4.2.0

Major updates

Updates

General

NME Frames are now resizable from the corners (Kyle Belfort
Refactored React refs from old string API to React.createRef() API (Kyle Belfort
Scale on one axis for BoundingBoxGizmo (cedricguillemet)
Simplified code contributions by fully automating the dev setup with gitpod (nisarhassan12)

Engine

Allow logging of shader code when a compilation error occurs (Popov72)
Add back support for selecting textures based on engine capabilities (bghgary)

Inspector

Handle PBR colors as colors in linear space (Popov72)

Cameras

Added flag to TargetCamera to invert rotation direction and multiplier to adjust speed (Exolun)
Added upwards and downwards keyboard input to FreeCamera (Pheater)

Physics

Ammo.js IDL exposed property update and raycast vehicle stablization support (MackeyK24)
Recast.js plugin nav mesh and crowd agent to ref performance optimizations. (MackeyK24)

Loaders

Added support for glTF mesh instancing extension (#7521) (drigax)

Navigation

export/load prebuilt binary navigation mesh (cedricguillemet)

Materials

Added the roughness and albedoScaling parameters to PBR sheen (Popov72)
Updated the energy conservation factor for the clear coat layer in PBR materials (Popov72)
Added the transparencyMode property to the StandardMaterial class (Popov72)

WebXR

Added optional ray and mesh selection predicates to WebXRControllerPointerSelection (Exolun)

Bugs

Fix infinite loop in GlowLayer.unReferenceMeshFromUsingItsOwnMaterial (Popov72
Fix picking issue in the Solid Particle System when MultiMaterial is enabled (jerome)
QuadraticErrorSimplification was not exported (RaananW
Fix NME Frames bug where collapsing and moving a frame removed the nodes inside (Kyle Belfort
Fix moving / disappearing controls when freezing/unfreezing the ScrollViewer (Popov72
Fix: when using instances, master mesh (if displayed) does not have correct instance buffer values (Popov72
Exit XR will only trigger only if state is IN_XR (RaananW)
Fix improper baking of transformed textures in KHR_texture_transform serializer. (drigax)
Fixed NME codegen: missing common properties for float-value input block. (ycw)
Fixed missing options for MeshBuilder.CreateBox. (ycw)

Breaking changes