v0.8.0

New Features & Improvements

Rendering Enhancements

• Renderer Pipeline Overhaul
  • Replaced single onFrame tick with discrete render passes for finer-grained control over each rendering stage
  • Introduced UnityRenderPassEvent and dispatches per-pass events in OnUnityRenderEvent
  • Added new lifecycle methods (onBeforeRendering, onOpaquesRenderPass, onTransparentsRenderPass, onAfterRendering) in TrEmbedder and TrConstellation
  • Refactored renderer interfaces and updated OpenGL example to utilize new pass methods
• Context Management
  • Introduced new ContextGLHost/ContextGLApp classes to replace legacy context storage
  • Added iterateContentRenderers API for enhanced renderer iteration
  • Implemented framebuffer attachment helpers with improved debug output including stencil state

Inspector & Debugging

• Monitoring Capabilities:
  • Extended inspector with new /json/statistics endpoint for better runtime monitoring
  • Enhanced debug output with stencil buffer state information

DOM Updates

• Content Manipulation
  • Added support for setting textContent property
  • Enhanced DOM element manipulation capabilities

XML Processing

• Parser Improvements
  • Added support for parsing script/style tags as plain character data.
  • Improved XML parsing reliability for web content

Developer Experience

• Tracing & Diagnostics:
  • Added trace support for generate-document capability in threepio
  • Enhanced debugging and development workflow

HTML & CSS Features

• HTML Element Enhancements:
  • Added support for rendering <canvas> elements via Web Canvas API
• CSS Features:
  • Added support for absolute and fixed positioning.
  • Added support for unit in transform property.

Fixes & Optimizations

Bug Fixes

• Connection Management: Fixed invalid connection handling from forked child processes in hived
• Build System: Resolved lint errors in the build process
• Stencil Buffer: Addressed stencil buffer issues through renderer refactoring (#92)

Maintenance

• Dependencies: Upgraded jsar-dom version for improved compatibility
• Animations: Updated animation system components