melonJS/melonJS: Release 0.9.1

Name: melonJS

Owner: melonJS

Release: melonJS 0.9.1

Released: 2011-10-06

License: MIT

Release Assets:

  • Core : "cache image" option (disabled by default) to use canvas instead of directly using Image Object
  • Core : add onPause and onResume callback when game is paused/resumed on losing/gaining focus
  • Core : added possibility to pass more than 1 extra argument to me.state.change (extra arguments will be passed to the reset function of the target object)
  • Core : object can now only be destroyed using me.game.remove(obj), made of ObjectEntity.destroy a private function
  • Core : beta dirty Rectangle support (only working for non scrolling level for now)
  • Core : experimental webGL wrapper
  • Core : added a getEntityByName function
  • Core : fixed some kind of "lag" issues when deleting objects
  • Core : improved the requestAnimFrame usage, and fallback to setInterval. me.sys.useNativeAnimFrame to enable it (disable by default)
  • Core : optimized the way objects are managed in the game loop
  • Core : defined (and used) a Object.defineProperty function to replace defineGetter / defineSetter (was not supported on IE9/IE10)
  • TMX : implemented Tiled "transparency" property for Tileset, allowing to specify which color should be transparent (note: this slows down level loading)
  • TMX : fixed unnecessary canvas creation for the collision layer (should free some memory)
  • TMX : cleaned/optimized data loading and fixed an issue on FF with XML parsing of "big" Base64 encoded maps (only first nodeValue was parsed by the engine)
  • TMX : added support for CSV data encoding
  • TMX : added support for flipped tiles, as supported in Tiled 0.7
  • TMX : added multiple tileset support
  • TMX : added a "background_image" property. To be set through Tiled, and allowing to specify a fix background.
  • Entity : merge AnimatedSpriteObject into SpriteObject. SpriteObject now takes an optional additional argument to create an animated sprite
  • Entity : added a distanceTo function
  • Viewport : fixed camera refresh when changing "deadzone" values
  • Loader : added a "onProgress" callback to get progress notification, removing the need to poll the loader each frame for loading progress
  • Loader : fix progress notification when TMX files are loaded into the levelDirector
  • Loader : added a retry counter for the audio loading : script will now stop and throw an exception after 3 unsuccessful loading attempts.
  • Video : renamed "applyEffect" to "applyRGBFilter", and fixed an issue on Opera
  • Audio : fixed compatibility issues with IE9/10
  • Geometry : added a merge function to me.Rect

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