What's New 19.9.1 is a focused bug-fix release for the 19.9 line — 17 fixes, two long-standing open issues closed, no API additions, drop-in upgrade from 19.9.0. The headline: video sprites no longer stall in fullscreen. Large videos (1080p/4K) dropped to ~4fps the moment the game went fullscreen while everything else kept rendering at 60 — the browser parks off-DOM video elements on a slow backgr…
What's New Shader effects made easy. Effects that used to demand WebGL expertise, like a pond rippling with the scene reflected in it, heat haze, or frosted glass, now take a few lines of shader code: the engine hands your effect the screen behind it and the right coordinates, animated noise textures come built-in, and shaders preload like any other asset. See the new Water Overworld example for a…
What's New 3D grows up. glTF / GLB scene loading lands — author a scene in Blender (or any DCC tool), export a .glb, and load it like a Tiled map with level.load(...), with node animation, authored lighting, and real 3D bounds. And Sprite3d brings the 2.5D workflow: billboarded, frame-animated cut-out sprites that face a Camera3d (the Paper Mario look), sharing one FrameAnimation engine with the 2…
What's New 19.7.1 is a focused bug-fix release for the 19.7 line. Three engine bugs and a noise reduction — no breaking changes, no API additions, drop-in upgrade from 19.7.0. Alongside this release: @melonjs/spine-plugin 3.0.0 ships with Spine 4.3 runtime support, Skeleton.yDown adoption, native WebGL context-loss recovery, and a fully reworked Canvas renderer. The plugin requires melonjs >= 19.7…
What's New in melonJS 19.7.0 Highlights: Camera3d perspective camera lands. Every batched shader carries per-sprite depth as vec3 aVertex, unlocking 3D-projected sprites and meshes. Backward compatible with existing 2D code. New Features Camera3d — perspective camera extending Camera2d with fov, aspect, pitch, yaw, followOffset, lookAhead. Opt in via new Application(w, h, { cameraClass: Camera3d }…
What's New in melonJS 19.6.0 WebGL context-loss hardening release. Fixes a Windows + Chrome crash where a GPU switch lost the WebGL context and a partial GLShader.destroy() left the next frame's setUniform("uTime", …) reading from null uniforms. Beyond the crash, the renderer now transparently recovers the rest of the pipeline (vertex buffer, default GL state, batchers, texture cache) across a web…
What's New in melonJS 19.5.0 A physics-focused release. The headline is the new PhysicsAdapter abstraction — the same game code can now run on either the engine's built-in SAT physics (default, unchanged behavior) or on a third-party rigid-body engine via the physic Application setting. Two official adapters ship alongside the engine: @melonjs/matter-adapter (wraps matter-js) and @melonjs/planck-a…
What's New in melonJS 19.4.0 New Features GPU-accelerated WebGL 2 tile rendering for orthogonal TMX maps — each visible layer now renders as a single quad whose fragment shader walks the per-layer GID index texture and samples the tileset atlas, with no per-tile draw loop. Supports animated tiles, flip bits (H/V/AD), per-layer opacity/tint, per-layer blend mode, and oversized bottom-aligned tiles.…
What's New in melonJS 19.3.0 New Features Normal-map sprite lighting (closes #1416) — Sprite.normalMap accepts a paired normal-map image (or auto-detected from TextureAtlas({ normalMap })). Sprites with a normal map render through a dedicated LitQuadBatcher whose fragment shader runs a Lambertian light loop over the active Light2d instances — up to 8 concurrent lights, configurable Stage.ambientLi…
What's New in melonJS 19.2.0 New Features state.freeze(duration, music?) + Application.pause/resume/freeze — hit-stop / hit-pause primitive that pauses the stage for a fixed duration then auto-resumes. Returns a Promise<void> that resolves on unfreeze. Reentrant calls extend (don't stack); window blur cancels the freeze. Convenience proxies on Application for the same. Multi-pass post-effect chain…
What's New in melonJS 19.1.0 New Features Multi-texture batching — up to 16 textures drawn in a single batch/draw call, eliminating GPU flushes on texture changes. Automatically falls back to single-texture mode when a custom ShaderEffect is active. ~80% fewer draw calls on the platformer example (14 vs ~70 flushes/frame), with an estimated 30-50% FPS improvement on low-end mobile devices. highPre…
What's New in melonJS 19.0.0 New Features 3D mesh rendering — Mesh class for textured 3D triangle meshes with OBJ/MTL model loading, drawMesh() on both WebGL and Canvas renderers, Matrix3d.perspective() for perspective projection, mesh-to-canvas/ImageBitmap export and convex hull collision shapes 15 built-in ShaderEffect presets — FlashEffect, OutlineEffect, GlowEffect, DesaturateEffect, PixelateE…