Excalibur v0.27.0 Release

[eonarheim]

This was a big release! We have a ton of new features and a lot of bugfixes that came out of the community! Watch the video

See migration guide for v0.26.x -> v0.27.0

Added Features!

• feat: [Implement Scene activation context and data passing #1548] pass data to scene activation from goToScene by @mattjennings in feat: pass data to scene activation from goToScene #2381
• feat: [Support Fullscreen mode with Other UI elements #2324] Add FullScreen Target Element Id by @eonarheim in feat: [#2324] Add FullScreen Target Element Id #2325
• feat: [investigate parallel actions #242] Implement Parallel Actions by @eonarheim in feat: [#242] Implement Parallel Actions #2322
• feat: [Provide playback position from sound instance #2335] Add current playback time & playback rate by @eonarheim in feat: [#2335] Add current playback time & playback rate #2336
• feat: Implement Sprite Tint by @eonarheim in feat: Implement Sprite Tint #2326
• feat: Add missing Sound features .seek(), .duration, & getTotalPlaybackDuration() by @eonarheim in feat: Add missing Sound features .seek(), .duration, & getTotalPlaybackDuration() #2340
• feat: [Add random timer range as a feature of timers  #396] Add random Timer intervals by @malitherl in [#396] Add ability to select variable duration #2317
• feat: Implement Fixed timestep for physics simulation stability by @eonarheim in feat: Implement Fixed timestep #2339
• feat: Render from bottom of TileMap tile by default by @eonarheim in feat: Render from bottom of TileMap tile by default  #2364

New Samples

• New Grid based movement sample https://github.com/excaliburjs/sample-grid

Template/Plugin Updates

• feat: Tiled Plugin update to support tilesets that are a collection of images feat: [#382] Implement collection of image tilesets excalibur-tiled#383
• fix: Tiled Plugin update to support Tiled 1.9 breaking change fix: [#384] type->class rename in tiled 1.9 (breaking change) excalibur-tiled#385
• fix: Tiled Plugin TiledMapResource#getSpriteForGid with multiple external tilesets TiledMapResource#getTilesetForTile works incorrectly excalibur-tiled#380
• fix: Tiled Plugin custom properties parsing fix Fix custom properties parsing excalibur-tiled#378
• Updated Electron template to latest versions https://github.com/excaliburjs/template-electron

Performance Improvements

• perf: Adjust TileMap to avoid perf hit on big maps
• perf: Refactor Transform & AffineMatrix + related perf improvements by @eonarheim in perf: Refactor Transform & AffineMatrix + related perf improvements #2346
• perf: Improve collision system performance by @eonarheim in perf: Improve collision system performance #2351

Fixes

• fix: [Physics bounciness and degrees of freedom not working? #2368] elastic collisions & degree of freedom by @eonarheim in fix: [#2368] elastic collisions & degree of freedom #2369
• fix: [ex.Canvas forces dimensions to next size power of 2 #2403] Allow ex.Canvas and ex.Raster to have NPOT dimensions by @eonarheim in fix: [#2403] Allow ex.Canvas and ex.Raster to have NPOT dimensions #2404
• fix: Oscillation issue with pixel snapping + pixelToSnap default false fix: Oscillation issue with pixel snapping + pixelToSnap default false #2348
• fix: Tweak performance fallback options to be optional fix: Tweak performance fallback options to be optional #2396
• fix: Add warning if ImageSource not loaded fix: Add warning if ImageSource not loaded #2371
• fix: [.goToScene() doesn't work properly on the 2nd call? #2379] Deferred goto preserves wrong scene by @eonarheim fix: [#2379] Deferred goto preserves wrong scene #2380
• fix: [Unexpected left/right side collisions when walking on ground made of consecutive objects (Arcade Physics) #2344] [Jumping against and over a wall sometimes causes a collision that resets velocity (Arcade Physics) #2343] Arcade Solver sorts contacts by distance and ignores diverging contacts by @eonarheim in fix: [#2344] [#2343] Arcade Solver sorts contacts by distance and ignores diverging contacts #2345
• fix: [Problems with EventDispatcher #2347] EventDispatcher concurrent update issue and removal bug by @eonarheim in fix: [#2347] EventDispatcher concurrent update issue and removal bug #2350
• fix: [EdgeColliders don't behave properly in a CompositeCollider #2353] EdgeColliders in Composite calculate offsets by @eonarheim in fix: [#2353] EdgeColliders in Composite calculate offsets #2354
• fix: [Chromium's Image#decode has limited calls #2359] work around image decode limits in chromium by @eonarheim in fix: [#2359] work around image decode limits in chromium #2361
• fix: Fixed update interpolation incorrect with child actors by @eonarheim in fix: Fixed update Interpolation incorrect with child actors #2397
• chore: [VS Code settings.json causes error messages with the eslint extension #2376] update eslint config in vscode settings by @mattjennings in chore: [#2376] update eslint config in vscode settings #2377

Dependency updates

• chore: [VS Code settings.json causes error messages with the eslint extension #2376] update eslint config in vscode settings by @mattjennins in chore: [#2376] update eslint config in vscode settings #2377
• chore: Update TypeScript 4.7.4 by @eonarheim in chore: Update TypeScript 4.7.4 #2355
• chore: Update Node.js to v16.15.1 by @renovate in chore: Update Node.js to v16.15.1 #2331
• chore: Update dependency karma-summary-reporter to v3.1.1 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency karma-summary-reporter to v3.1.1 #2334
• chore: Update dependency core-js to v3.23.1 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency core-js to v3.23.1 #2328
• chore: Update dependency replace-in-file to v6.3.5 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency replace-in-file to v6.3.5 #2329
• chore: Update dependency eslint to v8.18.0 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency eslint to v8.18.0 #2332
• chore: Update dependency karma to v6.4.0 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency karma to v6.4.0 #2387
• chore: Update dependency puppeteer to v15.3.0 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency puppeteer to v15.3.0 #2395
• chore: Update dependency ts-loader to v9.3.1 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency ts-loader to v9.3.1 #2389
• chore: Update dependency webpack to v5.73.0 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency webpack to v5.73.0 #2391
• chore: Update dependency webpack-cli to v4.10.0 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency webpack-cli to v4.10.0 #2392
• chore: Update jasmine monorepo by @renovate in chore: Update jasmine monorepo #2394
• chore: Update dependency @types/node to v16.11.42 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency @types/node to v16.11.42 #2383
• chore: Update dependency core-js to v3.23.3 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency core-js to v3.23.3 #2385
• chore: Update dependency terser-webpack-plugin to v5.3.3 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency terser-webpack-plugin to v5.3.3 #2386
• chore: Update dependency @babel/core to v7.18.6 by @renovate in chore: Update dependency @babel/core to v7.18.6 #2382

Contributors

• @malitherl - Congratulations on their first code contribution in [#396] Add ability to select variable duration #2317
• @mattjennings - Congratulations on their first contribution in chore: [#2376] update eslint config in vscode settings #2377
• @ewal - Thank you for posting about basic patterns in discussions and really digging into the mysterious tsserver issue!
• @salsa2k - Thank you for actor moving, pathfinding, and image loading discussions
• @SimponGoril - Thank you for sharing the Crab based puzzle game! WIP: Crabby - My gateway to ExcaliburJS #2360
• @pdrhlik - Thank you for helping with a tile collider issue with edges in the discussions
• @Joshua-Beatty - Thank you for creating a new Capacitorjs plugin for safe area awareness on mobile! Safe Area Aware Example On iOS and Android #2349
• @KokoDoko - Thank you for the issue for physics bounciness/degrees of freedom & the discussion around esm and type information
• @mattjennings - So many contributions!
  • Thank you for creating a new meta-framework called Merlin that works with Vite and Excalibur to remove resource loading friction! Merlin - an Excalibur meta framework #2342
  • Thank you for the cool scene transition samples
  • Thank you for the opening the Arcade physics issues Unexpected left/right side collisions when walking on ground made of consecutive objects (Arcade Physics) #2344 Jumping against and over a wall sometimes causes a collision that resets velocity (Arcade Physics) #2343
  • Thank you for ray casting discussion!
  • Thank you for the vscode eslint fix
  • Thank you for spotting the docs linking issue
  • Thanks for the contributions to Scene activation
• @HxShard - Many thanks!
  • Thank you for opening the Image.decode() issue that affected chrome!
  • Thank you for the fix for Tiled custom properties
  • Thank you for the fix for Tiled TiledMapResource#getSpriteForGid inconsitency
• @ilnicki - Thank you for opening the issue around the event dispatcher!
• @EzraMoore65 - Thank you for the issue around sound playback!
• @chrisk-7777 - Many valuable updates to the docs, dev-tool dynamic scene issue, and a great parallel actions discussion!
• @lecoqjacob - Grid based movement discussion
• @ttay24 - Great discussion about fullscreen and html based UI
• @kgish - Great discussion about Excalibur's future and tragectory
• @ivanjermakov - Thank you for the CollisionType issue around the docs being incorrect and spotting another issue when physics is disabled
• @YunlongYang - Thank you for debugging the webpack template with us
• @tenpaMk2 - Thank you for more examples!
  • Cool dino game! https://tenpamk2-blog.netlify.app/apps/excalibur-dino-runner/
  • Love the snake game example! https://github.com/tenpaMk2/excalibur-examples/tree/main/examples/snake
  • Thank you for the tiled + parcel2 template https://github.com/tenpaMk2/excalibur-tiled-parcel2-template
• @divinitas-art - Thank you for the cool shadows post, ex.Canvas discussion, and bug find!
• If I missed your name for anything let me know and I'll ammend the release notes!

Full Changelog: v0.26.0...v0.27.0

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