This update focuses on graphics, more specifically lighting and shadowing. It significantly reduces the amount of work needed to set up directional lighting in a scene. The engine supports multiple lights and automatically determines the optimal projections needed to produces high-quality shadows across the screen.
In addition, rendering performance has been improved by discarding objects that are outside the camera frustum. This is the first of several planned graphics optimizations.
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Major Features
Minor
- Improve the default shadow bias
- Support array uniforms
- Add Matrix44.setFromEulerAngles()
- Avoid mutating the state of AnimationInstance.autoplay at run-time
Editor
- Major FBX importer improvements and compatibility fixes
- Add more gizmo helpers for lights and cameras
- Can toggle shadow cascade visualization
- Show feedback when scene cameras are not found
Bug fixes
- Ensure fog uniforms are refreshed upon scene changes, if necessary.
- Ensure Scene.copy() handles fog and environment properties