• Major updates
  • Collisions can now be offloaded on webworkers (raananw)
  • SIMD.js support for math library. See demo (deltakosh)
  • Unity 5 scene exporter. More info here (davrous, deltakosh)
  • New Mesh.CreateDecal() function to create decals. See demo. More info here (deltakosh)
  • New tool for debugLayer: You can now dump renderTargets to see their content (deltakosh)
  • Complete shadows code rework: New bias property for ShadowGenerator, new orthogonal shadows for directional shadows, automatic projection size for directional lights, new BlurVarianceShadowMap filter. See demo. Documentation updated here (deltakosh)
  • New lens effects rendering pipeline. More info here (jahow)
  • New basic mesh type: Ribbons. See demo. More info here (jbousquie)
  • New BABYLON.Mesh.ExtrudeShape and BABYLON.Mesh.ExtrudeShapeCustom. More info here (jbousquie)
  • New Loaders folder with a first additionnal plugin: STL (raananw, deltakosh)
  • Gulp building process revamped, updated and simplified and now includes a config.json (raananw)
• Updates
  • Better beta angle support for ArcRotateCamera (raananw)
  • Better video textures support (deltakosh)
  • Cameras hierarchy rework (deltakosh)
  • New Camera.setCameraRigMode to control 3D rendering of any camera (Anaglyph, Stereo, VR) (Palmer-JC)
  • VR cameras can disable distortion postprocess to get more performance (deltakosh)
  • New cameras: AnaglyphGamepadCamera, StereoscopicFreeCamera, StereoscopicArcRotateCamera, StereoscopicGamepadCamera (deltakosh)
  • New MultiMaterial.clone() function (deltakosh)
  • Faster mesh.computeNormals() function (jbousquie)
  • Added the ability to dynamically update or to morph an mesh instance (jbousquie)
  • Allow static Mesh.MergeMeshes to work with clones & Mesh subclasses (Palmer-JC)
  • Added mesh.freezeWorldMatrix() for static meshes (deltakosh)
  • Added mesh.freezeNormals() for parametric mesh updates (jbousquie)
  • Added Vector3.RotationFromAxis() to get Euler rotation angles from a target system (jbousquie)
  • Added mesh.alwaysSelectAsActiveMesh to disable frustum clipping for a specific mesh (deltakosh)
  • Added updateMeshPositions method (jbousquie)
  • Callbacks for geometry changes (raananw)
  • Allow Engine to run for CocoonJS with standard html, including devices where the hardware scaling != 1 (Palmer-JC)
  • Material onBind callback improvement (jahow)
  • New front/back/double side feature for meshes (jbousquie)
  • New basic mesh type: Disc (jbousquie)
  • New basic mesh type : Dashed Lines (jbousquie)
  • New basic mesh type : Lathe (jbousquie)
  • New basic mesh type: Tube. More info here (jbousquie)
  • Allow ComputeNormals to work with Typed Arrays & the Typescript Level (Palmer-JC)
  • Added uniqueId for nodes (raananw)
  • Added Mesh.onLODLevelSelection(distance: number, mesh: Mesh, selectedLevel: Mesh) callback (deltakosh)
  • Added Material.zOffset to help reducing z-fighting (deltakosh)
  • Added excludeWithLayerMask to lights (Palmer-JC)
  • Added includeOnlyWithLayerMask for filtering meshes (Palmer-JC)
  • Mesh Default layerMask changed to allow more "special cameras filtering" (Palmer-JC)
  • Sprite can now have .width and .height properties (deltakosh)
  • Ability to register events based on mesh/camera/light addition and deletion (raananw)
  • New Curve object (jbousquie) More info here
  • New Path3D object (jbousquie) More info here
  • New 'color correction' post process (jahow)
  • Added sampling mode as a parameter for SpriteManager (jahow)
  • RenderTexture can now be saved to a file (deltakosh)
  • Better attributes management (deltakosh)
  • Source conform to typescript 1.4 (raananw)
  • Adding subMeshId property in PickingInfo structure (deltakosh)
  • No more error when a manifest is not found (deltakosh)
• Bug fixes
  • Initial quaternion fix for OIMO plugin (raananw)
  • ArcRotateCamera pinch zoom debug (vousk)
  • Fixing animatable bug when animation is over (temechon)
  • useCameraPostProcess whenever there is a special camera in use (m0ppers)
  • delta in BoundingBox's intersectsPoint is now calculated correctly (raananw)
  • textures cache fixed (deltakosh)
  • ImportMesh now imports referenced geometries of selected meshes (raananw)
  • CSG toMesh() and FromMesh() now support meshes without quaternion (raananw)
• Breaking changes
  • OculusCamera was removed (deltakosh)
  • VRDeviceOrientationCamera was renamed to VRDeviceOrientationFreeCamera (deltakosh)
  • WebVRCamera was renamed to WebVRFreeCamera (deltakosh)
  • VideoTexture does not require a size parameter anymore. The new constructor is: constructor(name: string, urls: string[], scene: Scene, generateMipMaps = false, invertY = false, samplingMode: number = Texture.TRILINEAR_SAMPLINGMODE) (deltakosh)