v1.9.11

Engine

• materials: Added sheenColor and sheenRoughness properties to materials to create cloth/fabric.
• materials: Materials generation using libfilamat is now multi-threaded.
• materials: Modulate emissive by alpha on blended objects.
• API: MaterialBuilder::build() now expects a reference to a JobSystem to multi-thread shaders
  generation. A JobSystem can be obtained with Engine::getJobSystem() when using Filament,
  or created directly otherwise. (⚠️ API change)
• engine: Fix, punctual lights get clipped at certain angles.
• engine: Fix memory leak when calling View::setViewport frequently.
• engine: Fix, materials not working on some Qualcomm devices.
• engine: Fix, RenderTarget cleared multiple times.
• Java: Fix JNI bindings for color grading.
• Android: reduced binary size.

Platforms and backends

• Added support for Apple silicon Macs. build.sh can now be used to build on either Apple silicon or
  Intel-based Macs. Pass the -l flag to build universal binaries.
• Metal: honor inverseFrontFaces in RasterState.
• Metal: Fix crash when switching between views with shadowing enabled.
• Metal: Fix crash when calling Texture::setImage() on SAMPLER_2D_ARRAY texture.
• WebGL: Fix samples erroring on Windows with Chrome.
• WebGL: Support highlight for setBloomOptions in JavaScript.
• WebGL: Include TypeScript bindings in releases.

Libraries, tools, and samples

• gltfio: added support for KHR_materials_sheen.
• gltfio: shader optimizations are now disabled by default, unless opting in or using ubershaders.
• gltfio: Fix _maskThreshold not found error.
• gltfio on Java: fix potential memory leak in AssetLoader.destroy().
• gltfio: fix crash during async texture decode.
• gltfio: support animation in dynamically-added instances.
• gltfio: Improve robustness when decoding textures.
• gltfio: Fix animator crash for orphaned nodes.
• gltfio: fix tangents with morphing.
• gltf_viewer: fix very sporadic crash when exiting.
• gltf_viewer: fix crash when rapidly switching between glTF models.
• sampels: Add planar reflection RenderTarget demo.

Examples

New sheen and sheenRoughness material properties:

v1.9.10

• Introduce libibl_lite library.
• engine: Fix EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION seen when using headless SwapChains on macOS with OpenGL.
• engine: Add new callback API to SwapChain.
• engine: Fix SwiftShader crash when using an IBL without a reflections texture.
• filamat: Shrink internal Skybox material size.
• filamat: improvements to generated material size.
• filamat: silence spirv-opt warnings in release builds.
• matc: Add fog variant filter.
• matc: Fix crash when building mobile materials.
• math: reduce template bloat for matrices.
• Vulkan: robustness improvements.

v1.9.9

• Vulkan: internal robustness improvements
• Metal: Support CVPixelBuffer SwapChains
• Metal: Support copyFrame
• Fix clear behavior with RenderTarget API.
• Fix GetRefractionMode JNI binding
• Additional fixes for Fence bug

v1.9.8

• Fix a few Fence-related bugs
• gltfio: add createInstance() to AssetLoader.
• gltfio: fix ASAN issue when consuming invalid animation.
• gltfio: do not segfault on invalid primitives.
• gltfio: add safety checks to getAnimator.
• gltfio: fix segfault when consuming invalid file.
• Vulkan: various internal refactoring and improvements
• mathio: add ostream operator for quaternions.
• Fix color grading not applied when dithering is off.

v1.9.7

• Vulkan: improvements to the ReadPixels implementation.
• Vulkan: warn instead of panic for sampler overflow.
• Vulkan: fix leak with headless swap chain.
• PlatformVkLinux now supports all combos of XLIB and XCB.
• Fix TypeScript binding for TextureUsage.

v1.9.6

• Added View::setVsmShadowOptions (experimental)
• Add anisotropic shadow map sampling with VSM (experimental)
• matc: fixed bug where some compilation failures still exited with code 0
• Vulkan + Android: fix build break
• Add optional XCB support to PlatformVkLinux
• Fix Vulkan black screen on Windows with NVIDIA hardware

v1.9.5

• Added a new Live Wallpaper Android sample
• UiHelper now supports managing a SurfaceHolder
• Fix: an internal texture resource was never destroyed
• Fix: hang on 2-CPU machines
• Fix: Vulkan crash when using shadow cascades
• Linux fixes for headless SwiftShader
• Fix null pointer dereference in FIndirectLight
• Fix Windows build by avoiding nested initializers
• Vulkan: support readPixels and headless swap chains
• VSM improvements

v1.9.4

• Add screen space cone tracing (SSCT)
• Improvements to VSM shadow quality
• New ShadowOptions control to render Variance Shadow Maps (VSM) with MSAA (experimental)
• Improvements and fixes to screen-space ambient occlusion
• gltf_viewer: add --headless option
• gltf_viewer: Add new automation UI and functionality

v1.9.3

• engine: Added new APIs to enable/disable screen space refraction
• engine: Fix, flip the shading normal when det < 0.
• gltfio: Fix animation by clamping the per-channel interpolant.
• gltfio: add async cancellation API
• gltfio: Fix "uniform not found" errors.
• gltfio: Disable clear coat layer IOR change in glTF files (#3104)
• Vulkan: fix final image barrier used for swap chain.
• matdbg: Various improvements
• JavaScript bindings: fix TextureUsage bitmask.
• cmgen / mipgen: add opt-in for ASTC / ETC support.

v1.9.2

• Fixes / improvements for contact shadows, fog, and DOF
• Reduce SSAO creases caused by geometry tessellation
• Fix compilation warnings and issue with Clang 12
• Fix JNI crashes
• Rename .blurScale to .cocScale in DOF options