Release 2.44.0

2.44.0 (2024-09-02)

Features

• 3dtiles: add new OGC3DTilesLayer using 3d-tiles-renderer-js (a2fedd8)
• Add support for Cloud Optimized Point Clouds (COPC) (f1e014f)
• COG: Allow tileWidth, tileHeight & resampleMethod parameter (24ab82f)
• deps: bump proj4 from 2.9.2 to 2.11.0 (7962fdc)
• deps: bump three from 0.159.0 to 0.165.0 (258adc6)
• examples: add COPC url loader (6b4a5f2)
• introducing workers for LAS parser (0505297)
• LasParser: add parsing of chunks of LAS files (eec3197)
• potree2: Add potree 2.0 loader (ee56ec7)

Bug Fixes

• 3dTilesLayer: fix transparency for 3dTilesLayer (af4d061)
• C3DTFeature: use correct interleaved buffer getter (#2326) (6e20fcb)
• COG: Fix AggregateError (retry if error occur) (038dedd)
• COG: Fix COG example (aaa9691)
• COG: Fix COG levels parsing (921bc03)
• COG: Fix selectLevel (incorrect level selection when source extent is huge) (809a4ad)
• COG: Fix texture width & height (use source.tileWidth & source.tileHeight) (e03caf5)
• deps: update babel and add @babel/core dependency (77fd215)
• entwine: change transparency settings (47f859d)
• example: change klokantech url in 3dtile_ion.html (14891fd)
• MVT: add texture and subdivision size parameter (f286b40)
• parser: wrong shpjs 6.0.1 using (755ae17)
• PointCloud: Allow using custom object3d on PointCloudLayer (2b81710)
• PointCloud: fix after pr feedback (19c0e65)
• pointcloud: fix non-world projected elevation (58fc8bb)
• PointCloud: use preSSE for C3DTilesLayer (8654ccb)
• PointsMaterial.js: Allow transparency when any class is invisible (d091207)
• points: support point classification up to 256 classes (170f220)
• points: use param classificationScheme in 3DTiles (eeef84d)
• potree2: Fix options request issue with raw.githubusercontent.com data source (9abdeed)
• potree2: Fix sample data url (d5ee112)
• scheduler: ignore invalid URLs (c3a67a3)
• shader: Remove early discard based on vcolor (16cbbbf)
• test-functional: fixes on hooks_functional.js (bc41708)
• test: fetcher.js augment timeout limit (5668334)
• test: fix change on id for test functional (3780c56)
• test: import HttpsProxyAgent (624880d)
• TiledGeometryLayer: add hideSkirt unit test (3738a06)
• TiledGeometryLayer: handle hideSkirt at creation (0fa08cd)
• VectorTile: fix Style.setFromVectorTileLayer() when icon.id with {xx} or/and .stops (85e49a1)

Examples

• COG: Set maxSubdivisionLevel to 10 (default is 5) (1de7124)

Code Refactoring

• 3dTilesDebug: add properties hasPnts for pnts fields in GUI (ff0ff3d)
• 3dTiles: supp unused parameter in debug set up (5bf62f2)
• move loaders with little to no dependency to own directory (1bca2e3)
• PointCloudDebug: fix SizeMode gui (bf87dd6)
• points: material as superset of three PointsMaterial (63af9e2)
• points: remove compressed normal support in material (24b3641)
• points: remove support of oriented images (c93a2cd)
• PotreeDebug: rename PotreeDebug to PointCloudDebug (d1eb374)
• style: clean up style and test/style.js (982b908)
• test-functional: reworks on hooks-functional.js: better gestion of errors and save initial camera position only once (488d6a1)
• test: setFromVectorTileLayer() with icon (565472b)

Workflow and chores

• release v2.44.0 (d667129)
• add threads dependency for web workers (1976481)
• babel: modernize config and clean webpack (048eaec)
• CONTRIBUTORS.md: add name (ad67a6b)
• deps-dev: bump braces from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3 (936bc22)
• deps-dev: bump webpack from 5.93.0 to 5.94.0 (9b59bd3)
• deps: bump @mapbox/vector-tile from 1.3.1 to 2.0.3 (de9d16c)
• deps: bump @tweenjs/tween.js from 18.6.4 to 23.1.2 (52c0b6c)
• deps: bump developer dependencies (ff70c47)
• deps: bump earcut from 2.2.4 to 3.0.0 (620e91c)
• deps: bump pbf from 3.2.1 to 4.0.1 (544b4a7)
• deps: bump shpjs from 4.0.4 to 6.0.1 (7c904ff)
• deps: bump ws and puppeteer (02d141f)
• deps: remove unused marked devDependencies (0c4d101)
• devDeps: remove unused babel-register-esm (43a3c14)
• eslint: use babel resolver instead of webpack (4c98e9e)
• issues: update issue templates (e6bc462)
• test: add web worker polyfill (cec42ad)
• use node hooks to fix coverage issues (50e785c)

Documentation

• Add link to governance repo in the README (d3a317b)
• COPC: expose doc for COPCLayer and COPCSource (48fb9df)

BREAKING CHANGES

• points: * Remove overlayColor property (replaced by the standard diffuse property)
• points: * Remove non-tested and non-documented orientedImageMaterial property

2.43.1 (2024-04-30)

Bug Fixes

• LASLoader: fix default CDN URL (4d029ef)
• PointCloud: correct some issues after refacto (65c4008)

Workflow and chores

• release v2.43.1 (719d9e3)

2.43.0 (2024-04-02)

Features

• ESM distribution (ab36885)
• gltf: add a GLTFParser to parse gltf 1.0 and 2.0 files (e6eb4cf)
• Remove WebGL1 support (5bd5c32)
• TiledGeometryLayer: layer can now hide skirt (06c7181)
• VectorTileSource: add support for multiple source (c51e64a)

Bug Fixes

• 3dtiles: fix tiles disappearing when zooming in and out (c04e784)
• elevation: Fix elevation layer removal from view (4f361c3)
• example: migr...