v0.1.10

0.1.10 (Oct 24, 2025)

SOG v2 support, new examples and bug fixes

Enhancements

• SOGSv2 (SOG) compression format support (#179) (@mrxz)
• Use DecompressionStream for decompressing .spz files for faster loading times (#181) (@mrxz)
• Make WASD default control for viewer (#6d7d801) (@dmarcos)
• Add minPixelRadius property to discard splats during vertex shader (#184) (@mrxz)
• Docs enhancements (@querielo)
• Interactive holes example (#189) (@kali-shade)
• Interactive ripples effect (#194) (@kali-shade)
• Support logarithmic depth buffer (#199) (@Philipp-M)

Bug fixes

• Issue preventing the splats from being updated when they should. (#191) (@mrxz)
• Make bash script conform to "standard" (#197) (@Philipp-M)
• Fix issue with splats rendered at incorrect position for a few frames (#200) (fix #192, #193) (@mrxz)

v0.1.9

0.1.9 (Sep 22, 2025)

Performance improvements, SPZ v3 support, new splat transition and reveal effects, brush painting / erasing splat example.

Enhancements

• New splat transition effects (#172) (@kali-shade)
• New splat reveal effects (#153, #149) (@kali-shade)
• Add support for SPZ v3 (fix #151) (#171) (@gwegash, @dmarcos)
• Reduce small memory allocations when loading ply files (#147) (@mrxz)
• Improve .ply parsing speed using compiled parser function (#150) (@mrxz)
• Add support for ortographic rendering (#157) (@mrxz)
• Make sure all examples resize when the window is resized (#155) (@mrxz)
• Call gl.flush() to encourage eager execution. SparkRenderer.updateInternal was not immediately executed (#156) (@mrxz)
• Use child mesh in SplatMesh to auto-inject SparkRenderer instead of monkey-patching (#158) (@mrxz)
• Pre-compute lookup tables when parsing SOGS files (#159) (@mrxz)
• Avoid allocating THREE.Quaternion instances in setPackedSplat (#160) (@mrxz)
• Use native Float16Array to encode a number as a float16 if available. (#161) (@mrxz)
• Splat brush painting / brush erasing example (#165) (@winnie1994)

v0.1.8

0.1.8 (July 31, 2025)

Bug fix + SplatMesh bounding box calculation.

Bug fixes

• Fix SH encoding scale factors (#142) (@asundqui, @mrxz, @heimeii)
• Calculate a SplatMesh's bounding box! SplatMesh.getBoundingBox() (#126) (@winnie1994)

v0.1.7

0.1.7 (July 30, 2025)

Image quality and performance improvements.

Enhancements

• Customizable splat encoding ranges (rgb, sh1, sh2, sh3) for wider range of colors and scales support improving contrast and color reproduction. Expose premultipliedAlpha flag to use when accumulating splat RGB (#134) (@asundqui)
• Experimental Stochastic splat ordering option. Faster rendering since sorting no longer needed but with some visual quality tradeoffs (#8f5596e) (@asundqui)
• Higher precision mode (float32) for splat sorting in addition to the default one (float16). Addresses z-fighting issues between splats (@asundqui, @mrxz) (#129)
• Allow decoding and parsing of SOGS images to happen in parallel (@mrxz) (#122)
• New splat shaders effect example (#141) (@kali-shade)
• Expose minAlpha and maxPixelRadius in the SparkRenderer parameters (#130) (@asundqui)
• Tree-shaking on worker code (@mrxz) (#118)
• Add JSDocs to docs (@mrxz) (#123)
• Use THREE.js built-in full screen quad instead of custom setup to cover the entire render target (@mrxz) (#121)
• Redunce bundle size by removing anyhow::anyhow dependency (#127) (@asundqui)

v0.1.6

0.1.6 (July 11, 2025)

Visual quality improvements, .zip sogs file support, bug fixes.

Enhancements

• Can load SOGS compressed splats packaged in a .zip file (#100) (@asundqui)
• Rename SparkRenderer renderScale parameter to focalAdjustment (#113) (fix #99) (@asundqui, @mrxz)
• Use OffscreenCanvas and WebGL2 context to decode webp SOGS images instead of 3rd party dependency (#90) (@mrxz)
• Animated transitions between splats example (#69) (@winnie1994)
• Example of loading a SOGS compressed splat (@dmarcos, @vincentwoo, @61cygni)
• Expand value range of internal splat encoding to improve visual quality. Lower zero cut-off to retain and render small splats. (#110) (@asundqui, @mrxz)

Bug fixes

• Fix visible property of SplatMesh not having effect. (fix #77) (#100) (@asundqui, @cyango)
• Add missing sh1 and sh2 support to SOGS compressed support (fix #108) (#109) (@lucasoptml)
• Prevent unintentional reuse of ArrayBuffer on concurrent file requests or hits to THREE.Cache. Replace use of THREE.FileLoader with fetch API (#94, #112) (fix #93) (@mrxz, @asundqui)

v0.1.5

0.1.5 (July 1, 2025)

Visual quality improvements and SOGS support

Enhancements

• Support for SOGS compression format for 3D Gaussian Splatting (#73) (@asundqui)
• Change splat shapes by using any RGBA texture to compute the Gaussian falloff (#79) (@asundqui)
• Use RenderTarget properties to reduce manual render state tracking (#80) (@mrxz)

Bug fixes

• Visual quality, Fix .ksplat decoding (fix #66) (@asundqui)
• Visual quality, Fix Spherical Harmonics not included in SPZ transcoding (fix #66) (#83) (@asundqui)
• Visual quality, Fix incorrect calculation of renderer size. Especially improves rendering in high DPI displays (#71) (@mrxz)
• Fix support of compressed .ply files exported from SuperSplat. Newer versions include min/max_r/g/b properties in the header that were not parsed (#82) (@asundqui)

v0.1.4

Enhancements

• Ability to render depth and normal values (#58) (@asundqui)
• New parameters to change renderer focal distance and aperture angle (#59) (@asundqui)
• GLSL code injection example (#56)
• WebXR example (#50)

Bug fixes

• Option to disable SparkControls camera roll for touch controls (fix #46) (#60) (@asundqui)
• Fix sign in SH2 coefficient signs improving visual quality (#64)

Fix types export in NPM package

v0.1.3

Add 0.1.3 to changelog

Remove unnecessary dependencies from NPM package

v0.1.2

Bump version in docs

Ranaming Forge to Spark and bug fixes

A name collision with an existing rendering engine went unnoticed and we're renaming the project. We apologize for the mistake and the inconvenience.

Bug fixes

• Fix compressed .ply files by gsplat not loading (#34) (@bolopenguin, @asundqui)
• Fix image quality rendering with mostly transparent splats (#36) (@hybridherbst, @@asundqui)
• Fix SplatMesh not rendering when it's a child of an Object3D (#38) (@dmarcos)