Release 0.8.9

This release features many bugfixes, some UX improvements and optimizations, especially a couple more significant but still experimental techniques.

We also released native support for Apple Silicon (e.g. M1) chips, fixed quite a few MacOS specific issues and made Wonderland Engine easier to install for Mac users.

Many thanks to our partners at playko, who 0.8.5+ features and bugfixes in this release.

Changelog 

Editor

• Added support for Apple Silicon chips on MacOS
• Fixed various crashes and rendering issues on MacOS
• Added orbit camera controls in Scene View (hold middle mouse button)
• Inverted default mouse panning sensitivity in Scene View
• Fixed negative mouse sensitivity not inverting mouse look for the fly camera
• Fixed “Duplicate Hierarchy” not duplicating last object in hierarchy.
• Fixed skinning on Intel UHD/HD Graphics drivers
• Fixed crash when removing the last remaining resource in Resources tables
• Fixed undo of skin duplication
• Fixed inconsistent behaviour in pipeline features
• Added uvs to default cube
• Added tangents to default primitive meshes
• Updated basis compressor yielding faster and better compression
• Added display and ovrPackageName setting for the manifest.json template for PWAs
• Added search bars to Resources tables and froze headers to not scroll
• Improved mesh thumbnail rendering
• Removed blend equation values not supported in WebGL in Pipelines

Runtime

• Improved binary size of runtime for all runtimes and especially when using runtime GLTF loading
• Improved runtime GLTF loading performance
• Fixed crash with uneven amounts of PhysX trigger shapes
• Renamed service worker cache key
• Fixed .map files being precached
• Removed support for PVRTC as ASTC is always available on iOS
• Removed unused compilation of “TextureAtlasCopyShader”
• Optimized texture uploads

Engine

• Added experimental multi draw support
• Added experimental culling optimization for use with multi draw
• Added experimental optional Pre-Z pass support
• Implemented new powerful optimizations for skin rendering 0.8.5+
• Fixed crash when rendering more than 62 skins 0.8.5+
• Fixed skinning with secondary joint ids and weights
• Fixed PhysX errors when deltaTime is zero

JS API

• Fixed minor working/grammar mistakes in documentation
• Fixed collision callbacks with PhysX trigger shapes
• Added WL.CollisionEventType.TriggerTouch and WL.CollisionEventType.TriggerTouchLost

Components

• cursor: Fixed callbacks and event listeners not removed when switching scenes