4.1.0

Major updates

Optimizations

Updates

Core Engine

Support Vive Focus 3Dof controller (TrevorDev)
Planar positioning support for GizmoManager (Balupg)
Individual gizmos can now be enabled/disabled (Balupg)
Unify preparation of instance attributes. Added MaterialHelper.PushAttributesForInstances (MarkusBillharz)
Added support for PBR irradiance map

Engine

Added preprocessors for shaders to improve how shaders are compiled for WebGL1/2 or WebGPU (Deltakosh)

Inspector

Added support for ShadowGenerator (Deltakosh)
Added support for scene normalization (Deltakosh)
Added support for morph targets (Deltakosh)
Added context menu to add SSAORenderingPipeline and SSAO2RenderingPipeline (Deltakosh)
Added support for texture creation and assignments per material (Deltakosh)
Node material editor (Deltakosh/TrevorDev)

Tools

Added Color3.toHSV(), Color3.toHSVToRef() and Color3.HSVtoRGBToRef() (Deltakosh)
Added ShadowGenerator.onAfterShadowMapRenderObservable and ShadowGenerator.onAfterShadowMapMeshRenderObservable (Deltakosh)

Meshes

Added new CreateTiledPlane and CreateTiledBox (JohnK)

Bug fixes

Added support for AnimationGroup serialization (Drigax)
Removing assetContainer from scene will also remove gui layers (TrevorDev)
A scene's input manager not adding key listeners when the canvas is already focused (Poolminer)
Runtime animation goToFrame when going back in time now correctly triggers future events when reached (zakhenry)

Breaking changes