Changelog

This documents all notable changes to the Visual Pinball Engine and its dependent projects.

Unreleased

Built with Unity 2021.2.

Trigger meshes can now be easily scaled (#374)
We got a new game item called Metal Wire Guide (thanks @Cupiii, #366)
A Collision Switch component (#344, Documentation).
A Rotator component (#337, Documentation).
A Teleporter component (#336, Documentation).
A Drop Target Bank component (#333, Documentation).
Editor: Enable manual trigger for coils, switches, lamps and wires during gameplay (#332)
Support for dynamic wires, also known as Fast Flip (#330, Documentation).
Component for light groups, allowing easy grouping of GI lamps. (#330 Documentation).
Slingshot component (#329, Documentation).
Create insert meshes (#320).
Full support for custom playfield meshes.
Remove Hybrid Renderer (#316).
Create and use Unity assets when importing (#320).
Native support for nFozzy flipper physics (#305).
Automated camera clipping (#304).
DMD and segment display support (Documentation).
Plugin: Mission Pinball Framework (Documentation).
Gamelogic Engine: Support for hardware rules (#293).
Support for Extended ASCII strings (#291).
Support for Elasticity Falloff in walls (added in VP 10.7) (#291).
Support for table notes (added in VP 10.7) (#291).
Slow motion during gameplay (#288).
Lamp Manager (#282).
The VPE core is now also available on NuGet.
VPE is now packaged and published on every merge!
Native trough component (#229, #248, #256, Documentation).

Playfield is now rotated to the correct angle during gameplay (#370)
Decouple light components from transformation override (#350).
Refactored drag points. They are nicely separated and typed now.
Collider debug view is now much faster and intuitive. It's also activated per default when there is no visible mesh.
Drop and hit targets are now different components.
Kicker is now a coil device with different coils for different angles/forces.
Ground truth of data is now the scene, not the imported data anymore (#302).
Plunger is now a coil device, meaning it can both be pulled back and fired through different inputs.
Move render pipelines into separate repos (#259).
Put game-, mesh-, collision- animation data into separate components (#227, Documentation).

Ball stuttering when rolling over dropped target (#375).
Plunger disappearing due to too small bounding box.
Fixed switch status when multiple mappings point to the same ID (#347).
Lighting setup. It's now usable (#330).
Ball passing through collider plane and disappearing.
Alpha channel of color values is now correctly written (#291).
Layer names are correctly computed when importing a 10.6 file (#291).
Clear texture and material references that don't exist before writing (VP 10.7 behavior) (#291).
Bug in writing animation vertices which caused VP to hang when re-reading the file (#291).
A few bugs in drag point gizmos (#246).