FORGE.js 0.9.0

Release notes

General

• Dependency: Update threejs to r83.

Documentation

• New API documentation and JSON reference for 0.9.0.
• New tutorial: Creating my first immersive experience.
• New tutorial: How to declare and use actions.
• New tutorial: Create a hotspot.
• New tutorial: Hotspots events.
• New tutorial: Hotspot sound.
• New tutorial: Hotspot animation.
• Sample: Update directors-cut sample.
• Sample: Update hotspots-sounds sample.
• Sample: Update hotspots-animation sample.

Viewer

• Feature: Add an accessor for camera on viewer.
• Feature: Add an accessor for view on viewer.

Scene

• Feature: Scene can now declare a global sound in addition of playlists.

Renderer

• Feature: Hotspots are now rendered in all projections by GPU (vertex shader)
• Feature: Add two callbacks beforeRender and afterRender
• Feature: Add a picking manager to control all 3D objects picking for all projections including VR.
• Feature: Add an accessor type for views.
• Fix: Object picking support for Hotspot3D without texture.
• Architecture: ShaderLib based on THREE.ShaderLib gathering all GLSL code for vertex and fragement shaders
• Architecture: Views are pointing on ShaderLib to define rendering GLSL code
• Refactor: EffectComposer and all passes (shader, render, texture) have been subclassed
• Refactor: All 3D objects are using THREE.RawShaderMaterial with FORGE shaders

VR

• Feature: The camera gaze cursor is now customizable in the JSON configuration.

Audio

• Fix: Sound volume setter check for NaN.

Director

• Refactor: Update "waypoints" to "keyframes".

Hotspots

• Refactor: Update "transforms" to "keyframes" in the animation.