Away3D 4.1.6

• Memory optimisations for internal Matrix3D and Vector3D use
• Fix to zIndex calculation on Entities with non-root parent. Closes #659
• Fix for removing effects methods on a multipass material. Closes #671
• Updated context loss handling for views with 3D filters. Closes #669
• Corrected pivot point calculation for scaled meshes. Closes #650
• Fix for background texture renderer when using BlendMode on a Mesh. Closes #569
• Fix for controller using targets with non-root parent. Closes #377
• Compatibility fix for UV animation applied to a multipass material. Closes #553
• Stability update to StereoView3D. Closes #466
• Compatibility fix to calling Merge.apply() to meshes with lit materials. Closes #624
• Compatibility fix for SpriteSheetAnimator applied to materials with shadows enabled. Closes #617
• Enable doublesided meshes to be used with OutlineMethod. Closes #604
• Visual discrepancy fix between single pass and multipass materials when using fog effects method. Closes #596
• Fix to filtered shadow method when using cascading shadows
• Fix to segment set rendering when using 3d filters
• Fix to multipass material when using multiple point lights
• Added useSmoothingGroups option in 3DS parser to allow smoothing on files with no smoothing group data
• Fix for play method on animators to restart stopped animations when playing the same state
• Fix to duration property for non-looping animations
• Updates to AWD and 3DS parser to allow class instance reuse on multiple assets.

Away3D 4.1.5

4.1.5

• Fix to SegmentSet bounds calculations. Closes #610
• Added support for new ATF format. Closes #615
• Fix to background image when using a scissorRect. Closes #622
• Optimisation to MD2 parser. Closes #631
• Fix to pitch/roll/yaw/rotate for scaled objects. Closes #626
• Fix on filter method for custom filterFunc. Closes #619
• Added support for 4096x4096 textures. Closes #647

Away3D 4.1.4 Gold

4.1.0 (Alpha)

• Merged stereo rendering feature
• Merged particle animation feature
• Merged compact geometry feature
• Merged ATF texture feature
• Merged view volume partitions feature
• Merged multipass materials feature
• Merged realtime reflections feature
• Rebuilt tools package to work with new compact geometry feature
• Removed name arg in animation set interface method addAnimation, name to be set on asset.
• Renamed rootDelta property on AnimatorBase to positionDelta
• Deprecated TripleFilterShadowMethod in favour of SoftShadowMethod
• Added DXF parser
• Fix order of material vs animation code generation. Closes #405
• Increased max shadow map samples for DitheredShadowMapMethod
• Increased max shadow map samples for SoftShadowMethod
• Updated DirectionalLight's scene transform (and as a result the sceneDirection) if dirty when sceneDirection is queried. Closes #391
• Replaced Texture constants not available in older compilers with string literals for backward compatibility
• PlaneGeometry: Fix faulty and missing uv's when doubleSided is true.
• Changed composite shader methods to work by passing in a method rather than subclassing
• Moved responsibility for light picker updates to material passes
• Moved shader compilation classes into own package, extracted dependency counts into class

4.1.1 (Beta)

• Added mouseEnabled, mouseChildren and extra properties to Mesh.clone(). Closes #414
• Added WireframeTetrahedron geometry primitive (#375)
• Added support for constrained mode
• Added BlendMode.LAYER support for entities.
• Refactor to worldspace calcuations for scene partitions
• Improvements to shadow rendering
• Fixes to normal values for various primitive geometry classes
• Fixes to Merge, Mirror, Explode and GeomUtil tools. Closes #437, #438, #439, #440, #441
• Compiler warnings removed
• Background texture can deactivate mipmapping on creation. Closes #468
• View doesn't dispose of a shared stage3DProxy when has shareContext = true (#475)
• Fixes to DAE parser (#486 & #484)
• Fixed EnvMapMethod using mask. Closes #480
• Fixed shadows for large scene position values. Closes #412
• Various fixes: unpaired mouse over/mouse out events, ObjectContainer3D bounds, missing removeChildAt(), OBJ parser ignores zero-length geometries, check for zero length geometries in CompactSubGeometry, normalise normals & tangents after transform (#472)
• Added OcclusionMaterial
• Added getParticleNodeName() to ParticleNodeNBase (#488)
• Added ParticleInitialColorNode to allow different initial colors for each particle
• Added BitmapData & ATF option for ImageParser (#489, #526)
• Added spritesheet animation to the animators classes
• Optimised ShaderRegisterCache creation/reset (#477)
• Fix incorrect values from uproject() method on view and camera
• Fix SubGeometry faceWeights variable (incorrect uint cast). Closes #511 & #505
• Added fix for steps = 0 in HoverController. Closes #467
• Fixed viewport scaling and offset when using a shared context. Closes #329
• Added PerspectiveOffCenterLens
• Fix to convertToSeparateBuffers in CompactSubGometry. Closes #491
• Fixed FirstPersonController wrap issue on panAngle. Closes #506
• Fix for SingleFileLoader when getting file extensions for urls with query strings. Closes #463
• Fixed 3D mouse events when using OrthographicLens. Closes #469
• Fixed mouse picking with 2 views. Closes #483
• Fixed mouse click event to behave correctly for a mouse click. Closes #399
• Fixed incorrect aspect ratio on a view when using Filter3D API. Closes #501
• Fixed scene partition error for floating cameras. Closes #519
• Added constrained mode option
• Fix to SkyBox clipping when using extreme frustum values. Closes #481
• Fixed materials ignoring invalidation when new effects methods are assigned. Closes #476
• Fixed ShaderPicker memory leak when view is disposed. Closes #461
• Mipmaps explicitly disposed when calling dispose() on TextureMaterial. Closes #459 & #417
• Fix for mesh normals data when using PickingType.SHADER on view.mousePicker. Closes #537
• Fix for incorrect thickness value being get/set on Segment. Closes #392
• Fixed single frame glitch for ambient light on startup of a scene. Closes #410
• Fix to MeshHelper class for correctly handling CompactSubGeometry classes. Closes #444

4.1.2

• Upgraded AWD parser to version 2.1
• Added SphereMaker Command
• Fix to animation errors and container mismatches on Collada parser (Closes #428 & #445)
• Fix for using second normal on SimpleWaterNormalMethod. Closes #558.
• Fixes to memory leaks around animators (Closes #562)
• Moved interleaveBuffers() method from away3d.utils.GeometryUtil to away3d.tools.utils.GeomUtils and removed away3d.utils.GeometryUtil
• Removed dummy COLLADA_ROOT_ container from Collada parser
• Fix to operation of PerspectiveOffCenterLens
• Fix State reseting when device loss experienced for animations
• Added Basic 3D multitouch support
• Extend LookAtController and HoverController to allow upAxis to be defined
• Update Epsilon value in Shadow Methods to be the equivalent of inverse-distance for both point and directional lights
• Re-worked getContainerBounds method to work with translations and rotations of nested containers and entities.
• Added bounds for Segment Sets
• Fixes to Geometry primitive normals
• Fixes to various AssetLoader issues and parser inconsistencies
• Orthographic lens fixed to work with sharedcontext views
• Various fixes to SegmentSet, added support for multiple buffers
• Picking fixes for sharedcontext views
• Added ParticleRotateToPositionNode in particle animators

4.1.3

• Fix issue with Segment thickness when sciccorRect is set in a view
• Fixed Bounds.getMeshBounds()
• Fixed index setting of ParticleFollowState
• Fix for sharing context collider with overlapping views

4.1.4 (Gold)

• Added baseDependency getter to AssetLoader
• New Wireframe regular polygon primitive
• Added getCenter() method to Bounds
• Updated geometry primitives to use scaleU and scaleV
• Code formatting and cleaning
• ASDoc updates in comments
• Updated Bounds to ignore lights
• Fix to unproject (closes #446)
• Add wrapPanAngle to FirstPersonController
• Fix to Wireframe geomtry primitive properties and geometry updates
• Fix for runtime error when removing a lightpicker from a material with a shadow method
• Fix to GradientDiffuseMethod to stop material from disappearing when no lights are applied
• Get rid of compilation warnings in ViewVolume
• Fix for incorrect sorting with blended entities (Closes #605)
• Fix to Loader3D when automatically adding root objects to the scene from an AWD file

Away3D 4.0.11 Gold

4.0.1

• Fixes to object controllers

4.0.2

• Fixed cone geometry normals

4.0.3

• Added WireframeCylinder primitive
• Added View3D.queueSnapshot() to take screen shots of view

4.0.4

• Fixed issues with geometry validation in primitives

4.0.5

• Implemented changes related to finalized AWD 2.0 specification
• Improved LookAtController (#217)
• Fixed visual bug in AwayStats (#220)
• Added torus geometry primitive
• Optimized Fresnel specular method
• Added texture support in ambient method

4.0.6

• Implemented geometry splitting in AWD2Parser (large meshes) (#136)
• Added support for alpha in video texture (#54)

4.0.7

• Fixed crash caused by null alpha mask in shadow depth rendering (#274)
• Fixed bounds calculation for flat geometries (#273)
• Fixed issue related to primitive validation (#257)
• Fixed device loss (#263, #269)
• Fixed issue with removing assets from library (#162)
• Fixed bug related to RTT dimensions (#279)
• Unified and improved sub-mesh splitting (better support for large meshes)
• Improved tool classes
• Optimized Object3D.updateTransform() (#232)
• Fixed crash issue in AIR (#230)
• Fixed lightPicker invalidation bug (#216)
• Fixed bug only appearing in software rendering (#234)
• Fixed issues in 3DS parser (#294, #291)
• Added NearShadowMapMethod
• Implemented support for nested objects in Drag3D (#283)
• Fixes to segment rendering and management
• Implemented visible property on View3D (#155)
• Enabled texture repeating in materials loaded from OBJ files (#5)
• Properly implemented and tested Sound3D (#227, #41)
• Fixed bug in MD5 parser caused by zero-weights (#65)
• Added alpha property for shadow map methods
• Added WebcamTexture
• Improved Stage3DProxy interface
• Added doubleSided property to PlaneGeometry
• Added backbuffer cap to avoid bug caused by too large backbuffers (#285)
• Fixed issue with small OBJ files (#304)
• Fixed wrap issue in HoverController (#299)
• Enabled integration of other Stage3D frameworks (e.g. Starling)
• Fixed Sprite3D clipping bug (#309)
• Lowered texture limit to 1x1 (#308)
• Fixed OBJParser issue related to specular shading (#70, #64)
• Fixed delegation issue in composit AWDParser (#315)
• Fixed issue with texture disposal (#316)
• Implemented Tim Knip's DAEParser
• Slightly refactored loading system internals, renamed some events
• Removed deprecated bitmap/video materials
• Refactored picking system
• Optimizations to scene graph and picking
• Fixed parsing of texture names from AWD2 files (#200)
• Fixed bug in OBJParser concerning escaped line-breaks (#330)
• Fixed pivot point issue (#333)
• Added path data classes
• Refactored animation system
• Refactored object controllers (328, #331)
• Fix MD2 render state for different passes (#340)
• Fixed normal/tangent issues in CylinderGeometry (#209)
• Added default materials for objects (#170)
• Added skeleton and forceCPU properties to SkeletonAnimator
• Fixed bug in UV generation for cube primitives
• Fixed bug in SkeletonAnimator playback with negative playbackSpeed
• Fixed bug in SegmentSet (#198)

4.0.8

• Fixed infinite recursion issue in SkeletonDifferenceNode
• Fix for Gold alpha blending regression

4.0.9

• Fixed MD5 mesh bug (#364)

4.0.10

• Fixed incorrect z values in project() and x/y/z values in unproject() methods of lensbase
• Fixed incorrect bounds normals returned by mouse event on an object with triangle picking enabled
• Fixed missing delta data on MouseEvent3D.MOUSE_WHEEL events

4.0.11

• Doublesided materials considered correctly in triangle picking
• Fixed incorrect mouse events from Sprite3D
• Introduced zOffset parameter on all scenegraph objects to allow manual sorting offsets
• Fixed incorrect picking event from firing when a bounds collision is detected from inside the bounds
• Fixed missing mouse down events when running on tablets
• Added ability to resize the viewport of a View3D object independent of Stage3DProxy when sharing a context
• Updated Adobe's AGALMiniAssembler to the latest from https://github.com/graphicscore/graphicscorelib
• Implemented getSceneCollision on RaycastPicker (#418)