playcanvas/engine v1.40.0

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What's New

• Add TextMesh - a script that generates 3D mesh-based text from TTF fonts (#2909)
• Make area lights API public (#2977)
• Make AnimComponent API public and add examples: 1D blend trees, 2D cartesian blend trees, directional blend trees, component property animation, character locomotion (#2714)
• Make RenderComponent API public (#2943)
• Add RenderComponent engine examples: render assets, baked lighting (#2595)
• Add video texture example (#2733) (Thanks @LeXXik!)
• Add 'JointComponent` (API is still private) - a generic 6 degrees of freedom physics constraint (#2095)
• Add division and scalar ops to Vec2, Vec3 and Vec4 classes (#2946)
• Scene data caching API (#2623)
• HDR image file parser (#2973)
• Shadow culling and rendering refactor (#2936)
• Private API Application#renderDepthTexture to display the depth buffer on the screen (#2992)
• Private API Application#renderWireSphere (#2961)
• Small refactor of Application#renderWireCube (#2954)
• pc.createMesh reimplemented using Mesh API (#2966)

Bug Fixes

• Background color change in positional example (#2996)
• Improved compatibility with older projects that use a render target on a layer (#2991)
• Support for EXT_color_buffer_half_float which fixes texture morph targets on iOS WebGL 2 (#2988)
• Fixes gamepad crash with GamePads#wasReleased (#2938)
• Simplified engine cubemap loading to use new loader script (#2987)
• Anim transition to END state fix (#2985)
• Print a console error if a char is missing in the font (#2984)
• Simplified loading of multiple assets in engine examples (#2978)
• Update NPM dependencies (#2983)
• Allow CJK characters to be treated like words when laying out lines of text (#2980)
• Normalize text to work correctly with bidirectional (#2979)
• Removed no longer used area lights LUT (#2976)
• Small code order changes to fix shadowmap camera setup (#2975)
• Camera stack does not propagate to cameras with different viewport (#2939)
• Fix GlbParser for mesh without positions (#2965)
• Remove unused occurrences import and var (#2955)
• Basis texture load should error if the Basis module isn't present (#2914)
• RenderComponent is sharing and properly releasing skin instances (#2912)
• Fix to clone functionality of Entity with RenderComponent (#2950)
• Mat4#getEulerAngles should return [0, 0, 0] if any scale component is 0 (#2933) (Thanks @LeXXik!)
• Fixed typo in path.getBasename docs (#2934)
• Prevent rigid body from being removed from the dynamics world twice (#2931) (Thanks @LeXXik!)
• AnimComponent - Sync BlendTree animation durations (#2898)
• Docs - fixed type on CollisionComponent#asset as it can be of type number or Asset (#2915)
• Remove index.d.ts from package.json file list