Release 0.8.0

PhysX integration, Bloom post processing and a large list of workflow improvements - especially when working with many objects.

Changelog 

New

• Added physics based on NVidia PhysX 4.1
  • Added “physx” native component for kinematic, static and dynamic rigid bodies with support for TriangleMesh, ConvexMesh, Sphere, Capsule, Box, and Plane shapes, collision filtering and callbacks
  • Added collision filtering with renameable groups
  • Added “Simulate Physics” in Debug menu of Scene View
  • Added “Physics” tab to project settings
• Added bloom post processing
• Added runtime collision component visualization
• Added animation packing to reduce animation data sizes
• Added mesh simplification and optimization
• Experimental WebAssembly SIMD support

Editor

• Added HDR and Bloom rendering options in Project Settings
• Added option to toggle runtime collider visualization in Project Settings
• Added statistics on resource sizes after packaging
• Implemented redundant linear keyframe removal to reduce animation size
• Added Ctrl + D for duplicate
• Made Scene View copy&paste behavior consistent with Scene Outline
• Added Shift-select for ranges in Scene Outline
• Added support for multiple objects when deleting
• Added support for multiple objects when translating and rotating in Scene View
• Added support for multiple objects when copy&pasting
• Added support for reparenting multiple objects in Scene Outline
• Added “Duplicate” and “Paste as Child”
• Fixed auto scrolling in Console View
• Added B for box selection
• Added Ctrl + Shift + Click to snap selected object to another
• Added Q/E for up and down camera movement in scene view
• Fixed F to focus an object
• Added import scaling for meshes, apply in resources view
• Fixed undo after adding objects through Scene Outline > Right-Click > Add Object > …
• Fixed undo after paste leaving empty objects behind
• Fixed undo of deleting hierarchies
• Added deselection when clicking on selected objects in Scene View
• Fixed newly created light components not affecting Scene View
• Split “Reset Transformation” in Properties into its three parts
• Added --preferences for overriding preferences file

Engine

• Added Box with Box overlap query support
• Raycasts against collider components are now sorted by distance
• Fixed memory corruption when more than 4 colliders intersect in a ray cast
• Implemented packing for animations, reducing their size by up to 60%
• Fixed jitter on very close objects
• Fixed potential seams along tiling textures

Runtime

• Implemented collider visualization
• Fixed external dependency on wasm-featuredetect script
• Optimized runtime size further
• Microsoft Hololens 2 support
  • Made hit-test feature optional for WebXR AR
  • Allow stereo rendering in WebXR AR also

JS API

• Added PhysXComponent
• Added WL.Physics, WL.physics and WL.physics.rayCast()
• Fixed WL.Animation.duration
• Fixed WL.Skin.inverseBindScalings
• Fixed crashes WL.Object.children
• Added support for params on WL.Object.addComponent() with native components

JavaScript Components

• Fixed hover behavior on cursor
• Updated hand-tracking to latest changes in the WebXR Hand Input API
• Added clicked object and cursor to parameters passed to cursor-target params
• Made cursor create a .globalTarget cursor-target component which allows calling callbacks for any clicked object