v0.71.338

Changelog since last release:

• enabled path tracing depth stencil effects for vulkan
• fonts and sprites can be added to the scene
• added ocean water foam effect
• added rain weather effect
• added ragdoll physics
• water ripples can use embedded asset, also fixes missing water ripples in Steam build
• many new lua script bindings
• many fixes
• editor:
  • create humanoid rig from armature with naming convention
  • grab physics rigid bodies and ragdolls with left mouse button while nothing is selected
  • shoot physics rigid bodies and ragdolls with an impulse by pressing left mouse while "P" key is held down
  • improvements for importing VRM 1.0 models

v0.71.312

Changelog since last release:

• fix in capsule collision detection by @MortimerSnerd
• mouse delta position fox for Linux by @dpalais
• optimizations for integrated GPU resource loading
• foreground object rendering (useful for FPS weapon)
• fixes for AMD GPUs
• font rendering quality improvements
• scripting updates, many new scripting functions
• audio fix: loop can be disabled when audio stopped playing
• enabled particle rendering in planar reflections
• water rendering improvements:
  • underwater fog is now based on distance to water plane instead of depth difference
  • refraction separation quality improvement
  • ocean underwater improvement
  • refraction fix when looking up from underwater
• editor:
  • fix for armature reset pose button
  • added new sphere mesh creation

v0.71.285

Changelog since last release:

0.71.285:

• initial support for PlayStation 5 platform
• Environment probe updates:
  • probes can be exported into DDS texture files with Editor
  • probes can be imported from DDS texture files with Editor
  • probe resolution can be set per probe (they are no longer in cubemap array, but separate cubemaps)
  • improved probe filtering
• Tonemap type can be now selected (Reinhard/ACES). Default is ACES as before
• weather: exposure will also affect static sky (previously only dynamic sky was affected)
• textures can be exported into DDS files from c++
• Editor: added support for EXT_lights_image_based GLTF extension (imports environment map from GLTF file as sky)

v0.71.272:

Changelog since last release:

0.71.255:

• added capsule/point and capsule/sphere intersection functions to lua bindings
• character controller: fade out whole character when camera gets inside it
• temporal AA frame reset fix (fixes startup crash on Vulkan when temporal AA is enabled)
• fixed flickering grass issue on AMD graphics cards
• physics fix: rigid bodies that are attached to parent will be detached at beginning of physics simulation
• added support for 16-bit PNG loading and writing
• terrain heightmap modifier will work with 16-bit PNG
• editor:
  • terrain heightmap export will create 16-bit PNG to avoid major precision loss compared to 8-bit PNG
  • added depth of field refocus hotkey to the editor: Press C and click anywhere where you want to focus the camera (takes effect when camera aperture size is greater than zero and depth of field is enabled)
  • added dummy visualizers to editor: display a female or male dummy anywhere in the scene easily, this makes it easier to get a sense of scaling for objects. Access this from the top menu toolbar. The dummies are scaled like characters imported from Vroid studio.

0.71.272:

• added support for Xbox Series X and S consoles
• fixes for handling paths with unicode characters
• fixes for AMD GPUs
• Vulkan stability improvements (by @brakhane )
• support for precompiled LUA scripts, greatly improves performance of script components in the scene
• HDRi image import will be converted to lower precision float for memory saving
• editor: added KHR_materials_emissive_strength GLTF extension
• character controller: NPC will turn towards player when entering conversation

v0.71.239

Changelog since last release:

• Impostors will be captured with MSAA which improves their transparency quality, and they will be block compressed into BC3 texture format.
• Replaced random generators with one that is based on xorshift64*, which is deterministic across different compilers. This breaks compatibility with older version terrain generator settings.
• Fixes for block compressing textures that contain dimensions that are not divisible by 4
• Fixes for block compressing textures that contain dimensions that are not power of two (can result in reduced amount of mipmaps)
• Hair particle shadow map rendering support (grass shadow map)
• Hair particle camera bend (to improve the look of grass when looking from above)
• BVH acceleration for mesh intersections on CPU (must enable BVH per mesh to use acceleration)
• Fixed uncompressed transcoding of KTX2 and BASIS textures (by @jdswebb )
• Added support for OpenImageDenoise 2.0 API (adds optional GPU denoiser for path tracing, lightmap baking)
• Editor:
  • added drag and drop file handling (Windows only): drag model files, or scripts into the editor to open them
  • GLTF export improvements, terrain can be now exported (virtual texture will be baked into multiple smaller images)
  • Terrain blend map can be exported into image file (similar to heightmap export)
  • Light direction visualizer arrows

v0.71.219

Changelog since last release:

0.71.200:

• Conversation system in character demo (Content/scripts/character_controller/character_controller.lua)
  fixes for ray tracing backface culling
• improvements for transparent shadow (transparent materials can also receive transparent shadows in some cases)
• VRM import small improvements: skin subsurface scattering, disables shadow casting for some face elements to avoid small shadow pixels on face from eyebrows, etc.
• DDS loading fix for non divisible by 4 dimensions

0.71.209:

• optimization for cascaded shadow map rendering: all cascades are rendered simultaneously into multiple viewports
• optimizations for hair particle system, visibility rendering, depth of field, motion blur, screen space reflections
• fixed variable rate shading classification by motion vector
• font renderer scaling will be handled better according to current screen DPI
• Editor font updates:
  • removed yumin japanese font, replaced by Noto Sans CJK font that handles Chinese, Japanese and Koren characters in single font file
  • all font files from Editor/fonts folder will be loaded automatically by the Editor, so user can add new fonts to support new character sets
  • Editor/config.ini can be used to override default Editor font by specifying font = fontfilepath.ttf in the root settings

0.71.219:

• texture import: common texture formats such as PNG, JPG, TGA, etc. will be automatically compressed to GPU optimal format (can be disabled per material)
• environment probes will be compressed to GPU optimal format
• lightmaps can be optionally compressed to GPU optimal format
• fixed issue on Linux where it will crash on boot while trying to read filename with foreign characters
• some optimizations for GPU skinning and morph targets
• graphics API: custom swizzle can be specified per-texture or per-descriptor

0.71.195

Changelog since last release:

0.71.192:

• anisotropic shader updates:
  • anisotropic direction map and rotation parameter
  • GLTF import/export

0.71.195:

• Video support (experimental)
  • GPU video decoding (Vulkan: latest drivers required)
  • MP4 file support (must be H264 encoded)
  • VideoComponent: control video playback, and use as video texture (overrides MaterialComponent textures)
• Vulkan: updated synchronization and submit APIs by @amerkoleci
• new startup argument igpu: prefer to use the integrated GPU on the system (default preference is dedicated GPU)
• talking animation: random phoneme selection, forced talking animation toggle
• fix for crash with empty hair particle when ray tracing is used
• fix for crash when non existing material is referenced by rendering
• fix for editor crash when importing models with cameras

0.71.190

Changelog since last release:

0.71.181:

• added memory usage graph to built-in profiler
• path tracing depth stencil: editor now draws selection outline in path tracing too
• decal slopeBlendPower parameter: control decal fade out on sloped surface (can avoid overly streched decal texture)
• shader compiler: option to strip reflection, this reduces shader file sizes (DX12 only)
• character controller:
  • fixes for fixed timestep update: movement and animation is improved in lower frame rate situation
  • option to toggle framerate lock for reduced framerate testing

0.71.184:

• multi threaded animation update
• morph target moved from CPU to GPU
• fix for animation targeting emissiveColor of material

0.71.190:

• Localization support, automatic localization export for GUI
• Editor:
  • new theme "Nord" (by @MolassesLover )
  • language selection: English, Hungarian, Japanese, additional languages can be added
  • added asian font
• Color picker: ability to input hexadecimal color code as text
• planar reflection: improved selection for closest planar reflection by considering occlusion culling status
• DX12, Vulkan: improvements in resource loading performance

0.71.176

Changelog since last release:

0.71.152:

• Sky and atmosphere improvements (by @Kliaxe ):
  • atmospheric shadows (sky can receive shadows)
  • clouds can receive shadows
  • aerial perspective effect
  • other quality improvements for sky and cloud rendering
• Lua performance improvement: removed lots of memory allocations
• Improved framerate locking

0.71.155:

• small improvement for raytraced ambient occlusion
• performance improvement for generating grass on terrain (and any hair particle system in general)
• editor: F key shortcut to focus camera on selected entities
• fix: window resize will not reset camera field of view

0.71.164:

• added area light properties: radius, length (allows to create sphere and capsule area lights)
• improved height fog that affects sky and clouds, added fogDensity parameter, removed fogEnd parameter (by @Kliaxe )
• decals now support normal maps

0.71.176:

• decal updates:
  -- alpha only basecolor option: base color texture will only control blending
  -- surfacemap support: decal can modify surface occlusion, roughness, metalness, reflectance
  -- texture tiling support: decal can use material's texMulAdd, which enables texture atlasing
• weather: sky texture rotation can be controlled
• character controller sample:
  -- camera rotation vertical limiters and smoothing
  -- character footprints will be placed at every step to demonstrate decal system usage from script
• added custom object sorting priority for transparent
• editor:
  -- you can now create and remove subsets from a mesh
  -- object merging fix when merging instanced objects

v0.71.143

Changelog since last release:

0.71.142:

• animation retargeting updates:
  -- retargeting now callable from scripts: Scene::RetargetAnimation()
  -- runtime retargeting mode: doesn't bake new animation data, but reuses source, and computes retargeting in real time
  -- character controller sample uses separate animation file now and retargeting to character model
• editor: entity filtering by name

0.71.143:

• optimization for rendering of geometry that has wind enabled
• fix for Steam - Linux build that caused crash at startup