r54

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r53--r54

(411,352 KB, gzip: 98,639 KB)

• Added nodejs, perl, python and ruby based localhost server. (@zz85)
• Added support for alphaTest to Sprite. (@alteredq)
• Added WebGLDeferredRenderer with all sorts of goodness. (@MPanknin and @alteredq)
• Changed Sprite to use SpriteMaterial instead of custom object. (@alteredq)
• Added sourcemap option to python and nodejs build systems. (@zz85 and @gero3)
• Non-indexed BufferGeometry. (@benaadams)
• Added support for loading cubemap DDS textures. (@MiiBond)
• Added manual mipmapping support to Texture and DataTexture. (@benaadams and @alteredq)
• Added style strings support Color. (@mrdoob)
• Added new fbx converter. (@zfedoran)
• Improvements to SceneLoader. (@RommelVR and @alteredq)
• Added Plane class and implemented in Frustum. (@bhouston)
• Added Box3, Sphere math classes and implemented in Geometry. (@bhouston)
• Added bilinear filtered shadow map. (@MiiBond)
• Added test framework. (@bhouston)
• Replaced UV with Vector2. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Ray to Raycaster and added new Ray math class. (@bhouston)
• Improvements to CSS3DRenderer. (@mrdoob, @benaadams and @zz85)
• Implemented .dispose() to Geometry, BufferGeometry, Texture, Material and WebGLRenderTarget for deallocating from GPU. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Moved SubdivisionModifier out of the build to examples/js/modifiers. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to ColladaLoader. (@dgossow)
• Added Blender 2.65 exporter. (@tapio)
• Added .setMaterialIndex() to GeometryUtils. (@gero3)
• Added benchmark framework. (@bhouston)
• Fixed Blender scene exporter rotations. (@alteredq and @WestLangley)
• Added devicePixelRatio support to CanvasRenderer and WebGLRenderer. (@mrdoob)

r53

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r52--r53

(392,799 KB, gzip: 96,044 KB)

• Lots of improvements to editor. Including possibility to export geometry and scene. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Sprite no longer gets its size from the texture. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Improved CSS3DRenderer. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Added support for vertex normals in Ribbon. (@alteredq)
• Object3D's .clone() is now recursive. (@mrdoob)
• Added support for fog in Sprite. (@alteredq)
• Scene format now supports nested lights, cameras and SkinnedMesh, OBJ, VTK, STL, UTF8 and Collada files. (@alteredq)
• Object3D's .lookAt() now working when using quaternions. (@motin)
• Added touch support to TrackballControls. (@mrdoob)
• Object sorting in WebGLRenderer is now stable, regardless of browser implementation. (@alteredq)
• MeshPhongMaterial's perPixel is not true by default. (@alteredq)
• Added LineDashedMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Added .setContextStyle to Color. (@GreyScales)
• Corrected normal matrix calculations. (@WestLangley)
• Added KaleidoShader, MirrorShader and RGBShiftShader. (@felixturner)
• Added area weighted vertex normals computation to Geometry. (@alteredq)
• Moved geometry.materials to MeshFaceMaterial. (@gero3, @alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Removed materials and sides from CubeGeometry. (@mrdoob)
• Move GeometryUtils's .clone() to Geometry. (@mrdoob)

r52

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r52--r53

(379,442 KB, gzip: 94,126 KB)

• New node.js build system. (@gero3)
• Proper edge handling in SubdivisionModifier. (@zz85)
• Added defines parameter for adding preprocessor definitions to ShaderMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Split ShaderExtras into single files (BasicShader, BlendShader, ConvolutionShader, ... ). (@mrdoob)
• Added HueSaturationShader and BrightnessContrastShader. (@tapio)
• Fixed ColladaLoader not loading sometimes. (@tapio)
• Added material.vertexColors = THREE.FaceColor support to CanvasRenderer and SVGRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added Object3D.defaultEulerOrder. (@mrdoob)
• Replaced SceneUtils.traverseHierarchy and SceneUtils.showHierarchy with object.traverse. (@mrdoob)
• Added PointerLockControls. (@mrdoob)
• Completed more documentation pages. (@sole)
• Split SceneUtils.cloneObject into *.clone(). (@mrdoob)
• Simplified AxisHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Added GeometryExporter. (@mrdoob)
• Improved OrbitControls. (@WestLangley)
• Added GeometryLibrary, MaterialLibrary, TextureLibrary and ObjectLibrary (bear in mind that you can't rely on the GC now. Call *.deallocate() for removing). (@mrdoob)
• Moved *Controls out of the lib. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed shadows getting animated when skinning / morphing was disabled. (@alteredq)
• Added Manual section to the documentation pages. (@oal)
• Added .angleTo() to Vector3. (@Wilt)
• Many improvements to the editor. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)

r51

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r50--r51

(405,491 KB, gzip: 99,389 KB)

• Added STLLoader. (@aleeper and @mrdoob)
• Optimised Ray (2x faster). (@gero3)
• Added .getDescendants method to Object3D. (@gero3 and @mrdoob)
• SkinnedMesh can now work with MorphAnimMesh. (@apendua)
• Changed CameraHelper. Now it matches the camera independently of where it's in the scene graph. (@mrdoob)
• Removed the need for manually setting texture units with ShaderMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Added HemisphereLight. (@alteredq)
• Fixed WebGLRenderer handling of flip sided materials. (@WestLangley and @alteredq)
• Added support to normals maps in MeshPhongMaterial. (@crobi and @alteredq)
• Added handling of BufferGeometry for ParticleSystems. (@alteredq)
• Added support for compressed textures and cube maps to WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Outliner and Material panel improvements to the editor. (@mrdoob)
• Added material.emissive support to CanvasRenderer and SVGRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added handling of multiple UV layers and anisotropy to Blender exporter. (@alteredq)
• Handling bump and anisotropy in Loader and SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Added mousewheel support to TrackballControls. (@jherrm)
• Added MTLLoader and OBJMTLLoader. (@angelxuanchang)
• Updated UTF8Loader to latest version. (@angelxuanchang and @alteredq)
• Pluginized SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Added support of object.renderDepth in Projector. (@mrdoob)
• Made build system more flexible. (@mrdoob)
• Many enhancements to SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Experimenting with CSS3DRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added ShapeGeometry. (@jonobr1)
• Fixes to Vector3's .setEulerFromRotationMatrix method.(@WestLangley)

r50

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r49--r50

(391,250 KB, gzip: 96,143 KB)

• Experimenting with SoftwareRenderer. (@mrdoob and @rygorous)
• Improved rotation conversion routines. (@WestLangley)
• Moved DOMRenderer and SVGRenderer out of common build. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to Morph targets. (@alteredq and @gero3)
• Added .deallocateMaterial method to WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Added .worldToLocal and .localToWorld methods to Object3D. (@zz85 and @WestLangley)
• Added ConvexGeometry. (@qiao)
• Added node.js build system. (@gero3)
• Improvements to Blender exporter. (@timbot and @alteredq)
• Added uvs and vertex colors support to ImmediateRenderObjects. (@alteredq)
• Started implementing LoadingMonitor and EventTarget in loaders. (@mrdoob)
• Added Path.ellipse. (@linzhp)
• Added near and far properties to Ray. (@niklassa)
• Added OrbitControls. (@qiao, @mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Completed some more documentation pages. (@mrdoob, @phenomnomnominal, @FuzzYspo0N, @poeschko, @wwwtyro, @maximeq and @alteredq)
• Completed lots more documentation pages. (@sole)
• Started reworking GUI. (@mrdoob)
• Improved python build system. (@gero3)
• Made VTKLoader parsing more robust. (@mrdoob)
• Added recursive flag to Ray. (@mrdoob)
• Handling resizes properly in controls and examples. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to ColladaLoader. (@SpaceCookies)
• Unflipped V coordinate across the whole library. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Refactored BufferGeometry. (@alteredq)
• Improved GL extensions initialisation in WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Rescued SkinnedMesh. (@N3tFr34K and @alteredq)
• Made OBJLoader parsing more robust. (@Dahie)
• Implemented skinning via floating point textures. (@alteredq)
• Improved documentation system. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Added support for anisotropic texture filtering and standard derivatives in WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Added support for ParticleBasicMaterial without map in CanvasRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• SceneLoader now supports nested scene graphs and per object custom properties. (@skfcz)
• Camera doesn't need to be added to the scene anymore. (@mrdoob)
• Object3D's flipSided and doubleSided properties are now Material's side property. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Added .clone method to *Material. (@gero3, @mrdoob and @alteredq)
• IEWEBGL support. (@iewebgl and @mrdoob)
• Added CircleGeometry. (@hughes)
• Added bumpMap to MeshPhongMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Added specularMap to MeshBasicMaterial, MeshLambertMaterial and MeshPhongMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Reworked python build system. (@mrdoob)

r49

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r48--r49

(364,242 KB, gzip: 89,057 KB)

• Yet more ColladaLoader improvements. (@ekitson, @AddictArts and @pblasco)
• Created documentation system. (@mrdoob)
• Added some documentation. (@mrdoob and @sole)
• Added MorphBlendMesh. (@alteredq)
• Added emissive component to WebGL Materials. (@alteredq)
• Added DepthPassPlugin. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to Path. (@asutherland)
• Improvements to Curve. (@zz85)
• Added ArrowHelper. (@zz85 and @WestLangley)
• Changed depth sorting in WebGLRenderer to use world positions. (@alteredq)
• Improved physically based shading in WebGLRenderer. (@WestLangley)
• Changed depth sorting in Projector to use world positions. (@mrdoob)
• Added physical specular term also to normal map shader. (@alteredq)
• Added TubeGeometry. (@zz85 and @WestLangley)
• Added needsUpdate flag to Material. (@alteredq)
• Fixed GeometryUtils.triangulateQuads. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to GeometryUtils.tessellate. (@alteredq)
• Change PlaneGeometry from XY to XZ. (@mrdoob)
• WebGLRenderer back to highp shader precision. (@mrdoob)
• Added deallocateRenderTarget to `WebGLRenderer. (@kovleouf)
• Support zIndex and scale into DOMRenderer. (@ajorkowski)
• Improvements to CameraHelper. (@zz85)
• Added 3D spline path extrusion support to ExtrudeGeometry. (@zz85)
• MarchingCubes moved out of the lib into /examples/js folder. (@alteredq)
• Added ImmediateRenderObject. (@alteredq)
• Renamed __dirty* to *NeedUpdate. (@valette and @mrdoob)
• Added CustomBlending to Material and premultiplyAlpha to Texture. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to CubeCamera. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• CanvasRenderer.setClearColor() and .setClearColorHex() now sets opacity to 1 when null. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed broken UVs in SubdivisionModifier. (@zz85)
• Renamed Matrix4's setTranslation, setRotationX, setRotationY, setRotationZ, setRotationAxis and setScale to makeTranslation, makeRotationX, makeRotationY, makeRotationZ, makeRotationAxis and makeScale. (@mrdoob)
• Matrix4 static methods makeFrustum, makePerspective, makeOrtho to non-static methods. (@mrdoob)
• Refactore handling of Matrix4 to Matrix3 inversion. (@alteredq)
• Added GodRays postprocessing. (@huwb)
• Added LinePieces support to Projector. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed UVs handling bug in GeometryUtils.tessellate. (@alteredq)
• Serious performance improvements to Matrix4, Matrix3 and Frustum. (@gero3)
• Fixes to LatheGeometry. (@zz85)
• Removed Vertex. Use Vector3 instead. (@mrdoob)
• Implemented real Spotlights. (@alteredq)
• Added ParametricGeometry. (@zz85)
• Added basic OBJLoader in /examples/js/loaders folder. (@mrdoob)
• Moved ColladaLoader and UTF8Loader to /examples/js/loaders folder. (@mrdoob)
• Added VTKLoader to /examples/js/loaders folder. (@valette and @mrdoob)
• Blender exporter now supports linked groups. (@Druidhawk)
• Added visible property to Material. (@mrdoob)
• Removed Lamber+Texture support in CanvasRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed normals in CylinderGeometry. (@qiao)
• Added floating point textures support to WebGLRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed AnaglyphWebGLRenderer and co. to AnaglyphEffect & co. and moved to /examples/js/effects. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to documentation system. (@mrdoob and @codler)
• Added AsciiEffect. (@zz85)

r48

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r47--r48

(393,626 KB, gzip: 99,395 KB)

• Added camera support to ColladaLoader. (@jbaicoianu)
• More ColladaLoader improvements. (@mrdoob, @AddictArts, @kduong)
• Updated IcosahedronGeometry and OctahedronGeometry with @timothypratley's PolyhedronGeometry code which also brings TetrahedronGeometry. (@mrdoob)
• LOD should now behave as expected from anywhere in the scene graph. (@mrdoob)
• Added THREE.REVISION. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed cancelRequestAnimationFrame polyfill. (@also)
• Improvements to convert_obj_three.py. (@alteredq)
• Fixes to Geometry's .computeBoundingBox and .computeBoundingSphere. (@alteredq)
• Refactored ShadowMap shader. (@alteredq)
• Fixed handling of meshes with multiple materials in SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Changed Material's default ambient color to 0xffffff. (@alteredq)
• Added normals support to MorphTarget. (@alteredq)
• Added .setFrameRange and .setAnimationLabel to MorphAnimMesh. (@alteredq)
• Added handling of named animation sequences to MorphAnimMesh. (@alteredq)
• Extended MorphAnimMesh to be able to play animations backwards. (@alteredq)
• Added .generateDataTexture to ImageUtils. (@alteredq)
• Removed hierarchy support and .intersectScene() from Ray. (@mrdoob)
• Added .triangulateQuads to GeometryUtils. (@alteredq)
• Projector and WebGLRenderer now handles doubleSided lighting properly. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Fixed MorphAnimMesh playback bug where the last frame didn't display. (@alteredq)
• TrackballControls implements EventTarget. (@mrdoob)
• Added .clone to Vertex, Face3 and Face4. (@alteredq)
• Added .explode and .tessellate to GeometryUtils. (@alteredq)
• Added .lerpSelf to Vector2, Vector3 and UV. (@alteredq)
• Fixed DOMRenderer by using single-materials. (@ajorkowski)
• Added .setPrecision to Ray. (@mrdoob)
• Blender exporter now honors the "Flip YZ" option. (@rectalogic)
• Added NoBlending to Material and WebGLRenderer. (@kovleouf)
• Added .applyMatrix to Object3D. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Added .attach and .detach to SceneUtils to retain position in space. (@alteredq)
• Added .sign to Math. (@alteredq)
• Implemented sphinx based documentation. (@ivankuzev)
• Documented part of the API. (@ivankuzev and @alteredq)
• Replaced sphinx based documentation with compilation-less sytem. (@mrdoob)
• Added default material to Mesh, Line and ParticleSystem. (@mrdoob)

r47

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r46--r47

(378,169 KB, gzip: 96,015 KB)

• Resurrected lens flares as custom WebGLRenderer plugin. (@alteredq)
• Fixed typos in Matrix4's transpose() and getInverse(). (@ekitson)
• "Pluginized" Sprites and ShadowMaps. (@alteredq)
• Added Frustum class. (@alteredq)
• ColladaLoader improvements. (@ekitson, @jterrace, @mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Lights in a hierarchy are now supported when using WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Included requestAnimationFrame shim in the lib. (@mrdoob)
• Started documentation effort in /doc (using sphinx). (@jterrace)
• Changed default shader precission to mediump. (@mrdoob)
• Added support for the format OpenCTM. (@alteredq)
• Added BufferGeometry for direct rendering from typed arrays. (@alteredq)
• Extended Texture class with format and type parameters. (@alteredq)
• Automatically reducing texture to max size of WebGL hardware. (@greggman and @alteredq)
• Improved WebGLRenderer's Shadow Map code. (@alteredq)
• Checking for xhr.overrideMimeType before using it (fixing IE support). (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Improved ATI and ANGLE support in across WebGLRenderer shaders. (@alteredq)
• Added generateMipmaps property to Texture and RenderTarget. (@alteredq)
• Frustum properly handling children with scaled parents. (@avinoamr)
• Fixed Ray when dealing with big polygons. (@WestLangley)
• Fixed WebGLRenderer bug where depth buffer was not cleared. (@ekitson)
• Added CameraHelper objects for visualising both Perspective and Orthographic cameras. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to Path. (@zz85)
• Improvements to Postprocessing stack. (@alteredq)
• Added shadows for DirectionalLights. (@alteredq)
• Added Gyroscope object. (@alteredq)
• Added alpha and premultipliedAlpha parameters to WebGLRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Ray properly handling children with scaled parents. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Axes object to AxisHelper. (@mrdoob)

r46

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r45--r46

(343.383 KB, gzip: 87.468 KB)

• Added reflections to Normal Mapping. (@alteredq)
• Ray now checks also object children. (@mrdoob)
• *Loader.load( parameters ) to *Loader( url, callback, texturePath ). (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Reworked scene graph setup. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Fixed CanvasRenderer's SphericalReflectionMapping rendering. (@mrdoob)
• Improved SubdivisionModifier. (@zz85)
• Refactored *Controls to use externally supplied time delta. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to CombinedCamera. (@zz85)
• ColladaLoader doesn't create extra Object3D. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to Lambert and Phong materials. (@alteredq)
• Removed multi-materials for simplicity reasons. (Multi-materials will come back with MeshLayerMaterial hopefully soon) (@alteredq)
• Fixed Ray not considering edges. (@mrdoob)
• Massive cleanup to WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Ray optimisations. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• JSON file format is now worker-less (this was crashing Chrome/Firefox with dealing with many assets). (@alteredq)
• Improved CubeGeometry, PlaneGeometry, IcosahedronGeometry and SphereGeometry. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to Curve. (@zz85)
• Removed Collisions code and focusing on Ray. (@mrdoob)
• Added cloneObject() method to SceneUtils. (@alteredq)

r45

(340.863 KB, gzip: 86.568 KB)

• Object/Scene.add*() and Object/Scene.remove*() are now Object/Scene.add() and Object/Scene.remove(). (@mrdoob)
• LOD.add() is now LOD.addLevel(). (@mrdoob)
• Reworked CylinderGeometry. (@mrdoob)
• Added .depthWrite and .fog to Material. (@alteredq)
• Added .applyMatrix to Geometry. (@mrdoob)
• Improved postprocessing stack in /examples/js/postprocessing. (@alteredq)
• Added a realistic skin shading example. (@alteredq)
• Started of a GUI for composing scenes and autogenerate code. (@mrdoob)
• Added .center() to GeometryUtils. (@alteredq)
• Fixed buggy scenegraph manipulation (adding/removing objects). (@jsermeno, @alteredq and @skython)
• Renamed MeshShaderMaterial to ShaderMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Fixed CanvasRenderer ignoring color of SmoothShadinged MeshLambertMaterial. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed renderer.data to renderer.info. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed ShadowMap aspect ratio. (@kig and @alteredq)
• Fixed Loader's extractUrlbase() incorrect output for short urls. (@rectalogic and @alteredq)
• Added .color and .visible support to Sprite. (@alteredq)
• Added Face4, Vertex Colors and Maya support to ColladaLoader. (@mrdoob)
• Rewrite of lighting shader code. (@alteredq)
• Improved internal array concatenation approach. (@pyrotechnick)
• WebGLRenderer performance improvements. (@alteredq)
• Added lower level immediate rendering support to WebGLRenderer. (@NINE78 and @alteredq)
• Added CubeCamera for rendering cubemaps. (@alteredq)
• Improved GeometryUtils's .mergeVertices() performance. (@zz85)
• Removed Camera's .target. (@mrdoob)
• WebGLRenderer's .clear() is now .clear( color, depth, stencil ). (@mrdoob)
• Added .autoClearColor, .autoClearDepth and .autoClearStencil to WebGLRenderer. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Added OctahedronGeometry. (@clockworkgeek)
• Splitted Camera into PerspectiveCamera and OrthographicCamera. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Special cameras are now *Controls. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Added SubdivisionModifier. (@zz85)
• Projector's unprojectVector() now also works with OrthographicCamera. (@jsermeno)
• Added .setLens() method to PerspectiveCamera. (@zz85)
• Added Shadow Maps, Texture's .offset and .repeat and reflections support to Normal Map shader. (@alteredq)