Beta 0.3.0

New Contributors

• @AgentePanela made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: r0.2.0...r0.3.0

New Features

• Vector shape rendering: circles, rectangles, ellipses, lines, hexagons, triangles, arcs, and rings, drawn directly through RenderManager (DrawCircle, DrawRect, DrawLine, etc.), backed by Apos.Shapes.
• New shader/resource build pipeline (Engine.ResourcesBuilder). Shaders are compiled at Debug startup with a single ShaderBuilder.Build() call, replacing the old Contentless + symlink + Content.mgcb setup.
• Automatic lighting injection for sprite shaders: a plain .fx shader gets lighting support wrapped around it for free, unless it opts out with technique Unshaded.
• Shader support for tilemaps via TilemapComponent.Shader.
• Entity cloning: EntityManager.CloneEntity(uid) copies an entity's live component state onto a new entity.
• Rewritten loading scene lifecycle (LoadingScene, DefaultLoadingScene, ClientOptions.LoadingScene, LoadingFinishedEvent), so games can plug in a custom splash screen/progress bar instead of the default loading screen.
• Z-order (Depth) sorting within a render Layer, plus SpriteSystem.BringToFront/SendToBack helpers.
• Simulation pause support for systems.
• Ability to capture the rendered viewport as a texture.

Improvements

• Lighting system rework: occluder edge geometry is now built once per frame instead of per light, wall bleed and light blur passes were refined, and unshaded sprites now respect Layer/Depth against the rest of the scene instead of always drawing on top.
• Shape rendering pass improved and given proper unshaded support.
• Engine.Server improvements.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused by the lighting system.
• Fixed font loading issues introduced by the new content builder.

Breaking Changes

• The old content pipeline (Contentless nuget, Content.mgcb, EngineShaders symlink) is gone. See the migration guide for the new setup.
• IFontManager.Load(ContentManager, ...) and TryLoadFirstAvailable(...) were removed. Fonts are now TrueType files loaded straight from disk (DefaultFontCatalog was replaced by DefaultFontSizes).
• GraphicsProfile is now forced to HiDef (required by the new shape rendering library).

Beta 0.2.0

Full Changelog: r0.1.0...r0.2.0

Ft:

• Lightinings system
• Improved Engine.Server
• Engine own resources folder
• Animation support
• EntityDrawSystem for systems that need to use the Draw() calls (only for Client)
• Draw() from EntitySystem has been removed
• EntityPrototype API has been updated to have easy sprite access in client-side

Beta 0.1.0

Full Changelog: https://github.com/AgentePanela/OIRF.Engine/commits/r0.1.0