Slightly modified ro.me buffalo test - using alpha test instead of alpha transparency to get rid of artefacts, also increased number of buffaloes to 375.

Included corresponding compressor in "utils/exporters/utf8" (prebuilt exe for Windows plus slightly modified C++ source code).

Use UTF8 format with caution, it is very neat but has quite a few limitations:

 - number of vertices < 65536 (this is after optimizations in compressor, input OBJ may have even less)
 - models must have normals and texture coordinates
 - texture coordinates must be only from <0,1>
 - no materials support yet
 - models are scaled and offset (copy numbers from compressor and use them as parameters in UTF8Loader.load() )

The only notable change I did was to rename ExtrudeGeometry's parameter "path" to "extrudePath" (as now there is also "bendPath").

Curves refactored - addition of curve path, tangent finding, along with other bend changes and enhancements i may not remember

Again, not to be used yet, very little tested plus code is horrible.

* Realised that canvas.context has a createPattern method which allows CanvasRenderer to support tiled textures \o/ (Examples where there is a CanvasRenderer and a WebGLRenderer at the same time may get errors because CanvasRenderer now uses texture.needsUpdate too).

Extended Blender exporter to support mesh merging and export of all / selected meshes as single JSON model.

Do not use yet, work-in-progress, very little tested.

Impact on performance is not very big, you need a lot of triangles with complex fragment shaders to see the difference.

Added better random in GeometryUtils. Added possibility of using custom depth material for shadow maps.

DataTexture can be used in the same places like image / video based Texture (WebGLRenderer-only).

To be used like this:

var width = 64, height = 64, bytes = 3;
var data = new Uint8Array( width * height * bytes );

// fill data array with values 0 .. 255

var texture = DataTexture( data, width, height, THREE.RGBFormat );
texture.needsUpdate = true;

For the moment only UNSIGNED_BYTE type is supported.

Added alphaTest parameter to base Material plus corresponding shader chunk in standard materials implementation.

This is for having on/off transparency without sorting using threshold value in alpha channel of diffuse texture.

By default it's switched off (alphaTest = 0).

AlphaTest is not yet handled in shadow maps. This would require passing of diffuse texture to depth material in shadow map render step (and more permutations of depth material).