Releases & Changelogs

needle-bot · January 9, 2025, 10:18am

Needle Engine 4.1.0 alpha.1

Add: Support for loading KTX2 textures as environment-image and background-image (e.g. <needle-engine background-image="my-skybox.ktx2">)
Fix: Issue where raycasting was not using acceleration structures and instead falling back to slow raycasting. This release greatly improves raycasting performance

needle-bot · January 10, 2025, 11:51am

Add: SceneSwitcher methods for unload() and reload() the currently loaded scene

Add: FileReference types now have an option to be assigned from an asset in the scene, URL string or filepath string
Change: Generated font assets are now cached
Change: Attempt to auto recover corrupted npx cache

needle-bot · January 13, 2025, 12:40pm

Fix: Issue where MeshCollider with InterleavedBufferAttributes were not created correctly
Fix: multi-object mesh collider handling for Groups and add warning for remaining case that are not supported
Fix: transparency trimming for screenshot should happen before screenshot is returned
Change: Reduced mesh LOD vertex reduction to improve quality of lowest LOD
Update build pipeline to latest 2.7 alpha
Update rapier dependency to 0.14.0

needle-bot · January 13, 2025, 4:32pm

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