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Kaboom.js v2001.0.0 Release Notes

    • brought back loadMark()
    • (BREAK) removed all deprecated functions in v2000.2
    • game objects can have children with obj.add() now which share the parent transform
    • (BREAK) raised esbuild target to esnext
    • ➕ added make() to make a game object without adding to the scene
    • ➕ added support for add() to add unattached game objects to the scene add(make([...comps]))
    • ➕ added colors option to drawPolygon() that controls the color of each corner
    • ➕ added gradient option to drawRect() that specifies the start and end color
    • ➕ added loadProgress() that returns a 0.0 - 1.0 that indicates current asset loading progress
    • ➕ added kaboom() option loadingScreen where you can turn off the default loading screen
    • ➕ added drawMasked() and drawSubtracted()
    • (BREAK) removed layers() in favor of parent game objects (see "layers" demo)
    • ➕ added pushRotateX(), pushRotateY() and pushRotateZ()
    • ➕ added pixelDensity option to kaboom()
    • ➕ added support for non bitmap fonts
    • (BREAK) rename loadFont() to loadBitmapFont()
    • ➕ added loadFont() to load .ttf, .otf, .woff2 or any font supported by browser FontFace
    • (BREAK) origin no longer controls text alignment, use align option instead
    • ➕ added quit() to end everything
    • 🔊 shader error logs now yields the correct line number
    • ⚡️ changed object update order from reversed to not reversed
    • ➕ added download(), downloadText(), downloadJSON(), downloadBlob()
    • ➕ added Recording#stop() to stop the recording and returns the video data as mp4 Blob
    • ➕ added debug.numFrames() to get the total number of frames elapsed
    • 🛠 fixed visual artifacts on text
    • ➕ added onError() to handle error or even custom error screen
    • ➕ added onLoading() to register a custom loading screen (see "loader" example)
    • 🛠 fixed touches not treated as mouse
    • (BREAK) changed onTouchStart(), onTouchMove() and onTouchEnd() callback signature to (pos: Vec2, touch: Touch) => void (exposes the native Touch object)
    • ➕ added onResize() to register an event that runs when canvas resizes
    • (BREAK) GameObj#_id has been renamed to GameObj#id
    • (BREAK) removed load() event for components, use onLoad() in add() event
    • (BREAK) renamed Body#onFall() to Body#onFallOff() which triggers when object fall off a platform, added Body#onFall() which fires when object starts falling
    • (BREAK) addLevel() now returns a GameObj which has all individual grid objects as its children game objects, with LevelComp containing its previous methods
    • (BREAK) defining gravity() is now required for enabling gravity, body() by default will only prevent objects from going through each other, removed solid() in favor of body({ isStatic: true })
    • (BREAK) renamed Body#weight to Body#gravityScale
    • (BREAK) removed GameObj#every() and GameObj#revery() in favor of obj.get().forEach()
    • ➕ added GameObj#getAll() for recursively getting children game objects (get() only gets from direct children)
    • ➕ added Area#onCollisionActive() and Area#onCollisionEnd() events
    • ✂ removed debug.objCount() in favor of getAll().length
    • ➕ added debug.numFrames() to get the current frame count
    • (BREAK) renamed cursor() to setCursor()
    • (BREAK) renamed fullscreen() to setFullscreen()
    • 🚚 moved type defs for global functions to import "kaboom/global"
    • (BREAK) removed apl386 and apl386o as default fonts, default font changed to sink,, and added a default font size of 16