5.0.0-alpha.5

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5.0.0-alpha.5

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5.0.0-alpha.4

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5.0.0-alpha.4

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5.0.0-alpha.2

5.0.0-alpha.2

5.0.0-alpha.1

Merge pull request #9472 from sebavan/master

5.0.0-alpha.1

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5.0.0-alpha.0

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4.2.0

Major updates

• Added particle editor to the Inspector (Deltakosh)
• Added sprite editor to the Inspector (Deltakosh)
• Updated skeleton viewer in the Inspector (Pryme8)
• Added texture inspection in the Inspector (DarraghBurkeMS)
• Added PBR support in the node material editor (Popov72)
• Added new node material editor modes: procedural textures, post processes, particle shaders (Popov72 and Deltakosh)
• Added customizable frames in the node material editor (Pamela W)
• Added support for code templates in the playground (sailro)
• Added HDR texture filtering tools to the sandbox. Doc (Sebavan)
• Revamped documentation (RaananW, John King, Patrick Ryan, PiratJC)
• Added KTX + BasisU support (Popov72)
• Updated WebXR Support (RaananW)
• Added support for thin instances for faster mesh instances. Doc (Popov72)
• Added support in ShadowGenerator for soft transparent shadows (Popov72)
• Added PBR Next features: Reflection probes for accurate shading and Sub Surface Scattering (CraigFeldpsar and Sebavan)
• Added support for latest glTF extensions: KHR_materials_clearcoat, KHR_materials_sheen, KHR_materials_transmission, KHR_texture_basisu (Sebavan and Popov72)
• Added support for 3D Commerce glTF extension: KHR_materials_variants (Sebavan and Deltakosh)

Updates

General

• Added the ShadowDepthWrapper class to support accurate shadow generation for custom as well as node material shaders. Doc (Popov72)
• Added support for postproces serialization (Deltakosh)
• Added support for querystrings on KTX file URLs (abogartz)
• Refactored React refs from old string API to React.createRef() API (belfortk)
• Scale on one axis for BoundingBoxGizmo (cedricguillemet)
• Camera gizmo (cedricguillemet)
• Upgraded gizmo meshes (davesauce14)
• Gizmo isHovered boolean (cedricguillemet)
• Node support (Transform, Bone) for gizmos (cedricguillemet)
• Simplified code contributions by fully automating the dev setup with gitpod (nisarhassan12)
• Added a CascadedShadowMap.IsSupported method and log an error instead of throwing an exception when CSM is not supported (Popov72)
• Added initial code for DeviceInputSystem (PolygonalSun)
• Added support for material.disableColorWrite (Deltakosh)
• The Mesh Asset Task also accepts File as sceneInput (RaananW)
• Gizmo axis thickness (cedricguillemet)
• When no submesh can be picked(pointcloud), falls back to bbox intersection (cedricguillemet)
• Added support preserving vert colors for CSG objects (PirateJC)
• Added boundingBoxRenderer.onBeforeBoxRenderingObservable and boundingBoxRenderer.onAfterBoxRenderingObservable (Deltakosh)
• Better plane handling for PointerDragBehavior when camera direction colinear to axis (cedricguillemet)
• Added initial code for user facing DeviceSourceManager (PolygonalSun)
• Added a Simple and advanced timer, based on observables (RaananW)
• Don't log a message in CustomProceduralTexture if the texturePath is not a JSON path (Popov72)
• Added an alternate option to the mesh edge renderer to generate edges faster / more accurately for unusual geometries (like the ones generated by CSG) (Popov72)
• Added an option when creating the engine to switch matrix computation to 64 bits (Popov72)
• Added support for the alpha component to the SSR post-process (Popov72)
• Force compute world matrix of the newly-attached mesh of a ray helper (RaananW)
• Allow 180 monoscopic videos on top of the video dome (#8575) (RaananW)
• Added AssetContainerTask support to AssetsManager class (MackeyK24)
• Added fixedDragMeshBoundsSize for boundingbox gizmo to size anchors from bounds size (cedricguillemet)
• Changed DeviceSourceManager getInput contract to no longer return nullable values (Drigax)
• Photo Dome and Video Dome now use the same abstract class and support the same parameters (#8771) (RaananW)
• Added getTransformNodesByTags support to Scene class (MackeyK24)
• Added support for multi-pointer mesh selection and pointer over/out triggers (#8820) (RaananW)
• Changed DeviceSourceManager getInput contract to no longer return nullable values for reals this time. Also added proper cleanup for DeviceSourceManager observables (Drigax)
• Default Loading screen supports any image size and ratio (#8845) (RaananW)
• Added optional success and error callbacks for freezeActiveMeshes (RaananW)
• Allow cross-eye mode in photo and video dome (#8897) (RaananW)
• Added noMipMap option to the photo dome construction process (#8972) (RaananW)
• Added a disableBoundingBoxesFromEffectLayer property to the EffectLayer class to render the bounding boxes unaffected by the effect (Popov72)
• Removed all references to HTML element from cameras' attach and detach control functions (RaananW)
• Added boundingBoxRenderer.onResourcesReadyObservable (aWeirdo)
• Added copyTools.GenerateBase64StringFromTexture (aWeirdo)
• Updated axisScaleGizmo to follow pointer on drag (aWeirdo)
• Added manual input for sliders on NME and inspector (msDestiny14)

Engine

• Improved world matrix caching engine by using dirty mechanism on vector3 and quaternion (Deltakosh)
• Allow logging of shader code when a compilation error occurs (Popov72)
• Added back support for selecting textures based on engine capabilities (bghgary)
• Fixed Draco decoder when running on IE11 (bghgary)
• Change default camera calculations to only include visible and enabled meshes (bghgary)
• Optimized frozen instances (Deltakosh)
• Added support for detail maps in both the standard and PBR materials (Popov72)
• Added abstractMesh method to get all particle systems that use the mesh as an emitter (PirateJC)
• Added customization options to VirtualJoystick (#7398) (Rockwell15)
• Handle meshes with LODs in render target textures (meaning in glow/highlight layers, shadow generators, depth renderer, etc) (Popov72)

NME

• Frames are now resizable from the corners (belfortk)
• Can now rename and re-order frame inputs and outputs (belfortk)
• Can now edit Node port names (belfortk)
• Updated which node ports are shown on frames by default so that only node ports connected to outside nodes are by default exposed on the frame (belfortk)
• Added a modulo block (ageneau)
• Fix bug where frame port labels would be the names of incorrect nodes (belfortk)
• Fix bug where long comments on collapsed frames broke port alignment (belfortk)
• Add the FragCoord and ScreenSize blocks (Popov72)
• Particle systems: add the ParticlePositionWorld block (Popov72)
• Add isExposedOnFrame property to connection points...

4.2.0-rc.8

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4.2.0-rc.7

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4.2.0-rc.6

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4.2.0-rc.5

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