Release v1.59.0 · playcanvas/engine

New features

Improved shadow cascades rendering, allowing per cascade update by @mvaligursky in #4921
Added collision component linear and angular offset by @yaustar in #4865 #4916
Directional shadows are rendered using RenderPass setup by @mvaligursky in #4917
Split generic parts of ForwardRenderer into a Renderer class by @mvaligursky in #4886
GrabPass functionality changes to support WebGPU and improve WebGL support by @mvaligursky in #4896
Various small improvements and validations to WebGPU rendering by @mvaligursky in #4899
Refactor out dependency of SceneGrab on the AppBase by @mvaligursky in #4901
Partial Depth-GrabPass support for WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #4906
Partial cubemap support for WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #4911
Support for debug tracing info about RenderPipeline and its layout, WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #4914
Split ShadowRenderer into class for local and class for directional lights by @mvaligursky in #4915
LitOptions class to hold backend options by @GSterbrant in #4900
Change VertexFormat.defaultInstancingFormat from a property to a function by @mvaligursky in #4918
Updated examples to use createGraphicsDevice function (Dynamic Batching, ClusteredAreaLights, MultiView, Glb, GroundFog, GrabPass, AssetViewer, RenderCubemap, RenderToTexture, Rendering to texture) by @mvaligursky in #4880 #4887 #4895 #4888 #4890 #4897 #4908 #4919

Improvement and fix to view-proj matrix handling by @mvaligursky in #4891
Fix sheen glossiness being consistent throughout the engine by @GSterbrant in #4898
Bump GLB parser chunks to 1.58. by @GSterbrant in #4905
[Anim Binder] Animate multiple valid morph instances by @ellthompson in #4912
Fix: getActiveStateProgressForTime by @ertugrulcetin in #4913

Full Changelog: v1.58.2...v1.59.0