Version 4.0 - Release Candidate 4

This update improves performance related to data buffer size, primarily affecting filters, including masks. A game that was bottlenecked by filters on mobile devices may experience speedups of 16x or more. A desktop system, or a scene with no filters, may be broadly unaffected, save for memory savings.

New Features

• BatchHandlerQuadSingle render node added.
  • This is just a copy of BatchHandlerQuad with space for 1 quad.
  • The rendering system uses this node internally for transferring images in some steps of the filter process.

Changes

• BatchHandler render nodes now create their own WebGL data buffers.
  • This uses around 5MB of RAM and VRAM in a basic game.
  • Dedicated buffers are an optimum size for batch performance.

Removals

• WebGLRenderer#genericVertexBuffer and #genericVertexData removed.
  • This frees 16MB of RAM and VRAM.
• BatchHandlerConfig#createOwnVertexBuffer type property removed.
• TileSprite no longer supports texture cropping.

Fixes

• Lighting fixed on rotated or filtered objects.
• Added missing 'this' value for Group.forEach and StaticGroup.forEach (thanks @TadejZupancic)
• Fix createFromTiles to handle multiple tilesets when using sprite sheets. Fix #7122 (thanks @vikerman)
• Fix audio files not loading from Base64 data URIs (thanks @bagyoni)

Documentation / TypeScript Enhancements

Thanks to the following people:

@captain-something @DayKev @ixonstater