playcanvas/engine v1.50.0

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Summary

This release brings improvements to clustered lights and a ton of bug fixes.

Be sure to check out the newest clustered area lights example: https://playcanvas.github.io/#/graphics/clustered-area-lights

What's New

• Clustered Area lights (#3691)
• Small improvements to clustered lighting (#3728)
• Specular & Clear-coat support for clustered lights (#3668)
• Add vox loading script (#3655)
• Simplify skybox rotation (#3636, #3736)
• Add prefiltering helper functions (#3633)
• Expose collision point applied impulse. (#3682) - thanks to @LeXXik
• MeshInstance.skinInstance is now public (#3706)
• Deprecated Scene.defaultMaterial (#3709)

Documentation

• Set and Map are officially permitted in the engine, with limitations (#3662)
• Fixed jsdoc datatype on excludeFromLayout (#3670)
• Fix the pause animation description in the anim component layer (#3672)
• Updated description on follow camera script (#3703)

Examples Browser

• New example: Clustered Area Lights (part of #3691)
• Improved clustered spot light engine example (#3717)
• Improved lighting in Locomotion example (#3720)
• Examples debug watch update (#3722)
• UI updates (#3644)
• Fix for older mobiles (#3700)
• Debug build (#3713)
• Debug build now works on devices that only supports es5 (#3730)

Bug Fixes

• Animation updates (#3637)
• Small tweaks to clustered lighting to improve compatibility and performance (#3704)
• Grabpass functionality refactor and mipmap support for webgl2 (#3656)
• Small refactor to the way TextElement releases MeshInstances (#3595)
• Refactor some single iteration loops (#3659)
• When shader fails to link in debug mode, print out vertex/fragment shader source (#3669)
• Reimplement skybox handling in application (#3671)
• Update release script (#3690, #3692)
• Move the resizeobserver polyfill into the examples package.json (#3701)
• Follow camera lerp function is framerate independent (#3696)
• RenderComponent.material returns assigned material for primitives (#3665)
• Clustered lighting honors MeshInstance.noShadow (#3705)
• Update to msdf font rendering shader to lower the smoothing (#3707)
• Fix to lightmapper stats reporting (#3708)
• Area light optimization - shared functionality is executed one time for all lights (#3710)
• Fix to sphere area light specular reflection (#3711)
• Fixed null exception when button component is used with element group (#3712)
• Calculate compressed mipmap sizes correctly (#3716)
• Switch the watch lib to nodemon for multiple directory watching (#3721)
• Don't allow clustered area lights if less than 8 texture units (#3729)
• Fallback to uncompressed with invalid texture dimensions (#3731)
• Removed private and no longer needed debug.js (#3732)
• Various code maintenance improvements (NPM dependencies, linting)