambient occlusion to brighten AO and preserve local color
  (see multiBounceAmbientOcclusion property in materials)
• Micro-shadowing is now applied to material ambient occlusion
• Use a smaller 64x64 DFG LUT on mobile to reduce binary size
• JavaScript MaterialInstance now supports vec4 colors.
• Implemented hard fences for the Metal backend, enabling dynamic resolution support.
• Created a RELEASE_NOTES.md file, to be updated with significant PRs.

Tools

• Improved robustness in the tangents utility for meshes that have tangents and normals.
• Added a distance field generator to libimage.
• Further reduced filamat binary size by removing reliance on stdlib.
• Added a new, smaller, version of the filamat library, filamat_lite. Material optimization and
  compiling for non-OpenGL backends have been removed in favor of a smaller binary size.
• Improved SurfaceOrientation robustness when using UVs to generate tangents.

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.9.

List of relevant changes since sceneform-1.9pr1:

⚠️ This version breaks older Materials

Enhancements

Engine

• Add postLightingColor property to materials (#1057)
• Add new shading model to Filament for specularGlossiness. (#1083)
• Allow dynamic doubleSided and materialThreshold
• Stable mode for shadows
• Improve shadows depth resolution for large scenes
• Add support for polygon offset in shadow map parameters
• Bake the constant bias into the shadow-map
• Better clamping for dot(N, V) (#1106)
• Decouple tone-mapping, FXAA, MSAA and dynamic resolution
• MSAA is now disabled when post-processing is disabled

Compatibility

• Use ASharedMemory on Android when available
• Don't call EGL during static initialization
• Workaround a UBO/glFlush interaction on some GPUs

Documentation

• Add Filamat documentation (#1103)

Tools

Refactoring

• Separate src/driver into its own library, libbackend
• Rename namespace filament::driver -> filament::backend
• Make all subclasses of Platform private, except OpenGLPlatform

libmath

• Conversion between vec and vec are now implicit
• Added vec{2|3|4}
• Remove vector comparison operators

Bug fixes

• Fix FBO leak when using MSAA in some cases
• Honor clear color, fixes #1125
• Better frustum/box intersection, make code more robust
• Fix the calculation of the shadow constant bias
• Fix LISPSM warping frustum computation
• Actually set the IBL rotation from the builder
• Don't flip the normals (#1060 -)
• Fix min/max calls in Box::unionSelf (#984)

This release is motivated by a need to update npm, which was last updated in December 2018 with
v1.1.0. Some of the changes since then:

Features

Materials

• Added getWorldFromClipMatrix() API
• Added flipUV property to enable/disable UV Y coordinate flipping
• Added curvatureToRoughness property for specular anti-aliasing
• Added limitOverInterpolation property for specular anti-aliasing
• Use getUserTime() to get the current time in seconds. See Renderer::resetUserTime() for more information

Tools

• New glslminifier tool to reduce the size of built-in GLSL shaders
• matc features are now part of libfilamat to generate materials at runtime
• resgen tool to embed data in binaries (pre-compiled materials, etc.)

Engine

• VertexBuffer builder normalized() method now accepts a boolean
• 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)

Samples

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

Enhancements

Engine

• Exposed tangent utility to Java/Kotlin
• Allow mutation of non-direct buffers in Java/JNI
• FrameGraph is now enabled internally
• Improved render target management
• Added addEntities to Scene
• Windows debug libraries are now part of the distribution
• Add new queries to TransformManager and Scene
• Mipmaps are now generated using the GPU for both Vulkan and OpenGL
• Improved job system performance, especially under contention
• Removed obsolete documentation about static lights
• 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
• The JavaScript API now supports compressed textures
• Disabled depth prepass in the WebGL builds

Web

• Added more JavaScript bindings
• Added more TypeScript annotations

Android

• Upgraded samples to Android Studio 3.3 and Kotlin 1.3.10
• Improved rendering to TextureView
• API level requirement on Android was lowered from 24 to 21
• Reduced the size of the release AAR by ~150 KiB
• UiHelper can now create transparent render targets
• Added a transparent render target demo

Vulkan

• Added support for RGB textures

Rendering

• Replace Cloth DFG approximation with DFG LUT
• Add clearCoatIorChange property to materials
• Continued to improve Metal support
• Always recenter the world origin to the camera position (improves precision)
• Enable the FrameGraph for post-processing
• Add an option to turn dithering on/off
• Implemented blit in Vulkan
• Simplified command buffer management in Vulkan
• Progress on Metal backend

Tools

• Introduce MATERIAL_VERSION (this breaks older Materials)
• Cleaned-up and simplified filabridge and filaflat
• New gltfio library to more easily support gltf
• API change: rename matrix factory functions
• New ibl library split from cmgen
• The filamat library is now available as a library to generate materials at runtime
• Improved linear to sRGB conversion functions
• Improved skygen rendering
• Added 4 channel versions of image operations
• Filamesh now generates dummy UV sets when necessary

Build

• Android standalone toolchains are not longer necessary
• Linux CI builds are now compiled with clang 7.0 instead of clang 5.0

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

Bug fixes

Engine

• Fixed a bug preventing material parameters to be set on default MaterialInstance
• Fixed a double free in RenderableManager::Builder (#871)
• Fixed math::slerp again
• Fixed NaNs in math::slerp
• Fixed out-of-bounds access
• Fixed compilation issues with some compilers
• Destroy engine's default material on shutdown
• Fixed incorrect order of arguments in glBlendFuncSeparate
• Fixed VAO state management bug
• 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

Rendering

• Fixed FXAA offset by half a pixel
• Fixed generateMipmap implementation to properly honor base/max level
• Fixed OpenGL error with incorrect UBO size in GPU skinning
• Fixed iOS specific OpenGL issues
• Fixed normals/tangents skinning when a transform is set
• Fixed black spots that would sometimes show up with FXAA enabled
• Fixed depth prepass rendering bug on NVIDIA hardware

Tools

• Fixed memory leak in libimage
• Fixed baseColorFactor support when loading glTF files
• Fixed minor issues in glTF to filamesh conversions

Android

• Fixed skybox loader to accept dimensions greater than 256x256
• Fixed filamesh loader to correctly interpret optimized UVs

Vulkan

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

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.9.

List of changes since sceneform-1.7pr6:

⚠️ This version breaks older Materials

Enhancements

Engine

• Add new queries to TransformManager and Scene

Rendering

• Replace Cloth DFG approximation with DFG LUT
• Add clearCoatIorChange property to materials
• Continued to improve Metal support
• Always recenter the world origin to the camera position (improves precision)
• Enable the FrameGraph for post-processing
• Add an option to turn dithering on/off

Tools

• Introduce MATERIAL_VERSION (this breaks older Materials)
• Cleaned-up and simplified filabridge and filaflat
• New gltfio library to more easily support gltf
• API change: rename matrix factory functions
• New ibl library split from cmgen

Build

• Android standalone toolchains are not longer necessary

Bug fixes

Engine

• Fixed a bug preventing material parameters to be set on default MaterialInstance
• Fixed a double free in RenderableManager::Builder (#871)
• Fixed math::slerp again

Rendering

• Fixed FXAA offset by half a pixel

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

List of changes since sceneform-1.7pr5:

Enhancements

Engine

• Exposed tangent utility to Java/Kotlin
• Allow mutation of non-direct buffers in Java/JNI
• FrameGraph is now enabled internally
• Improved render target management
• Added addEntities to Scene
• Windows debug libraries are now part of the distribution

Rendering

• Implemented blit in Vulkan
• Simplified command buffer management in Vulkan
• Progress on Metal backend

Tools

• The filamat library is now available as a library to generate materials at runtime

Bug fixes

Engine

• Fixed NaNs in math::slerp
• Fixed out-of-bounds access

Rendering

• Fixed generateMipmap implementation to properly honor base/max level
• Fixed OpenGL error with incorrect UBO size in GPU skinning
• Fixed iOS specific OpenGL issues

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.7. This release is a small update of sceneform-1.7pr4 to fix compilation errors on some compilers.

List of changes since sceneform-1.7pr4:

Enhancements

Engine

• Mipmaps are now generated using the GPU for both Vulkan and OpenGL

Bug fixes

Engine

• Fixed compilation issues with some compilers

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.7. This release supersedes sceneform-1.7pr3 which contained a deadlock that occurred on some Android devices.

Special thanks to @shartte, @Damianno19 and @gstanlo for their contributions.

List of changes since sceneform-1.7pr2:

Features

Engine

• VertexBuffer builder normalized() method now accepts a boolean

Materials

• Added getWorldFromClipMatrix() API
• Added flipUV property to enable/disable UV Y coordinate flipping
• Added curvatureToRoughness property for specular anti-aliasing
• Added limitOverInterpolation property for specular anti-aliasing

Tools

• New glslminifier tool to reduce the size of built-in GLSL shaders

Enhancements

Engine

• Improved job system performance, especially under contention
• Removed obsolete documentation about static lights

Tools

• Improved linear to sRGB conversion functions
• Improved skygen rendering
• Added 4 channel versions of image operations
• Filamesh now generates dummy UV sets when necessary

Web

• Added more JavaScript bindings
• Added more TypeScript annotations

Android

• Upgraded samples to Android Studio 3.3 and Kotlin 1.3.10
• Improved rendering to TextureView

Vulkan

• Added support for RGB textures

Bug fixes

Engine

• Destroy engine's default material on shutdown
• Fixed incorrect order of arguments in glBlendFuncSeparate
• Fixed VAO state management bug

Rendering

• Fixed normals/tangents skinning when a transform is set
• Fixed black spots that would sometimes show up with FXAA enabled
• Fixed depth prepass rendering bug on NVIDIA hardware

Tools

• Fixed memory leak in libimage
• Fixed baseColorFactor support when loading glTF files
• Fixed minor issues in glTF to filamesh conversions

Android

• Fixed skybox loader to accept dimensions greater than 256x256
• Fixed filamesh loader to correctly interpret optimized UVs

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

Special thanks to @shartte, @Damianno19 and @gstanlo for their contributions.

List of changes since sceneform-1.7pr2:

Features

Engine

• VertexBuffer builder normalized() method now accepts a boolean

Materials

• Added getWorldFromClipMatrix() API
• Added flipUV property to enable/disable UV Y coordinate flipping
• Added curvatureToRoughness property for specular anti-aliasing
• Added limitOverInterpolation property for specular anti-aliasing

Tools

• New glslminifier tool to reduce the size of built-in GLSL shaders

Enhancements

Engine

• Improved job system performance, especially under contention
• Removed obsolete documentation about static lights

Tools

• Improved linear to sRGB conversion functions
• Improved skygen rendering
• Added 4 channel versions of image operations
• Filamesh now generates dummy UV sets when necessary

Web

• Added more JavaScript bindings
• Added more TypeScript annotations

Android

• Upgraded samples to Android Studio 3.3 and Kotlin 1.3.10
• Improved rendering to TextureView

Vulkan

• Added support for RGB textures

Bug fixes

Engine

• Destroy engine's default material on shutdown
• Fixed incorrect order of arguments in glBlendFuncSeparate
• Fixed VAO state management bug

Rendering

• Fixed normals/tangents skinning when a transform is set
• Fixed black spots that would sometimes show up with FXAA enabled
• Fixed depth prepass rendering bug on NVIDIA hardware

Tools

• Fixed memory leak in libimage
• Fixed baseColorFactor support when loading glTF files
• Fixed minor issues in glTF to filamesh conversions

Android

• Fixed skybox loader to accept dimensions greater than 256x256
• Fixed filamesh loader to correctly interpret optimized UVs

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

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

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

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

Bug fixes

• Many threading issues related to the JobSystem

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

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

This release of Filament matches the initial open sourcing of the project on GitHub. It represents the status of Filament as of August 3rd 2018.