Release 0.7.3

Fixes and convenience improvements and WebAssembly threads support.

WebAssembly Threads 

Learn more about the newly added support for WebAssembly threads in our “WebAssembly Threads” blog post.

Changelog 

Editor

• Added editor preferences to control project unrelated settings
• Added Preference View
• Fixed browser reloading multiple times after packaging or JavaScript file change
• Fixed import of animation components
• Make web server return 404 when it cannot find a file
• Added “source” columns to Animations and Skins
• Fixed some objects not resolved after removing a scene file
• Fixed incorrect light colors on initial project load
• Fixed parenting not saved when scene loaded via drag&drop onto object
• Fixed loading of projects with missing animations
• Fixed Console View showing errors as info if errors are disabled
• Fixed crash when watched file is removed
• Improvements to UI style
• Made file links in project files consistent
• Fixed collision group property migration not applied for 0.6.x projects
• Added “Unpack” function in Asset Browser file context menu for supported archives/package formats

Engine

• Fixed animations jumping when allocating new animation components
• Fixed animations resetting scaling/rotation/translation if no keyframes set them
• Fixed Sphere-AxisAlignedBoundingBox and Sphere-Box intersection math

Runtime

• Implemented support for WebAssembly threads
• Fixed rendering stalls while loading scene by transcoding Basis textures in thread when threads are available

JS API

• Improved performance of various methods by reusing temporary memory
• Added WL.Object.rotateAxisAngleDegObject() and WL.Object.rotateObject() to rotate object in object space
• Added WL.Object.getForward(), WL.Object.getUp() and WL.Object.getRight() to efficiently retrieve forward/up/right direction vectors of an object
• Fixed object transformations not being properly recalculated with WL.Object.getTranslationWorld()
• Fixed setter for WL.AnimationComponent.animation