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A-Frame v0.5.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-02-09 // about 7 years ago

  • 👍 0.5.0 contains text, glTF support, patches to enable WebVR record-and-replay ⚡️ tools, WebVR polyfill updates, enhancements, and bug fixes.

    Major Changes

    • ⬆️ Bumped three.js to r83. (#2214)

    🗄 Deprecations

    • N/A.

    ✨ Enhancements

    • ➕ Added text component for SDF and MSDF text. (#2289)
    • ➕ Added gltf-model component for loading glTF 3D models. (#2333)
    • ➕ Added new hand poses for Oculus Touch controls. (#2191)
    • Attach tracked-controls event listeners even if no physical controllers are present. (#2314)
    • 🚚 Made Entity.removeAttribute(component, property) reset a property value to its default. (#2353)
    • ➕ Added AFRAME.utils.throttleTick and AFRAME.utils.throttle utils. (#2189)
    • 🔄 Changed hand-controls to check for "not Oculus Touch" rather than "is Vive" to make hand-controls be compatible with community control components (e.g., GearVR). (#2192)
    • 🔀 Don't cache geometry if merging. (#2255)
    • 👍 Allow unsetting of mixins with setAttribute(mixinId, ''). (#2291)
    • 👍 Allow access to the screenshot component canvas (#2316).
    • 💻 Made stats component UI more readable. (#2313)
    • ➕ Added warning of registered components contain uppercase characters. (#2233)
    • ➕ Added warning if entity is appended outside of a scene. (#2240)
    • ➕ Added warning if geometry merge target is not an entity. (#2243)
    • ✂ Removed unneeded object equality check getting called on component initialization. (#2322)
    • ⚡️ Updated VREffect to allow player scaling. (#2328)
    • Added guides to documentation for Using JavaScript and DOM APIs, Using with three.js, and Writing a Component (58555a, 982f66, 09a606).

    🛠 Fixes

    • 🛠 Fixed low iOS resolution and blur issues. (#2352)
    • 🛠 Fixed mobile resolution and canvas sizing issues by using WebVR polyfill with updated device database. (#2345)
    • 🛠 Fixed potential Vive controller issues across browsers by loosening the Gamepad ID check to only check for prefix. (#2370)
    • 🛠 Fixed raycaster.interval not being applied. (#2363)
    • 🛠 Fixed system initialization affecting component updates. (#2367)
    • 🛠 Fixed unstable version of Inspector being injected on shortcut. (#2364)
    • 🛠 Fixed vive-controls not tracking. (#2194)
    • 🛠 Fixed component updates getting called even if data did not change. (#2322)
    • 🛠 Fixed envify causing issues when installing from npm with a bundler. (c62690)
    • 🛠 Fixed component updates with setAttribute using data instead of attrValue. (#2184)
    • 🛠 Fixed coordinate parser when passed null and when trying to override. (#2209)
    • 🛠 Fixed error when vr-mode-ui is disabled and embedded is enabled. (4607e2)
    • 🛠 Fixed array property type updates through AFRAME.utils.deepEqual. (#2229)
    • 🛠 Fixed init and update handlers being called when doing flushToDOM on non-loaded entity. (#2250).
    • 🛠 Fixed disabling of fog. (#2251)
    • 🛠 Fixed texture offset and repeats. (#2253)
    • 🛠 Fixed fullscreen not exiting when exiting VR. (#2264)
    • 🛠 Fixed component pause and remove handlers not getting called on scene detach. (#2302)
    • 🛠 Fixed multiple look-controls instances colliding. (#2335)
    • 🛠 Fixed several component properties missing property types. (#2357)