bevy v0.4.0

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bevy v0.4.0 Release Notes

• ➕ Added

  • add bevymark benchmark example
  • 👍 gltf: support camera and fix hierarchy
  • ⏱ Add tracing spans to schedules, stages, systems
  • add example that represents contributors as bevy icons
  • Add received character
  • Add bevy_dylib to force dynamic linking of bevy
  • Added RenderPass::set_scissor_rect
  • bevy_log
    • Adds logging functionality as a Plugin.
    • Changes internal logging to work with the new implementation.
  • cross-platform main function
  • Controllable ambient light color
    • Added a resource to change the current ambient light color for PBR.
  • Added more basic color constants
  • Add box shape
  • Expose an EventId for events
  • System Inputs, Outputs, and Chaining
  • Expose an EventId for events
  • Added set_cursor_position to Window
  • Added new Bevy reflection system
    • Replaces the properties system
  • 👍 Add support for Apple Silicon
  • Live reloading of shaders
  • Store mouse cursor position in Window
  • Add removal_detection example
  • Additional vertex attribute value types
  • Added WindowFocused event
  • Tracing chrome span names
  • 🏁 Allow windows to be maximized
  • 0️⃣ GLTF: load default material
  • can spawn a scene from a ChildBuilder, or directly set its parent when spawning it
  • add ability to load .dds, .tga, and .jpeg texture formats
  • add ability to provide custom a AssetIo implementation

  🔄 Changed

  • delegate layout reflection to RenderResourceContext
  • 🚚 Fall back to remove components one by one when failing to remove a bundle
  • Port hecs derive macro improvements
  • Use glyph_brush_layout and add text alignment support
  • ⬆️ upgrade glam and hexasphere
  • Flexible ECS Params
  • Make Timer.tick return &Self
  • FileAssetIo includes full path on error
  • 🚚 Removed ECS query APIs that could easily violate safety from the public interface
  • Changed Query filter API to be easier to understand
  • bevy_render: delegate buffer aligning to render_resource_context
  • wasm32: non-spirv shader specialization
  • Renamed XComponents to XBundle
  • Check for conflicting system resource parameters
  • Tweaks to TextureAtlasBuilder.finish()
  • do not spend time drawing text with is_visible = false
  • 👍 Extend the Texture asset type to support 3D data
  • Breaking changes to timer API
    • Created getters and setters rather than exposing struct members.
  • 🚚 Removed timer auto-ticking system
    • Added an example of how to tick timers manually.
  • When a task scope produces <= 1 task to run, run it on the calling thread immediately
  • Breaking changes to Time API
    • Created getters to get Time state and made members private.
    • Modifying Time's values directly is no longer possible outside of bevy.
  • 👍 Use mailbox instead of fifo for vsync on supported systems
  • switch winit size to logical to be dpi independent
  • Change bevy_input::Touch API to match similar APIs
  • ⚡️ Run parent-update and transform-propagation during the "post-startup" stage (instead of "startup")
  • Renderer Optimization Round 1
  • 🏗 ChangeTextureAtlasBuilder into expected Builder conventions
  • ⚡️ Optimize Text rendering / SharedBuffers
  • hidpi swap chains
  • ⚡️ optimize asset gpu data transfer
  • naming coherence for cameras
  • ⏱ Schedule v2
  • Use shaderc for aarch64-apple-darwin
  • ⚡️ update Window's width & height methods to return f32
  • Break out Visible component from Draw
    • Users setting Draw::is_visible or Draw::is_transparent should now set Visible::is_visible and Visible::is_transparent
  • ⬆️ winit upgraded from version 0.23 to version 0.24
  • 0️⃣ set is_transparent to true by default for UI bundles

  🛠 Fixed

  • ✏️ Fixed typos in KeyCode identifiers
  • 🚚 Remove redundant texture copies in TextureCopyNode
  • Fix a deadlock that can occur when using scope() on ComputeTaskPool from within a system
  • Don't draw text that isn't visible
  • Use instant::Instant for WASM compatibility
  • Fix pixel format conversion in bevy_gltf
  • 🛠 Fixed duplicated children when spawning a Scene
  • 💻 Corrected behaviour of the UI depth system
  • Allow despawning of hierarchies in threadlocal systems
  • Fix RenderResources index slicing
  • ⚡️ Run parent-update and transform-propagation during the "post-startup" stage
  • Fix collision detection by comparing abs() penetration depth
  • deal with rounding issue when creating the swap chain
  • ⚡️ only update components for entities in map
  • Don't panic when attempting to set shader defs from an asset that hasn't loaded yet

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