• Major updates
  • Support for WebAudio. More info here (davrous)
  • Support for Procedural Texture with standard usable samples and custom support. More info here (meulta)
  • Support for OES_element_index_uint extension in order to support 32 bits indices and then meshes with more than 65536 vertices (deltakosh)
  • Support for levels of detail (LOD) for meshes. More info here (deltakosh)
  • New Scene Optimizer tool. More here (deltakosh)
  • Support for user marks (deltakosh)
  • Using High Resolution Time for performance and FPS measurement (deltakosh)
  • Easing functions for animations. More info here (mimetis)
  • New debug layer than can be used to display debug informations. More info here (deltakosh)
  • New PolygonMeshBuilder object used to create mesh from polygons (ElemarJR)
  • New Mesh.simplify() function to automatically simplify meshes. More info here (raananw)
  • New scene.enableDepthRenderer() to register depth texture rendering. More info here (deltakosh)
  • New SSAORenderingPipeline to apply screen space ambient occlusion. More info here (julien-moreau)
  • New VolumetricLightScatteringPostProcess to simulate volumetric light scattering. More info here (julien-moreau)
  • 3dsMax exporter can now generate binary format files (deltakosh)
• Updates
  • Moving of cloning into Mesh constructor (Palmer-JC)
  • Camera types support in 3dsmax exporter (deltakosh)
  • Babylon.Math is now a fluid API (deltakosh)
  • Added FOV mode setting to cameras (jahow)
  • You can now define if OnIntersectionEnterTrigger and OnIntersectionExitTrigger may use precise intersections. More info here (deltakosh)
  • New scene.createDefaultCameraOrLight() function (deltakosh)
  • Added POV movement & rotation (Palmer-JC)
  • Starting documenting public API (raananw)
  • Added render target type (unsigned or floating point) (julien-moreau)
  • Decomposition and interpolation methods for matrices (kpko)
  • Spot lights can now cast shadows (deltakosh)
  • Adding clear() function to DynamicTexture (deltakosh)
  • New RawTexture object to create texture from arraybuffer with specific format (luminance, luminance and alpha, alpha, rgb, rgba) (deltakosh)
  • Animation's key can now be functions (deltakosh)
  • Bones and instances can be used together (deltakosh)
  • Engine can now accept more than one render loop (deltakosh)
  • New ParticleSystem.updateFunction to define custom behavior for particles (deltakosh)
  • New mesh.renderOverlay and mesh.overlayColor (deltakosh)
  • New "Automatically launch animations" option for Blender 3D (deltakosh)
  • Support for vertex color and vertex alpha function (deltakosh)
  • Adding stride size attributes to Mesh.setVerticesData function (deltakosh)
  • New Texture.CreateFromBase64String function (deltakosh)
  • Extending the Ray class functionality to support ray's length (raananw)
  • New Effect.onBind callback (deltakosh)
  • Added support for point rendering (FreeFrags deltakosh)
  • Robust Euler->Quaternion->Euler conversions (MavenRain)
  • new mesh.isCompletelyInFrustum(camera) function (deltakosh)
  • Added the possibility to disable fog for a specific material (demonixis)
  • Added the possibility to disable fog for a specific sprite manager (deltakosh)
  • Added a property to ArcRotateCamera that moves the screen position of the target (daner)
• Breaking changes
  • Tools.GetFps() and Tools.GetDeltaTime() are now functions hosted by the engine: engine.getFps() and engine.getDeltaTime() deltakosh)
• Bugs
  • Insane amount of fixes for 3dsmax and blender exporters (deltakosh)
  • Fixed nearest texture filters (deltakosh)
  • Fixed mesh loading when url has a query string (dlajarretie)
  • Fixed a bug with pause/restart on animations (deltakosh)
  • Fixed a bug with CSG and transformations (deltakosh)