Sceneform 1.7pr1

This release of Filament is a check point release towards Sceneform 1.7.

List of changes since v1.0.0:

Features

• Added the ability to set the polygon offset on a material instance
• matc features are now part of libfilamat to generate materials at runtime
• Added API to compute tangent frame from vertex data (in VertexBuffer)
• Added View::setRenderQuality API. It currently allows the use of an R11G11B10F HDR color buffer instead of RGB[A]16F

Enhancements

• Use smol-v to compress SPIR-V shaders in materials
• Many Code size and performance optimizations
• The JavaScript API now supports compressed textures
• Disabled depth prepass in the WebGL builds
• Added gltf_viewer sample
• Introduced resgen tool to embed data in binaries (pre-compiled materials, etc.)

Bug fixes

• Fixed texture anisotropy in the Vulkan backend
• Depth offset and face culling now work in the Vulkan backend
• Fixed the documentation
• FADE materials are now properly sorted with TRANSPARENT materials