Ginormous Giraffe

Community

• There are new lovr-keyboard and lovr-mouse libraries for mouse and keyboard input.
• Nightly builds for Windows can be downloaded from https://lovr.org/download/nightly.
• Prebuilt binaries for macOS can be downloaded from https://lovr.org/download/mac.
• The WebAssembly build is 30% smaller.

Framework

Add:

• Add Microphone objects, lovr.audio.getMicrophoneNames, and lovr.audio.newMicrophone.
• Add SoundData objects for accessing individual samples of sound files and Source:getType.
• Add support for compute shaders via lovr.graphics.newComputeShader and lovr.graphics.compute.
• Add ShaderBlock objects for efficiently sending large amounts of data to Shaders.
• Add AudioStream:decode to decode a chunk of audio and return it as a SoundData.
• Add a new lineloop value for MeshDrawMode.
• Add lovr.math.noise for perlin noise.
• Support requireing C libraries (.dll, .so) files as LÖVR modules.
• Add Material:setTransform and Material:getTransform for using subregions of textures or applying other texture coordinate transformations.
• Add Texture:getMipmapCount.
• Add support for new Texture/Canvas formats: rgba4, r16f, r32f, rg16f, rg32f, rgb5a1, rgb10a2.
• Add support for loading HDR image files in unclipped floating point texture formats.
• Add Texture:getFormat.
• Add conf.headset.msaa to control the antialiasing of the headset Canvas (it can be different from the MSAA of the desktop window now).
• Add lovr.graphics.getSupported so you can figure out if compute shaders are supported.

Change:

• Change rendering to use single pass stereo rendering on supported graphics cards. This renders both eyes at the same time which should reduce CPU usage and nearly double rendering performance.
• Change fonts to use stb_truetype instead of FreeType, which seems to improve text quality.
• Change lovr.audio.newSource to accept a SourceType so you can create a Source backed by either an AudioStream or a SoundData.
• Change lovr.graphics.newShader to accept Blobs containing shader source code.
• Change lovr.filesystem.getRequirePath and lovr.filesystem.setRequirePath to support C require paths.
• Change the default lovr.filesystem to look in lua_modules for Lua modules for better luarocks integration.
• Change Texture:replacePixels to accept an x/y offset and a mipmap level to replace.
• Change Texture:getWidth, Texture:getHeight, and Texture:getDimensions to accept an optional mipmap level.
• Change lovr.graphics.newShader to work with strings longer than 8,192 characters.
• Change lovr.data.newTextureData to support an optional texture format.
• Change Transform:getMatrix to accept a table to fill with values.

Fix:

• Fix an issue where the no game screen's conf.lua wasn't loading properly.
• Fix lovr.event.push to work with custom event names.
• Fix lovr.graphics.getBlendMode to report correct values.
• Fix various memory leaks.

Remove:

• Remove AudioStream:seek.
• Remove support for COLLADA models.
• Remove support for loading tga, bmp, and gif textures.