• Major updates
  • Blender can now bake Procedural textures & Cycles materials. Plus more. See documentation here (Palmer-JC)
  • Meshes can now be attached to bones. See documentation here and sample here (deltakosh)
  • HDR Rendering pipeline. See demo here (julien-moreau)
  • New rewored StandardMaterial.isReady for better memory usage and performance (deltakosh)
  • Revamping of FBX exporter. Now supports animations and bones (simonferquel, deltakosh)
  • StandardMaterial.useGlossinessFromSpecularMapAlpha to use specular map alpha as glossiness level (deltakosh)
  • Added support for StandardMaterial.roughness. See demo here (deltakosh)
  • OBJ loader. See demo here (Temechon)
  • EdgesRenderer. See demo here (deltakosh)
  • Actions Builder tool for 3dsmax exporter. More info here (julien-moreau)
• Updates
  • Adding layerMask to lensFlareSystem, spritesManager, particleSystem (deltakosh)
  • Adding emissiveAsIllumination and reflectionFresnelFromSpecular for StandardMaterial (deltakosh)
  • Adding isEnabled for ProceduralTexture (deltakosh)
  • Compression supported for raw textures (deltakosh)
  • New TonemapPostProcess. See demo here (deltakosh)
  • New options parameters for Box, Sphere, Plane and Ground. See demo here (deltakosh)
  • Added per face UV and Colors options for CreateBox (jerome)
  • Added darkness support for soft shadows (deltakosh)
  • Added scene.getLensFlareSystemByName() (deltakosh)
  • Added LensFlareSystem.setEmitter() (deltakosh)
  • Added Color3.FromHexString() and Color3.toHexString() (deltakosh)
  • Added Color4.FromHexString() and Color4.toHexString() (deltakosh)
  • Added mesh.computeBonesUsingShaders to allow developers to disable HW skinning for low end devices (deltakosh)
  • Added material.disableDepthWrite (default is off) (deltakosh)
  • Added material.alphaMode (default is BABYLON.Engine.ALPHA_COMBINE, can be set to BABYLON.Engine.ALPHA_ADD, *_SUBTRACT, *_MULTIPLY or *_MAXIMIZED ) (deltakosh, jahow)
  • Added Animatable.reset() function (deltakosh)
  • New parameter for ArcRotateCamera.zoomOn to preserve maxZ (deltakosh)
  • PickingInfo.getNormal can now use either vertices normals or vertices positions (deltakosh)
  • Meshes can now support uv2, uv4, uv5 and uv6 for ShaderMaterials (deltakosh)
  • Panning support for ArcRotateCamera (julien-moreau)
  • Vertex color and diffuse color can now be mixed (deltakosh)
  • Depth-of-field improvements PR (jahow)
  • Engine now initialize WebGL with preserveDrawingBuffer = false by default (deltakosh)
  • withEpsilon with a user defined epsilon PR (RaananW)
  • Adding onAfterRender function in BABYLON.PostProcess PR (julien-moreau)
  • Improved shaders optimizer to remove specular code when not needed (deltakosh)
  • Added some utility functions to Vector2/3/4 PR (jahow)
  • Added split angularSensibiliy into X and Y for arcRotateCamera PR (Remwrath)
  • Added function getFrontPosition(distance) for Camera PR (dad72)
  • New rawTexture.update function (robgdl)
  • Changes to meshes transform baking and added flipFaces PR (jahow)
  • SerializeMesh serializes a mesh or array of meshes to be imported with the loader's ImportMesh optionally including their children and/or parents. PR PR2 (RaananW)
  • onCollide callback for meshes calling moveWithCollisions. PR (RaananW)
  • Unity Exporter now uses game object name as the Babylon.js mesh name, instead of mesh name which is not unique when dealing with primitive objects (cubes, spheres, planes, etc..) (ozRocker)
  • Path3D construction : new raw parameter, if true returns a non-normalized Path3D object (jerome)
    • Added Vector3.RotationFromAxisToRef() : same as RotationFromAxis() but assigns a reference (jerome)
    • ComputeNormals optimization : less object allocation and normal array initialization (jerome)
    • Ribbon : closePath parameter now creates a smooth seam (jerome)
• Bug fixes
  • Fixing bug with rig cameras positioning (deltakosh)
  • Instance meshes' geometry ID is now serialized correctly. PR (RaananW)
  • Bug fix at set numberOfBricksWidth PR (Polatouche)
• Breaking changes
  • In LensRenderingPipeline: parameter dof_focus_depth (range 0..1) is deprecated, use dof_focus_distance (range 0..infinity) instead (jahow)
  • Cylinder Mesh complete reimplementation for better normals (jerome)
  • RotationFromAxis() : fixed the dot product case outside the range -1, 1
  • Path3D : fix wrong normal/binormal due to normalization approximations (jerome)