v0.19.0

What's Changed

• Physics support on Android
• 16kb aligned Android native libs
• Unified struct usage across geometry and instance buffers
• Several UI framework improvements (thanks @bat1set)
  • Compose style LaunchedEffect
  • Improved animation support
• Preview of Box2D based 2D physics
• Lots of small improvements and bug fixes

Full Changelog: v0.18.0...v0.19.0

v0.18.0

What's Changed

• Multi-threaded execution of frontend (game-logic) and backend (rendering) frame update
• Improved integration of coroutines
• Experimental WebGPU backend on desktop using wgpu4k (thanks @ygdrasil-io)
• New window backend API on desktop
  • GLFW remains the default window system
  • New Swing window backend
    • 🔼 Removes the need for -XstartOnFirstThread JVM arg on macOS
    • 🔼 Allows integration into legacy Java UIs
    • 🔻 Limited input options (Worse keyboard layout handling, no controller input)
• PhysX updated to 5.6.1
• Lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes

Full Changelog: v0.17.0...v0.18.0

v0.17.0

What's Changed

• New Vulkan backend for Desktop (this also brings support for macOS)
• Lots of improvements in the shader DSL:
  • Support for structs (including host-side struct buffers)
  • Storage texture support
• Support for R11F_G11F_B10F render targets (allows for more efficient HDR rendering)
• Improved bloom implementation
• Reversed depth is now the default (allows for infinite camera clip distance)
• Lots of smaller improvements and bug fixes
• PhysX updated to 5.6.0

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0

v0.16.0

What's Changed

• Lots of editor improvements
• Slightly improved ambient occlusion quality
• Bumped PhysX to 5.5.0
• Various minor fixes, improvements and version updates

Full Changelog: v0.15.1...v0.16.0

v0.15.1

Bugfix release:

• Fixed editor hot-reloading of edited app-classes
• Fixed behavior editor when multiple behavior components are attached to a single GameEntity
• Include android version of kool-core

Full Changelog: v0.15.0...v0.15.1

v0.15.0

Highlights:

This one focused on the editor:

• New project data model
• Physics support
• Character support
• Multi object edit
• Better gizmos
• Many more UI and usability improvements

Full Changelog: v0.14.0...v0.15.0

kool v0.14.0

Highlights:

• New WebGPU renderer
• More optimizations to the OpenGL / WebGL renderers
• Compute pipeline improvements
• Virtual file systems for more flexible asset loading
• Asset import and project download for web editor

Vulkan support is disabled for now and will hopefully come back in one of the next releases.

Full Changelog: v0.13.0...v0.14.0

v0.13.0

kool 0.13.0 release

Highlights:

• Compute shaders! (part 1 of 2: for now only storage images are supported, support for SSBOs is still missing)
• Common GL render backend for desktop OpenGL and browser WebGL: (almost) no more duplicated code and a lot easier to maintain
• Rewrote a lot of math code (transform matrices, etc.): More consistent API between type variants, (hopefulle) easier-to-use API
• Zero-to-one depth and support for reversed depth on OpenGL 4.5+ for much higher depth precision

Available on maven central and via the template projects