RELEASES.md

Release Notes

Unreleased

Usability

• Added custom implementation of the Serialize and Deserialize traits for InputMap to make the format more human readable.
• Added TypeUuid for InputMap to be able use it as asset without wrapper
• ActionState and its fields now implement Reflect. The type is automatically registered when the InputManagerPlugin is added.

Version 0.7.1

Bugs

• egui feature now works correctly and more robustly if an EguiPlugin is not actually enabled.

Version 0.7

Enhancements

• Added VirtualAxis struct that can be supplied to an InputMap to trigger on two direction-representing inputs. 1-dimensional equivalent to VirtualDPad.

Usability

• Added egui feature to not take specific input sources into account when egui is using them. For example, when the user clicks on a widget, the actions associated with the mouse will not be taken into account.
• InputStreams no longer stores an Option to an input stream type: all fields other than associated_gamepad are now required. This was not useful in practice and added significant complexity.

Version 0.6.1

Bugs

• no longer print "real clash" due to a missed debugging statement

Version 0.6

Enhancements

• Added the Modifier enum, to ergonomically capture the notion of "either control/alt/shift/windows key".
  • The corresponding InputKind::Modifier variant was added to match.
  • You can conveniently construct these using the InputKind::modified or InputMap::insert_modified methods.

Usability

• Implemented Eq for Timing and InputMap.
• Held ActionState inputs will now be released when an InputMap is removed.
• Improve ToggleActions.
  • Make _phantom field public and rename into phantom.
  • Add ToggleActions::ENABLED and ToggleActions::DISABLED.
• Added SingleAxis::negative_only and SingleAxis::positive_only for triggering separate actions for each direction of an axis.
• ActionData::action_data now returns a reference, rather than a clone, for consistency and explicitness
• added with_deadzone methods to configure the deadzones for both SingleAxis and DualAxis inputs

Version 0.5.2

Bug fixes

• Fixed gamepad axes not filtering out inputs outside of the axis deadzone.
• Fixed DualAxis::right_stick() returning the y axis for the left stick.

Version 0.5.1

Bug fixes

• removed a missed println statement spamming "real conflict" that had been missed

Version 0.5

Enhancements

• Added gamepad axis support.
  • Use the new SingleAxis and DualAxis types / variants.
• Added mousewheel and mouse motion support.
  • Use the new SingleAxis and DualAxis types / variants when you care about the continous values.
  • Use the new MouseWheelDirection enum as an InputKind.
• Added SingleAxis and DualAxis structs that can be supplied to an InputMap to trigger on axis inputs.
• Added VirtualDPad struct that can be supplied to an InputMap to trigger on four direction-representing inputs.
• Added ActionState::action_axis_pair() which can return an AxisPair containing the analog values of a SingleAxis, DualAxis, or VirtualDPad.
• Added ActionState::action_value() which represents the floating point value of any action:
  • 1.0 or 0.0 for pressed or unpressed button-like inputs
  • a value (typically) in the range -1.0..=1.0 for a single axis representing its analog input
  • or a value (typically) in the range 0.0..=1.0 for a dual axis representing the magnitude (length) of its vector.

Usability

• If no gamepad is registered to a specific InputMap, inputs from any gamepad in the Gamepads resource will be used.
• Removed the ActionState::reasons_pressed API.
  • This API was quite complex, not terribly useful and had nontrivial performance overhead.
  • This was not needed for axislike inputs in the end.
• Added Direction::try_new() to fallibly create a new Direction struct (which cannot be created from the zero vector).
• Removed the InputMode enum.
  • This was poorly motivated and had no internal usages.
  • This could not accurately represent more complex compound input types.
• ButtonKind was renamed to InputKind to reflect the new non-button input types.
• Renamed AxisPair to DualAxisData.
  • DualAxisData::new now takes two f32 values for ergonomic reasons.
  • Use DualAxisData::from_xy to construct this directly from a Vec2 as before.
• Rotation is now measured from the positive x axis in a counterclockwise direction. This applies to both Rotation and Direction.
  • This increases consistency with glam and makes trigonometry easier.
• Added Direction::try_from which never panics; consider using this in place of Direction::new.
• Converting from a Direction (which uses a Vec2 of f32's internally) to a Rotation (which uses exact decidegrees) now has special cases to ensure all eight cardinal directions result in exact degrees.
  • For example, a unit vector pointing to the Northeast now always converts to a Direction with exactly 1350 decidegrees.
  • Rounding errors may still occur when converting from arbitrary directions to the other 3592 discrete decidegrees.
• InputStreams and MutableInputStreams no longer store e.g. Option<Res<Input<MouseButton>>>, and instead simply store Res<Input<MouseButton>>
  • This makes them much easier to work with and dramatically simplifies internal logic.
• InputStreams::from_world no longer requires &mut World, as it does not require mutable access to any resources.
• Renamed InputMocking::send_input_to_gamepad and InputMocking::release_input_for_gamepad to InputMocking::send_input_as_gamepad and InputMocking::send_input_as_gamepad.
• Added the guess_gamepad method to InputStreams and MutableInputStreams, which attempts to find an appropriate gamepad to use.
• InputMocking::pressed and pressed_for_gamepad no longer require &mut self.
• UserInput::raw_inputs now returns a RawInputs struct, rather than a tuple struct.
• The mouse and keyboard fields on the two InputStreams types are now named mouse_button and keycode respectively.

Bug fixes

• mocked inputs are now sent at the low-level Events form, rather than in their Input format.
  • this ensures that user code that is reading these events directly can be tested accurately.

Version 0.4.1

Bug fixes

• fixed a compilation error caused by mistakenly renaming the macros crate

Version 0.4

Usability

• reduced required derive_more features
• removed thiserror dependency
• the order of all methods on InputMap is now (input, action), rather than (action, input) to better match user mental models
  • this is a map-like struct: one presses KeyCode::F to Actions::PayRespects, not the other way around!
  • this includes the order of all paired tuples, including the returned values

Bug fixes

• fixed serious bug that broke all functionality relating to durations that buttons were pressed or released for
  • ActionState::tick now takes the Instant of both the current and previous frame, rather than just the current
• InputManagerPlugin no longer panics when time does not have a previous update
  • this is useful as it ensures bevy_inspector_egui compatibility!

Docs

• properly documented the ToggleActions functionality, for dynamically enabling and disabling actions
• added doc examples to ActionStateDriver, which allows you to trigger actions based on entity properties
• document the need to add system ordering when you have other functionality running during CoreStage::PreUpdate
• hint to users that they may want to use multiple Actionlike enums

Version 0.3

Enhancements

• added reasons_pressed API on ActionState, which records the triggering inputs
  • you can use this to extract exact input information from analog inputs (like triggers or joysticks)
• added the ability to release user inputs during input mocking
• added ActionState::consume(action), which allows you to consume a pressed action, ensuring it is not pressed until after it is otherwise released
• added geometric primitives (Direction and Rotation) for working with rotations in 2 dimensions
  • stay tuned for first-class directional input support!

Usability

• if desired, users are now able to use the ActionState and InputMap structs as standalone resources
• reverted change from by-reference to by-value APIs for Actionlike types
  • this is more ergonomic (derive Copy when you can!), and somewhat faster in the overwhelming majority of uses
• relaxed Hash and Eq bounds on Actionlike
• InputManagerPlugin::run_in_state was replaced with ToggleActions<A: Actionlike> resource which controls whether or not the [ActionState] / [InputMap] pairs of type A are active.
• ActionState::state and set_state methods renamed to button_state and set_button_state for clarity
• simplified VirtualButtonState into a trivial enum ButtonState
  • other metadata (e.g. timing information and reasons pressed) is stored in the ActionData struct
  • users can now access the ActionData struct directly for each action in a ActionState struct, allowing full manual control for unusual needs
• removed a layer of indirection for fetching timing information: simply call action_state.current_duration(Action::Jump), rather than action_state.button_state(Action::Jump).current_duration()
• fleshed out ButtonState API for better parity with ActionState
• removed UserInput::Null: this was never helpful and bloated match statements
  • insert this resource when you want to suppress input collection, and remove it when you're done
• renamed the InputManagerSystem::Reset system label to InputManagerSystem::Tick.
• refactored InputMap
  • removed methods that works with specific input mode.
  • removed n_registered, use get(action).len() instead.
  • added insert_at / remove_at to insert / remove input at specific index.
  • added remove remove input for specific mapping.
  • use usize for sizes as in other Rust containers.
• added UserInput::raw_inputs, which breaks down a UserInput into the constituent Bevy types (e.g. KeyCode and MouseButton)

Bug fixes

• the PartialOrd implementation of Timing now correctly compares values on the basis of the current duration that the button has been held / released for

Version 0.2

Enhancements

• configure how "clashing" inputs should be handled with the ClashStrategy field of your InputMap
  • very useful for working with modifier keys
  • if two actions are triggered
• ergonomic input mocking API at both the App and World level using the MockInputs trait
• send ActionState across the network in a space-efficient fashion using the ActionDiff struct
  • check out (or directly use) the process_action_diff and generate_action_diff systems to convert these to and from ActionStates
  • add InputManagerPlugin::server() to your server App for a stripped down version of the input management functionality

Usability

• InputMap::new() and InputMap::insert_multiple now accept an iterator of (action, input) tuples for more natural construction
• better decoupled InputMap and ActionState, providing an InputMap::which_pressed API and allowing ActionState::update to operate based on any HashSet<A: Actionlike> of pressed virtual buttons that you pass in
• InputMap now uses a collected InputStreams struct in all of its methods, and input methods are now optional
• InputManagerPlugin now works even if some input stream resources are missing
• added the input_pressed method to InputMap, to check if a single input is pressed
• renamed InputMap::assign_gamepad to InputMap::set_gamepad for consistency and clarity (it does not uniquely assign a gamepad)
• removed strum dependency by reimplementing the funcitonality, allowing users to define actions with only the Actionlike trait
• added the get_at and index methods on the Actionlike trait, allowing you to fetch a specific action by its position in the defining enum and vice versa
• Copy bound on Actionlike trait relaxed to Clone, allowing you to store non-copy data in your enum variants
• Clone, PartialEq and Debug trait impls for ActionState
• get_pressed, get_just_pressed, get_released and get_just_released methods on ActionState, for conveniently checking many action states at once

Bug fixes

• the ActionState component is no longer marked as Changed every frame
• InputManagerPlugin::run_in_state now actually works!
• virtually all methods now take actions and inputs by reference, rather than by ownership, eliminating unneccesary copies

Version 0.1.2

Usability

• added set_state method, allowing users to transfer VirtualButtonState between ActionState without losing Timing information

Bug fixes

• fixed minor mistakes in documentation

Version 0.1.1

Bug fixes

• fix failed strum re-export; users will need to pull in the derive macro EnumIter themselves
  • thanks to @Shatur for noticing this

Version 0.1

• Released!