v1.61.0

Breaking changes

• [BREAKING] UI Scroll Views now work in XR by @yaustar in #4940
• [BREAKING] Quad render class, drawQuadWithShader refactor, Camera render events moved. by @mvaligursky in #4988

New Features

• Use hardware device properties (fov) when in XR by @yaustar in #4837
• Optimize clustered lighting shaders compilation time on Windows platform by @mvaligursky in #5012
• Update basis initialisation to work with facebook games by @slimbuck in #5016
• Include WebGPU support in all built targets by @mvaligursky in #5030
• Updated codebase to properly use WebGPU types by @mvaligursky in #5031
• Additional engine tracing related to frame timing by @mvaligursky in #4975
• Update to WebGL shader compilation and linking by @mvaligursky in #4964
• Added attributes parameter to createShaderFromCode by @mvaligursky in #4984
• Plane/Ray add copy/clone methods + prefer ownership over references by @kungfooman in #4925
• Properly deprecated Timer class by @mvaligursky in #4979
• Smaller PostEffect refactor and simplification, WebGPU support by @mvaligursky in #4996
• Updates to make PostEffects example working on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #5004
• Transpile WebGPU SpirV shaders into WGSL by @mvaligursky in #5015
• Refactor all remaining posteffects to use drawQuad + simpler shader creation by @mvaligursky in #5002
• rollup: add JSDoc, spacesToTabs fix, improved debugging builds by @kungfooman in #4796
• Removed isDefined helper function by @mvaligursky in #4978
• Texture based morphing support for WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #4989
• Clustered light cookie textures works on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #4991
• Deprecated property: Layer.renderTarget by @mvaligursky in #4994
• Improved documentation for Shader creation by @mvaligursky in #4997
• Clear DebugGraphics gpu call stack each frame by @mvaligursky in #5003
• Added public API notes for the container resource by @yaustar in #4999
• Rearanged members of ClusterLightData structure to eliminate padding by @mvaligursky in #5005
• Removed unneeded dirty flag set in XrManager by @yaustar in #5013
• Variable rename in the clustered lighting shader to avoid the use of reserved word by @mvaligursky in #5014
• Updated texture reprojection to work on WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #5021
• Added AnimCurve and AnimData back to API Docs by @MushAsterion in #5023
• Ignore custom .npmrc by @yak32 in #4954
• Tint compiler updated to newer version by @mvaligursky in #5025
• Improved shadow cascades for WebGPU by @mvaligursky in #5026
• Add support for building the API reference with Typedoc by @willeastcott in #5028
• Add types for WebGPU by @willeastcott in #5029
• Add field declarations for all core classes by @willeastcott in #5033
• Add MDN links to Typedocs for browser APIs by @willeastcott in #5034
• Optimize createMorphTargetCurves by @mvaligursky in #5035
• Optimize texture upload of morph targets by @mvaligursky in #5037
• Deprecate createStyle function by @willeastcott in #5040
• Switch Material to use field declarations by @willeastcott in #5041
• Added Container asset option skipMeshes, to ignore mesh loading from glb by @mvaligursky in #5046

Changes to Examples

• ShaderCompile engine example to be used as a test for shader compilation speed by @mvaligursky in #5000
• Examples browser dependency update by @ellthompson in #4974 #5010
• Shader*** examples updated to use createGraphicsDevice by @mvaligursky in #4981
• [Examples Browser] Build with local PCUI by @ellthompson in #4976
• Small polish to the ClusteredSpotShadows example by @mvaligursky in #4992
• Cleanup and improvements of ModelOutline example by @mvaligursky in #4993
• Multiple engine examples are converted to use createGraphicsDevice function by @mvaligursky in #5022

Fixes

• Load old material glossiness correctly by @slimbuck in #4967
• Remove energy conservation for ambient light when using the phong model. by @GSterbrant in #4968
• [Fix] Fix to non-clustered omni shadow rendering by @mvaligursky in #4972
• Small docs fix for XrDomOverlay by @yaustar in #4977
• Fixed Camera Component API docs for scissorRect by @yaustar in #4998
• [Fix] Fixed code examples for calculateTangents and calculateNormals by @mvaligursky in #4980
• [Fix] Fix to Grab-pass engine example on WebGL1 by @mvaligursky in #4983
• Fix shadow map using vertex normals. by @GSterbrant in #4985
• Sparse accessor fix by @slimbuck in #4986
• Exclude area lights LTC shader chunk if clustered area lights are disabled by @mvaligursky in #4990
• Fix for draco vertex colors, which are stored as 16 bit for some reason by @slimbuck in #5008
• Fixing Entities being cloned on attribute change by @MushAsterion in #5024
• Fix gravity test by @slimbuck in #5020
• Fix warnings from Typedoc build by @willeastcott in #5032
• Fix docs typos by @LeXXik in #5036
• Fix many issues with API reference links by @willeastcott in #5038
• [Fix] Fix to the way morph weight name is looked up by @mvaligursky in #5045
• Fix ao vertex colors by @slimbuck in #5047

New Contributors

• @MushAsterion made their first contribution in #5023

Full Changelog: v1.60.0...v1.61.0