r58

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r57--r58

(411,339 KB, gzip: 97,298 KB)

• Removed Matrix4's translate(), rotateX(), rotateY(), rotateZ() and rotateByAxis(). (@mrdoob)
• Documentation improvements. (@yurifury, @tmcw, @deepan2k5, @cjshannon and @sh0ot1e)
• Improvements to WebGLRenderer stable z sorting.(@wereHamster and @mrdoob)
• Lots of progress in SceneLoader2 and SceneExporter2, now known as ObjectLoader and ObjectExporter. (@mrdoob)
• Added morphTargets support to MeshNormalMaterial. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Matrix4's extractPosition() to copyPosition(). (@mrdoob)
• Editor now using localStorage for keeping state. (@mrdoob and @sole)
• Added MaterialLoader and MaterialExporter. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Matrix4's setRotationFrom*() to makeRotationFrom*(). (@bhouston)
• Added setGeometry() and setMaterial() to Mesh. (@mrdoob)
• Editor primitives can now have the parameters updated at any point. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Matrix4's compose() to makeFromPositionQuaternionScale() and added makeFromPositionEulerScale(). (@bhouston)
• Added rotateOnAxis() and translateOnAxis() to Object3D. (@WestLangley)
• Removed Matrix4's crossVector(). (@WestLangley)
• Added PLYLoader (ASCII files). (@menway)
• Added new BokehShader2. (@zz85)
• Replaced recursive calls in PolyhedronGeometry with an analytical construction of the geometry. (@bhickey)
• Renamed Object3D's getChildByName() to getObjectByName() and added getObjectById(). (@mrdoob)
• Add materialOffset parameter to GeometryUtils's merge(). (@tapio)
• Now using prototype based EventDispatcher. (@mrdoob)
• Added linewidth to ShaderMaterial. (@mrdoob)
• LOD support in Raycaster. (@mrdoob)
• Added lights support to ColladaLoader. (@mrdoob)
• Started WebGLRenderer3. Aiming to find better solutions for the WebGL layer. (@mrdoob)
• Optimized the PCF shadow map filtering to use vector comparisons. (@MiiBond)
• SoftwareRenderer now handles color changes at runtime. (@mrdoob)
• Added BoxHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Removed setClearColorHex(), parameters.clearColor and parameters.clearAlpha. (@mrdoob)
• Refactored CameraHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed bug in DirectionalLightHelper and SpotLightHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed bug in Phong shader when using normal maps with derivative tangents. (@WestLangley)
• Added support for FaceColors to SoftwareRenderer.
• Updated convert_obj_three.py docstring with current loader interface. (@wilsaj)
• Updated OculusRiftEffect. Now it should work with the original OculusRift. (@troffmo5)
• Fixed vertex normals and UVs for CircleGeometry. (@WestLangley)
• Added snapping to the editor. (@arodic)
• Fixed SpotLight's angle and SpotlightHelper's cone size bug. (@WestLangley)
• Using CanvasRenderer in the editor when there is no WebGL support. (@mrdoob)
• Update STLLoader with github improvements. (@gero3)
• Fixed UVs for faces that straddle the seam in PolyhedronGeometry. (@WestLangley)
• Cleaned up ArrowHelper. (@WestLangley)
• Added VertexColors support for Line in CanvasRenderer. (@gero3)
• Fixed TrackballControls zoom increment to normalize responsiveness across various inputs. (@protometa)

r57

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r56--r57

(403,818 KB, gzip: 96,416 KB)

• Added Renderer panel to the editor. (@mrdoob)
• Added support for custom attributes to BufferGeometry. (@zz85)
• CanvasRenderer and SVGRenderer behave like WebGLRenderer with MeshLambertMaterial and no lights. (@mrdoob)
• Added ColorConverter in examples folder. (@bhouston and @zz85)
• Fixed SVGRenderer when autoClear false. (@mrdoob)
• Made WebGLRenderer sorting truly stable. (@wereHamster and @mrdoob)
• Improved Object3D and Camera lookAt(). (@WestLangley)
• Added RingGeometry. (@merpnderp)
• Made OBJLoader and OBJMTLLoader more robust. (@mrdoob)
• Added pan to OrbitControls. (@WestLangley and @mrdoob)
• Added .getColumnFromMatrix() to Vector3. (@WestLangley)
• Renamed Object3D properties to userData. (@mrdoob)
• Simplified PointLightHelper, DirectionalLightHelper, SpotLightHelper and HemisphereLightHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Added GridHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Added .clone() method to AmbientLight, PointLight, DirectionalLight, SpotLight and HemisphereLight. (@mrdoob)

r56

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r55--r56

(408,927 KB, gzip: 97,095 KB)

• Added LineDashedMaterial support to CanvasRenderer. (@sole)
• Documentation improvements. (@gero3, @erich666, @Stompfrog, @morenoh149, @chrmoritz and @mrdoob)
• Added Matrix3.getNormalMatrix() and Vector3.transformDirection(). (@WestLangley)
• Added generator for Sublime Text 2 completion file. (@mrdoob)
• Removed Matrix4's getPosition() and getColumn*(). (@mrdoob and @bhouston)
• Blender exporter improvements. (@migvel)
• Added Vector*.toArray(). (@mrdoob)
• Added Maya exporter for JSON format. (@etic)
• Improvements to FlyControls. (@WestLangley)
• Improvements to OBJLoader and OBJMTLLoader. (@edwardsp and @Fktrcfylh)
• Added .reflect(), projectOnVector() and projectOnPlane() to Vector3. (@bhouston)
• Added OculusRiftEffect. (@troffmo5)
• Fixed loading of JSON format 2.0 files in the editor. (@mrdoob and @drewnoakes)
• Added setHSL() and getHSL() to Color. (@pksunkara and @mrdoob)
• Added binary files support to STLLoader. (@aleeper)
• Removed setHSV(), getHSV() from Color. (@mrdoob)
• Replaced ColorUtils.adjustHSV() with Color's .offsetHSL(). (@mrdoob)
• Added Line3. (@bhouston)
• Added linewidth support to BufferGeometry lines. (@arodic)
• Renamed Box3/Line3/Plane/Ray/Sphere's .transform() to applyMatrix4(). (@bhouston)
• Added smoothstep and smootherstep to Math. (@bhouston)
• Improvements to the editor. (@drewnoakes)
• Added .reset() to TrackballControls. (@WestLangley)
• Added two edge detection shader effects. (@zz85)
• Unit conversion handling inColladaLoader. (@jihoonl)

r55

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r54--r55

(406,462 KB, gzip: 96,542 KB)

• Added set(), identity(), copy(), multiplyScalar(), determinant(), getInverse() and clone() to Matrix3. (@bhouston)
• Added a refactored WebGLRenderer under the WebGLRenderer2 name (may become WebGLRenderer next release). (@gero3)
• Optimised Matrix4's determinant(). (@bhouston)
• Added negate() to Plane. (@bhouston)
• Added containsPoint() and intersectsObject() to Frustum. (@bhouston)
• Fixed MeshNormalMaterial rendering in CanvasRenderer and SVGRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Moved Matrix*/Quaternion's multiply* to Vector*'s .apply*. (@mrdoob)
• Added MeshNormalMaterial with SmoothShading support to CanvasRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added Edit / Clone to the editor. (@mrdoob)
• Fixes to ArrowHelper. (@bhouston and @WestLangley)
• Improved Geometry's mergeVertices(). (@bhouston)
• Improved LatheGeometry. (@bhouston and @WestLangley)
• Added insertPass to EffectComposer. (@alteredq)
• Added support for BufferGeometry support to Line. (@arodic)
• Added intersectsSphere to Sphere. (@Fox32)
• Added Tone Mapping to WebGLDeferredRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Made updateMorphTargets a public method of Mesh. (@jonobr1)
• Added add(), addColors(), addScalar(), multiply() and multiplyScalar() to Color. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Vector*/Matrix*/Quaternion's add()/sub()/cross()... to addVectors()/subVectors()/crossVectors().... (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Vector*/Matrix*/Quaternion's addSelf()/subSelf()/crossSelf()... to add()/sub()/cross().... (@mrdoob)
• Moved GeometryUtils's explode() and tessellate() to ExplodeModifier and TessellateModifier. (@mrdoob)
• Moved BinaryLoader out of the lib to examples folder. (@mrdoob)
• Added OBJExporter. (@mrdoob)
• Implemented pinch gesture to TrackballControls. (@ericnoble and @mrdoob)
• Firefox support in OrbitControls.. (@mrdoob)
• Added zbuffer to SoftwareRenderer and started adding material handling. (@rygorous and @mrdoob)
• Moved CanvasRenderer/SVGRenderer x/y clipping to Projector. (@mrdoob)
• Added applyEuler() and applyAxisAngle() in Vector3. (@WestLangley)
• Improvements to FirstPersonControls. (@RommelVR)

r54

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r53--r54

(411,352 KB, gzip: 98,639 KB)

• Added nodejs, perl, python and ruby based localhost server. (@zz85)
• Added support for alphaTest to Sprite. (@alteredq)
• Added WebGLDeferredRenderer with all sorts of goodness. (@MPanknin and @alteredq)
• Changed Sprite to use SpriteMaterial instead of custom object. (@alteredq)
• Added sourcemap option to python and nodejs build systems. (@zz85 and @gero3)
• Non-indexed BufferGeometry. (@benaadams)
• Added support for loading cubemap DDS textures. (@MiiBond)
• Added manual mipmapping support to Texture and DataTexture. (@benaadams and @alteredq)
• Added style strings support Color. (@mrdoob)
• Added new fbx converter. (@zfedoran)
• Improvements to SceneLoader. (@RommelVR and @alteredq)
• Added Plane class and implemented in Frustum. (@bhouston)
• Added Box3, Sphere math classes and implemented in Geometry. (@bhouston)
• Added bilinear filtered shadow map. (@MiiBond)
• Added test framework. (@bhouston)
• Replaced UV with Vector2. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed Ray to Raycaster and added new Ray math class. (@bhouston)
• Improvements to CSS3DRenderer. (@mrdoob, @benaadams and @zz85)
• Implemented .dispose() to Geometry, BufferGeometry, Texture, Material and WebGLRenderTarget for deallocating from GPU. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Moved SubdivisionModifier out of the build to examples/js/modifiers. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to ColladaLoader. (@dgossow)
• Added Blender 2.65 exporter. (@tapio)
• Added .setMaterialIndex() to GeometryUtils. (@gero3)
• Added benchmark framework. (@bhouston)
• Fixed Blender scene exporter rotations. (@alteredq and @WestLangley)
• Added devicePixelRatio support to CanvasRenderer and WebGLRenderer. (@mrdoob)

r53

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r52--r53

(392,799 KB, gzip: 96,044 KB)

• Lots of improvements to editor. Including possibility to export geometry and scene. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Sprite no longer gets its size from the texture. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Improved CSS3DRenderer. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Added support for vertex normals in Ribbon. (@alteredq)
• Object3D's .clone() is now recursive. (@mrdoob)
• Added support for fog in Sprite. (@alteredq)
• Scene format now supports nested lights, cameras and SkinnedMesh, OBJ, VTK, STL, UTF8 and Collada files. (@alteredq)
• Object3D's .lookAt() now working when using quaternions. (@motin)
• Added touch support to TrackballControls. (@mrdoob)
• Object sorting in WebGLRenderer is now stable, regardless of browser implementation. (@alteredq)
• MeshPhongMaterial's perPixel is not true by default. (@alteredq)
• Added LineDashedMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Added .setContextStyle to Color. (@GreyScales)
• Corrected normal matrix calculations. (@WestLangley)
• Added KaleidoShader, MirrorShader and RGBShiftShader. (@felixturner)
• Added area weighted vertex normals computation to Geometry. (@alteredq)
• Moved geometry.materials to MeshFaceMaterial. (@gero3, @alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Removed materials and sides from CubeGeometry. (@mrdoob)
• Move GeometryUtils's .clone() to Geometry. (@mrdoob)

r52

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r52--r53

(379,442 KB, gzip: 94,126 KB)

• New node.js build system. (@gero3)
• Proper edge handling in SubdivisionModifier. (@zz85)
• Added defines parameter for adding preprocessor definitions to ShaderMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Split ShaderExtras into single files (BasicShader, BlendShader, ConvolutionShader, ... ). (@mrdoob)
• Added HueSaturationShader and BrightnessContrastShader. (@tapio)
• Fixed ColladaLoader not loading sometimes. (@tapio)
• Added material.vertexColors = THREE.FaceColor support to CanvasRenderer and SVGRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added Object3D.defaultEulerOrder. (@mrdoob)
• Replaced SceneUtils.traverseHierarchy and SceneUtils.showHierarchy with object.traverse. (@mrdoob)
• Added PointerLockControls. (@mrdoob)
• Completed more documentation pages. (@sole)
• Split SceneUtils.cloneObject into *.clone(). (@mrdoob)
• Simplified AxisHelper. (@mrdoob)
• Added GeometryExporter. (@mrdoob)
• Improved OrbitControls. (@WestLangley)
• Added GeometryLibrary, MaterialLibrary, TextureLibrary and ObjectLibrary (bear in mind that you can't rely on the GC now. Call *.deallocate() for removing). (@mrdoob)
• Moved *Controls out of the lib. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed shadows getting animated when skinning / morphing was disabled. (@alteredq)
• Added Manual section to the documentation pages. (@oal)
• Added .angleTo() to Vector3. (@Wilt)
• Many improvements to the editor. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)

r51

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r50--r51

(405,491 KB, gzip: 99,389 KB)

• Added STLLoader. (@aleeper and @mrdoob)
• Optimised Ray (2x faster). (@gero3)
• Added .getDescendants method to Object3D. (@gero3 and @mrdoob)
• SkinnedMesh can now work with MorphAnimMesh. (@apendua)
• Changed CameraHelper. Now it matches the camera independently of where it's in the scene graph. (@mrdoob)
• Removed the need for manually setting texture units with ShaderMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Added HemisphereLight. (@alteredq)
• Fixed WebGLRenderer handling of flip sided materials. (@WestLangley and @alteredq)
• Added support to normals maps in MeshPhongMaterial. (@crobi and @alteredq)
• Added handling of BufferGeometry for ParticleSystems. (@alteredq)
• Added support for compressed textures and cube maps to WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Outliner and Material panel improvements to the editor. (@mrdoob)
• Added material.emissive support to CanvasRenderer and SVGRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added handling of multiple UV layers and anisotropy to Blender exporter. (@alteredq)
• Handling bump and anisotropy in Loader and SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Added mousewheel support to TrackballControls. (@jherrm)
• Added MTLLoader and OBJMTLLoader. (@angelxuanchang)
• Updated UTF8Loader to latest version. (@angelxuanchang and @alteredq)
• Pluginized SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Added support of object.renderDepth in Projector. (@mrdoob)
• Made build system more flexible. (@mrdoob)
• Many enhancements to SceneLoader. (@alteredq)
• Experimenting with CSS3DRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Added ShapeGeometry. (@jonobr1)
• Fixes to Vector3's .setEulerFromRotationMatrix method.(@WestLangley)

r50

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r49--r50

(391,250 KB, gzip: 96,143 KB)

• Experimenting with SoftwareRenderer. (@mrdoob and @rygorous)
• Improved rotation conversion routines. (@WestLangley)
• Moved DOMRenderer and SVGRenderer out of common build. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to Morph targets. (@alteredq and @gero3)
• Added .deallocateMaterial method to WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Added .worldToLocal and .localToWorld methods to Object3D. (@zz85 and @WestLangley)
• Added ConvexGeometry. (@qiao)
• Added node.js build system. (@gero3)
• Improvements to Blender exporter. (@timbot and @alteredq)
• Added uvs and vertex colors support to ImmediateRenderObjects. (@alteredq)
• Started implementing LoadingMonitor and EventTarget in loaders. (@mrdoob)
• Added Path.ellipse. (@linzhp)
• Added near and far properties to Ray. (@niklassa)
• Added OrbitControls. (@qiao, @mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Completed some more documentation pages. (@mrdoob, @phenomnomnominal, @FuzzYspo0N, @poeschko, @wwwtyro, @maximeq and @alteredq)
• Completed lots more documentation pages. (@sole)
• Started reworking GUI. (@mrdoob)
• Improved python build system. (@gero3)
• Made VTKLoader parsing more robust. (@mrdoob)
• Added recursive flag to Ray. (@mrdoob)
• Handling resizes properly in controls and examples. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to ColladaLoader. (@SpaceCookies)
• Unflipped V coordinate across the whole library. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Refactored BufferGeometry. (@alteredq)
• Improved GL extensions initialisation in WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Rescued SkinnedMesh. (@N3tFr34K and @alteredq)
• Made OBJLoader parsing more robust. (@Dahie)
• Implemented skinning via floating point textures. (@alteredq)
• Improved documentation system. (@mrdoob and @alteredq)
• Added support for anisotropic texture filtering and standard derivatives in WebGLRenderer. (@alteredq)
• Added support for ParticleBasicMaterial without map in CanvasRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• SceneLoader now supports nested scene graphs and per object custom properties. (@skfcz)
• Camera doesn't need to be added to the scene anymore. (@mrdoob)
• Object3D's flipSided and doubleSided properties are now Material's side property. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• Added .clone method to *Material. (@gero3, @mrdoob and @alteredq)
• IEWEBGL support. (@iewebgl and @mrdoob)
• Added CircleGeometry. (@hughes)
• Added bumpMap to MeshPhongMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Added specularMap to MeshBasicMaterial, MeshLambertMaterial and MeshPhongMaterial. (@alteredq)
• Reworked python build system. (@mrdoob)

r49

https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/wiki/Migration-Guide#r48--r49

(364,242 KB, gzip: 89,057 KB)

• Yet more ColladaLoader improvements. (@ekitson, @AddictArts and @pblasco)
• Created documentation system. (@mrdoob)
• Added some documentation. (@mrdoob and @sole)
• Added MorphBlendMesh. (@alteredq)
• Added emissive component to WebGL Materials. (@alteredq)
• Added DepthPassPlugin. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to Path. (@asutherland)
• Improvements to Curve. (@zz85)
• Added ArrowHelper. (@zz85 and @WestLangley)
• Changed depth sorting in WebGLRenderer to use world positions. (@alteredq)
• Improved physically based shading in WebGLRenderer. (@WestLangley)
• Changed depth sorting in Projector to use world positions. (@mrdoob)
• Added physical specular term also to normal map shader. (@alteredq)
• Added TubeGeometry. (@zz85 and @WestLangley)
• Added needsUpdate flag to Material. (@alteredq)
• Fixed GeometryUtils.triangulateQuads. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to GeometryUtils.tessellate. (@alteredq)
• Change PlaneGeometry from XY to XZ. (@mrdoob)
• WebGLRenderer back to highp shader precision. (@mrdoob)
• Added deallocateRenderTarget to `WebGLRenderer. (@kovleouf)
• Support zIndex and scale into DOMRenderer. (@ajorkowski)
• Improvements to CameraHelper. (@zz85)
• Added 3D spline path extrusion support to ExtrudeGeometry. (@zz85)
• MarchingCubes moved out of the lib into /examples/js folder. (@alteredq)
• Added ImmediateRenderObject. (@alteredq)
• Renamed __dirty* to *NeedUpdate. (@valette and @mrdoob)
• Added CustomBlending to Material and premultiplyAlpha to Texture. (@alteredq)
• Improvements to CubeCamera. (@alteredq and @mrdoob)
• CanvasRenderer.setClearColor() and .setClearColorHex() now sets opacity to 1 when null. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed broken UVs in SubdivisionModifier. (@zz85)
• Renamed Matrix4's setTranslation, setRotationX, setRotationY, setRotationZ, setRotationAxis and setScale to makeTranslation, makeRotationX, makeRotationY, makeRotationZ, makeRotationAxis and makeScale. (@mrdoob)
• Matrix4 static methods makeFrustum, makePerspective, makeOrtho to non-static methods. (@mrdoob)
• Refactore handling of Matrix4 to Matrix3 inversion. (@alteredq)
• Added GodRays postprocessing. (@huwb)
• Added LinePieces support to Projector. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed UVs handling bug in GeometryUtils.tessellate. (@alteredq)
• Serious performance improvements to Matrix4, Matrix3 and Frustum. (@gero3)
• Fixes to LatheGeometry. (@zz85)
• Removed Vertex. Use Vector3 instead. (@mrdoob)
• Implemented real Spotlights. (@alteredq)
• Added ParametricGeometry. (@zz85)
• Added basic OBJLoader in /examples/js/loaders folder. (@mrdoob)
• Moved ColladaLoader and UTF8Loader to /examples/js/loaders folder. (@mrdoob)
• Added VTKLoader to /examples/js/loaders folder. (@valette and @mrdoob)
• Blender exporter now supports linked groups. (@Druidhawk)
• Added visible property to Material. (@mrdoob)
• Removed Lamber+Texture support in CanvasRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Fixed normals in CylinderGeometry. (@qiao)
• Added floating point textures support to WebGLRenderer. (@mrdoob)
• Renamed AnaglyphWebGLRenderer and co. to AnaglyphEffect & co. and moved to /examples/js/effects. (@mrdoob)
• Improvements to documentation system. (@mrdoob and @codler)
• Added AsciiEffect. (@zz85)