Modern UI

Modern UI 3.8.0.1

Forge Extension 1.18.2-40.1.73

• Add tooltips for some options
• Add in-game option for background opacity
• Use bootstrap.properties instead of bootstrap file
• Add dynamic tooltip border colors and presets
• Block NUL char for input method
• Fix crash on dedicated server
• Fix possible startup crash
• Add ContainerDrawHelper
• Add config to use vanilla font for convenience
• Remove tooltip fade-in animation
• Add slider control for preferences
• Fix UI screenshot not un-premultiplied
• Don't allow soft launching due to OpenGL 3.3 support
• Fix GUI scale pinned after game restart
• Add CenterFragment2
• Remove noise from gaussian blur shader
• Remove deprecated configs
• Adjust GUI scale algorithm
• Adjust tooltip border width
• Support capability for fragments and screens
• Fix incorrect color blending for tooltip
• Fix GUI scale is always auto after restart
• Fix black screen with blur effect
• Add glow wave effect
• Change the background blur from 4-pass box blur to 2-pass gaussian blur with lod and noise
• Improve config reloading and action center UI
• Fix crash on dedicated server (though you shouldn't install on server)
• Add config to disable slider GUI scale
• Update GUI scale algorithm
• Add I18n compat characters
• Add new API and remove server dependency
• Change registration and network to internal

Modern Text Engine 1.18.2

• Add config to control component cache
• Add default font behavior to control whether to use default font
• Add SpaceFont for compatibility
• Add position alignment for direct mask drawing
• Add StandardFontSet for better mod compatibility
• Make color emoji work in font itemization rather than brute force
• Enhance and optimize text layout engine
  • Only compute the required information
  • Make text layout asynchronous
  • Mix layout processor into LayoutCore to increase cache hit
  • Adjust paragraph layout lifespan
  • Reduce performance and memory impact
• Remove fast digit replacement
• Make obfuscated style work with bitmap fonts
• Adjust EditBox highlight color
• Fix EditBox selection highlight
• Fix per-glyph rendering for compatibility
• Fix obfuscated text crash in world using SDF
• Make SDF work as long as in 3D or non-translation matrix
• Make SDF work with 32pt font size at least
• Remove alignPixels due to font hinting
• Replace 8x outline with SDF stroke
• Fix compatibility for Create display board
• Change Twemoji 14 to Google Noto Color Emoji 15
• Fix text rendered as emoji without VS-16 (0xFE0F)
• Combine IamCal (Slack) shortcodes with JoyPixels (Discord) and Google
• Add distance field text to 3D world
• Fix total advance of layout is never pixel-aligned
• Fix TTF loading in vanilla resource packs
• Adjust texture sharpening factor
• Fix line breaking for obfuscated chars
• Remove enchantment font hack
• Support vanilla bitmap font in replacement run
• Support vanilla bitmap font as font family
• Support vanilla font declaration
• Adjust text decoration thickness
• Reduce unnecessary native memory usage in vanilla
• Make font resource reloading work async
• Optimize ChatFormatting.getByCode to O(1)
• Optimize layout caching strategy
• Add font set to layout key
• Add sharpen font atlases
• Change blend mode for glowing text
• Add new glowing text effect
• Add deferred rendering to improve performance

Core Framework 3.8.0

• Update font itemization for color emoji
• Fit sub-windows in main window
• Add ColorEmoji support for font itemization
• Optimize GPU glyph memory usage
• Block NUL and DEL character from input
• Add EmojiFont features
• Replace Matrix4 with Matrix for View
• Add TooltipPopup support for View
• Add Font interface for layout engine, move old Font usage to StandardFont
• Add text pre-computation
• Replace all ascents with negative values
• Fix TextLine context range
• Add offset parameters to GlyphsConsumer
• Add TextShaper.shapeText for multi-styled text
• Fix Canvas.drawText(ShapedText) method
• Update TextShaper and Canvas methods
• Add TrailingMarginSpan, add LineBackgroundSpan, add TypefaceSpan
• Enhance rich text spans, add AlignmentSpan, BulletSpan, LeadingMarginSpan, QuoteSpan
• Optimize MeasuredText
• Supports text layout with optional per-glyph advances and pixel bounds
• Separate Arc Paint, Graphics Paint, TextPaint and FontPaint
• Enhance temp TextBuffer recycling
• Fix fast path for BoringLayout.draw()
• Remove Canvas.drawText(CharSequence)
• Replace old LayoutPiece usage with ShapedText.doLayout
• Optimize text rendering
• Fix FontFamily is not thread safe
• Add Matrix for 2D transform (xyw), Matrix3 for 3D transform (xyz)
• Migrate graphics package to Arc 3D
• Add explicit camera distance
• Add context range to LayoutCache
• Add draw ShapedText, add register method to FontFamily
• Add ShapedText and TextShaper for drawing text, make drawText deprecated
• Rework LayoutPiece, optimize cluster work, now it won't do texture work
• Add FontFamily aliases
• Moving low-level text layout to graphics.text package
• Fix MessageQueue parkNanos time unit
• Don't use perspective if View has no 3D transform
• Add WindowGroup for toasts and popups
• Add context to Toast
• Add MpmcArrayQueue
• Optimize view matrix composition
• Rework threading system
• Add ProgressBar and SeekBar
• Add Locale alias for FontFamily
• Add ScaleDrawable
• Change ScrollView default scrollbar
• Fix bitmap getPixelARGB on BIG ENDIAN machine
• Rework ShapeDrawable, remove old Shape classes
• Set long press timeout to 1000ms by default
• Add LinkMovementMethod
• Update BinaryIO
• Update ListView
• Update Pool and Pools
• Update Paint methods
• Add ViewPager module
• Rework drawLine method with SDF
• Add drawPie drawMesh canvas method
• Add GIF image decoder
• Add more Bitmap formats and image decode methods
• Merge Arc 3D graphics engine
• Add framework Nullable/NonNull annotations
• Allow Bitmap's pixels to be shared
• Add ColorSpace implementation
• Update Matrix and MathUtil
• Optimize for styled text, make text style serializable
• Add complex value and display metrics
• Add linked structure and custom data class for DataSet
• Add property name for Property
• Fix distance-to-edge anti-aliasing is gamma correct
• Adjust analytic anti-aliasing to screen-space
• Improve font collection itemization
• Update shaders to a modern version
• Use indexed rendering for glyph meshes
• Add sharpen textures for all shaders
• Always use premultiplied alpha for builtin renderer
• Compact font atlas generation
• Other small updates...

Arc 3D Graphics Engine 3.8.0

• Add experimental instanced rendering
• Optimize text rendering
• Always use buffer orphaning for OpenGL
• Add backend render target wrapping
• Add submit method for BufferPool
• Add IndexMeshPool
• Move some context states out of GLCommandBuffer
• Add RingBuffer
• Add some Vulkan backend classes
• Fix BufferAllocPool
• Fix OpsRenderPass buffer pointers
• Update VaryingHandler and UniformHandler layout qualifier
• Add compatibility for base instance support
• Add GLUniformBuffer and buffer upload
• Add FilterMode, MipmapMode and AnisotropicFiltering for Paint
• Add async pipeline state cache (thread safe)
• Add separate objects from graphics package
• Add CustomDrawable for handling unmanaged draw
• Fix Buffer unlock method
• Fix BufferAlloc pointers
• Add RoundRectGeoProc
• Add Buffer creation method to Engine
• Add DrawOp and MeshDrawOp
• Add OpListTask
• Replace GLPipeline with separate GLProgram and GLVertexArray
• Add GLOpsRenderPass
• Add GLUniformDataManager
• Support base offset for GLVertexArray in OpenGL 3.3
• Fix Surface hierarchy
• Use MSAA resolve instead of MS texture sampler
• Add compatibility methods for creating render target objects
• Add close() for LazyCallback proxies
• Add GL_RG for GrayAlpha surface usage
• Add OpenGL 3.3 compatible shaders
• Add mutable texture allocation methods
• Add swizzle on texture binding
• Use separate min/mag filter for SamplerState
• Optimize surface canvas methods
• Optimize font atlas generation
• Change default font atlas size to 4 chunks (1024x1024)
• Change number of font atlases from multiple to single
• Add efficient rectangle packing algorithms

Markdown 3.8.0

• Add Code and CodeBlock
• Initial basic Markdown support

View Pager 3.8.0

• Add linear pager indicator
• Initial update