Release 1.3.0

Highlights include new and improved project templates, a procedural sky shader, drop shadow text effect, and resource filters for the Scene Outline.

We also ship a first version of multi-project workspaces which streamlines JavaScript bundling and brings back hot-reloading.

Physical Template 

We added a new template that comes with a procedural atmospheric sky, HDR rendering, tone mapping, and an environment probe setup to kick-start projects that use the physical shader.

Crash Reporting 

This version introduces automatic crash reporting, which allows us to find potential stability issues and more easily fix crashes.

Changelog 

Editor

• Add new Physical template that showcases some advanced graphics features
• Overhauled the default template
• Add automatic crash reporter
• Reduce memory usage from cached raw images
• Bring back speed control with the scroll wheel while flying in Scene View
• Run npm asynchronously on project load
• Avoid unnecessary npm install invocations on unchanged package.json
• New Resource Tree view for visualizing scene and asset references
• Add automatic environment baking and remove “re-bake immediately” button
• Shorten long resource IDs when displayed
• Switch default hotkeys for Paste as child and Paste as sibling
• Add filtering objects in Scene Outline by resource references
• Add support for Cyrillic, Greek and extended Latin text in the UI
• Add Visualization for bones in Scene View
• Simplify text component UI

• Introduce multi-project workspaces and ability to switch between scenes. A workspace uses the Javascript settings of the main scene and bundles all components in a workspace into the main scene index.js.
• Rename packageForStreaming setting to prefab to more closely match the JavaScript API
• Add tool to Asset Browser context menu for combining PBR textures into a single occlusion-roughness-metallic texture
• Fix crash when clicking on certain hidden directories in Asset Browser
• Eliminate memory leak during component parsing
• Store language files and cache data in per-project subfolders
• Fall back to default value for invalid .wlp property values
• Prevent imported components from disappearing after modifying them in the editor
• Always create a deploy/ folder for new projects, fixing a file watching issue

Engine

• Add drop shadow effect for text components, together with new effectOffset property

• Add procedural, physically-based AtmosphericSky pipeline
• Implement WITH_FOG feature in Physical shader
• Fall back to diffuseColor if there is no diffuseTexture set in Phong materials
• Add back missing TEXTURED feature to Phong Lightmapped and Normalmapped pipelines
• Implement Bloom for WebXR VR sessions
• Fix crash when loading mesh with secondary texture coordinates

Runtime

• Assign correct targets when setting animation at runtime
• Fix occasional crash during prefab loading

JavaScript/TypeScript API

• Add Prefab.getComponents and Prefab.getActiveComponents for getting all components of a given type in a prefab/scene
• Throw exception when setting a material property with an array that’s too small