A new Murl Engine Build 2021.1 is available for download.

Update 2021-03-23: Fixes in Version 2021.1.8437

• (#398) font_converter, image_converter, scene_converter: Importing images not working
• (#397) Android: Amazon IAB fails to compile
• (#396) Engine hangs in endless loop when exit application

Build Environment

• (#392) Update Windows Build Environment to Visual Studio 2017 v15.9.34
• (#393) Update Android Build Environment to Android Studio 4.1.2
• (#394) Update emscripten Build Environment to 2.0.15
• (#360) Update macOS/iOS/tvOS Build Environment to Xcode 12.4

API Changes

• (#329) Improve Unicode file name handling in System::File

Improvements

• (#387) atlas_generator: improve control over generated images
• (#225) It will be nice to have some kind of events during animations.
• (#376) Windows AppWillTerminate() missing
• (#380) IEngineConfiguration: Add a configuration item to enable GPU buffer safety copies
• (#374) Provide scripts to build command line tools on Linux
• (#361) atlas_generator: allow to choose output image format and other image related parameters
• (#362) atlas_generator: allow to configure swapping parameters
• (#326) [Spine] Import Spine projects with multiple atlases
• (#366) Enable ETC2 textures format support
• (#367) atlas_generator: allow multiple configuration conditions for generated images
• (#364) atlas_generator: allow to export original & cropped rectangle offsets when generating plane / plane sequence graphs
• (#327) Need libs of murl engine for arm64
• (#355) Add enumerations for new Apple devices
• (#331) Ensure SetAsyncLoadingEnabled working on Android platform
• (#330) Make SetSyncLoadingTimeout method available at any time
• (#384) resource_converter: optionally add resource tags to output image
• (#390) Add "emergency" swapping trigger
• (#345) Timelines time marks
• (#231) Add support for Google Play Billing library (AIDL is marked as deprecated)
• (#389) Improve control over setting thread affinity mask for renderer/logic/loader thread
• (#375) Create resource_converter command line tool
• (#388) Add optional Floyd-Steinberg dithering for resource images and video surfaces
• (#383) atlas_generator: optionally add resource tags to output image
• (#385) Add zipped stream format for Resource::Image
• (#381) Override resource parameters in resource packer

Bug Fixes

• (#391) Android: Null pointer exception in IabHelper.consume()
• (#379) GLES2.0 renderer may add incorrect index to batched index buffer
• (#378) Random crashes in connection with Video::IIndexBuffer and Video::IVertexBuffer setters
• (#377) Memory leak in Resource::NativeMesh
• (#372) Possible dead lock in Graph::IRoot for methods InitGraph(), DeInitGraph(), InitNode() and DeInitNode()
• (#371) Graph::IRoot::DeInitGraph() takes a long time to finish when called from logic OnDeInit()
• (#183) Large amount of crashes in Murl::Core::GraphRoot::FinishGraphOutput in out client across all version.
• (#239) Client crashes during app shutdown
• (#368) Toolkit: Spine importer does not respect Stretch attribute in IK constraint
• (#281) Crash at PrepareDecodingPngImage
• (#363) Sometimes Timeline::HasPassedTime() doesn't works
• (#359) Android: OpenAL device should be retained across StartEngine()/StopEngine()
• (#349) Crash: Murl::Input::TouchableHandler::ReportBegin()
• (#336) Crash: Murl::Video::GlEs20::Indices::Create(Murl::Video::IRenderer*)
• (#334) Crash: Murl::Video::GlEs20::IndexBuffer::Draw()
• (#335) Crash: Murl::Video::Renderer::SetupView()
• (#333) Crash: Murl::Video::Renderer::ProcessFrameBuffer()
• (#332) Crash: Murl::Platform::Android::VideoInterface::ActivateBackBuffer()
• (#353) Crash: Murl::Video::GlEs20::Renderer::ApplyTextures
• (#354) Crash: Murl::IndexBase<...>::Find(Murl::Audio::IPlayable* const&, unsigned int) const
• (#358) Engine prematurely deinitializes objects upon Suspend()
• (#357) Core::Loader processes packages in wrong order when loading/unloading is cancelled
• (#340) ANR: Broadcast of Intent { act=android.intent.action.SCREEN_OFF flg=0x50200010 }
• (#303) Android application freezes on collapsing/expanding application during package loading/unloading operations.
• (#352) ANR: MurlGLThread.RequestExitAndWait
• (#342) ANR: Input dispatching timed out
• (#341) ANR: Input dispatching timed out
• (#343) ANR: MurlGLThread.surfaceCreated
• (#350) ANR: MurlGLThread.WaitForSurfaceDestroyed
• (#347) Crash: at.spraylight.murl.MurlGLThread.CreateEglMainWindowSurface
• (#348) Crash: at.spraylight.murl.MurlGLView.SetFocus
• (#328) Util::GetRelativePath() does not correctly return given absolute path when base path is empty
• (#323) Toolkit: Spine skin attachments falsely visible if scene does not have a default skin
• (#322) Toolkit: Crash when importing a Spine scene containing linked meshes
• (#321) Toolkit: Scene converter produces illegal XML output for Spine meshes
• (#317) Graph::ComplexTransform: Misspelled attribute inheritReflectiom (should be inheritReflection)
• (#3) Loader vergisst Pakete zu laden

All changes can also be found in the change log.

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