This minor release marks the first major Milestone release of Scenepic. This release addresses many of the long-standing issues in the v1.0.0 release and adds new features and functionality as well.

Features

• Text burning into individual video frames (for VideoWriter
• Per-frame layer settings
• The dropdown menu visibility can be directly controlled via UIParameters
• A standalone parameter has been added to save_as_script to enable the creation of standalone scripts.
• The status_bar_visibility of a Scene can now be set (i.e. it is now possible to hide the status bar if desired.)
• There is now a new camera control mode, "First Person", accessible by pressing Tab, which enables mouse-look and wasdqe movement controls. The old mode, now called "Focus", is still available as the default.
• Font scale is now configurable on VideoWriter
• There is now a "reset camera" button on the control bar so that users without a keyboard can reset camera position
• Can now update colors per frame for both meshes and instanced meshes
• quaternion_multiply adds the long-missing code to combine quaternion rotations
• Camera.orbit creates a sequence of orbiting cameras around a central point
• Can specify text alignment and size for graph labels and values
• Can add vertical rules to separate out horizontal regions of the graph
• save_html can now separate out the script and library components (for easier testing of new Typescript library features)
• Keyboard shortcuts for toggling layer visibility.
• Ability to pick the centroid of a mesh as a focus point by clicking on it while in focus point selection mode.
• Pan/zoom functionality to 2D canvases.
• Full pinch, zoom and rotate with two fingers is now supported

Improvements

• Added new hello_scenepic.py and hello_scenepic.cpp example code
• Added a clang-format pipeline and build targets
• Normalized C++ file format
• Stub files for all classes properly expose the docstrings in VS Code and other editors, thus making development in Python considerably easier.
• The missing methods for a variety of classes have been added to the python docs
• The version of pybind11 has been bumped to the latest release
• Notebooks that contain scenepic are now correctly displayed in Jupyter notebooks within VS Code

Bug Fixes

• load_obj now correctly loads normals when present in the OBJ file
• MeshInfo now exposes normals
• C++ build typos now fixed
• Fixed erroneous pipeline triggers
• While transparent backgrounds were supported by the library, it was not exposed via the client APIs. This has been fixed via a 4D color parameter for Shading.
• Coordinate axes bug
• Negative angle bug
• Mesh Update for instanced meshes
• Standalone scripts were missing a newline as a result of recent NPM changes. This is now added in manually in the script generation process.
• Dropdown menus will now correctly appear on top of canvases in the z-order
• Dropdown menus will align on the opposite side if not doing so would result appearing outside the viewbox

Deprecated

• update_mesh_without_normals has been deprecated in favor of the new method update_mesh_positions