Babylon.js/dist/preview release/what's new.md

5.0.0

Major updates

Updates

General

• Added static CenterToRef for vectors 2/3/4 (aWeirdo)
• Added ability to view images (ktx2, png, jpg) to the sandbox. (bghgary)
• Added support for infinite perspective cameras (Deltakosh)

Loaders

• Added support for EXT_meshopt_compression for glTF loader. (zeux)
• Increased KHR_materials_transmission render target texture default size. (Drigax)
• Changed glTF loader to remove empty animation groups if there are no animation channels loaded with the given options. (bghgary)
• Update glTF validator to 2.0.0-dev.3.3. (bghgary)

Navigation

• Added support for thin instances in navigation mesh creation (CedricGuillemet)
• Added recast.d.ts definition file for recast.js (CedricGuillemet)

Materials

• Added an OcclusionMaterial to simplify depth-only rendering of geometry (rgerd)

Inspector

• Added support for sounds in the inspector (Deltakosh)

NME

• Added ability to make input node's properties visible in the properties of a custom frame (msDestiny14)

GUI

• Added a FocusableButton gui control to simplify creating menus with keyboard navigation (Flux159)
• Added focus() and blur() functions for controls that implement IFocusableControl (Flux159)
• Added ToggleButton GUI control (kintz09)
• Added shorthand methods which set all padding values at once, named setPadding and setPaddingInPixels, to the control class (kintz09)

WebXR

• A browser error preventing the emulator to render scene is now correctly dealt with (RaananW)
• Added a way to extend the XRSessionInit Object from inside of a feature (RaananW)
• Added image tracking feature (RaananW)

Bugs

• Fix issue with the Promise polyfill where a return value was expected from resolve() (Deltakosh)
• Fix ArcRotateCamera panning with axis decomposition (CedricGuillemet)
• Fix an issue with keyboard control (re)attachment. (#9411) (RaananW)
• Fix issue where PBRSpecularGlossiness materials were excluded from export #9423(Drigax)
• Fix issue when scaling is reapplied with BoundingBoxGizmo and GizmoManager (CedricGuillemet)
• Fix direct loading of a glTF string that has base64-encoded URI. (bghgary)
• Fix crash of some node materials using instances on iOS (Popov72)
• Fix the code generated for the NME gradient block (Popov72)
• Fix ssao2RenderingPipeline for orthographic cameras (Kesshi)
• Fix mipmaps creation in the KTX2 decoder for non square textures (Popov72)
• Fix detail map not working in WebGL1 (Popov72)

Breaking changes

• List of breaking changes introduced by ou compatibility with WebGPU
  • ReadPixels and ProceduralTexture.getContent are now async
  • Shader support differences
• Use both mesh.visibility and material.alpha values to compute the global alpha value used by the soft transparent shadow rendering code. Formerly was only using mesh.visibility (Popov72)
• Depth renderer: don't render mesh if infiniteDistance = true or if material.disableDepthWrite = true (Popov72)