A Week of A-Frame 25

Aug 12, 2016

What's up with A-Frame, a WebVR framework for building virtual reality experiences, for the week of Aug 5, 2016 to Aug 12, 2016.

The milestone for 0.3.0 is just about clear. Any time now!

bryik_ws built Dominoes —
Demonstration of HTC Vive with physics using dominoes. (code, video)
bryik_ws built Ball Throw —
Previously featured, but now open source. Throw balls at blocks using Vive controllers and Don McCurdy’s physics.
bryik_ws built Terrain Model Component —
Generating terrains using TerrainLoader used in LA Times‘ Discovering Gale Crater.
ram_gurumukhi built Lyrics VR —
Watch lyrics fly past you in time with the music. (code)
tusharaoljgd built Rubik's Cube —
Spinning Rubik’s Cube featuring a multicolored-cube component.

andgokevin implemented
automatic setting of crossorigin attribute on media elements.
mkungla added
code coverage continuous integration using Codecov.
andgokevin fixed
mobile resolution in stereo mode by bumping webvr-polyfill BUFFER_SCALE.
dmarcos fixed
fixed iOS Safari canvas resizing issues.
dmarcos worked around
XHR bug with nested asset loading bug in Chrome.
andgokevin fixed
blurry resolution by scene wait for camera before rendering.
fdesimpel fixed
spot lights and added support for light targets.
dmarcos reduced
default camera.near plane so controllers don’t clip in front of the camera.
andgokevin generated
source maps for the minified bundle.
andgokevin added
guide for unit testing.
andgokevin bumped
the CHANGELOG.
dmarcos lowered
default segmentsRadial for torus-knot geometry.
andgokevin reverted
torus knot p and q property types to be floats again.
dmarcos fixed
Entity.addToParent being invoked twice causing null parents.
mkungla fixed
camera.userHeight updates.
davidwalshblog made
componentchanged events not bubble.
davidwalshblog added
data attribute to elements injected by A-Frame.