Changelog

All notable changes to this package will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[4.11.5] - 2025-10-31

Fix: Timeline cloning with instantiate (forum 2733)
Fix: Renderer sharedMaterials being null in awake
Fix: Issue where lightmapped materials were cloned
Fix: Apply lighting intensity multiplier in root scene
Fix: GLTF extensions when loading scene with Blob URL
Improve JSDoc documentation

[4.11.4] - 2025-10-24

Add: qrcode-logo-src attribute to <needle-engine> web component to override the logo displayed in the QR code button. Requires PRO license.
Improve JSDoc documentation

[4.11.3] - 2025-10-21

Fix: See-Through with MeshPhysicalMaterial

[4.11.2] - 2025-10-20

Change: Animation component disable randomStartTime
Change: Vite build build pipeline plugin increased default max wait time to 60 seconds.
This time is now exposed via needlePlugins user config, e.g. to increase it to 5 minutes write needlePlugins(command, needleConfig, { buildPipeline: { maxWaitDuration: 300_000 } }) in your vite.config.js.

[4.11.1] - 2025-10-16

Fix: WebXR / VR issue where trying to access missing geometry during raycasting caused errors
Change: ScrollFollow now only applies when scroll has changed. It also immediately jumps to the target position on the first update instead of interpolating (avoiding interpolation through long timeline animations).
Change: SplineWalker now has an option to disable LookAt. It also received a pullStrength property which controls how tightly the object moves along the spline.
Improved: OrbitControls and ViewBox interaction

[4.11.0] - 2025-10-15

NEW: SeeThrough component. With this component you can easily fade-out objects between the camera and a reference point in the scene. See the See-Through sample to see it in action
NEW: Droplistener sample
Add: CursorFollow option to follow cursor on the full page, even when a user moves their mouse outside of the <needle-engine> element.
Add: CursorFollow snapToSurface option to automatically snap the object to the surface below the cursor.
Add: Object3D raycastAllowed property to disable raycasting on specific objects (e.g. for performance reasons or to ignore invisible helper objects)
Add: OrbitControls targetBounds property which can be used to constrain the OrbitControls target within a defined area in the scene. A Object3D can be assigned to the property. The position and scale of this object will be used.
Add: Experimental - Vite plugin to generate needle-app.js which encapsulates the whole website into a single web component. The needle-app.js file will be emitted next to index.html and can be used to directly embed the website and 3D assets into another website by importing <url>/needle-app.js and then using the <needle-app></needle-app> web component.
Add: Object3D contains(otherObject: Object3D) method to check if an object is a child of another object in the scene graph
Fix: three nodes update camera for TSL
Fix: Renderer lightmaps are now updating sharedMaterials
Fix: Gizmos.DrawWireMesh matrix
Fix: Image UI color was sometimes not correctly calculated for Button color states when used with the CanvasGroup component
Fix: ScrollMarker issue
Improved JSDoc documentation

[4.10.4] - 2025-10-08

Update: three-animation-pointer dependency to 1.0.4 to support KHR_node_visibility extension
Documentation improvements

[4.10.3] - 2025-10-06

Needle Engine

Add: ScrollFollow timeline markers can now be defined in HTML only and don't require markers to be present in the Timeline anymore. This means any timeline animation can now be mapped to HTML content by annotating the HTML elements. For example <div data-timeline-marker="2.5"> will define that the timeline should reach the time 2.5 seconds when this element becomes visible in the viewport. The bike-scroll-follow example on Github will be updated to use this new feature soon (example index.html).

[4.10.1] - 2025-09-30

Change: ViewBox referenceFieldOfView can now set to -1 to automatically take the camera's field of view at runtime
Fix: ViewBox evaluation order is now hierarchy-independent (Previously OrbitControls panning might be applied after ViewBox calculations if the ViewBox component was on a parent object)

[4.10.0] - 2025-09-29

NEW: Scrollytelling Bike Example – This example uses ViewBox, FocusRect and ScrollFollow to create a scrollytelling experience. All project files are available on Github.
NEW: HoverAnimation component. Use this component to get a scale hover animation of an object when the cursor is hovering over the object or one of it's children.
NEW: ViewBox component. Use this component to automatically perfectly fit your 3D scene into the camera view. Try the Scrollytelling Example to see it in action, test the example on Stackblitz or see the ViewBox documentation for details.
Add: fitCamera function
Add: <needle-engine poster> attribute. It works with an URL to an image that should be shown as a poster image. If no URL is assigned then the poster that is automatically generated during the first frame will be used.
Add: <needle-engine focus-rect="<html_selector"> attribute. Assign a HTML selector to the attribute to use a specific HTML element on screen offset the 3D camera center to the center of the HTML element. (The same can be done programmatically using ctx.setCameraFocusRect(<html_element|DOMRect>))
Add: Timeline ScrollMarker for Unity and Blender timeline animations to control timing based on HTML visibility.
Fix: Renderer material accessing error when component was not yet initialized
Fix: Poster screenshot glitch during the first frame (development only)
Fix: HTC Vive Focus 3 controller movement (forum post)
Change: Loading display does not show Needle logo anymore by default
Change: Use fallback raycast method for lowpoly meshes while the faster mesh BVH is being generated

[4.9.3] - 2025-09-15

Fix: SpriteRenderer index issue when animated where animation precision issue was causing the wrong sprite to be selected (issue)
Fix: Scaling scene in AR with multitouch causing camera projection issue for a frame (issue)

[4.9.1] - 2025-09-11

Update ScrollFollow component documentation
Update Renderer sharedMaterial typescript type

[4.9.0] - 2025-09-08

NEW: Scrollytelling Example
NEW: Spline support with SplineContainer and SplineWalker components
- SplineContainer: Holds the spline data. Use addKnot and removeKnot to modify the spline and getPointAt(t01:number) to get a point on the spline curve. Splines currently only support cubic interpolation.
- SplineWalker: Component for moving objects along a spline. It can automatically move along the spline or be controlled by animations or other components by setting the position01 property.
NEW: Attractor component – Add Rigidbodies to the list to attract physical objects towards a point in space (or apply repulsion).
NEW: CursorFollow component – Does what it says! Add the component to an object to make it follow your cursor (or touch) on screen.
NEW: ScrollFollow component – Use browser scroll to influence animation, audio, light... in your scene.
Add: WebXRImageTracking methods for setPrimaryImage and addImage to simplify image tracking changes at runtime.
Add: Object3D worldForward can now be set (e.g. myObject.worldForward = new Vector3(0,0,1))
Fix: [XR] Issue where NeedleXRSession would invoke controller-added callback twice
Fix: [XR] Issue where invalid value in XRControllerMovement would break rendering when using hand tracking
Fix: [XR] NeedleXRController getButton for xr-standard-trigger and getStick("primary")
Fix: Capsule collider height
Fix: Issue where disposing object resources would cause errors in three.js

[4.8.9] - 2025-09-05

Add: OrbitControls fitCamera has now additional options for fitDirection, cameraOffset, relativeCameraOffset, targetOffset and relativeTargetOffset giving more fine-grained control over the final camera view where necessary (Stackblitz).
Add: ContactShadows properties to fitShadows and static ContactShadows.auto() for more fine-grained control over which objects to fit the shadow to or to apply slight offsets to the shadow plane
Add: NestedGltf component loaded event property
Fix: OrbitControls should not override the camera FOV
Fix: Updating the scene.background when setting both <needle-engine> background-color and background-image or switching between one or the other
Fix: When setting <needle-engine environment-image="url"> the assigned image should be respected by the engine and loaded glTF files (even if they bring their own skybox and environment images)
Fix: Issue with <needle-engine autoplay> animation speed and when using the AnimationUtils.autoplay feature where animations would play faster than expected
Fix: Minor fixes in Vite plugins
Change: ReflectionProbes are not applied on Objects that use lightmapping

[4.8.8] - 2025-08-29

Fix: iOS AR image tracking bug where having multiple WebXRImageTracking components in the scene cause unexpected behaviour or invalid USDZ files
Fix: DropListener loadFromURL now returns the promise to make awaiting the loaded asset much easier
Fix: Issue where <needle-engine autoplay> would play animations faster than expected
Change: OrbitControls with locked target constraint is now updating the constraint position when calling e.g. setTargetPosition
Add: setCameraFocusRect method on Needle Context for easier responsive layouting.
With this you can e.g. overlay the webgl scene with HTML elements and pass in a div element for keeping important elements visible.
Example 1 Website | Code on Stackblitz

Example 2 Website | Code on Stackblitz

[4.8.7] - 2025-08-27

Add: New @needle-tools/three-animation-pointer package
Add: loadPMREM(<url>) function

[4.8.6] - 2025-08-20

Bump three dependency to fix issue caused by KTX2Exporter

[4.8.5] - 2025-08-20

Add: Much faster loading for skyboxes and environment maps when using presets. E.g. <needle-engine environment-image="studio"></needle-engine>. Supported values are studio, blurred-skybox, quicklook, quicklook-ar
Change: TransformControls now also enable fastMode on the SyncedTransform component
Change: The mobile javascript console now needs to be explictly enabled using the ?console flag. This change has been made to improve the local development experience. Previously the javascript console would be initialized in local development environments but stay invisible until e.g. an error would be detected. This did sometimes cause performance issues when very large objects would be logged in development

[4.8.4] - 2025-08-18

Update @needle-tools/gltf-progressive dependency which adds a waitForFirstCapture bool option to awaitLoading(<opts>). With this you can call manager.awaitLoading({waitForFirstCapture:true}) to get a promise that does not resolve until the next requested LOD levels have finished to load.
Here is an example deployed to Needle Cloud + here is a example on Stackblitz which makes use of this feature to add a custom loading overlay.
Fix: When using Needle Engine in Gemini Editor the webrtc dependency caused issues due to Gemini making getUserMedia read-only.
Example React Shopping App built by Gemini with Needle Engine (Code on Stackblitz)
Fix: When using pre-bundled Needle Engine (e.g. from jsdelivr) the mesh-bvh worker path was not correctly resolved
Change: <needle-engine> CSS z-index setting where the <needle-menu> element would be rendered above elements outside the <needle-engine> component. This would cause issues where e.g. a sidebar should overlay the page.
Change: Reduce default z-index for Needle loading logo

[4.8.3] - 2025-08-18

Change: Clamp devicePixelRatio to 2 by default. This can be overriden by setting the Needle Engine Context's devicePixelRatio to e.g. window.devicePixelRatio
Update @needle-tools/gltf-progressive dependency to expose overrideLodLevel. This can be used to override which LOD level will be loaded instead of calculating the LOD level based on screen coverage:
For example context.lodsManager.manager!.overrideLodLevel = 0; will always load the highest quality mesh + texture

[4.8.1] - 2025-08-14

Fix: SceneSwitcher dispose of background and environment texture causing lighting issues when useSceneLight is disabled in SceneSwitcher component
Fix: Detection of model/gltf+json by file header

[4.8.0] - 2025-08-12

Add: Gizmos.DrawWireBox now takes an optional rotation parameter
Add: Physics boxOverlap function
Fix: Vite plugin improvements
Fix: Issue where re-applying Postprocessing effects with custom devicePixelRatio did falsely reset devicePixelRatio
Update @needle-tools/gltf-progressive to version 3.2.0 with experimental javascript worker support. It can currently only be enabled by adding the URL query parameter ?gltf-progressive-worker

[4.7.4] - 2025-08-07

Update @needle-tools/gltf-progressive to version 3.1.1

[4.7.3] - 2025-08-06

Add: OrbitControls rotateUp(<radians>) function
Add: OrbitControls support for setting targetElement (e.g. orbitControls.targetElement = myNewHtmlElement;)
Fix: RemoteSkybox loading relative URIs like "folder/image.exr", catch errors in loadAsync
Update gltf-progressive dependency with improved performance when using skinned meshes and a concurrent LOD request limit (default: 100 concurrent requests)

[4.7.2] - 2025-08-04

Add: loading-blur attribute to <needle-engine> web component. With this attribute the 3D scene will be blurred using CSS during loading of initial LOD level.
This feature can be used to hide initial low-resolution textures and meshes while already getting an interactive preview visible in the browser (e.g. when displaying high quality product models where the 3D model download should be fast and not block the website but low-res assets should never be visible to the user)
Currently loading-blur is disabled by default but can simply be enabled:
- Enable default blur: <needle-engine loading-blur></needle-engine>
- Or to control the blur amount a pixel value can be passed in <needle-engine loading-blur="30px">
Add: You can now await LOD loading at any time by calling context.lodsManager.manager?.awaitLoading(). The method accepts an optional options argument and returns a promise that will resolve when all requested LOD level during the next frame have completed loading. Please review the jsdoc code documentation for details.
Add: The physics.raycast options now accept an optional argument (allowSlowRaycastFallback) which controls wether or not the traditional three.js raycast method is allowed. If this parameter is set to false then only objects with a finished bvh mesh will be used for raycasting to ensure raycasts are always fast and never fallback to the slow route. This is especially important for relative frequent raycasts like mouse-movements or camera-target updates where it's not crucial if objects are ignored for a few frames. Needle Engine does automatically calculate mesh BVHs for all meshes in the scene on a worker at the first time they're discovered to ensure optimal performance.
Add: OrbitControls methods for pan(<delta-x>, <delta-y>), zoomIn(<scale>) and rotateLeft<angleInRadians>. These methods can be used to control camera movement from code or via custom key-bindings.
Update gltf-progressive which adds support awaiting LOD level + improved LOD level calculations where meshes have multiple primitives/submeshes.
Fix: useKeys in OrbitControls - it requires tabindex on the <needle-engine> web component to receive keyboard events
Fix: Clamp of tonemapping exposure in AgX
Fix: Issue in Vite plugin with logging of very large objects

[4.7.1] - 2025-07-31

Add: LODsManager parameter skinnedMeshAutoUpdateBoundsInterval
Fix: Issue where model fetch with query parameters was constructing a wrong URL

[4.7.0] - 2025-07-28

Improved Postprocessing performance and stability - Live Example
Fix: Issue where Tonemapping would not be applied
Change: Improve <needle-engine background-image="<url>" /> support and deprecate the old skybox-image attribute

[4.6.3] - 2025-07-25

Update Vite alias plugin to make sure the same postprocessing module is used
Improve postprocessing stability
Fix: Postprocessing with transparent background

[4.6.2] - 2025-07-23

Postprocessing performance and stability improvements
Add: Custom postprocessing effects can now use PostProcessingEffectPriority to ensure effects are correctly sorted (e.g. before DepthOfField)
Fix: Postprocessing multisampling (MSAA) causing issues with performance
Fix: screenshot correctly handling custom devicePixelRatio

[4.6.1] - 2025-07-17

Fix: Post-processing effects ordering and gamma correction handling
Fix: Renderer and ReflectionProbe update behaviour where changing the scene environment texture would not affect certain objects anymore
Fix: ReflectionProbe should not be applied if the component is inactive (e.g. on a disabled Object3D)
Fix: Internal resource dispose error when destroying objects with custom ShaderMaterials with certain uniform values

[4.6.0] - 2025-07-14

Add: Vite plugin to make remote assets local at build time. This currently supports google.font CSS and font assets as well as polyhaven HDRi/EXR textures.
To use enable makeFilesLocal in your vite.config.js:
```
needlePlugins(command, needleConfig, {
  makeFilesLocal: true
}),
```
Change: AudioSource component preload option to true by default

[4.5.8] - 2025-06-10

Fix: QR code logo overlay now scales down for longer URLs and uses stronger error correction level

[4.5.7] - 2025-06-10

Fix: instantiate({ visible: false }) should only set the root object's visible state

[4.5.6] - 2025-05-21

Add: Cylinder primitive to ObjectUtils
Add: QR code now displays the URL that will open
Fix: Issue where calling NeedleXRSession.stop() from within update() event caused an error

[4.5.4] - 2025-05-21

Add: DropListener now also allows custom file types
Fix: File loading range request url did not handle relative URLs properly
Fix: Vite built pipeline plugin

[4.5.0] - 2025-05-21

Add: NeedleEngineModelLoader namespace with methods to provide custom file loaders to load unsupported 3D model formats. For example to load STL files:

 import { NeedleEngineModelLoader } from "@needle-tools/engine";
 import { STLLoader } from "three/examples/jsm/loaders/STLLoader.js";

 // Register a callback for determining our custom loader mimetype
 NeedleEngineModelLoader.onDetermineModelMimetype(args => {
  // check if the mimetype is already provided by the server
  if (args.contentType === "model/stl") {
      return "model/stl";
  }
  // use URL extension if available
  if (args.url.endsWith(".stl")) {
      return "model/stl";
  }
  // check if first few bytes start with "solid"
  // this is a very naive check, but it works for most cases
  if(args.bytes[0] === 0x73 && args.bytes[1] === 0x74 && args.bytes[2] === 0x6c) {
      return "model/stl";
  }
  return null;
 });

 // Register a callback for creating our custom loader
 NeedleEngineModelLoader.onCreateCustomModelLoader(args => {
  if (args.mimetype === "model/stl") {
      const stlLoader = new STLLoader();
      return stlLoader;
  }
 });

Add: Experimental attribute to autostart AR: <needle-engine autostart="ar">
Add: Modify the QR code button URL via ButtonsFactory.instance.qrButtonUrl = https://yourwebsite.de
Add: ContactShadows manualUpdate boolean. When enabled the ContactShadows component will not automatically re-render every frame. When enabled then set needsUpdate=true to manually schedule contact shadows re-render
Change: Needle Engine loading view is now transparent by default. The loading-background attribute can be used to add custom styling like <needle-engine loading-background="#000" />. Alternatively the <needle-engine> web component or background can be styled.
Removed: Web component attributes: loading-background-color, loading-style, loading-text-color
Fix: Vite HMR (Hot Module Replacement) working nicely with browser breakpoints and debugging
Fix: Debug stats (?stats) showing correct draw calls when using postprocessing
Fix: findObjectOfType does now also search components on the root scene object

[4.4.6] - 2025-05-05

Change: Networking disconnect() should reset state + leaveRoom does now reset allowEditing to true
Fix Vite prebundle engine with mesh bvh worker

[4.4.5] - 2025-04-30

Add: Support for easily adding an Animation component to the root object of a loaded glTF to automatically play animations.
Add: loadAsset function
Fix: OrbitControls issue where fitCamera({immediate:true}) would not fit the camera immediately without lerping
Fix: Vite fetch public key causing build to fail

[4.4.3] - 2025-04-29

Add: Support for getKeyDown, getKeyPressed and getKeyUp to pass in key name to check the state of keyboard input, e.g. context.getKeyDown(<key>)
Add: License validation for webpack (nextjs) via access token or teamid. The needleNext plugin does now handle the license for passed in team or access tokens.
For example the next.config.js can be modified like so ... }, { modules: { webpack }, license: {team: "needle"} }) to pass in the name of a team (or a Needle Cloud access token).
Change: License checks will now read the NEEDLE_CLOUD_TOKEN environment variable if no access token is provided.
Fix: SyncedTransform fastmode lerp
Fix: OrbitControls regression when calling setCameraAndLookTarget with a Camera object (or transform) where the forward direction (+Z) did not match the camera's look/render direction (-Z)

[4.4.2] - 2025-04-24

Fix: Vite license server timeout
Fix: Vite manualChunks should not be declared if rollupOutput.inlineDynamicImports is set to true

[4.4.0] - 2025-04-17

Added

Add: The needle-engine web-component contactshadows attribute now allows you to specify a factor for controlling the darkness/lightness. E.g. <needle-engine contactshadows="1"> will make the shadows appear darker vs. <needle-engine contactshadows=".2"> will make the contact shadow appear lighter.
Add: The needle-engine web-component does now support transparency for background-color. For example: rgba(255, 255, 100, .5) or #ffdddd99 or transparent are valid values: <needle-engine background-color="rgba(255, 255, 100, .5)" />
Add: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive() now supports scale as array
e.g. ObjectUtils.createPrimitive("Cube", { scale: [1, .25, 1] } );
Add: Input getGamepad(<index>) function to query a connected gamepad. Example: this.context.input.getGamepad()

Add: lookAtScreenPoint() function which allows 3D object to look at points in 2D screen coordinates (e.g. your mouse position).
Example Component that makes the object look at the mouse

  import { Behaviour, lookAtScreenPoint } from "@needle-tools/engine";

  export class LookAtMouse extends Behaviour {
    update() {
      lookAtScreenPoint(this.gameObject, this.context.input.mousePosition, this.context.mainCamera);
    }
  }

Add: Default environment lighting. If you don't configure any environment-image needle engine will now create a default scene to light your objects. Previously the scene was just black when the loaded model didn't contain any lighting information.
Add: SyncedTransform does now also sync scale changes
Add: SyncedTransform freeOwnership() method
Add: ReflectionProbe bounding box intersection check to automatically apply reflections to object's in a specific area (handled by the Renderer component)
Add: devicePixelRatio option on Needle Context. This option controls the window.devicePixelRatio set on the renderer by Needle Engine (default auto). It can be set to manual to disable this behaviour or a custom number which will then be set on the renderer or composer.

Fixed

Fix: Implicit camera did not automatically set to skybox when using background-image. E.g. `<needle-engine background-image="<url>">
Fix: Tonemapping falsely set tonemappingEsposure to undefined causing a black screen
Fix: background-color attribute was not always applied. E.g. <needle-engine background-color="#ff3333">
Fix: screenshot() checks if XR is presenting
Fix: Issue where MeshBVH worker import breaks for projects where the needle-engine vite plugins are not added to the plugins list
Fix: SceneSwitcher regression with Object3D objects in scenes array
Fix: SceneSwitcher preload was not using three.js FileLoader to re-use three's caching system
Fix: GroundProjection regression where background blurriness was hardcoded
Fix: RenderTexture regression where deserialization was not properly handled anymore
Fix: OrbitControls regression where forward direction in setCameraAndLookTarget was inverted
Fix: Physics bug where negative box collider scales were not correctly handled in all cases causing Rapier to break
Fix: UI instantiate bug where three-mesh-ui clone method was not working and UI that was already in the scene could not be duplicated because of that.
Fix: Vite license plugin not waiting for the CLI process to start
Fix: Vite improve license checks in CI environments (e.g. when running via a Github Action).
Fix: Vite plugins for running in CI environment
Fix: Vite manualChunks are not defined when preserveModules is set to true

Changed

Change: License check aborts now faster instead of retrying when connection is actively refused
Change: OrbitControls autoTarget does now automatically update the look at target after panning and not when rotating the camera (previously the target would be updated after any input but this resultet in undesireable behaviour when rotating around objects)
Change: When no background-color is defined by either the loaded scene or by a background-color attribute then the default scene background color respects the user's accessibility setting for prefer-dark or prefer-light. This means that the background color will be set to a default light or dark value.
Change: Scene background color or image set on <needle-engine> are not overridden anymore by the camera component.
Change: Hide Needle logo automatically when using Needle Engine with a license

[4.4.0-beta.9] - 2025-04-07

Add: <needle-engine background-color="#ffdddd55"> does now support transparency. For example: rgba(255, 255, 100, .5) or #ffdddd99 or transparent are valid values.
Add: SyncedTransform freeOwnership() method
Add: ReflectionProbe does now check boundingbox intersection
Add: devicePixelRatio option on Needle Context. This option controls the window.devicePixelRatio set on the renderer by Needle Engine (default auto). It can be set to manual to disable this behaviour or a custom number which will then be set on the renderer or composer.
Change: Scene background color or image set on <needle-engine> are not overridden anymore by the camera component.
Change: Hide Needle logo automatically when using Needle Engine with a license
Fix: Improve license checks in CI environments (e.g. when running via a Github Action).
Fix: Vite plugins for running in CI environment
Fix: Vite manualChunks are not defined when preserveModules is set to true
Fix: screenshot() checks if XR is presenting
Fix: Issue where MeshBVH worker import breaks for projects where the needle-engine vite plugins are not added to the plugins list
Fix: Vite license plugin not waiting for the CLI process to start

[4.4.0-beta] - 2025-03-28

Add: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive() now supports scale as array
e.g. ObjectUtils.createPrimitive("Cube", { scale: [1, .25, 1] } );
Add: Input getGamepad(index?:number) function to query a connected gamepad. Example: this.context.input.getGamepad()

Add: lookAtScreenPoint() function which allows 3D object to look at points in 2D screen coordinates (e.g. your mouse position).
Example Component that makes the object look at the mouse

  import { Behaviour, lookAtScreenPoint } from "@needle-tools/engine";

  export class LookAtMouse extends Behaviour {
    update() {
      lookAtScreenPoint(this.gameObject, this.context.input.mousePosition, this.context.mainCamera);
    }
  }

Add: SyncedTransform does now also sync scale changes
Add: Default environment lighting. If you don't configure any environment-image needle engine will now create a default scene to light your objects. Previously the scene was just black when the loaded model didn't contain any lighting information.
Add: The contactshadows attribute now allows you to specify a factor for controlling the darkness/lightness. E.g. <needle-engine contactshadows="1"> will make the shadows appear darker vs. <needle-engine contactshadows=".2"> will make the contact shadow appear lighter.
Fix: Implicit camera did not automatically set to skybox when using background-image. E.g. <needle-engine background-image="<url>">
Fix: Tonemapping falsely set tonemappingEsposure to undefined causing a black screen
Fix: background-color attribute was not always applied. E.g. <needle-engine background-color="#ff3333">
Change: License check aborts now faster instead of retrying when connection is actively refused
Change: OrbitControls autoTarget does now automatically update the look at target after panning and not when rotating the camera (previously the target would be updated after any input but this resultet in undesireable behaviour when rotating around objects)
Change: When no background-color is defined by either the loaded scene or by a background-color attribute then the default scene background color respects the user's accessibility setting for prefer-dark or prefer-light. This means that the background color will be set to a default light or dark value.

[4.3.2] - 2025-03-20

Added

Documentation for Gizmos API
this.context.time.fps returning the FPS for the current frame (for a more stable FPS value smoothedFps can be used)

Removed

Vite license plugin check does not support Node 16 anymore

Changes

Improve Vite preload link injection into HTML head
The PostprocessingManager component does now expose a multisampling property which is set to "auto" by default. By setting multisampling to a number it will force postprocessing to the configured samples.
Downloading of <needle-engine> attributes for skybox-image and environment-image does now start earlier. Previously it would only start loading the HDRi or EXR images after the root glTF file was finished loading. Now it will start downloading earlier which improves the time until the scene is ready to be displayed.

Fixed

Vite dependency-watcher plugin warning
Vite license check plugin is now using the latest Needle CLI version
Browser cache busting issue related to loading the root scene where range requests (e.g. when download urls without a file extension). This caused Chrome to remove files from the disc cache causing a re-download
Three.js core postprocessing effects support
Loading glTF files without any components (e.g. when directly downloaded from Sketchfab) was causing Needle Engine to falsely keep a reference to the loaded glTF structure.
Instancing issue where instancing did sometimes renderer wrong geometry when many objects where removed and added again and multiple different geometries were batched together. This was caused by a bug in the internal bucketing mechanism and has now been removed since it's not necessary anymore.

[4.3.2-beta.5] - 2025-03-20

Change: Improve Vite preload link injection into HTML head
Fix: Vite dependency-watcher plugin warning

[4.3.2-beta.4] - 2025-03-19

Fix: Start loading earlier for skybox-image and environment-image when configured in <needle-engine> web component. Previously it would only start loading the HDRi or EXR images after the root glTF file was finished loading. Now it will start downloading earlier which improves the time until the scene is ready to be displayed.
Fix: Update vite license check using the latest CLI version
Fix: Issue related to loading the root scene where range requests (e.g. when download urls without a file extension) caused Chrome to remove previously full downloads to be removed from disc cache
Remove: Vite license check does not support Node 16 anymore

[4.3.2-beta.3] - 2025-03-18

Fix: Support for three.js core postprocessing effects

[4.3.2-beta.2] - 2025-03-18

Add: Documentation for Gizmos API

[4.3.2-beta.1] - 2025-03-17

Fix: Bug when loading glTF files without any components where a reference to the loaded glTF structre was kept in memory causing the memory to not be freed

[4.3.2-beta] - 2025-03-14

Add: this.context.time.fps returning the FPS for the current frame (for a more stable FPS value smoothedFps can be used)
Change: The PostprocessingManager component does now expose a multisampling property which is set to "auto" by default. By setting multisampling to a number it will force postprocessing to the configured samples.
Fix: Issue where instancing with multiple different geometries being batched together did sometimes be cause wrong rendering when many objects where removed and added again. This was caused by a bug in the internal bucketing mechanism which is not necessary anymore with the new BatchedMesh version.

[4.3.1] - 2025-03-14

Add: Expose lifecylcle hooks in Needle global scope for usage in commonjs or without a bundler. For example this allows to subscribe to the update event with Needle.onUpdate(ctx => console.log(ctx.time.time)).
Fix: OrbitControls micro-movement after a pointer event was already used. For example previously when using DragControls and starting to drag an object the camera would still move slightly before stopping during drag. This is not the case anymore now and the camera does not move anymore during interaction with other objects.
Fix: Canvas UI render settings not being applied in one rare case causing a worldspace image not being set to double sided rendering.

[4.3.0] - 2025-03-12

Bump version to 4.3.0

[4.3.0-alpha.6] - 2025-03-11

Change: Postprocessing effects in shared volume (when exported from Unity) are now added to the Volume gameObject during initialization
Fix: improve Rigidbody physics poststep / smoothed velocity

[4.3.0-alpha.5] - 2025-03-06

Add: more jsdoc comments to Graphics.textureToCanvas and Mathf methods
Change: AudioSource tries to get AudioListener from it's own object first before it checks camera and scene
Fix: SpriteRenderer issue where runtime instantiate and setting Sprite would in some cases not update the texture on all instances
Fix: Issue in Graphics.copyTexture where the blit material was not yet created

[4.3.0-alpha.4] - 2025-03-06

Revert last AudioSource change

[4.3.0-alpha.3] - 2025-03-06

Add: WebARSessionRoot arScale can now be changed while in AR to modify or reset the scale.
Change: AudioSource now creates it's own AudioListener instead of using one from the camera.

[4.3.0-alpha.1] - 2025-03-03

Add: More API documentation for various core components

[4.3.0-alpha] - 2025-02-28

Add: SceneSwitcher sceneLoadingStart and sceneLoadingProgress events
Add: AssetReference urlName property
Fix: SceneSwitcher preloading if configured to not load scene at startup
Fix: UI issue where text components were not correctly handled by the EventSystem for the hasActiveUI property

[4.2.5] - 2025-02-27

Fix: keep FBX vertex color assignment when postprocessing materials
Fix: ContactShadow flicker when point materials are in the scene
Fix: OrbitControls keep autoTarget enabled in fitCamera
Fix: Static BoxCollider.add now correctly calculates bounding box
Fix: InputField onValueChanged event is now invoked after the new value has been assigned
Change: getBoundingBox now also takes a single object as well as an array of objects
Change: DropListener now exposes DropListenerOnDropArguments type

[4.2.4] - 2025-02-21

Add: OrbitControls set to autoTarget now automatically updates rotation target in onPointerUp
Fix: USDZ add safeguard against potential issue in bone sorting
Fix: USDZ remove extra check for bone type that might prevent bone structure ordering
Fix: Static method for BoxCollider.add not correctly calculating object bounds when object is rotated
Fix: Ignore fullscreen plane for WebXR auto center
Fix: Issue in FBXLoader where loading FBX files with out-of-bounds material assignments lead to incorrect geometry groups and subsequent errors
Change: Improve input typings for isKeyDown, isKeyUp and isKeyPressed

[4.2.3] - 2025-02-20

Add: InputField setter for text
Fix: OrbitControls setCameraAndLookTarget
Fix: Issue where updating KTX transcoder was not being correctly applied for offline usage

[4.2.2] - 2025-02-18

Fix: WebXRImageTracking iOS size calculation due to change by Apple
Fix: USDZ AudioSource not generating code for playOnAwake anymore
Fix: Lightmap and environment ligthing not working correctly anymore due to change in three v163
Change: EventSystem simplification - it is now always created once in scene root, this removes the requirement of ObjectRaycasters in the scene which simplifies the usage of component input event methods like onPointerClick (which previously required users to ensure there are ObjectRaycasters in the parent hierarchy)

[4.2.0] - 2025-02-17

Change: remove MXInk fallback codepath for pre-release OS versions
Change: don't request "hand-tracking" on VisionOS devices unless explicit custom hand models are requested
Fix: occluder generation in Plane/Mesh tracking should not be enforced when we have a data template

[4.1.1] - 2025-02-14

Fix: ParticleSystem regression where particles using a transparent PBR shader are not being rendered as transparent

[4.1.0] - 2025-02-13

Fix: Issue in WebXR component where disabling usePlacementReticle would not apply other settings to already existing WebARSessionRoot components in the scene

[4.1.0-beta.9] - 2025-02-12

Add: Object3D.hideFlags property and ContactShadows sets generated shadow object to DontExport to be excluded in runtime glTF export
Fix: ContactShadows auto() does now check if the scene already contains contact shadows

[4.1.0-beta.8] - 2025-02-12

Fix: Handle <needle-menu> web component being present anywhere in the document already
Fix: Allow nextjs based projects to be deployed to Needle Cloud
Change: instantiate() can now take an AssetReference as an argument as well
Change: Improve context.input.addEventListener function typing

[4.1.0-beta.6] - 2025-02-05

Fix: issue with parseSync for loading a glTF file is a file path

[4.1.0-beta.5] - 2025-02-04

Fix: Physics issue with mesh colliders where colliders were sometimes created with the wrong size depending on the users network speed. This was due to the change of lazily loading the physics engine in Needle Engine 4.
Fix: Add workaround for a regression in the particle system where PBR materials would sometimes render with a wrong texture. Issue
Fix: ParticleSystem gradients set to Random Color
Fix: import WebGLNodes to ensure nodes actually run
Change: Physics engine addMeshCollider scale argument is now optional and treated as scale applied to the object's world scale when creating the collider.

[4.1.0-beta.4] - 2025-02-03

Add: OrbitControls support for orthographic camera
Fix: Orthographic camera aspect ratio

[4.1.0-beta.3] - 2025-01-30

Fix: issue where networked values with the @syncField decorator would not be updated correctly on instances spawned at runtime (e.g. via PlayerSync).

[4.1.0-beta.2] - 2025-01-29

Fix: VideoPlayer screenspace mode colorspace
Fix: XRRig setAsActiveRig() now ensures the given rig has the highest priority. Previously it was possibly immediately overidden again if another XRRig with a higher priority was active in the scene.
Change: SpatialTrigger EventList events are now invoked without additional parameters. They did previously take a reference to the SpatialTriggerReceiver and active SpatialTrigger. If this information is important the SpatialTriggerReceiver can be saved when subscribing to the event and the trigger can be accessed using the triggerReceiver.currentIntersected array.
Change: TransformGizmo now exposes the underlying three.js TransformGizmo via a new control property.
Change: GroundProjection now uses the scene.background instead of scene.environment

[4.1.0-beta.1] - 2025-01-29

Fix: ParticleSystem custom behaviours
Fix: OrbitControls not keeping the initial look direction if autoTarget was off
Fix: Invalid Rigidbody warning caused by async physics engine loading change
Fix: SharpeningEffect
Update gltf-progressive including a fix for loading texture LOD 0 (the highest resolution)
Update three.quarks dependency to 0.15.6

[4.1.0-beta] - 2025-01-24

Promote to beta

[4.1.0-alpha.14] - 2025-01-24

Fix: glsl shader error at linear to sRGB conversion

[4.1.0-alpha.13] - 2025-01-23

Update three.js dependency to fix issue in WebXRManager

[4.1.0-alpha.12] - 2025-01-21

Change: Much improved initial loading speed making Needle Engine websites load up to 1000 ms faster.
Improved Needle Engine website lighthouse scores for all Vite based projects.
Improved bundle chunking and loading for better lighthouse scores.
Core bundles and entrypoint glTF files are not loaded as soon as the web document is ready.
Change: Needle Engine does now lazily import dependencies for rapier and postprocessing to reduce download and startup size.
This means that projects that don't use any collider or rigidbody components will not load the physics and postprocessing modules. Modules can be loaded at any time once they're need by e.g. components in the scene.

[4.1.0-alpha.11] - 2025-01-17

Remove: legacy Flycontrols component
Fix: MeshCollider contact normal direction

[4.1.0-alpha.10] - 2025-01-17

Fix: Instanced meshes bug where sometimes an vertex count increase due to mesh compression was not handled correctly

[4.1.0-alpha.9] - 2025-01-15

Fix: Better AgX and Neutral tonemapping

[4.1.0-alpha.8] - 2025-01-14

Update three.js to r169
Update dependencies: three-mesh-bvh to 0.8.3, three-quarks to 0.15.5, postprocessing to 6.36.6, n8ao to 1.9.3
Fix: AR screenshot bug where the second screenshot would not look correct
Fix: nextjs support

[4.1.0-alpha.5] - 2025-01-13

Fix: Issue where MeshCollider with InterleavedBufferAttributes were not created correctly
Fix: multi-object mesh collider handling for Groups and add warning for remaining case that are not supported
Fix: transparency trimming for screenshot should happen before screenshot is returned
Change: Reduced mesh LOD vertex reduction to improve quality of lowest LOD
Update build pipeline to latest 2.7 alpha
Update rapier dependency to 0.14.0

[4.1.0-alpha.4] - 2025-01-10

Add: SceneSwitcher methods for unload() and reload() the currently loaded scene

[4.1.0-alpha.1] - 2025-01-09

Add: Support for loading KTX2 textures as environment-image and background-image (e.g. <needle-engine background-image="my-skybox.ktx2">)
Fix: Issue where raycasting was not using acceleration structures and instead falling back to slow raycasting. This release greatly improves raycasting performance

[4.1.0-alpha] - 2025-01-08

Add: Screenshot support for AR:
To use you need to request the camera-access XR feature when starting a new XR session.
For that you can either simply add the WebARCameraBackground component to your scene
or add the feature in the NeedleXRSession.onSessionRequestStart event hook.

[4.0.4-alpha] - 2025-01-02

Fix: Detecting OBJ files starting with mtllib or content-type header model/obj
Fix: Issue where screenshot() method with custom camera and postprocessing didn't work
Update gltf-progressive package to load higher texture LODs by default

[4.0.3-alpha] - 2014-12-20

Add: OBJLoader now automatically loads mtl files
Add: OBJLoader materials are now fixed like FBX materials

[4.0.2-alpha] - 2024-12-12

Add: Support for custom scripts on WebXR custom hands
Fix: OrbitControls should not listen to window.body for key events

[4.0.1-alpha] - 2024-12-11

Fix: Objects spawned with syncedInstantiate should automatically be removed when disconnecting from the networking room
Fix: Issue where objects rendered with instancing enabled were not visible in screenshots

[4.0.0-alpha] - 2024-12-09

Add: Builds can now be compressed on Needle Cloud instead of locally. Set the NEEDLE_CLOUD_TOKEN environment variable to your Cloud access token to enable this. This allows running compression in CI build pipelines, for example in a Github Action. Needle Cloud access tokens can be obtained on https://cloud.needle.tools/team.
Add: DropListener now optionally supports networking when allowNetworking is on. Dropped files will be network-synced if the file size does not exceed a certain size (50 MB for projects on paid plans; 5 MB for projects free plans).
Fix: Previously, when changing a @syncField property, only the last changed property was synchronized to the server. This is now fixed. Note that this is a breaking change: previously networked server state with the @syncField attribute in Needle Engine 3.x projects will not be loaded in Needle Engine 4.0.
Change: EventList now takes a generic type code hints when using myEventList.addEventListener(...) e.g. new EventList<string>()
Change: The default networking server is now located at networking.needle.tools
Change: The DropListener API has changed
Change: OrbitControls useKeys is now false by default since the underlying three.js OrbitControls incorrectly capture ALL keyboard events on the page.
Change: Loading speed improvements and improved Lighthouse score
Change: md5 hashing results are now S3-compatible

[3.51.1] - 2024-12-09

Fix: DragControls snap to surface setting should use world normal
Fix: Needle Menu missing focus-visible for overflow menu button
Fix: Needle Menu :focus-visible on menu elements barely being visible
Fix: edge case where we still showed the QR code when only the WebXR component is on and we're on mobile
Fix: detect URL content format using "Content-Type" header as well
Fix: double quotes in USDZ displayName need to be escaped
Fix: don't fetch when we already know fetch won't work due to cross-origin isolation
Change: for QuickLook, use "View in AR" instead of "Download for AR" even for cases where we're not sure if the device actually supports QuickLook – rel="ar" is not reliable
Change: disable Needle logo being clickable during loading because users click it accidentally and then they're lost
Docs: add @group Component to components since TypeDoc doesn't do inheritance as expected

[3.51.0] - 2024-11-28

Add: API docs for networking methods
Add: USDZ export automatically creates "hold" animations now to prevent animation snapping
Add: USDZ export now supports ShadowCatcher component and materials
Add: USDZ export now contains more meta-info about exported animations
Add: Log warnings on USDZ export for overlapping animation roots so hierarchy can be manually adjusted
Add: Use ?debugusdzbehaviours to log more information and Behaviour Graphs during USDZ export. A graph in mermaid format will be logged into the console, which can be pasted into https://massive-mermaid.glitch.me or other viewers.
Fix: USDZ animation rounding error edge cases for long-running animations (>20.000 frames)
Fix: USDZ export only adds physics extension now if required to work around QuickLook issue (FB15925487) for animated objects with physics components
Fix: USDZ exporter adds rest poses properly again
Fix: Developer console is now more robust against network errors, e.g. offline PWA usage
Fix: Canvas parent element size now matches the canvas size

[3.50.0-beta] - 2024-10-28

Add: PWA plugin now works with gzip compression
Add: Asynchronous overload for screenshot2 method that returns a Promise<Blob>
Add: USDZExporter supports animator.minMaxOffsetNormalized and animation.minMaxOffsetNormalized for QuickLook now
Add: USDZExporter vertex color export. Use unlit white materials with only vertex colors to export as displayColor without a material. This is supported on iOS 18+ and visionOS 2+.
Fix: automatically instanced/batched meshes are not exported twice in USDZ anymore.
Change: "Open in QuickLook" is now "View in AR" to be more consistent
Change: Deprecate device utilities outside the DeviceUtilities namespace, use the methods directly from the namespace instead (e.g. DeviceUtilities.isSafari())
Change: legacy Object3D.transform wrapper that returns itself

[3.49.0-beta] - 2024-10-21

Add: More jsdoc code API documentation
Add: OrbitControls can now lerp to a target field of view
Add: Timeline animation tracks now can have 0..1 weights
Add: getBoundingBox can now optionally respect a layer mask for determining which objects to include
Fix: Regression with animations not playing on instantiated objects
Fix: DeleteBox uses getBoundingBox now instead of a custom implementation
Fix: Duplicatable now correctly checks for its target object already being deleted
Fix: vite plugins use vite 5.x API (and are still compatible with 4.x)
Fix: MX Ink support for QuestOS v71+
Fix: Some logs where incorrectly not behind debug flags
Fix: Don't export cameras in USDZ when requesting QuickLook-compatible assets
Fix: Exclude childs of ContactShadows and GroundProjectedEnv from USDZ export
Fix: Custom hand models should not automatically become occluders in Passthrough XR
Fix: Avoid potential exception in GameObject.getAllComponents(...)
Fix: Prevent exception in DragControls when dragged object or controller disappear mid-drag
Fix: Improve EventList usage from pure JS
Fix: Regression in OrbitControls.autoFit that resulted in a wrong fit in some cases
Fix: Improve order of batch validation for automatic instancing when some meshes have different attributes
Change: Needle Menu styles are more consistent now
Change: Change casing on isiPad(), deprecate isIPad()

[3.48.3] - 2024-09-30

Add: NeedleXRSession.start("ar") support which will start immersive-ar on supported devices or export an interactive USDZ on iOS devices
Add: nextjs alias plugin
Fix: Voip on iOS with connected bluetooth device should select the bluetooth device

[3.48.1] - 2024-09-24

Add: <needle-engine> attributes for background-color, background-blurriness and background-image
Fix: Loading of OBJ files exported from ZBrush
Fix: Loading of FBX files with empty vertex color attributes
Fix: Unregister mixer in Animation component
Fix: Needle Menu CSS improvements when using custom html elements inside the menu
Fix: Needle Menu top positioning now takes CSS safe area into account
Fix: Balloon message styles adjusted
Fix: ContactShadows auto fit calculation
Change: Exit AR button style aligned with Needle Menu

[3.48.0] - 2024-09-19

Add: Logitech MX Ink controller support
Add: Quest menu button now shows Needle Menu in immersive-ar and immersive-vr
Fix: Improved USDZ code generation regarding transformations/matrices
Fix: USDZ multi-channel attribute export
Fix: Minor jsdoc comment error
Fix: Postprocessing Volume removeEffect does now also remove effects from assigned sharedProfile
Internal: Warn if Rigidbody physics object could not be created due to a missing collider

[3.47.8] - 2024-09-10

Fix: LookAt orientation fixed when both copyRotation and keepUp are active
- If you have both options enabled and rely on the previous behaviour, toggle invertForward to get the same result as before.
Fix: USDZExporter correctly applying arScale again
Fix: Issue with Needle Menu buttons preventing AR or VR to start in certain cases/devices
Fix: BatchedMesh/Instancing error after adding/removing many instances and growing the batched mesh buffers where internal state was not properly reset causing an error
Change: Make Needle Menu text not selectable
Change:NeedleXRSession.start("immersive-ar") now exports to USDZ when called on iOS (experimental)
Change: Needle Menu foldout is now closed when entering XR
Change: Remove Quit XR button for screen based AR experiences (in favor of the X icon at the top right corner)
Change: Needle Menu foldout button has now an larger click area to avoid accidental clicks on the Needle logo
Change: LookAt copyTargetRotation is now disabled automatically during VR/passthrough AR session

[3.47.7] - 2024-09-04

Fix: Support loading FBX files in ASCII format
Fix: Support loading OBJ files starting with # Alias OBJ
Change: Needle Menu buttons height adjusted for mobile

[3.47.6] - 2024-09-02

Fix: USDZ animation interpolation. We're now using timesamples for translation, orientation and scale separately. This fixes an issue with animation optimization (optimization removing redundant keyframes) to just 2 keyframes where matrix timesamples would produce unexpected interpolations
Change: inline mesh bvh worker

[3.47.6-beta] - 2024-09-02

Add: Mathf.random() can now also accept an array to randomly select an element
Add: AudioSource pitch property
Add: SpriteRenderer addSprite method
Add: SpriteRenderer texture setter to change the texture of the currently rendered sprite
Fix: SpriteRenderer sprite setter
Fix: OrbitControls double click to focus should not focus if the click was already used (e.g. by a button)
Fix: XR screenshot() support
Fix: DragControls now work with physical objects again e.g. Rigidbodies that react to gravity

[3.47.5-beta.1] - 2024-08-28

Add: screenshot option to output a texture
Fix: screenshot method when using a camera with a RenderTexture assigned
Fix: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive option linting
Change: Addressables instantiate method now returns Object3D type

[3.47.5-beta] - 2024-08-27

Fix: Shader warmup when loading glTF file containing only materials (no scenes)
Fix: OrbitControls autoTarget option causing setLookTargetPosition to be overriden during the first frame
Fix: Compressed RenderTexture not being updated on objects in the scene
Fix: Physics mesh BVH generation on worker caused raycasts during processing to not work until the BVH was ready

[3.47.4-beta.3] - 2024-08-26

Fix: three.js changing environment texture while in XR
Fix: three.js OrbitControls zoom damping
Fix: GroundProjectedEnv error when setting height as part of init properties as part of addComponent(..., { height: 4 })
Fix: OrbitControls minZoom and maxZoom should be applied during update
Change: Camera backgroundBlurriness and backgroundIntensity should be undefined by default

[3.47.4-beta.1] - 2024-08-24

Add: Support loading of glTF files in <needle-engine src="..."> that don't contain any objects/scenes but just materials. These glTF files will be rendered with a shaderball
Fix: Regression in ParticleSystem trail rendering where mode was not set correctly
Change: OrbitControls fitCamera can now also take a single object as a first parameter

[3.47.4-beta] - 2024-08-17

Add: OrbitControls fitCamera method overload which can directly take an options parameter. E.g. it can be invoked with fitCamera({ immediate: false })
Fix: Lifecycle hooks like onStart and onInitialized are now properly called again for new subscribers
Fix: Regression in raycasting with multi-material objects
Fix: <needle-engine> canvas highlighting with touch on iOS
Change: The WebGL context is now automatically restored when lost

[3.47.3-beta.2] - 2024-08-14

Fix: Issue where automatic camera change stopped working
Fix: screenshot should update the camera aspect ratio before rendering
Fix: Physics raycasts do now run basic geometry validation

[3.47.3-beta] - 2024-08-13

Add: Improved ParticleSystem MinMaxCurve and MinMaxGradient types with utility methods (constant, betweenTwoColors / setConstant, setMinMaxConstant, setCurve)
Add: preliminary support for MX Ink pens
Add: NeedleXRController pinchPosition getter for hand tracking
Add: SceneSwitcher add sceneLoaded Eventlist
Add: DragControls static CurrentlySelected getter to access all currently active DragControls components
Fix: Gizmo label offset
Fix: XRControllerFollow on VisionOS with hand tracking
Fix: Vision OS depth buffer workaround (FB14720123)
Fix: emulate grip space for hands that don't have grip space
Fix: screenshot2 should use passed in camera
Fix: nextjs plugin fix for error caused by mesh bvh worker integration
Fix: input.mouseDoubleClick getter
Fix: EventList invocation with custom arguments (e.g. myEvent.invoke("test"))

[3.47.2-beta.3] - 2024-08-08

Fix: Properly resolve EventList calls when using instantiate to the new instances
Fix: WebXR simulator hand gesture calculation
Fix: WebXR desktop preview with postprocessing enabled
Fix: WebXR input click detection

[3.47.2-beta.2] - 2024-08-06

Add: Type definitions for Object3D Needle Engine extension methods like addComponent or worldPosition
Add: ObjectUtils createText
Add: static BoxCollider.add method
Add: Experimental util method PlayerSync.setupFrom to easily setup networked player representations
Add: ContactShadows minSize property
Fix: ShadowCatcher should set receiveShadow to true
Fix: Animation play should restart the animation if it's at the end
Fix: ContactShadows should ignore Line materials
Fix: SyncedRoom component is easier to setup from code
Change: Physics collider center x should not be flipped. Instead the exporters need to ensure the correct space

[3.47.1-beta] - 2024-08-05

Add: Voip microphone button option to allow users to mute and unmute themselves
Add: More jsdoc documentation
Fix: Improved audio and voicechat streams when using the Voip component to more reliably play audio and connect to all users in the room
Fix: Prevent browsers translation of HTML icons
Fix: Issue with Application audio playback permissions check
Fix: SpriteRenderer setting renderOrder must be rounded to an integer

[3.47.0-beta.3] - 2024-08-01

Add: NeedleXRController emitPointerDown, emitPointerUp and emitPointerMove properties to control if the controller should emit pointer events to the Needle Engine Input System
Add: NeedleXRController pointerMoveDistanceThreshold and pointerMoveAngleThreshold for changing when controller pointermove events are emitted. These values can be set to 0 to emit events every frame or larger values to reduce the number of events emitted.
Add: Support to disable SpatialGrabRaycaster by setting the static property SpatialGrabRaycaster.allow = false
Fix: Vite issue where mesh bvh worker was not found in local dev server
Fix: Mesh BVH should not raycast on meshes that don't have a position attribute
Change: EventSystem now respects used events. This means if you subscribe to pointerdown/pointermove/pointerup with the queue set to a negative value and call event.use() or event.preventDefault() the EventSystem will ignore the event.

[3.47.0-beta] - 2024-07-31

Add: accelerated raycasting using three-mesh-bvh. All calls to physics.raycast() now use a spatial grid solution under the hood to improve raycasting performance. (This can be disabled in the raycasting options by setting useAcceleratedRaycast: false)
Add: physics.engine.raycast methods now have an option to ignore the ignoreRaycastLayer on the Object3D (the three.js layer 2 is used to exclude objects from raycasting. This means setting layers.set(2) is equivalent to "Do not raycast on this object")
Minor UI performance improvements

[3.46.1-beta.4] - 2024-07-30

Add: SpriteRenderer toneMapped option
Fix: minor iOS color fix in Needle Menu CSS
Change: SyncedRoom auto-generated room name is now numbers only by default

[3.46.1-beta.3] - 2024-07-29

Fix: Voip should stop audio sending and receiving when user disconnects from a networked room
Fix: WebXR avatar head being offset when user is not centered in rig space

[3.46.1-beta.2] - 2024-07-29

Fix: WebXR teleport and rotation now takes user position in rig space into account. This means when teleporting the user is now placed at the expected ray target point and when rotating the user is rotated around himself as expected (and the position stays the same)
Fix: Animation component fadeDuration didn't fade out previously playing animations but instead stop immediately

[3.46.1-beta.1] - 2024-07-29

WebXR performance improvements
Add: Needle Menu foldout submenu for smaller screen sizes. The compact Needle Menu does now have a submenu which can be opened by clicking the 3 dots button at the right side. This improves the menu layout for smaller screen sizes.
Fix: ContactShadows performance improvements
Fix: Gizmo label performance improvements

[3.46.1-beta] - 2024-07-26

Add: isMacOS utility method
Improve WebXR controller and hand raycasting and line rendering. Hide rays while the primary pointer i active.
Improve DragControls performance
Fix: Animation play should resume paused animations instead of restarting
Fix: PWA plugin now automatically disables gzip compression. Improved error message if there's missing configuration
Fix: SyncedRoom joinRoom button not creating a new room if the room url parameter was present but empty
Change: Better error message for circular imports causing scripts to not work
Change: On OSX and MacOS use power-preference default for improved performance (webkit issue)

[3.46.0-beta.5] - 2024-07-23

Add: WebXR teleport using right hand pinch
Add: WebXR Quit XR button
Add: SceneSwitcher useSceneBackground option to apply background skybox from loaded scene (if it has any)
Add: SceneSwitcher option to add Needle menu buttons
Add: Gizmos.DrawCircle
Fix: issue where depth-sensing would cause camera near and far planes to have invalid values causing the scene to not render properly anymore when exiting AR
Fix: DropListener should not prevent propagation. Otherwise e.g. RemoteSkybox and DropListener would not work together
Fix: DropListener placeOnHit should not raycast on just dropped object
Fix: issue where onPointerEnter is only invoked once if onPointerExit isnt declared
Fix: WebXRController hits rendering on UI elements
Fix: WebXRController rays are always visible when enabled but with a low opacity if no object was hit
Change: WebXR autoPlace does now only place on flat surfaces with a small time threshold
Change: DragControls SnapToSurface now uses DynamicViewAngle if no object was hit
Change: Needle Menu active and focus button CSS

[3.46.0-beta.1] - 2024-07-23

Add: MeshTracking (WebXRPlaneTracking) is by default now generating occluder meshes for detected planes and meshes
Fix: Animation playOnAwake regression
Fix: ContactShadows ignoring GroundProjectedEnv sphere, gizmos and depth only objects (e.g. occluder spheres from mesh tracking)
Fix: Ensure Sprites when exporting to USDZ
Change: Settings on WebARSessionRoot are now all moved to the WebXR component
Update three.js dependency to 0.162.6

[3.46.0-beta] - 2024-07-22

WebXR performance improvements for immersive-ar sessions as well as controller and hand tracking
Add: GroundProjection can now blend with the AR environment using the blending property
Change: WebXR controller hits now only use object bounds

[3.45.2-beta.5] - 2024-07-22

Add: AudioSource properties for time, time01 (normalized time), duration
Add: Animation properties for time and method for pause()
Add: WebXRPlaneTracking occluder property to automatically generate occluder meshes for detected meshes
Change: Hide GroundProjection in immersive-ar
Update three.js dependency to 0.162.5

[3.45.2-beta.4] - 2024-07-19

Fix: DragControls Snap To Surface when starting to drag
Change: Minimal increase of close distance for SpatialGrab in WebXR

[3.45.2-beta.3] - 2024-07-18

Add: Support for immersive-ar unbounded session for unlimited passthrough experiences (enabled by default).
This is currently an experimental feature in the Quest browser. To enable it go to chrome://flags and check WebXR experiments, then restart the Browser. The next time you start an immersive-ar session on quest the WebXR experience will run without guardian boundaries.
Add: NEPointerEvent isSpatial getter to easily determine if an input event was generated by a spatial device
Fix: Raycast handle null or empty objects in targets array

[3.45.2-beta.1] - 2024-07-17

Add: Object static:true does now disable matrixAutoUpdate
Fix: Animation component play() issue where previous animations were not always stopped/faded out
Fix: SceneSwitcher regression causing scenes to not be unloaded
Change: pointer events are now captured and continue to work when they hover over other HTML elements (if started in the 3D scene)

[3.45.1-beta.7] - 2024-07-16

Add: vite plugin that ensures that the npm folder exists
Fix: Issue where completely empty scene without explicit XR rig caused invalid placement/rendering in VR
Change: Disable touch-action on <needle-engine> element

[3.45.1-beta.5] - 2024-07-16

Update gltf-progressive to version 1.2.5

[3.45.1-beta.3] - 2024-07-15

Add: GroundProjection blurriness set from scene.backgroundBlurriness
Fix: getTempVector and getTempQuaternion set to 0,0,0 by default to return consistent values when called without parameters

[3.45.1-beta.1] - 2024-07-13

Add: GroundProjection autoFit option
Fix: OrbitControls re-applying autoFit again when enabled/disabled
Fix: getBoundingBox should ignore gizmos

[3.45.1-beta] - 2024-07-12

Add: Camera backgroundRotation property
Add: GroundProjection environment rotation using scene.backgroundRotation
Fix: XRControllerModel createHandModels not working when createControllerModels was disabled
Change: WebXR avatar does now hide local hand models when XRControllerModel models or hands are enabled

[3.45.0-beta.1] - 2024-07-11

Add: The WebXR component now uses a static avatar from the CDN if none is assigned

[3.45.0-beta] - 2024-07-11

Add: XRControllerFollow does now reset the object to the original pose after XR
Fix: XRControllerFollow does now take original object scale into account
Fix: OrbitControls autoFit now takes GroundProjection scale into account for the camera far plane
Change: ContactShadows do now apply scale and transform to a child object so it does not modify the transform anymore of the object it was added to
Change: GroundProjectionEnv default height to 3
change: Increase GroundProjectionEnv resolution to 128 for smoother edges
Change: ChangeMaterialOnClick does now change mouse cursor on hover

[3.44.6] - 2024-07-10

Add: The default XR rig is now automatically placed to view the scene if no explicit XRRig component is found in the scene
Add: XRControllerMovement does now allow teleportation on the current rig ground plane (if no object is hit when trying to teleport)
Fix: XRController ray rendering should respect rig scale if the ray doesnt hit any object in the scene
Fix: rare issue in input calculating world position from screenspace input
Change: Voip component autoConnect default changed to true

[3.44.5] - 2024-07-10

Add: window[Needle].NeedleXRSession
Change: WebARSessionRoot reticle without depth test for better use with depth sensing
Change: VR default movement speed increased slightly from 1 to 1.5
Change: VR default hit visualization adjusted to improve raycasting.

[3.44.4] - 2024-07-09

Fix: SceneSwitcher can now activate and deactivate objects in the scene
Fix: XRControllerFollow takes rig scale into account
Change: WebXR controllers do not raycast the scene for hit visualization anymore by default. To use add XRControllerMovement and enable showHits

[3.44.3] - 2024-07-05

Add: TonemappingEffect exposure setting to control tonemapping exposure
Fix: Animator transition for negative timescale

[3.44.1] - 2024-07-05

Add: instantiate can now be invoked to clone objects without components
Fix: OrbitControls autoTarget and autoFit at the start of a scene
Fix: KTX2Loader being created both by needle engine and gltf-progressive resulting in a warning
Change: DragControls SnapToSurface is more snappy
Change: DragControls SnapToSurface drag start behaviour improved

[3.44.0] - 2024-07-04

Add: syncInstantiate(object, { deleteOnDisconnect:boolean }) and IModel { deleteOnDisconnect:boolean } option to delete a networked instance in the networking storage when a user disconnects. This requires the networking server to use @needle-tools/networking@2.x (instead of @needle-tools/needle-tiny-networking-ws)
Fix: Improve PlayerSync networking, use deleteOnDisconnect
Fix: Update draco decoader to 1.5.7
Fix: SharpeningEffect effect order
Fix: SharpeningEffect alpha handling
Fix: WebXR MeshTracking plane and mesh normals
Fix: ChangeMaterialOnClick resolving of assigned material in certain cases
Fix: Duplicatable + DragControls not properly networking on first duplication in cases where multiple DragControls components are nested

[3.44.0-beta.2] - 2024-07-02

Add: Expose AnimationUtils
Fix: Dont apply reflection probes to unlit materials
Fix: FBX loading can now handle multimaterial objects
Fix: WebXR networked Avatar head position
Fix: Needle Menu layout update is now enforced immediately when options change
Fix: Initialize Postprocessing effects parameter when created from code

[3.44.0-beta.1] - 2024-07-01

Add: support to use file extension for determining which loader to use to save initial header fetch
Add: Tuned AGX tonemapping
Fix: Sharpening effect causing color overflow
Fix: screenshot() breaking transparent rendering

[3.43.0-beta.1] - 2024-06-29

Add: environment-image magic names now use a lower-resolution version of the HDR/EXR image if the texture is just used for lighting
Fix: Toggle Volume component enable should add and remove the effects
Fix: Remove leftover log in <needle-button>

[3.43.0-beta] - 2024-06-28

Add: Postprocessing Sharpening effect
Add: PostprocessingManager addEffect and removeEffect API
Fix: Error in spatial menu caused by slots
Fix: Export of WebXRButtonFactory type

[3.42.0-beta] - 2024-06-27

Add: <needle-menu> slot support
Add: <needle-button> with support for ar, vr and quicklook. For example: <needle-button ar> creates a Needle VR button
Change: default tonemapping is now tuned AGX

[3.41.2-beta.3] - 2024-06-27

Add: support to use file extension for determining which loader to use to save initial header fetch
Fix: Patched neutral tonemapping issue

[3.41.2-beta] - 2024-06-25

Add: DropListener can now take dropArea object to define a section of the scene that would accept the dropped file.
Add: DropListener support to fit a mesh into a defined volume (e.g. 1x1x1)
Add: SyncedRoom option to create a share button for the view only room URL
Fix: DragControls SnapToSurface option when dragged object is not a mesh / the mesh is in the child hierarchy

[3.41.1-alpha.1] - 2024-06-24

Add: <needle-engine tone-mapping> attribute. Possible values are none, linear, neutral or agx.
Change: Camera fitting near and far planes are now tighter to reduce z-fighting in some cases

[3.41.0-alpha.5] - 2024-06-22

Add: <needle-engine> web component attributes environment-image and skybox-image can now be set to presets values: "studio", "blurred-skybox", "quicklook" or "quicklook-ar"
Fix: ContactShadows should capture objects on all layers
Fix: Issue in LOD gizmo debug rendering
Change: Use smaller icons font

[3.41.0-alpha.4] - 2024-06-19

Add: AnimationRegistry, accessible via this.context.animations
Add: static AnimationUtils class
Add: TestSceneUtils.createComparisonScene for quickly spinning up test scenes
Add: Menu appendChild can now create a button from a structured json object
Add: New exportAsGLTF function
Add: <needle-engine contactshadows> attribute
Add: Lifecycle hooks like onStart or onUpdate can now be configured to only run once using the options argument. For example: onBeforeRender(ctx => { ... }, { once: true })
Fix: Postprocessing where Tonemapping was not being applied in some cases
Fix: screenshot method does now support Reflection Probe lighting
Fix: Lightmapped objects with MultiMaterial objects spamming warnings
Change: Improve Postprocessing Bloom
Change: Improve FBX loading
Change: ContactShadows autoFit increases shadow area by factor 1 (previously 0.5)
Change: Bump three to 0.162.4 adding GLTFExporter plugin hooks and animation retargeting using userData { name }
Change: Bump postprocessing to ^6.35.5
Change: Bump gltf-progressive dependency

[3.40.0-alpha.5] - 2024-06-14

Add: start support for detecting and loading FBX files
Fix: Camera fitting bounding box calculation where instanceof Mesh fails
Fix: OrbitControls background click only accept primary clicks
Fix: Issue on Quest due to change in isMobile check
Internal: Deserialization of components can now resolve object if the requested type is an Object3D

[3.40.0-alpha.2] - 2024-06-12

Add: Experimental support to load .fbx files via <needle-engine src>
Change: Production build command changed - vite plugin now runs when vite build is invoked with --production - e.g. vite build -- --production. The legacy npm build script is automatically updated when the plugin runs for the first time.

[3.40.0-alpha.1] - 2024-06-10

Fix: issue where <needle-engine autoplay> would not play animations
Change: "IsMobile" check because window.orientation is deprecated
Change: USDZ move direct/indirect interaction logic to tapTrigger and add options (by default, both are allowed)

[3.40.0-alpha] - 2024-06-06

Update gltf-progressive dependency for smarter LOD texture loading

[3.39.0-alpha.4] - 2024-06-04

Add: WebARSessionRoot.onPlaced event hook
Fix: InputField click should open keyboard on Android and iOS
Fix: ContactShadow and ShadowCatcher meshes should not be raycastable
Change: OrbitControls fitCamera use options object, add "centerCamera" option

[3.39.0-alpha.3] - 2024-06-04

Fix: Mesh particle LODs not being loaded
Fix: UI Image/Raw Image texture LODs not being updated

[3.39.0-alpha.2] - 2024-06-03

Fix: vite build pipeline plugin

[3.39.0-alpha] - 2024-06-03

Fix: Issue where OrbitControls setTarget not working as expected sometimes due to first frame matrices not being updated yet
Fix: Gizmos sometimes rendering for 2 frames instead of just 1
Change: WebXRImageTracking now applies some smoothing based on jitter amount
Change: Bump gltf-build-pipeline package to 2.1

[3.38.0-alpha.3] - 2024-05-30

Fix: needle menu CSS blur in safari
Fix: USDZ - move Animation component animations into correct sequence depending on whether it should loop or not
Fix: QuickLook button being created by WebXR despite usdzExporter.allowCreateQuicklookButton explicitly being off

[3.38.0-alpha.2] - 2024-05-29

Fix: Issue in vite plugin for Node 16 where fetch wasn't supported yet
Fix: AudioListener should remove itself when disabled

[3.38.0-alpha.1] - 2024-05-29

Add: OrbitControls clickBackgroundToFitScene property that can be used to allow autofitting when users click on the background. By default it is set to 2 clicks
Add: Vite plugin option to open browser with network ip address when the server starts by setting needlePlugins(command, config, { openBrowser: true }) in vite.config.js
Fix: USDZ image tracking orientation corrects for node world matrix now, resulting in proper placement relative to the image
Fix: WebARSessionRoot matrix and invertForward were not correctly applied for USDZ export
Change: WebXR Image Tracking orientation was rotated by 180°. Now it's consistent between iOS USDZ and Android WebXR. If you're using image tracking, you might have to rotate your content 180° to adjust to the new orientation.

[3.37.16-alpha] - 2024-05-28

Add: Gizmos.DrawWireMesh
Fix: use lowpoly raycast mesh again when available
Fix: USDZ - issue where image tracking orientation was inconsistent between Android and iOS
Change: USDZ - better logs when unsupported animation tracks are used during export (e.g. .activeSelf or material animations).
Change: USDZ - show balloon warning when exporting unsupported track types

[3.37.15-alpha] - 2024-05-27

Add: ScreenCapture deviceFilter and deviceName properties that simplify camera selection
Fix: Avatar hands being visible in screenbased AR
Fix: USDZ workaround for Apple bug FB13808839 - skeletal mesh rest poses must be decomposable in RealityKit
Fix: Issue where Lightmap LOD textures did not load
Fix: Issue where Custom Shader LOD textures did not load
Change: Powered by Needle tag can be hidden with indie license

[3.37.14-alpha] - 2024-05-24

Fix: Issue where deactivated SpriteRenderer would not be included in USDZ
Fix: Minor @serializable warning in SpriteRenderer
Fix: SpriteRenderer progressive textures
Change: bump gltf-progressive package which includes a vanilla three.js example and fixes issue where texture settings were not re-applied correctly after having loaded the texture LOD (e.g. filter)

[3.37.13-alpha] - 2024-05-23

Add: WebXRImageTracking hideWhenTrackingIsLost option to configure if objects should stay visible or hide when tracking is lost
Add: WebARSessionRoot autoPlace option to allow automatically placing the scene content on the first XR hit
Fix: WebXR component createQRCode options now respects Needle Menu QR code option
Change: QR code now warns when being used for scanning a localhost address

[3.37.12-alpha.5] - 2024-05-19

Fix: Bump gltf-progressive package to support updating LODs when using postprocessing effects

[3.37.12-alpha.4] - 2024-05-18

Fix: AR placement being prevented by other scripts that caused the event being used

[3.37.12-alpha.1] - 2024-05-17

Fix: USDZ rel arrays must contain no duplicate entries
Change: Renderer now manually calls reset for stats at the very end of a frame

[3.37.12-alpha] - 2024-05-17

Add: onClear (invoked e.g. when <needle-engine src> changes) and onDestroy hooks (invoked when the needle engine context is disposed)

[3.37.11-alpha] - 2024-05-15

Add: USDZ API now supports playing back audio from custom behavior scripts. Usage from inside createBehaviours:

const audioClip = ext.addAudioClip(clipUrl);
const behavior = new BehaviorModel("playAudio",
    TriggerBuilder.tapTrigger(this.gameObject),  
    ActionBuilder.playAudioAction(playbackTarget, audioClip, "play", volume, auralMode),
);

Add: USDZ API now supports registering animations from custom behavior scripts (experimental) better lighting response
Add: animator state speed support in USDZ
Fix: USDZ export had multiple identical textures for the same cloned image
Fix: USDZ sprites had wrong lighting because of QuickLook bug with non-specified normals, now emitting (0,0,1) and not (0,0,0) as fallback normals
Fix: HideOnStart should not hide objects in USDZ that were manually enabled in the scene before
Fix: issue with texture tiling being 0 in any direction leading to invalid USDZ files
Fix: Contact Shadows now have consistent blur independent of scene scale
Fix: Regression with audio not playing at start of USDZ scene
Fix: Contact Shadows now properly correct for different scene aspect ratios
Fix: SceneSwitcher scenes array not immediately when creating from code
Fix: onStart hook not being called for all <needle-engine> elements
Fix: Script registration to correct context when loading multiple <needle-engine> components on one page
Fix: Renderer allow changing the ReflectionProbe anchor at runtime
Change: USDZ now exports disabled objects as well, sets their visibility to false (for regular USD) and hides them on start (for QuickLook)

[3.37.10-alpha.7] - 2024-05-14

Add: context.menu.setVisible method for hiding the Needle Menu from code
Add: screenshot2 method that takes an options object for easier configuration and transparent screenshots support.
Fix: Issue with OrbitControls zoomToCursor enabled in cases where the loaded glTF didn't contain any camera
Change: Allow hiding the needle menu for local development

[3.37.10-alpha.6] - 2024-05-13

Add: OrbitControls zoomSpeed and zoomToCursor properties
Fix: Reflection probes with lightmaps causing memory leak
Fix: Contact Shadows now have consistent blur
Fix: Contact Shadows auto fit box is now correctly setup to include the whole scene
Fix: Balloon Messages overflowing for very long words
Change: clearOverlayMessages has been renamed to clearBalloonMessages

[3.37.10-alpha.4] - 2024-05-09

Fix: parents scaled to 0 could lead to NaN values appearing out of lookAt() calls (three.js issue)
Fix: off-by-one error in determining which animation clips need to play in exclusive mode in USDZ
Fix: use the same play action for PlayAudioOnClick and on scene start, and prevent scene start audio to play when a click action is also used

[3.37.10-alpha.3] - 2024-05-08

Fix: lightmaps with progressive meshes

[3.37.10-alpha.2] - 2024-05-07

Add: expose clearOverlayMessages method
Fix: SyncedTransform should not set kinematic if overridePhysics is false
Fix: CustomShader Screenspace support for shaders exported from Unity 2022
Change: enable preload on audio sources dynamically created by PlayAudioOnClick
Change: improve URL name parsing for loading screen for blob URLs

[3.37.10-alpha.1] - 2024-05-06

Add: static ContactShadows.auto
Add: ContactShadows autoFit option to automatically fit the contact shadows at startup and fitShadows() method for applying autofit manually
Change: Improve PWA logging and rename Vite pwaOptions to pwa in needlePlugin
Change: Improve loading screen rendering

[3.37.9-alpha] - 2024-05-03

Add: INeedleGLTFExtensionPlugin.onLoaded hook providing access to the loaded glTF when registering custom extensions
Add: PWA ability to specify updateInterval (number in ms or undefined) for auto-updating apps while running
Fix: WebXRImageTracking now restores tracked objects to their previous state after exit AR
Fix: WebXRImageTracking extra check in session enabled features if image tracking is even enabled. Otherwise I did get tons of errors in mobile VR
Fix: Input system now handles mouse wheel during pointer lock
Fix: Simplify and improve PWA generation and passing workbox config to vite-pwa
Fix: AnimatorController with multiple layers: don't select start state in another layer
Fix: AnimatorController handle empty state to stay in last animated previous pose
Bump gltf-progressive dependency for fixes regarding transparent materials as well as VRM materials
Bump gltf-build-pipeline dependency to 1.5 alpha for VRM support

[3.37.8-alpha.1] - 2024-05-02

Fix: Camera should not set skybox from scene again automatically if there's a background skybox already
Fix: Multi-material LOD meshes
Change: Only set GLTFLoaders if none others are already set
Change: vite userconfig expose "allowHotReload" in jsdoc types (third argument in needlePlugins)

[3.37.8-alpha] - 2024-04-30

Add: @needle-tools/gltf-progressive dependency that handles loading progressive meshes and textures.

[3.37.7-beta.1] - 2024-04-29

Fix: USDZ regression in writing timeSamples > 1000

[3.37.7-beta] - 2024-04-29

Fix: USDZ animation loops didnt work in some cases
Fix: Properly apply and revert arScale on USDZ export
Fix: Correctly apply WebXR arSceneScale on USDZ export even when no USDZExporter is present
Fix: Hand models not being displayed on VisionPro – invalid data passed into registerExtensions leading to exception
Fix: time.timescale set to 0 now fully pauses physics simulation
Fix: @syncField now properly applies room state once on connection
Fix: Timeline reset previously active animation actions then being disabled (e.g. when switching to another active timeline)

[3.37.6-beta] - 2024-04-26

Fix: USDZExporter bug where geometry was getting duplicated on export when the same mesh was used multiple times
Fix: USDZExporter duplicate export of scene start triggers
Change: Improve USDZExporter animation export validation and improve handling of empty TransformData slots
Change: Improve USDZ animation export allowing RegisteredAnimationInfo to also register a null clip for targeting the rest pose (e.g. empty state)
Change: Improve USDZ time formatting
Change: Invoke engine lifecycle hooks in the order in which they were registered (e.g. onStart(ctx => ...))

[3.37.6-alpha] - 2024-04-24

Add: More API documentation
Add: VideoPlayer can now play m3u livestream links
Fix: WebARBackground now checks if camera-access is granted
Change: Progressively loaded assets now postfix urls with the content hash of the assets if available to make sure the correct version is loaded and not a old version from cache
Change: VideoPlayer setting url now immediately updates the videoplayback

[3.37.5-alpha] - 2024-04-23

Add: SceneSwitcher support for adding the ISceneEventListener on the sceneSwitcher gameObject
Fix: OrbitControls should not update on user input when the camera is not currently active
Change: OrbitControls middle click/double click does not change camera position anymore and just set the look target

[3.37.4-alpha] - 2024-04-22

Fix: Collider filtermask bug where it did previously override membership settings in certain cases
Change: Menu now removes the buttons for very small sizes
Change: this.context.physics.engine.raycast and raycastWithNormal api changed to take an options parameter instead of single values. It now also exposes rapier's queryFilterFlags, filterGroups and the filterPredicate options. It can now be called with e.g. this.context.physics.engine.raycast(origin, direction, { maxDistance: 2 })

[3.37.3-alpha] - 2024-04-19

Fix: Regression in progressive mesh for multi material objects / multiple primitives per mesh
Change: Improve LOD level selection based on available mesh density per level Level of detail switching now finds a good match for screen and mesh density that results in more consistent on-screen triangle density. This change also improves LOD switching for low-poly meshes considerably.
Change: ScreenCapture now respects if user is in viewonly networked room

[3.37.2-alpha] - 2024-04-17

Fix: Regression in USDZ export causing behaviours to stop working

[3.37.1-alpha] - 2024-04-16

Fix: Eventlist now handles EventListeners being added or removed during EventList.invoke
Fix: Progressive LOD textures issue where compressed textures would not be loaded in some cases when using tiling
Change: USDZExporter created by the WebXR component now enables autoExportAnimation and autoExportAudioSources by default

[3.37.0-alpha] - 2024-04-15

Add: USDZ physics export for VisionOS
Add: Sprite mesh and material properties to simplify creating a new sprite object
Fix: Loading files that don't have a .glb or .gltf extension but the correct mime type
Fix: PostProcessing error when using tonemapping from vanilla threejs
Change: Bump rapier dependency to ^0.12.0

[3.36.6] - 2024-04-12

Add: Needle Menu can now create QR button
Change: Needle menu fullscreen button now switches the needle-engine element into fullscreen
Change: LODs are now switched at a slightly larger distance

[3.36.6-beta] - 2024-04-10

Add: Expose setAutoFitEnabled method to remove objects from being included in camera fitting
Change: Improve WebAR wall and ceiling placement

[3.36.5-beta] - 2024-04-09

Add: lifecycle hooks like onUpdate(()=>{}) now return method to unsubscribe. For example you can now write it like this const unsubscribe = onUpdate(()=>{ console.log("One Frame"); unsubscribe(); })
Add: onAfterRender hook
Add: RemoteSkybox can now handle locally dropped files
Add: ObjectUtils.createSprite method
Fix: <needle-engine camera-controls="0"> does now not create OrbitControls anymore if the assigned glTF file doesn't contain a camera
Fix: RemoteSkybox doesn't prevent drop events anymore if the dropped file can not be handled

[3.36.4-beta] - 2024-04-05

Add: More API documentation
Add: SceneSwitcher.addScene
Add: SceneSwitcher scene-opened event. Subscribe with sceneSwitcher.addEventListener('scene-opened', args => {})
Fix: OrbitControls.fitCamera handle case where user passes in array with undefined entries

[3.36.3-beta.1] - 2024-04-04

Fix: Needle Menu not visible in AR overlay
Fix: Contact Shadows should not render transparent objects
Fix: API docs warnings (internal)

[3.36.3-beta] - 2024-04-04

Add: More API documentation for progressive loading, USDZExporter, getComponent methods etc
Add: Needle Menu CSS for disabled buttons
Add: Expose onXRSessionStart and onXRSessionEnd hooks
Add: isAndroidDevice utility method
Fix: Bounds calculation of SkinnedMeshRenderer with multi-material (multiple three skinned meshes in children)
Fix: ContactShadows rendering for AR
Fix: WebAR touch transform does now ignore touches that start in top 10% of screen on android (e.g. when user is opening the menu by swiping down)
Change: Needle Menu button height is clamped
Change: Improve OrbitControls fitCamera
Change: Needle asap now displays custom logo if assigned to needle-engine web component (requires PRO license)

[3.36.2-beta] - 2024-04-03

Add and improve API documentation
Add: onXRSessionEnd method hook
Fix: Regression introduced by 3.36.0 causing stencil rendering to not work anymore
Change: Move QR button method into ButtonsFactory

[3.36.0-beta] - 2024-04-02

Add: support for Auto LOD generation and runtime switching based on mesh density
Add: support for progressive mesh loading which can reduce the initial download size significantly
Add: BatchedMesh support for instancing
Add: Renderer.setInstanced(myMesh, true) call to enable instancing for any Mesh
Change: raycasting will now use lowpoly LOD which can reduce intersection checks significantly for high-poly assets

[3.35.1-beta.2] - 2024-04-02

Add: Animator api for getCurrentStateInfo() and currentAction getter which returns the currently playing three action.
Add: More documentation
Add: Mathf.randomVector3 method
Internal: use compileAsync for prewarming newly loaded objects

[3.35.0-beta.2] - 2024-03-25

Add: Support for transient-pointer input sources for VisionOS
Add: add metadata and intersections to NEPointerEvent type. Intersections are filled in from EventSystem. This information can be access via this.input.addEventListener or the input event callbacks
Fix: GameObject.destroy should not dispose resources
Fix: Needle Menu logo with black text
Fix: Vite command check in build-pipeline plugin
Change: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive now has types strings e.g. ObjectUtils.createPrimitive("Cube")
Change: ChangeMaterialOnClick doesnt require a Renderer component anymore

[3.34.4-alpha] - 2024-03-20

Fix: OrbitControls autoFit frame delay causing a wrong perspective for one frame
Fix: Multiple WebXR components causing menu item icons to appear multiple times

[3.34.3-alpha.1] - 2024-03-19

Add: debug on-screen console (?console) now has a tab to inspect the scene
Fix: TransformGizmo component preventing OrbitControls input

[3.34.3-alpha] - 2024-03-18

Add: context.maxRenderResolution clamping the max renderer size
Add: PointerEventData now expose raw three.js Intersection object (e.g. in onPointerDown)
Add: addComponent can now take an optional init parameter which can be used to set default values during creation of the component instance, modify options or assign fields. The init parameter is fully typed and only shows available options
Fix: Issue where async import of Needle Engine breaks registering custom gltf extensions registered from local packages. Needle Engine now waits for all dependent packages to be ready
Change: Bloom effect defaults to normal Bloom effect for performance reasons (previously it was using SelectiveBloom by default). To change this back set Bloom.useSelectiveBloom = true in global scope
Change: Volume component now exposed effects array which is a list of the currently active postprocessing effects
Change: NEPointerEvents now create a threejs Ray when accessing the ray property and no ray was created before
Change: Allow audio playback when keyboard input is detected
Change: Gizmos now ignore fog
Change: Improve getComponent api types. For example previously addComponent did return the generic IComponent interface instead of the concrete type (e.g. Animator)
Change: Deprecate addNewComponent because it is redundant. You can just use addComponent

[3.34.2-alpha.2] - 2024-03-13

Fix: vite build pipeline plugin should wait for output directory up to 10 seconds
Fix: input event button index for mouse on pointer move
Fix: basic styles for links inside needle menu

[3.34.2-alpha] - 2024-03-13

Fix: issue where asap plugin path would be falsely resolved causing a vite build error
Fix: serializable warning in WebARCameraBackground and Animation components
Change: set Needle Menu zindex to 1000

[3.34.1-alpha.1] - 2024-03-12

Fix: Input regression when querying mouse button states (e.g. getPointerClicked(1) for the middle mouse button)

[3.34.1-alpha] - 2024-03-12

Add: OrbitControls exposing min/maxPolarAngle and min/maxAzimuthAngle
Fix: Input should subscribe to pointer events (pointerdown, pointermove...) instead of touch and mouse. For fixing iOS and AR issues where pointerIds are stuck and we have wrong state
Fix: Button hover state when dragging with right mouse button
Fix: Vite build plugin error when needle gltf build pipeline package doesnt exist

[3.34.0-alpha.3] - 2024-03-11

Fix: TypeScript warnings in XR components
Fix: Add correct @type for Button.animationTriggers
Fix: Incorrect serialization warnings for fields marked with @serializable()

[3.34.0-alpha.2] - 2024-03-07

Fix: Partially revert alias plugin changes to fix issues with md5 package
Fix: Check if asap exists before referencing it

[3.34.0-alpha.1] - 2024-03-07

Add: Show warning if a custom object is missing @serializable decorator
Fix: Remove leftover console logs
Fix: asap was not included in bundle + version

[3.34.0-alpha] - 2024-03-07

Add: Vite plugin for showing indicator that needle engine bundle is still loading (Needle ASAP)
Add: Vite plugin for build info now includes file hash so we can skip uploading unchanged files
Add: this.context.input.addEventListener now exposes options for once (remove event listener after the first invocation) and signal (remove event listener when signal is aborted)
Add: this.context.time now has deltaTimeUnscaled
Fix: Issue where Needle Menu size would sometimes switch between compact and stretched view
Fix: Improve icon rendering while icon font is still being loaded
Fix: Ensure NeedleXRSession does only subscribe once to session granted
Fix: Vite alias plugin now explictly resolved three exports for addons and nodes
Fix: wrong colorspace in scene lighting texture
Fix: Show Needle Menu in AR dom overlay
Fix: LOD layers are now properly set (e.g. it's now possibly to disable raycasting via layer 2)
Fix: Issue where timescale would affect XR movement
Change: Bump three.js version to 0.162
Change: Bump postprocessing to 6.35.1

[3.33.0-beta] - 2024-03-02

Add: Needle Menu can now create Mute and Fullscreen buttons.
Add: Needle Menu buttons now have icons (configuration options will be added in a future version)
Add: Needle Menu postMessage support to inject buttons to open an URL
Add: SyncedRoom now creates a Join Room button to the menu (or Leave Room button)
Add: WebXR support for the Needle Menu
Add: Pre-XR room when user enters via sessiongranted when the main content is still loading
Add: OneEuroFilter reset method
Fix: Resume AudioContext when interrupted (happens e.g. on VisionOS when entering VR)
Fix: GroundProjection should not be visible when in pass-through AR
Fix: XRController ray and hit rendering now correctly respects rig scale
Fix: Button with state transition colors now correctly work with alpha values
Fix: Issue where the Needle Menu was visible without any button or content
Change: Spatial console becomes visible when an error happens on local server while in XR

[3.32.28-beta] - 2024-02-28

Fix: AR placement for Chrome 122

[3.32.27-alpha] - 2024-02-26

Fix: Quicklook export caused by typo in USDZ mime-type
Fix: Workaround iOS/visionOS bug: always include the tap trigger for audio even if nothing to tap on
Change: Input addEventListener can now take options as a third argument

[3.32.26-alpha] - 2024-02-23

Add: Needle Menu. This first version will contain the WebXR options for now. Future versions will allow for more configuration
Fix: webpack based project code optimization. This will improve e.g. nextjs production builds
Fix: Raycasting offset in AR for touches near the screen border
Fix: Spatial console text z fighting
Fix: PostProcessing Exposure not working anymore with tonemapping
Change: NeedleWebXRHtmlElement has been renamed to WebXRButtonFactory
Change: bump postprocessing package to 6.34.3
Change: Improve PostProcessing when tonemapping is enabled

[3.32.25-alpha] - 2024-02-22

Fix: WebXR switching between controllers and hands
Fix: WebXR onControllerAdded being called twice at the start of a session
Fix: WebXR buttons container should not capture pointer events
Fix: Improve spatial console (visible in XR with ?console in the URL)
Fix: Allow audio playback once a XRSession starts
Fix: USDZ fill in missing transform data when multile animation clips on the same object have different detected animation roots
Fix: generated USDZ mime type
Change: new cleaner loading screen

[3.32.24-alpha] - 2024-02-21

Add: Spatial debug console, add ?console url parameter to get a debug console in XR floating before the camera view
Add: OpenURL component support for opening email addresses (without mailto: prefix, just enter your email address in the url field)
Add: Progress api for performance logging (use via Progress.start, Progress.report and Progress.end)
Fix: error when using RenderTextures
Fix: USDZ text material missing
Fix: USDZ prevent unclear animation export error
Fix: USDZ improve endTimeCode calculation
Fix: USDZ improve audio export, implicit register audio sources with scene start triggers
Change: USDZ unpremultiplied texture readback on chrome
Change: Expose DragControls.DragMode enum

[3.32.23-alpha] - 2024-02-19

Add: FileReference support to reference, export and load almost any file:
```
@serializable(FileReference)
myFile?: FileReference;
```
Add: initial support for building PWAs with needle engine and vite-plugin-pwa
Fix: false check in VideoPlayer videoElement getter

[3.32.22-alpha] - 2024-02-16

Add: Needle build-pipeline plugin to run compression as part of the vite build process
Fix: Loading of progressive textures in Canvas UI
Fix: Loading of progressive textures in Spritesheet renderer
Change: SpritesheetRenderer does now directly apply rounded sprite index (instead of relying on the value to be an integer)

[3.32.21-alpha] - 2024-02-16

Add: USD displayName support for nodes and materials
Fix: input double click data on iOS
Fix: USDZ material indenting
Fix: check if linearVelocity exists on XRPose to prevent typecheck error in CI environment
Change: export USDZ materials, geometry and textures with proper names related to their original names
Change: improve USDZ opacity and opacityThreshold conversion, add minimal alphaHash support since QuickLook seems to allow that now

[3.32.20-alpha] - 2024-02-10

Fix: WebXR buttons should catch exception when accesing navigator.xr which can happen in iframe without spatial-tracking permissions
Fix: Issue where getPointerDelta(pointerId) did not return data when using multitouch except for the first touchpoint
Fix: Issue where backgroundBlurriness and backgroundIntensity would not be reset to the default when enabling a camera that didnt have explicit settings (NE-4243)
Change: getComponentsInChildren and getComponentsInParents now clear the optionally provided buffer arrays by default

[3.32.19-alpha] - 2024-02-09

Fix: CanvasGroup causing performance to drop over time

[3.32.18-alpha] - 2024-02-09

Add: vite plugin for collecting build information
Fix: USDZExporter not respecting button option so Open in Quicklook button was always created
Fix: vite plugin for copying files didnt respect needle.config.json build directory
Fix: AnimatorController exception happening in deepClone (NE-4227)
Fix: minor false warning log for deserializing postprocessing effects
Fix: vite dependency watcher plugin should handle version containing alias like npm@three@160
Fix: NeedleXRSession feature support should catch exception that might happen when running inside iframe with insufficient permissions
Change: ARSessionRoot align placed scene to camera during placement preview and actual placement so they match up
Change: bump postprocessing package to 6.33.4 for three 160 support
Change: vite plugin dependency watcher should now reload website when the server has changed due to changed package.json dependency

[3.32.17-alpha] - 2024-02-08

Fix: visionOS input handling and hands rendering
Fix: Error during USDZ text export
Fix: vite plugin error for cases where config object was missing
Fix: Rare issue where re-entering AR causes error due to missing reticle
Change: component onDestroy is now called before Object3D and resouces are disposed/destroyed
Change: WebARSessionRoot z-forward looks now towards user/camera

[3.32.16-alpha] - 2024-02-07

Add: NeedleXRController isHand property
Add: WebARSessionRoot customReticle to allow how the AR session placement looks
Add: NeedleXRController getHandJointPose(jointName) API
Add: Static NeedleXRSession.onXRSessionStart and onXRSessionEnd
Fix: Custom Avatar was despawning when not in multi-user session (added dontDestroy flag to PlayerState)
Fix: USDZExporter without WebXR component in scene does now again create quicklook button
Fix: Bug in Avatar where assigning head or hands objects would cause errors
Fix: Hide XR buttons during running session
Fix: Bump threejs version to fix OrbitControls not handling pointerup if it doesnt happen over the passed in target element
Change: NeedleXRController does now not emit pointermove event every frame but only when above a set position/rotation threshold
Change: time.smoothedFPS is now smoothed over 60 frames
Change: loaded GLB name in loading overlay is now less technical
Change: static NeedleXRSession.onXRStart is now onXRSessionStart

[3.32.15-alpha] - 2024-02-06

Fix: Hands rendering on visionOS
Fix: NeedleXRController now supports pinch gesture and emits pinch event for devices that don't properly implement the WebXR API and don't invoke the selectstart events (e.g. visionOS)
Fix: USDZExporter should not use doubleSided for skeletal meshes
Fix: safeguard against null reference error in DragControls.alignManipulator
Fix: Gizmo labels being raycastable
Fix: Gizmo cache stopped working due to wrong isDestroyed check
Fix: Error caused by Canvas UI when starting XR session
Fix: onPointerEnter and onPointerExit is not called for all controllers

[3.32.14-alpha] - 2024-02-04

Add: Renderer sharedMeshes property to easily access all mesh objects that belong to the renderer
Fix: WebXRController ray rendering frame delay
Fix: Avoid WebXRHand model sometimes not being properly cleaned up
Fix: minor console.log fixes

[3.32.13-alpha] - 2024-02-03

Add: AudioSource preload property
Fix: BoxCollider now automatically detects changes on scale property and updates underlying physics engine collider size
Fix: error in mobile VR touch (without physical controllers)
Change: Calls to instantiate now don't accept a null or missing object to instantiate anymore
Change: Rigidbody component now updates underlying physics properties immediately when dirty before invoking applyForce() or applyImpulse()

[3.32.12-alpha] - 2024-02-01

Fix: ParticleSystem modifying assigned material instance in some cases
Fix: PostProcessing DepthOfField effect api change in postprocessing package
Fix: nextjs production builds with needle-engine
Fix: input.addEventListener for key events stopped working
Fix: issue in physics async draincollision callback sometimes failing when objects were already destroyed
Fix: WebXR controller and hand models should not be destroyed with the XRRig
Change: WebXR on non-secure connections now shows warning and button for WebAR and WebVR are disabled

[3.32.11-alpha] - 2024-01-30

Add: various more documentation comments
Add: NeedleXRController now exposes gripspace linearVelocity
Fix: input event causing error due to missing pointerId
Fix: DragControls not checking if an event was already used
Fix: EventSystem calling input event methods on disabled components
Change: Calculate worldspace data only once per frame in NeedleXRController

[3.32.10-alpha] - 2024-01-30

Add: XRControllerFollow option to follow gripspace or rayspace
Fix: ParticleSystem trail not rendering if assigned material culling was set to front
Fix: ParticleSystem incorrect InheritVelocity when creating a new instance
Fix: NeedleXRController index in NeedleXRSession.controllers array now matches the NeedleXRController.index (the index of the inputdevice)
Change: ?stats url parameter now also shows FPS in WebXR session
Change: this.context.xr now contains the whole type information

[3.32.9-alpha] - 2024-01-29

Add: various more documentation comments
Add: pointer events now expose pressure property
Fix: pointerCapture now works with all buttons
Fix: raycast call did not skip hidden objects
Fix: XRController hit rendering does now skip SkinnedMeshes for performance reasons
Change: touchup did emit onPointerExit every time, it now only happens if the touch hits another object (or none)
Change: pointerId now is a unique id generated from device-index + button-index, input events now also expose a deviceId property
Change: EventSystem optimization for skipping raycast for e.g. pointermove event on objects that don't have a component that implements the onPointerMove method

[3.32.8-alpha] - 2024-01-29

Fix: AudioSource error when creating three's PositionalAudio object where GameObject was missing
Fix: Collider center offset being falsely applied resulting in wrong object placement
Fix: Physics debug visualization should be updated in post physics step fixing a visual frame delay
Fix: WebXR AR/VR buttons are now always created

[3.32.7-alpha] - 2024-01-28

Add: first version of setPointerCapture and releasePointerCapture that acts similarly to HTML pointer capture and can be used to receive onPointerMove events when the pointer has left the object until it is either released or onPointerUp happens (this currently only works with the primary button)
Fix: Remove console.log in instantiate call
Change: used pointer events will still be propagated to all components
Change: reduce default Gizmos.Label size

[3.32.6-alpha] - 2024-01-27

Fix: AssetRefernence.instantiate does now clone instantiate options before awaiting asset loading
Fix: onPointerMove event was not being called in XR
Fix: Timeline paused but evaluated should still start audio playback e.g. when controller through scroll

[3.32.5-alpha] - 2024-01-26

Fix: issue where onEnterXR callback was possibly not being invoked on all scripts if a script was removed or deleted during onEnterXR (and the underlying array was modified) causing e.g. the CollaborativeSandbox AR placement to not work
Fix: minor issue where controller ray visualization would not respect rig scale

[3.32.4-alpha] - 2024-01-26

Add: NeedleXRSession fadeTransition() that can be used to cover teleportation. It returns a promise that is resolved when fade to black has completed
Fix: error in next template caused by wrong internal imports
Fix: WebXR should not show quicklook button when useQuicklookExport is disabled
Change: debug mobile console now also captures errors at load time, mobile console shows automatically on quest browser (for local development)

[3.32.3-alpha] - 2024-01-26

Add: origin field to NEPointerEvent which references the object that raised the event (e.g. the XRController)
Add: delayForFrames(numOfFrames) util method returning a promise that will resolve after the given amount of frames (equivalent to delay which will take a time in milliseconds)
Fix: prevent access to geometry of a destroyed mesh in physics call
Fix: AR passthrough placement with controllers
Fix: issue where AR could not be started twice
Change: AR placement fallback to camera placement if controller hit-test is not available (e.g. when using Quest simulator)

[3.32.2-alpha] - 2024-01-26

Add: expose options to disable XRController rays, hit points and teleport on the XRControllerMovement component
Add: NeedleXRController emitEvents to disable input events for controllers
Fix: Cases where XRController button isDown and isUp wasn't updated for primary and squeeze buttons.
Change: WebXRButton container zIndex is now 5000

[3.32.1-alpha] - 2024-01-25

Add: NeedleXRController getButton() now returns an enhanced GamepadButton object which contains bools for isUp and isDown
Add: Access to NeedleXRSession via this.context.xr
Fix: XR lifecycle issue where script became inactive during onEnterXR
Fix: XR Avatar component for synchronization should not log an error when not connected to networking backend
Fix: XR renderOnTop option for worldspace UI
Fix: XR screenspace UI should not render for now
Fix: change event argument for space (input in 3D space) is now of type IGameObject to expose worldPosition etc
Fix: offerSession should request AR mode when only showAR button is enabled in WebXR component
Change: calls to instantiate(prefab, {}) can now be invoked with anonymous options object as second parameter, for example instantiate(prefab, { parent: myParent })
Change: the SyncedTransform component does now automatically throttle fast mode (reducing the frequency of updates) when running on the glitch backend and when having set more than 10 components to fast

[3.32.0-alpha] - 2024-01-24

Add: new Needle WebXR system
- Core component event methods give much easier access to the XR system (e.g. onEnterXR or onXRControllerAdded)
- Easy access to XRSystem data like gripWorldSpace or controller buttons using the NeedleXRController class
- Default functionality like movement, teleport and rendering of controllers or hands is now encapsulated in separate components that can easily be enabled or disabled or overriden.
- All XR input events now go through the event system and can be received on components using the input event methods (like onPointerDown)
- Support for offerSession for QuestBrowser
- Support for new depth-sensing in Quest pass-through mode
Add: much improved DragControls offering different modes for screen and XR interaction, snapping or XR distance grab
Change: Update three.js to 0.160
Change: pointer events don't need the IPointerEventHandler interface anymore - they're now already available on the core Behaviour class via e.g. onPointerDown
Change: for networked avatars add a PlayerState and a Avatar component to your avatar prefab

[3.31.0] - 2024-01-23

Fix: isDesktop() util method should return false on iPad

[3.30.0] - 2024-01-19

Add: VideoPlayer preload method to start loading the video file without having to start playback
Add: VideoPlayer support for m3u8 video stream format (set the mode to URL and assign the video streaming url)
Add: SceneSwitcher autoLoadFirstScene option
Add: this.context.connection now has a getter for current websocket url
Add: USDZExporter option to set max texture size
Fix: SceneSwitcher should not load it's own scene again causing recursive loading
Fix: Gizmo lines being culled sometimes
Fix: Gizmo parented to another object should not be returned to cache if it got destroyed while being rendered (e.g. Gizmo.Label)
Fix: prevent destroyed component from being added to an object again
Change: Physics.raycast does now ignore lines by default (you can pass in a custom line threshold >= 0 to override that)

[3.29.0] - 2024-01-08

Add: isDesktop util method
Add: physics engine now has debugRenderRaycasts boolean or debugraycasts url parameter to visualize raycasts
Fix: issue where Gizmos would be rendered for more than one frame or the expected time
Fix: issue in physics engine sphereOverlap where dynamic rigidbodies would not be captured
Change: more stable guid generator on initial scene load
Change: Collider membership and filter can now be undefined for default collision groups (all enabled)
Change: Collider.filter is now set to undefined to include all groups in the filter (allow collision with all groups)
Change: vite meta plugin to write secure url

[3.28.8] - 2024-01-04

Fix: pre-bundled version should contain Needle Engine version
Change: generate component guids based on original guid for initial scene load per component for more stable guids across local and deployed versions and where the order of components in the scene will not affect the guid for components anymore

[3.28.7] - 2024-01-02

Add: SceneSwitcher progress event, currentLoadingProgress and currentlyLoadingScene properties exposing loading progress. Passing sceneSwitcher instance as first argument to sceneOpened callback
Fix: Creating the renderer should not modify the static Context.DefaultWebGLRendererParameters, this caused multipage sites to not find the correct canvas anymore (e.g. causing sveltekit sample to not work anymore when changing back and forth between pages)

[3.28.7-beta.1] - 2023-12-30

Fix: Revert AnimatorController condition evaluation change

[3.28.7-beta] - 2023-12-30

Fix: Issue in AnimatorController evaluation of bool condition where the threshold wasnt taken into account (e.g. only making a transition if a bool parameter was set to false)

[3.28.6-beta] - 2023-12-30

Add: EventList can now have multiple arguments allowing support for e.g. setBool on Animator component being called from a Button directly
Add: Animator toggleBool method
Fix: Issue where destroying an object in onCollisionEnter it would not be removed from the physics event queue and result in onCollisionStay being called with an already destroyed component
Fix: Rigidbody matrix changed watcher should ignore events during physics to threejs synchronization
Fix: Set gizmos renderOrder to be always rendered last to avoid cases where gizmos are hidden due to custom renderOrder on scene objects

[3.28.5-beta] - 2023-12-22

Fix: WebXRController falsely triggering click in EventSystem

[3.28.3-beta] - 2023-12-21

Fix: Issue in pointer events not triggering onPointerEnter and Exit in VR
Remove: warning log in USDZ export about double sided materials not being supported

[3.28.2-beta] - 2023-12-20

Add: Support double sided material export for USDZ
Fix: PlayAudioOnClick when explicit clip is given, use loop from attached audio source
Change: Improve Everywhere Action SetActiveOnClick

[3.28.1-beta] - 2023-12-18

Add: context.recreate to destroy the whole scene and reload everything (including all script instances)
Fix: issue where EventSystem pointer events would not be received anymore if the event component was on e.g. an empty object in the parent hierarchy

[3.28.0-beta] - 2023-12-14

Fix: USDZ: emissiveIntensity was not applied and emissiveColor wasn't used for scale/bias properly
Fix: USDZ: compressed textures with alpha channel were not being read back correctly
Change: USDZ: bake effectiveOpacity into the opacity texture if needed, since QuickLook/usdview don't support .a scale values
Change: Bump UnityGLTF version to 2.6.0-exp to support GPU Instancing on imported glTF materials

[3.27.5-beta] - 2023-12-12

Fix: Offscreencanvas support for iOS 16.x
Fix: PlayAudioOnClick now respects playOnAwake if an explicit audio source is assigned
Change: EventSystem should only check objects if they're meshes

[3.27.4-beta] - 2023-12-11

Fix: instancing now updating bounds in Needle Engine before render callback if necessary
Change: expose onPauseChanged on components
Change: handle case where a added coroutine function is not a coroutine (Generator)

[3.27.3-beta] - 2023-12-09

Add: InstancingUtil.getRenderer to get the three InstancedMesh for any Object3D (if it's using instancing)
Add: instancing does now automatically update culling bounds if it's dirty. This can be disabled via InstancingUtil.setAutoUpdateBounds(obj, false)
Add: Rigidbody method documentation
Add: ParticleSystem.addBehaviour method and expose underlying particle system. We now also export the particle types
Fix: Issue where this.physics.raycastFromRay was modifying the default raycast options
Fix: Issue where sprites would be falsely interpreted as builtin sprite causing the image to be not displayed correctly
Change: this.physics.raycast() can now be called with anonymous options (instead of having to use a RaycastOptions class), for example this.physics.raycast({ray:myRay})

[3.27.2-beta] - 2023-12-08

Fix: don't set font on <needle-engine> host styles to prevent leaking into child elements
Fix: AssetReference.loadAsync being called multiple times should always return the asset result
Change: register OrbitControls events on the canvas and not the needle engine element to allow child HTML objects to capture input

[3.27.1-beta] - 2023-12-06

Add addCustomExtensionPlugin API to register custom glTF importer and exporter extensions
Fix: issue where instanced and animated object was rendered for one frame with a wrong matrix
Change: expose imageToCanvas method from USDZExporter
Change: GltfExporter component does not cache exporter anymore and expose all exporter options

[3.27.0-beta] - 2023-12-04

Add: USDZ: skinned mesh export, including animations
Add: USDZ: ability to specify if we're exporting for QuickLook or not
Add: USDZ: animation export respects basic root motion (translation and rotation)
Add: USDZ: USDZExporter API supports exporting binary buffer similar to GLTFExport API
Fix: USDZ: correct defaultPrim encapsulation so that it also contains materials
Fix: USDZ: render texture readback failure when exporting
Fix: ISceneEventListener only being found when first component
Fix: error in vite plugin facebook instant games if no config would exist
Fix: Gizmo label padding and border radius were not properly applied when re-using label
Change: USDZ: animation export now automatically includes Animator states
Change: USDZ: PlayAnimationOnClick now automatically uses Animator state logic to determine looping and continuation of animation (what happens after the specified animation has finished playing)
Change: USDZ: current animator states are exported as PlayAnimation on scene start

[3.26.2-beta] - 2023-11-28

Add physics NaN safeguards to avoid invalid rapier data propagating through three objects

[3.26.1-beta] - 2023-11-27

Add: information about mouse button, hit point, hit normal, hit distance to PointerEventData
Fix: EventSystem regression where UI events stopped working

[3.26.0-beta] - 2023-11-27

Fix: LOD update frame delay
Change: EventSystem optimization to avoid raycasting objects without event receiver components

[3.25.5] - 2023-11-24

Add: vite plugin for facebook deployment
Fix: Physics collider center being not applied correctly with rotated parent

[3.25.4] - 2023-11-23

Add: onInitialized(ctx => {...}) and onBeforeRender event functions
Add: Camera.cullingLayer property
Fix: Physics collider center being modified causing rapier runtime error

[3.25.3] - 2023-11-23

Add: onStart((ctx)=>{}) and onUpdate((ctx)=>{}) functions API
Fix: AudioSource not starting autoplay anymore after registered user interaction (which is necessary to playback audio in the browser)
Fix: TransformGizmo component not working as expected anymore since it also defines worldPosition
Change: Improve performance for colliders without rigidbody to not create an implicity rapier rigidbody anymore

[3.25.2] - 2023-11-20

Add: worldForward, worldRight and worldUp to Object3D and GameObject types
Add: getTempVector utility method that has a circular array of vector3 instances for re-use
Fix: ImageTracking hysteresis for images to stay visible during bad tracking for up to a second after tracking has been lost

[3.25.1] - 2023-11-18

Add: getters and setters on Object3D and GameObject types for worldPosition, worldRotation, worldQuaternion and worldScale
Fix: ImageTracking now has hysteresis for how long to keep a tracked object visible before disabling it (if tracking is lost just for a few frames)
Fix: Catch and log exception in rapier during collider creation
Change: WebXRImageTracking objects that are already present in the scene are now hidden when entering WebXR/AR

[3.25.0] - 2023-11-18

Add: Mathf.easinOutCubic utility method
Add: ObjectRaycaster expose option to ignore skinned mesh renderers
Fix: detecing website interaction to allow playing audio before any component or audio component has been loaded
Fix: Physics capsule height creation
Fix: WebXRImageTracking not hiding tracked objects after tracking has been lost
Change: Improved ContactShadows component
Change: Improve OrbitControls for smoother lerping. Add methods to set camera position and look at target by passing in an Object3D reference.
Change: PlayAudioOnClick does now create an AudioSource implictly if non is assigned
Change: EventSystem does ignore SkinnedMeshRenderers by default now
Change: WebXR reticle is now hidden when image tracking starts

[3.24.1] - 2023-11-15

Fix: Everywhere Action material otherVariants was not cleared between behaviour generation
Fix: Everywhere Action Change Material loosing track of the target material
Fix: issue where SpatialTrigger calling AudioSource.play doesnt work because of wrong argument
Fix: text linebreak in USDZ
Fix: material bindings API for Preliminary_Text and don't apply material when no geometry is found
Fix: material assignments for USDZ text and fix color space
Fix: Capsulecollider height
Fix: Core networking issue where throwing callbacks would silently be ignored and causing not all callbacks being called
Fix: PlayerSync owner-changed being raised twice
Fix: PlayerSync unsubscribe from UserLeftRoom event once the player is leaving/has left
Fix: Catch exception in creating new type() during deserialization of animationclip if the clip is just a string and could not be resolved because it's missing, falsely serialized or annotated
Change: OnClick Everywhere Actions now ensure they have a raycaster component assigned or in parent hierarchy
Change: Everywhere Action PlayAnimationOnClick remove target field

[3.24.0] - 2023-11-13

Add: ContactShadows component
Add: Gizmos.DrawLabel
Fix: issue with AnimatorController behaviour when using loop and cycle offset
Fix: error when loading component with missing AnimatorController field
Fix: use correct colorspace for UI components
Fix: loading of remote GLB and skybox-image url where default camera should set clearflags to skybox
Fix: Various colorspace issues fixed
Change: USDZ export imageToCanvas now uses OffscreenCanvas for improved performance
Change: Update pmndrs postprocessing package to 6.33.3 to fix SSAO not working on mobile android
Change: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive so all primitives use the same settings

[3.23.1] - 2023-11-09

Add: Gizmos.DrawLabel method
Add: LookAtObject utils method with options to keep upwards direction and copying target rotation to stay screen aligned
Fix: WebXRPlaneTracking dispose old mesh data properly, heuristically determine if a shape should be convex or not
Fix: AudioSource play not working anymore if called without parameters
Internal: rapier meshcolliders now use convexHull instead of convexMesh, the latter already expects the input data to be convex

[3.23.0] - 2023-11-08

Add: support for changing animatorcontroller at runtime
Add: AnimatorController support for cycle offset and speed being used from parameter (or fixed serialized value)
Add: OrbtiControls.allowInterrupt property that can be set to false to prevent animation to a target point or autoRotate being interrupted by user input like clicking or dragging
Add: Physics collision now includes tangent vector for contact points
Add: Physics exposes API for getting the object velocity per collider (context.physics.engine.getLinearVelocity)
Add: Physics Material can now be updated at runtime. Call updatePhysicsMaterial on the collider with the changed physics material
Fix: scaled capsule collider being created with wrong size
Fix: timeline audiotracks not respecting speed property on PlayableDirector (effectively being cut-off instead of being played back at another speed/playbackRate)
Fix: Prevent using XRAnchor on Quest in AR mode (pass-through)
Fix: Timeline evaluate is now done in lateUpdate which gives animated objects time to apply the changed data (e.g. OrbitControls where the target object may be animated)
Fix: Timeline Audio tracks do not require AudioListener in scene anymore

[3.22.6] - 2023-11-06

Change: work on approximated transmission export in USDZ

[3.22.4] - 2023-11-03

Add: Option to WebXRControllers to disable default controls (enableDefaultControls) and raycasting (enableRaycasts)
Fix: AnimatorController transition with exitTime and trigger didnt work since trigger was reset before transition could be made
Fix: USDZExporter isssue where compressed textures always ended up as JPG after decompression since format check was only checking for RGBAFormat, now also checks for compressed formats
Change: catch and display unhandled exceptions during creation of engine, make sure bubble messages are on top of loading overlay
Change: USDZExporter should re-use renderer

[3.22.3] - 2023-11-02

Add: Coroutine can now yield on promise and wait for the promise to be resolved
Fix: CharacterController not being grounded on mesh collider
Fix: ShadowCatcher set to additive mode didnt work anymore

[3.22.2] - 2023-11-01

Add: Optional RectTransform.minWidth and RectTransform.maxWidth
Fix: GameObject instantiate should clone color objects (to not share instance)
Fix: Call to parseSync with full url argument now correctly passes base url to three GLTFLoader for resolving external resources
Change: PhysicsMaterial properties are now all optional (e.g. so we can set only friction)
Change: Rigidbody.setForce to take a vec3
Change: AudioSource.onDisable should pause not stop
Change: Mathf.random(<min>?, <max>?) now takes optional min and max parameters

[3.22.1] - 2023-10-30

Fix: Screencapture.autoconnect when already connected to networking server or connection is in progress / window selection is currently open
Change: when isManagedExternally is enabled then framerate is user controlled and not automatically clamped
Change: add more documentation to networking methods

[3.22.0] - 2023-10-26

Fix: SyncedCamera deserialization warning
Change: Collider property updates now trigger rigidbody mass recalculation immediately (if set to auto-mass)
Change: Rigidbody methods now take Vec3 object as well as arguments like {x:0, y:1, z:0}
Change: Improve Screencapture
Change: Screencapture now also allows Microphone as input device
Change: Updated VOIP script and removed old VOIP implementation - it now uses the same underlying codebase as screencapture
Change: Update imports to use type where appropriate

[3.21.5] - 2023-10-25

Fix: remove leftover console.log
Fix: Hovered button should reset pointer state when destroyed
Fix: WebXR Rig parenting in VR when switching scenes
Fix: Timeline activation track not properly evaluating when timeline is paused and manually evaluated from user code
Fix: Sphere Collider radius not being set correctly

[3.21.3] - 2023-10-23

Fix: Issue where Chrome touch emulation caused "onPointerClick" being called twice per click
Fix: EventList instances are now not shared anymore between components created via instantiate
Fix: Regression where SphereCollider radius was not being applied

[3.21.2] - 2023-10-23

Change: Expose EventList subscriber count
Change: PointerEventArgs.use() should not stop propagation

[3.21.1-alpha] - 2023-10-20

Add: Multitouch support on input events, our EventSystem implementation now handles multitouch cases and is using the browser events directly and immediately (before events via window where deferred and hanlded during the engine update loop)

[3.21.0-alpha] - 2023-10-19

Add: support for translate, rotate and scale of AR scene on android devices (needs WebXRSessionRoot.arTouchTransform set to true right now)
Add: SphereCollider.radius and BoxCollider.size updates at runtime are now automatically propagated to the physics engine updating the physics shapes. Additionally the object scale for SphereCollider objects is watched and automatically applied on change
Fix: removal of all colliders on an object now also fully cleansup the implictly created RigidBody
Change: Context.isManagedExternally can now be set at runtime as a first step towards allowing complete external control over the Needle Engine lifecycle loop in cases where Needle Engine scenes or components are mixed with an external three.js scene (and projects that require more explicit control)

[3.20.3] - 2023-10-18

Add: Expose Rapier dominance group option on Rigidbody
Fix: Ignore root motion when animator weight is <= 0 due to Timeline playing
Fix: Rapier race condition caused by dynamic loading
Change: Allow setting Rigidbody mass explictly now by either setting autoMass to false or by setting the mass property

[3.20.2] - 2023-10-17

Fix: renderer access nullreference exceptions caused by deferred initialization
Fix: disabling postprocessing now restores renderer clear state (which got disabled by the postprocessing package)
Fix: disable generating WebXRPlane tangents

[3.20.1] - 2023-10-16

Change: addComponent can now take component instance or type

[3.20.0] - 2023-10-13

Fix: issue where physics colliders where not yet fully initialized in start event
Fix: Pointer delta while cursor is locked
Change: Expose context.phyiscs.engine.world and context.physics.engine.getComponent method to directly work with rapier physics engine and to easily get access to Needle Engine components from rapier colliders
Change: Expose Context.DefaultWebGLRendererParameters that can be modified in static context before renderer is created

[3.19.9] - 2023-10-11

Change: AnimatorController.createFromClips now sets the state hash to index of clip
Fix: AnimatorController root motion direction when runtime instantiating and using the same clip on multiple objects
Fix: AnimatorController root motion forward direction when rotating object from script as well

[3.19.8] - 2023-10-10

Add: AnimatorController.createFromClips utility method taking in a animationclips array to create a simple controller from. By default it creates transitions to the next clip
Fix: occasional issue where the scrollbar would cause flickering due to hiding/showing when the website was zoomed
Fix: screenshot utility method respecting page zoom
Fix: vite dependency watcher plugin running installation if dependency in package.json would change
Fix: Animator root motion working with multiple states, clips and transitions

[3.19.7] - 2023-10-04

Add: OrbitControls enableRotate property
Fix: LODGroup not using last LOD in cases where the last LOD is never culled
Fix: PostProcessing EffectStack correctly ordered when using N8 Ambient Occlusion (together with Bloom for example)
Fix: Postprocessing N8 should not modify gamma if it's not the last effect in the stack

[3.19.6] - 2023-10-02

Fix: AudioSource does now create an AudioListener on the main camera if none is found in the scene
Change: VideoPlayer does fallback to clip if src is empty or null
Change: OrbitControls now expose enableRotate property

[3.19.5] - 2023-10-02

Fix: web component font import

[3.19.4] - 2023-09-29

Fix: Remove leftover OrbitControls log
Change: Timeline TrackModel markers and clips fields are now optional
Change: VideoPlayer is set to use url as default video source (if nothing is defined)

[3.19.3] - 2023-09-28

Fix: regression in OrbitControls without lookat target assigned
Fix: progressive textures loading with custom reflection probe
Fix: WebAR touch event screenspace position using this.context.input

[3.19.2] - 2023-09-27

Add: OrbitControls autoFit property
Add: API to access underlying Rapier physics body using context.physics.engine.getBody(IComponent | IRigidbody)

[3.19.1] - 2023-09-27

Add: ParticleSystem now supports HorizontalBillboard and VerticalBillboard
Fix: WebXR chromium bug where the tracking transform matrix rotates roughly by 90° - we now add an WebXR Anchor to keep the scene at the placed location in the real world
Fix: SceneSwitcher does now call event on first ISceneEventListener found on root level of a loaded scene (e.g. if a Unity scene is loaded that contains multiple children and does not have just one root object)
Fix: Text UI clipping with multiple active screenspace canvases in scene
Fix: Screenspace canvas events should not be blocked anymore by objects in 3D scene
Fix: FirstPersonController rotation not being correctly / falsely resetted and flipped in some cases

[3.19.0] - 2023-09-26

Fix: collider scale wrongly affecting physics objects
Fix: collider debug lines should not be raycastable
Fix: mesh-collider behaving unexpectedly
Fix: animator root motion causing error due to uninitialized Quaternion object

[3.18.0] - 2023-09-21

Add: SceneSwitcher has now a field for loadingScene which can be used to display a scene while loading other scenes
Add: ISceneEventListener which is called by the SceneSwitcher when a scene has been loaded or a scene is being unloaded. It can be used to handle showing and hiding content gracefully. It has to be added to the root of the scene that is being loaded (e.g. the root of the scene or prefab assigned to the loadingScene field or the root of a scene assigned to the scenes array)
Add: hide-loading-overlay attribute to <needle-engine> webcomponent (use like <needle-engine hide-loading-overlay>). Custom loading requires a PRO license. See all attributes in the documentation.
Fix: Loading overlay should not link to needle website anymore when using a custom logo
Fix: Add safeguard to user assigned events on <needle-engine> for cases where methods are not defined in the global scope
Change: Update loading message displayed in overlay while waiting for ContextCreated promise (e.g. in cases where a large environment skybox is being loaded)

[3.17.0] - 2023-09-20

Fix: handle exception when loading GLB/glTF files with invalid lightmapping extension

[3.16.5] - 2023-09-18

Change: Ignore shadow catcher and GroundProjectedEnvironment sphere when running OrbitControls.fit

[3.16.4] - 2023-09-16

Add: help balloon message if user tries to open a local file without using a webserver
Add: helpful console.log if user tries to add a component that is not a Needle Engine component

[3.16.3] - 2023-09-15

Add: logo now respects prefer-reduced-motion, reduce and is immediately added instead of after 1s
Fix: use default background color if GLB without camera and skybox is loaded
Fix: ensure custom KTX2 loader is correctly initialized
Fix: revert RectTransform change that broke hotspot rendering
Change: adjust default backgroundBlurriness to match Blender defaults

[3.16.2] - 2023-09-15

Add: mesh collider handling for invalid mesh data (non-indexed geometry)

[3.16.2-beta] - 2023-09-13

Add: camera.environmentIntensity property
Change: default background blurriness for fallback camera to match blender default

[3.16.1-beta] - 2023-09-13

Change: if loaded glTF doesnt contain a camera we now also create the default OrbitControls (e.g. glTF exported from a Blender scene without a camera)

[3.16.0-beta] - 2023-09-13

Add: NEEDLE_lightmaps entries pointer property can now also be a path to a local texture on disc instead of a texture pointer. This allows Blender EXR and HDR maps to be used at runtime until Blender export supports hdr and exr images to be stored inside the GLB

[3.15.0-beta] - 2023-09-13

Fix: remove leftover console.log
Fix: DeviceFlag component not detecting devices correctly for iOS safari
Fix: loading glTF without any nodes
Fix: SceneSwitcher bug where a scene would be added twice when switching in fast succession
Fix: Animation.isPlaying bool was always returning false
Fix: Handle typescript 5 decorator change to prevent VSCode error message (or cases where experimentalDecorators is off in tsconfig). See 179
Fix: Improve internal lifecycle checks and component method calls
Change: Improse ContextRegistry/NeedleEngine ContextEvent enum documentation
Change: <needle-engine skybox-image= and environment-image= attributes are now awaited (loading overlay is still being displayed until loading the images have finished or failed loading)

[3.14.0-beta] - 2023-09-11

Add: exposing Needle.glTF.loadFromURL in global scope to support loading of any glTF or GLB file with needle extensions and components when using the prebundled needle engine library (via CDN)
Add: context.update method for cases where needle engine is now owning renderer/scene/camera and the update loop is managed externally
Fix: animating custom shader property named _Color
Fix: issue with wrong CSS setting in Needle Engine breaking touch scroll
Change: ?stats now logs renderer statistics every few seconds
Change: simplify creating a new Needle Context that is controlled externally (not owning camera/renderer)

[3.13.0-beta] - 2023-09-08

Add: ParticleSystem now also uses material color
Add: IEditorModificationListener.onAfterEditorModification callback (requires @needle-tools/editor-sync@2.0.1-beta)
Bump: Three.Quarks dependency to 0.10.6
Update draco decoder include files

[3.12.2-beta] - 2023-09-04

Add: option to override peerjs host and id (options) via setPeerOptions
Fix: potential nullreference error in AudioListener
Fix: Networking component cases where invalid localhost input with "/" causes url to contain "//" sometimes -> we can skip one "/" in this case and make it just work for users
Fix: package.json overrides syntax for quarks three.js version
Change: Screensharing bool to disable click to start networking + add deviceFilter to share(opts:ScreenCaptureOptions)

[3.12.1-beta] - 2023-09-04

Fix: next.js/webpack useRapier setting
Change: typestore is now globally registered

[3.12.0-beta.1] - 2023-08-28

Fix: vite hot reload plugin to dynamically import needle engine to support usage in server-side rendering context

[3.12.0-beta] - 2023-08-28

Add: Timeline api for modifying final timeline position and rotation values (implement ITimelineAnimationCallbacks and call director.registerAnimationCallback(this))
Change: Update three quarks particlesystem library to latest
Fix: issue where onPointerExit was being called when cursor stops moving
Fix: USDZ normal scale Z was incorrect
Fix: Timeline Signal events using different casing than UnityEvent events
Fix: issue where isLocalNetwork was falsely determined

[3.11.6] - 2023-08-15

Remove beta

[3.11.6-beta] - 2023-08-14

Fix: find exported animation by PropertyBinding
Fix: USDZExporter was not exporting animation from Animation component but only from Animator
Fix: potential issues with Animation component clip.tracks being null/undefined on USDZ export
Fix: loadstart event not being called
Fix: getComponent should always either the component or null (never undefined)
Fix: dynamic import of websocket-ts package
Fix: progressive texture loading wasn't properly awaited on USDZ export
Fix: apply XR flags when exporting to QuickLook
Fix: USDZ alpha clipping for materials without textures
Fix: USDZ same material used in different ChangeMaterialOnClick resulted in duplicate behaviour names
Change: set default WebARSessionRoot to "1" instead of "5"

[3.11.5-beta] - 2023-08-10

Fix: components keep their gameObject references until destroy call of object's is completed when destroying an hierarchy. Previously child components might already be destroyed resulting in myChildComponent.gameObject being null when called in onDestroy from a parent component
Fix: regression where timeline was not updating animations anymore if Animator had an empty AnimatorController assigned (without any states)
Fix: SceneSwitcher.switchScene can now handle cases where it's called with a string url instead of an AssetReference
Fix: issue where onPointerMove event was being called continuously on mobile after touch had already ended
Fix: issue where GLTFLoader extensions where missing name field resulting in extensions not being properly registered (causing stencils to not work sometimes)
Change: EventSystem raycast is now only performed when pointer has changed (moved, pressed, down, up) which should improve performance on mobile devices when raycasting on skinned meshes
Change: peer and websocket-ts import asynchronously
Remove: legacy include files

[3.11.4-beta] - 2023-08-04

Fix: USDZExporter exception caused by programmatically calling exportAsync without quicklook button
Fix: Timeline evaluate while being paused
Bump three to fix issue with blend shape animation not being applied to Group objects (KHR_animation_pointer)

[3.11.3-beta] - 2023-08-03

Change: improve styling of <needle-engine> DOM overlay element to allow positioning of child elements
Fix: USDZExporter normal bias when normalScale is used
Fix: Nullreference in SceneSwitcher when creating the component from code and calling select with a new scene url
Fix: Quicklook button creation
Fix: Particlesystem layermask not being respected

[3.11.2-beta] - 2023-07-31

Fix: ChangeMaterialOnClick with multi material objects
Fix: progressive textures regression

[3.11.1-beta] - 2023-07-31

Add: saveImage utility method and make screenshot parameter optional
Add: loading-style="auto"
Fix: skybox image caching
Fix: finding animation tracks for unnamed nodes when using the autoplay attribute
Change: improved <needle-engine> default sizes
Change: smoother src changes on <needle-engine> by only showing loading overlay when loading of files takes longer than a second
Change: bump three version to 154.2 fixing KHR_animation_pointer not working with SkinnedMesh

[3.11.0-beta] - 2023-07-29

Add: Support for blending between Timeline and Animator animation by fading out animation clips allowing to blend idle and animator timeline animations
Fix: WebXR buttons style to stay inside <needle-engine> web component
Fix: OrbitControls.fitCamera now sets rotation target to the center of the bounding box
Fix: Timeline animation regression causing Animator not being enabled again after timeline has finished playing
Fix: Timeline should re-enable animator when ended reached end with wrap-mode set to None
Change: add .js extensions to all imports
Change: allow overriding loading style in local develoopment
Change: expose flatbuffer scheme helper methods

[3.10.7-beta] - 2023-07-28

Fix: Camera using RenderTarget (RenderTexture) now applies clear flags before rendering (to render with solid color or another skybox for example)
Fix: RenderTexture not working in production build due to texture being compressed
Fix: RenderTexture warning Feedback loop formed between Framebuffer and active Texture
Fix: Handle Subparticlesystem not being properly serialized avoiding runtime error
Internal: add resource usage tracking of textures and materials

[3.10.6-beta] - 2023-07-27

Fix: Timeline ActivationTrack behaves like leave as is when timeline is disabled (not changing the activate state anymore)
Fix: Timeline Signal Track with duration of 0 and signal at time 0 does now trigger
Fix: Timeline disabling or pausing does now activate animator again
Fix: CustomShader Time node for BiRP
Fix: ParticleSystem simulation mode local now correctly applies parent scale
Change: Show warning for wrong usage of @serializable with Object3D where a AssetReference is expected
Change: ParticleSystem shows warning when using unsupported scale mode (we only support local right now)

[3.10.5-beta] - 2023-07-25

Fix: warning at runtime when methods called by EventList/UnityEvent are in the wrong format
Fix: OrbitControls issue where double clicking/focus on screenspace UI would cause the camera to be moved far away
Fix: OrbitControls.fitCamera where three expandByObject now requires an additional call to updateWorldMatrix 26485
Change: replace some old Texture.encoding calls with new Texture.colorSpace
Change: improve PlayerSync networking and add onPlayerSpawned event
Remove: RectTransform.offsetMin and offsetMax because it's not implemented at the moment

[3.10.4-beta] - 2023-07-24

Fix: activating UI elements in VR not applying transform

[3.10.3-beta] - 2023-07-21

Fix: AnimatorController error caused by missing animationclip
Fix: next.js webpack versions plugin
Fix: Occasional failed to load glb error caused by not properly registering KHR_animation_pointer extension
Fix: UI issue where Text in worldspace canvas would be visible at wrong position for a frame
Fix: UI issue where Text would not properly update when switching between text with and without richtext
Fix: UI issue where Image would not automatically update when setting texture from script
Fix: issue where RenderTexture would not be cleared before rendering
Change: make addEventListener attribute on <needle-engine> optional

[3.10.2-beta] - 2023-07-19

Fix: iOS double touch / input
Change: minor WebXRController refactor moving functionality into separate methods to be patchable

[3.10.1-beta] - 2023-07-18

Fix: prebundled package
Fix: runtime license check
Fix: Input being ignored after first touch
Fix: SpatialTrigger, reverting previous change where we removed the trigger arguments

[3.10.0-beta.2] - 2023-07-18

Fix: prebundled package by locking vite to <= 4.3.9

[3.10.0-beta.1] - 2023-07-17

Fix: prebundled package

[3.10.0-beta] - 2023-07-17

Fix: Text clipping in VR
Fix: AR overlay quit-ar button not being properly detected
Fix: Timeline animation track post-extrapolate set to Hold
Fix: iOS touch event always producing double click due to not properly ignoring mouse-up event
Change: DragControls to automatically add ObjectRaycaster if none is found in parent hierarchy
Change: DragControls now expose options to hide gizmo and to disable view-dependant behaviour

[3.10.0-alpha] - 2023-07-15

Change: WebXR component now automatically adds a WebARSessionRoot on entering AR when no session root was found in the scene
Change: @syncField can now sync objects by re-assigning the object to the same field (e.g. this.mySyncedObject = this.mySyncedObject to trigger syncing)
Change: log error when @syncField is being used in unsupported types (currently we only support syncField being used inside Components directly)
Change: improve message when circular scene loading is detected and link to documentation page

[3.9.1-alpha] - 2023-07-14

Add: SceneSwitcher now uses scene name by default. Can be turned off in component
Fix: ParticleSystem lifetime not respecting simulation speed
Fix: ParticleSystem prewarm with simulation speed and improved calculation of how many frames to simulate
Fix: Exit AR and Exit VR now restores previous field of view
Change: close AR button adjusted for better visibility on bright backgrounds
Change: bump @types/three to 154

[3.9.0-alpha.1] - 2023-07-12

Add: vite plugin to clamp version to <= 4.3.9 since 4.4 and above currently cause issues with typescript decorators, vite#13736

[3.9.0-alpha] - 2023-07-12

Add: <needle-engine> web component slot support, AR DOM overlay can now be added by simple adding HTML elements inside the <needle-engine></needle-engine> web component. Fixing 164
Add: Basic USDZ exporting of UI shadow hierarchies as mesh hierarchies for UI in Quicklook AR support
Fix: WebXR Rig not being rotated as expected when setting up in Unity 129
Fix: WebXR VR button click, hover is still not working
Fix: Issue with Lightmaps breaking when switching back and forth between multiple lightmapped scenes
Change: Button click should not invoke with middle or right mouse

[3.8.0-alpha] - 2023-07-11

Update three.js to 154 (latest)
Bump postprocessing dependency
Add: this.context.xrCamera property
Fix: screenspace canvas should not run in VR
Fix: OrbitControls should not update while in AR and touching the screen
Change: allow using vanilla three.js by dynamically importing KHR_animation pointer api

[3.7.7-beta] - 2023-07-11

Fix: LookAt copyTarget + keepUpDirection
Fix: DragControls not working on first touch on mobile / clone input event
Fix: Renderer assigning renderOrder in URP on SkinnedMesh with multi-material

[3.7.5-beta] - 2023-07-07

Fix: USDZExporter should not show Needle banner when branding information is empty (pro only)
Fix: USDZExporter sessionroot scale should be applied to object to be exported when the root is in the parent
Fix: DropListener localhost without explicit backend url + dropping file caused exceptions
Fix: instanceof error that tsc complained about
Change: Fonts handle semibold variant
Internal: DropListener re-use addFiles method, remove old code
Internal: Bump tools package dependency

[3.7.5-alpha] - 2023-07-06

Add: SignalEvents support for arguments
Fix: SpatialTrigger Unity events removing extra (unexpected) event arguments
Fix: safeguard AudioSource.play to not fail when clip argument is not a string
Change: change Timeline signal event trigger time to use last frame deltatime with padding to estimate if the event should fire

[3.7.4-alpha] - 2023-07-05

Change: targetFps, use timestamp that we get from the animation callback event because it is more reliable on Firefox

[3.7.3-alpha] - 2023-06-26

Add: physics gravity to IPhysicsEngine interface to be available via this.context.physics.engine.gravity
Fix: USDZ text alignment

[3.7.2-alpha] - 2023-06-23

Fix: Nullref in SpectatorCamera.onDestroy when camera wasnt active

[3.7.1-alpha] - 2023-06-22

Add: ChangeMaterialOnClick fadeDuration option (Quicklook only)
Change: USDZ export now enforces progressive textures to be loaded before export
Change: USDZ export callbacks for beforeCreateDocument and afterCreateDocument can now run async
Fix: USDZExporter quicklook button
Fix: USDZExporter Quicklook button not being removed when exporter gets removed or disabled
Fix: USDZ ChangeMaterialOnClick clear cache before exporting, this caused USDZ export to fail on third export in USDZ sample scene
Fix: Engine loading bar not being updated
Fix: USDZ text linebreaks
Fix: UI font name style check. Unknown font styles are now not touched anymore (e.g. font name ending with -Medium)

[3.7.0-alpha] - 2023-06-21

Change: Move HTML elements into <needle-engine> shadow dom

[3.6.13] - 2023-06-21

Add: static Context.DefaultTargetFrameRate
Add: option to prevent USDZExporter from creating the button
Fix: @prefix handling promise resolving to false

[3.6.12] - 2023-06-20

Update Readme

[3.6.11] - 2023-06-19

Add: UI InputField API for clear, select and deselect from code
Change: LODGroup serialization
Fix: mobile debug console should be above loading overlay if error happens during loading
Fix: LODGroup not being able to resolve renderer reference
Fix: Particles direction being wrong in some causes with scaled parent and scaled particle system
Fix: Particles subsystem emitter position being wrong when main particle system was scaled
Fix: Bundled library failing to load due to undeclared variable
Fix: UI InputField hide html element
Fix: Joining empty room name is not allowed anymore
Fix: Clamp Room name length to 1024 chars

[3.6.10] - 2023-06-14

Fix: Text with richText not updating properly
Internal: Change font style parsing

[3.6.9] - 2023-06-12

Fix: Particles SizeOverLifetime module for mesh particles

[3.6.6] - 2023-06-12

Internal updates

[3.6.5] - 2023-06-09

Add: NestedGltf loaded event being raised when the glb has been loaded
Add: AnimationCurve cubic interpolation support
Change: set targetFramerate to 60 by default (in context.targetFrameRate)
Fix: USDZ metalness/roughness potentially being undefined when exporting Unlit materials
Fix: Handle exception when loading components due to bug when using meshopt compression and material count changes
Fix: ColorAdjustments setting tonemapping exposure to 0 when exposure parameter override is off [824]

[3.6.4] - 2023-06-02

Add: ObjectUtils.createPrimitive for cube and sphere
Change: expose ObjectUtils
Fix: BoxGizmo component
Fix: vite copy plugin when needle.config.json "assets" directory starts with "/"

[3.6.3] - 2023-06-01

Change: OrbitControls apply settings in update
Fix: Rapier stripping not being respected

[3.6.2] - 2023-06-01

Fix: wrong UI z-offset in some cases
Fix: Particle velocity over lifetime not using world rotation
Fix: Particle burst being played twice
Fix: Particle playOnAwake option not being respected

[3.6.2-beta] - 2023-05-31

Add: setAllowOverlayMessages to explictly disable overlay messages without url parameter
Add: allow larger textures for USDZ generation
Fix: nested gltf with disposing of resources leading to broken files

[3.6.1-beta] - 2023-05-29

Fix: removing <needle-engine> from DOM does now dispose the context properly and unsubscribes from browser events. Add keep-alive attribute to disable disposing

[3.6.0-beta] - 2023-05-29

Add callbacks for ContextClearing
Add: n8AO postprocessing effect (Screenspace Ambient Occlusion) support
Add: option to disable automatic poster generation (use noPoster in options in vite.config)
Fix: <needle-engine> without any src should setup an empty scene
Change: OrbitControls.fit now handles empty scene and ignores GridHelper
Change: TimelineAudio disconnect audio in onDestroy
Change: Ensure PostProcessing VolumeParameters are initialized
Change: Improve memory allocs and disposing of resources
Change: Update three.js fixing GLTFLoader memory leak

[3.6.0-alpha.3] - 2023-05-27

Add: auto-rotate attribute
Add: autoplay attribute
Change: await loading of skybox-image and environment-image
Change: do not clear renderer when switching src attribute

[3.6.0-alpha.2] - 2023-05-27

Fix: error in vite plugin when meta.json was missing
Fix: three.js OrbitControls causing look direction to not work anymore due to forcing an update in the constructor

[3.6.0-alpha] - 2023-05-27

Add: Changing src attribute now does scene cleanup and loads new files
Add: skybox-image and environment-image attributes, allow changing both at runtime
Fix: error display overlapping in cases where somehow engine is imported twice
Fix: logo overlay should only show when loading is done, change error during render loop message
Fix: OrbitControls camera fitting now done once before rendering when loaded glb does not contain any camera
Fix: Vite client plugin imports
Change: Context now handle errors during initializing or when starting render loop
Change: ContextRegistry exported as NeedleEngine and export hasIndieLicense function
Change: Remove need to manually define global engine variables in cases without bundler or Needle plugins

[3.5.13-beta.1] - 2023-05-26

Change: embed logo svg and avoid loading it

[3.5.13-beta] - 2023-05-26

Change: OrbitControls camera fitting improved

[3.5.12-beta] - 2023-05-24

Add: option to toggle collider visibility from script via this.context.physics.engine.debugRenderColliders
Change: engine.physics raycast doesnt need any parameters now anymore
Change: OrbitControls default target should be related to distance to center (if nothing is hit by raycast)
Fix: EventList object and component argument deserialization

[3.5.11-beta] - 2023-05-22

Add: @registerType decorator that can be added to classes for registration in TypeStore. Currently only useful for cases outside of Unity or Blender for Hot Reload support
Fix: Component.name should return Object3D name
Fix: GameObject static methods generic
Fix: Logo animation causing browser scrollbar to appear

[3.5.10-beta] - 2023-05-22

Add: SpriteRenderer now exposes shadow casting and transparency options
Fix: vite plugin issue caused by missing src/generated/meta
Fix: nullref in debug_overlay, typo in physics comment
Fix: disabling collider with rigidbody component did cause an error in rapier
Fix: HTMLElement css, cleanup loading element, move logo into html element
Fix: GameObject.addComponent now takes Object3D type too
Fix: loading overlay not hiding when <needle-engine> src changes
Change: OrbitControls now sets target to 10 meter by default if nothing is assigned or hit in the scene (previously it was set to 1 meter)
Change: fit camera to scene after loading when no camera is present in file

[3.5.9-beta.2] - 2023-05-20

Add: WebXRPlaneTracking should initiate room setup on Quest when no tracked planes are found

[3.5.9-beta.1] - 2023-05-19

Fix: SceneSwitcher should ignore swipe events when useSwipe is disabled

[3.5.9-beta] - 2023-05-19

Add: Support for progressive texture loading for custom shaders
Fix: react-three-fiber template

[3.5.9-alpha.2] - 2023-05-18

Add: needle-engine attributes documentation
Change: assign main camera during gltf component deserialization when no camera is currently assigned

[3.5.9-alpha] - 2023-05-18

Add: add nextjs plugin to handle transpiling and defines
Change: expose USD types to make custom behaviours, add proximityToCameraTrigger
Fix: loading element position to absolute to avoid jumps when added to e.g. nextjs template
Fix: texcoords werren't quicklook compatible in ThreeUSDZExporter
Fix: LookAt component with invertForward option was flipped vertically in QuickLook

[3.5.8-alpha] - 2023-05-16

Add NeedleConfig baseUrl for codegen
Change: AudioSource should pause in background on mobile
Fix: logo svg import for nextjs
Fix: particle system playOnAwake

[3.5.7-alpha] - 2023-05-15

Add: Initial support for text in USDZ
Change: add generic to networking.send for validation of model
Change: SyncedRoom, expose tryJoinRoom method + remove error thrown when roomName.length <= 0, join room in onEnable
Fix: setting position on UI object (RectTransform) works again
Fix addressable instantiate options called with { position: .... } and without a parent, it should then still take the scene as the default parent
Fix: WebXR arEnabled option
Fix: Worldspace canvas always being rendered on top
Fix: CanvasGroup alpha not being applied to text

[3.5.6-alpha] - 2023-05-12

Fix defines for vanilla JS usage
Fix CanvasGroup not overriding alpha
Remove some spurious logs
Add addComponent method to this.gameObject
Add "light" version on bundle processing

[3.5.5-alpha.1] - 2023-05-11

Fix: declare missing defines for pre-bundled engine

[3.5.5-alpha] - 2023-05-11

Add: getWorldDirection

Add: needle.config.json build.copy = [] to copy files on build from arbitrary locations into the dist folder for example:

"build": {
  "copy": [
    "cards" <-- can be relative or absolute folder or file. In this case the folder is named "cards" in the web project directory
  ]
}

Add ip and location utils
Change: add buffers for getWorldQuaternion, getWorldScale util methods
Change: animatorcontroller should only log "no-action" warning when in debug mode
Fix: apply and check license

[3.5.4-alpha] - 2023-05-11

Fix: wrong serialization check if a property is writeable
Fix: mark UI dirty when text changes
Change: allow UI graphic texture to be set to null to remove any texture/image
Change: rename USDZExporter overlay to branding

[3.5.3-alpha.1] - 2023-05-10

Fix: wrong check in serialization causing particles to break (introduced in 3.5.3-exp)

[3.5.3-alpha] - 2023-05-10

Add: IPointerMoveHandler interface providing onPointerMove event while hovered
Add: USDZ AudioSource support and PlayAudioOnClick
Change: balloon messages can now loop
Change: pointer event methods are now lowercase
Change: allow moveComponent to be called with component instance that was not added to a gameObject before (e.g. created in global scope and not using the addComponent methods)
Fix: input pointer position delta when browser console is open
Fix: GameObject.destroy nullcheck
Fix: typescript error because of import.meta.env acccess
Fix: issue where added scenelighting component by extension caused animation binding to break
Fix: UI layout adding objects dynamically by setting anchorMinMax
Fix: Prevent exception during de-serialization when implictly assigning value to setter property
Fix: screenspace canvas being rendered twice when using explicit additional canvas data component
Fix: EventSystem cached state of hovered canvasgroup not being reset causing no element to receive any input anymore after having hovered a non-interactable canvasgroup once
Fix: empty array being returned in GameObject.getComponents call when the passed in object was null or undefined

[3.5.2-alpha] - 2023-05-09

Add: SceneSwitcher preload feature
Change: interactive behaviours for QuickLook are on by default now
Fix: SetActiveOnClick toggle for QuickLook
Fix: USDZ texture transform export works in more cases

[3.5.1-alpha] - 2023-05-09

Fix: reflection probes not working anymore
Fix: false RectTransform return breaking some cases with reparenting
Fix: RectTransform mark dirty when anchors change (due to animation for example)

[3.5.0-alpha] - 2023-05-08

Change: allow tree-shaking rapier physics
Fix various USDZ export issues:
- fix UV2 for occlusion maps (paves the way for lightmaps), had to be texCoord2f[] instead of float2[]
- fix missing MaterialBindingAPI schema
- fix normal scale for non-ARQL systems (ARQL doesn't support it though, but needed for other viewers)
- fix input:scale for textures not being used if it's (1,1,1,1)
- fix normal maps not being in raw colorSpace

[3.4.0-alpha] - 2023-05-05

Add: low-level USD Actions/Triggers API for building complex interactions for iOS devices
Add: high-level USDBehaviours components: ChangeMaterialOnClick, PlayAnimationOnClick, SetActiveOnClick, HideOnStart
Add: LookAt component now supports iOS AR
Add: more settings for LookAt
Add: support for Horizontal- and VerticalLayoutGroup (UI)
Fix: setWorldScale was setting incorrect scale in some cases
Fix: WebXR Image Tracking now works with WebARSessionRoot / rig movements
Fix: vite reload only when files inside "assets" change and only if its a known file type

[3.3.0-alpha] - 2023-05-02

Add: AssetReference can now handle scene reference
Add: UI update with support for screenspace UI, anchoring, pivots, image outline effect, image pixelPerUnit multiplier
Add: basic LookAt component
Add: basic UI outline support + handle builtin Knob image
Add: WebXRImageTracking ability to directly add a tracked object to an image marker
Fix: OrbitControls should only update when being the active camera
Fix: UI input ignored browser "mouseDown" for each "touchUp" event
Fix: OrbitControls requiring additional tab after having clicked on UI
Fix: OrbitControls only being deactivated when down event starts on UI element
Fix: loading bar text not being decoded (displayed e.g. %20 for a space)
Fix: TransformGizmo not working anymore

[3.2.15-alpha] - 2023-04-28

Add: SceneSwitcher.select(AssetReference) support to be invoked from a UnityEvent with an object reference (must be an asset)
USDZExporter: change exported usdz name, remove needle name for license holders

[3.2.14-alpha] - 2023-04-28

Add: OpenURL component
Change: Implictly add Raycaster to scene if it is not found.
Fix: USDZ export breaking if the object name is just a number

[3.2.13-alpha] - 2023-04-27

Add: USDZExporter editor shows warning if no objects are assigned and exposes quicklook overlay texts
Add: USDZExporter callToActionButton can now invoke url to open
Add: SceneSwitcher can now use history without updating the url parameter
Fix: Fix vite html transform plugin

[3.2.12-alpha] - 2023-04-26

Fix: issue where removing an object from the scene would disable all its components

[3.2.11-alpha] - 2023-04-25

Fix: lighting settings being implictly switched (enabled/disabled) when using SyncedCamera / any loaded prefab at runtime

[3.2.10-alpha] - 2023-04-25

Fix: Remove log in Animator.SetTrigger
Fix: GroundEnv radius property setting wrong value internally
Fix: Apply license to unnamed local vite chunk files

[3.2.9-alpha] - 2023-04-23

Fix: VideoPlayer not restarting when enable/disable being toggled
Fix: Builtin serializer for URLs @serializable(URL) should ignore empty strings
Change: set enabled to true before calling onEnable
Change: VideoPlayer now deferrs loading of the video until the video should play
Change: ScreenSharing component now changes cursor pointer on hover to indicate that is can be clicked

[3.2.8-alpha] - 2023-04-23

Add: this.context.getPointerUsed(index) and setPointerUsed(index)
Change: physics now by default receives collisions/triggers between two colliders that are set to trigger

[3.2.7-alpha] - 2023-04-22

Change: ambient light does now look closer to Unity ambient light
Fix: guard calls to component event methods when the component or object has been destroyed

[3.2.6-alpha] - 2023-04-21

Add: SceneSwitcher has now option to automatically set scene environment lighting
Fix: Issue caused by NeedleEngineHTMLElement import from SceneSwitcher
Change: Allow component to be disabled in awake (e.g. calling this.enabled = false in awake callback)
Change: Export more types e.g. AnimatorStateMachineBehaviour
Change: VolumeParameter.value should return rawValue (unprocessed)
Change: rename "rendererData" to "sceneLighting"
Change: scene lighting must now be enabled explictly when additional scene are being loaded, use this.context.sceneLighting.enable(...) with the AssetReference or sourceId of the scene you want to enable

[3.2.5-alpha.1] - 2023-04-20

Change: export more types

[3.2.5-alpha] - 2023-04-20

Add: WebXRPlaneTracking
Add: <needle-engine loading-style="light"> for a brighter loading screen
Fix: InputField.onEndEdit should send string
Change: move webxr into subfolder
Change: export more types

[3.2.4-alpha.2] - 2023-04-20

Change: export more types

[3.2.4-alpha] - 2023-04-20

Change: export more types (e.g. syncField)
Fix: PlayerSync
Fix: Environment lighting
Fix: license check

[3.2.3-alpha] - 2023-04-20

Fix: VideoPlayer AudioOutput.None should mute video
Fix: SpriteRenderer applies layer from current object (e.g. for IgnoreRaycast)

[3.2.2-alpha] - 2023-04-19

Fix: issue where the environment lighting would be falsely disabled
Change: minor improvements to initial state of the SceneSwitcher

[3.2.1-alpha] - 2023-04-19

Change: SceneSwitcher clamp option
Change: timeline signals without bound receiver are now invoked globally on all active SignalReceivers with the specific signal asset
Change: internal check preventing errors during initialization for projects where the package is falsely added multiple times to the project by importing from internal types directly instead of from "@needle-tools/engine"

[3.2.0-alpha] - 2023-04-19

Add: built-in SceneSwitcher component
Change: VideoPlayer.playInBackground is set to true by default
Change: Screensharing should continue playback of receiving video when the sending tab becomes inactive
Change: log additional information when button events can not be resolved
Change: AudioSource.playInBackground set to true by default to allow audio playback when tab is not active
Change: syncField can now take function argument
Change: Renderer.sharedMaterials can now be iterated using for(const mat of myRenderer.sharedMaterials)
Fix: lightmap not being resolved anymore
Fix: environment lighting / reflection not switching with scenes
Fix: progressive texture did not check if the texture was disposed when switching to an unloaded scene resulting in textures being black/missing
Fix: timeline does enable animator again when pausing/stopping allowing to switch to e.g. idle animations controlled by an AnimatorController
Fix: changing material on renderer with lightmapping will now re-assign the lightmap to the new material

[3.1.0-alpha.2] - 2023-04-18

Fix: UI font style resolving

[3.1.0-alpha.1] - 2023-04-18

Fix: RemoteSkybox not being able to load locally reference dimage
Fix: ParticleSystem sphere scale not being applied anymore
Fix: WebXRImageTracking url not being resolved

[3.1.0-alpha] - 2023-04-18

Add: ImageReference type, use to export textures to external files and load them as img, texture or to get the binary data for e.g. image tracking
Add: api for WebXRImageTracking, this does currently require the webxr-incubations flag to be enabled
Add: TiltShift postprocessing effect
Add: AnimatorController support for negative speed
Change: ParticleSystem now has a reset method to allow for clearing state, stop has options for calling stop on Sub-Emitters and to clear already emitted particles

[3.0.1-alpha.5] - 2023-04-17

Add: this.context.xrFrame to get access to the current XRFrame from every lifecycle event method
Change: license check is now baked
Change: Rename "EngineElement" to NeedleEngineHTMLElement
Change: disable "Enable Keys" on OrbitControls by default as it conflicts with so many things
Fix: ParticleSystem circle shape
Fix: balloon messages are now truncated to 300 characters
Fix: Screensharing connection setup and start of video playback
Fix: Screensharing muting now local audio
Fix: AudioSource does not play again when it did finish and the user switches tabs
Fix: ParticleSystem prewarm
Fix: ParticleSystem minMax size, it's currently not supported and should thus not affect rendering

[3.0.1-alpha.4] - 2023-04-12

Bump with changed package.json

[3.0.1-alpha.3] - 2023-04-11

Fix: WebXR all layers should be visible
Fix: WebXRController raycast on all layers
Fix: issue with mouse vector position being re-used causing delta position being falsely modified
Change: store static Context.Current in globalThis
Change: alias resolve imports @needle-tools/engine/engine and @needle-tools/engine/src to lib folder

[3.0.0-alpha] - 2023-04-05

Add: vite alias plugin
Add: vite copyfiles plugin
Fix: lib sourcemap path
Fix: Postprocessing not being applied
Internal: needle vite plugin names now all start with "needle-"

[2.67.16] - 2023-04-13

Add: static AudioTrackHandler.dispose for disposing loaded audio data in timeline
Fix: issue where only the first audio clip would be played in a timeline with multiple audio clips of the same file
Change: Text should not change font name casing
Change: Timeline does now wait for audio and first interaction by default (if any audio track is being used, this can be disabled by setting waitForAudio to false on the PlayableDirector component)
Change: postprocessing DOF exposes resolution scale and takes device pixel density into account. By default the resolution is slightly lowered on mobile devices

[2.67.14-pre] - 2023-04-12

Change: WebXR camera now copies culling mask from main camera
Fix: WebXRController raycast on all layers
Fix: WebXR all layers should be visible
Fix: set pointer position properly on mouse down to prevent jumps in delta
Fix: respect IgnoreRaycast in physics raycasts
Fix: issue with CircularBuffer where sometimes the same item was returned twice
Fix: boxcolliders with scale 0 (such as adding a BoxCollider to a plane) resulted in flipped normals being returned from raycasts
Fix: parenthesis error in CharacterController
Fix: issue with mouse vector position being re-used causing delta position being falsely modified

[2.67.13-pre] - 2023-04-11

Fix: Animation component settings
Fix: instanced renderer matrix auto update
Change: enable shadow casting in instanced rendering when any mesh has castShadow enabled
Change: export ui pointer events

[2.67.12-pre] - 2023-04-09

Add: SSAO color and luminance influence options
Change: postprocessing now exposes effect order

[2.67.11-pre] - 2023-04-08

Add: some checks for WebGPURenderer

[2.67.10-pre] - 2023-04-06

Add vite copy files build plugin
Fix: PostProcessing not applying effects when enabled for the second time as well as removing earlier hack
Change: update user-select/touch-action in project templates style.css to prevent accidental iOS selection of canvas
Change: disable text selection on Needle logo
Bump three version, see changes below

Three

change USDZExporter: pass writer into onAfterHierarchy callback, move onAfterHierarchy callback after scene hierarchy write
fix USDZExporter: fix exception when trying to process render targets
fix WebXRManager: Correctly update the user camera when it has a parent with a non-identity transform.

[2.67.9-pre] - 2023-04-03

Change: SpriteRenderer material to transparent
Bump: tools package dependency

[2.67.8-pre.1] - 2023-03-31

Fix: exception when using BoxColliders caused by error in initial activeInHierarchy state assignment

[2.67.8-pre] - 2023-03-31

Fix: vite plugins must have a name
Fix: activeInHierarchy update when key is undefined (e.g. in r3f context)
Change: cleanup r3f component

[2.67.7-pre] - 2023-03-30

Add: time smoothed delta time
Add this.context.targetFrameRate
Fix: enum / type conversion errors
Fix: CanvasGroup overriding text raycastTarget state in event handling causing problems with button events
Fix: Text z-fighting from invisible ThreeMeshUI frame object
Change: Canvas renderOnTop moved into separate render call to avoid ordering issues and postprocessing affecting overlay UI
Internal: Move context from engine_setup to engine_context

[2.67.6-pre] - 2023-03-30

Fix: Postprocessing enforce effect order
Change: gizmos should not render depth

[2.67.5-pre] - 2023-03-30

Fix: issue where postprocessing did not check composer type (e.g. when using threejs composer instead of pmndrs package)
Change: Postprocessing now uses stencil layers

[2.67.4-pre] - 2023-03-28

Change: Postprocessing effects value mapping / settings improved (Bloom & ColorAdjustments)

[2.67.3-pre] - 2023-03-28

Fix: issue where progressive textures would not be applied correctly anymore
Fix: Timeline audio loading on firefox
Fix: issue where progressive textures with reflection probes wouldn't be applied correctly anymore

[2.67.2-pre] - 2023-03-28

Change: calculations for rect transform animation offsets
Change: Warn if engine element src contains a url without .glb or .gltf

[2.67.1-pre] - 2023-03-28

Fix: PostProcessing failing to be re-applied after exit XR

[2.67.0-pre] - 2023-03-27

Add: this.gameObject.destroy as a shorthand for GameObject.destroy(this.gameObject)
Add: support for camera targetTexture to render into a RenderTexture (when assigned to e.g. the main camera in Unity)
Add: utility methods to toplevel engine export (for example getParam, delay, isMobileDevice, isQuest)
Add: first version of usage tracking of materials, textures and meshes. This is off by default and can be enabled using the ?trackusage url parameter. When enabled findUsers can be used to find users of an object.
Add: pmnders postprocessing package
Change: improved PlayerState component and added event for PlayerState events for owner change (to properly listen to first assignment)
Change: AssetReference.unload now calls dispose to free all resources
Change: WebXR component now has static field for modifying optionalFeatures
Change: Physics.RaycastOptions now have a setLayer method to simplify setting the correct layer mask (similar to Unity's layers to enable e.g. just layer 4 for raycasting)
Change: RemoteSkybox now requests to re-apply clear flags on main camera when disabling to restore previous state.
Fix: issue where component instances were created using wrong method causing arrow functions to be bound to the wrong instance
Fix: @syncField now properly handles destroy of an component
Fix: react-three-fiber template
Fix: ParticleSystem prewarm safeguard and additional checks where emission is set to 0
Fix: Timeline only playing first audio clip
Fix: Issue where scene with multiple root glbs cross-referencing each other were not being resolved correctly in all cases
Fix: Progressive textures not being loaded when using tiling
Fix: Text UI anchoring

[2.66.1-pre] - 2023-03-16

Add: sphereOverlapPhysics function for more accurate sphere overlap detection using rapier
Fix: Gizmos should be excluded from being hit by raycasts
Fix: Gizmo sphere radius was twice the desired size
Fix: Physics now prevent negative collider scale
Fix: renderer instancing auto update when using multi material objects
Change: Show warning that stencil and instancing doesnt work together at the moment

[2.66.0-pre] - 2023-03-14

Add: particle system prewarm support
Add: poseMatrix argument in WebARSessionRoot.placedSession event
Add: MeshCollider minimal support for submeshes (they can be added but currently not removed from the physics world)
Fix: debug_overlay error when rejection reason is null
Fix typo beginListenBinrary → beginListenBinary
Fix: particle system staying visible after disabling gameObject
Fix particle system not finding subemitter in certain cases
Fix: particles with subemitters and trails and disabled "die with particle" should emit subemitter when the particle dies (and not when the trail dies)
Fix: Loading overlay now hides when loading is done and the first frame has finished rendering
Change: rename networking stopListening to stopListen for consistency
Change: addressables allow up to 10k instantiations per frame before aborting
Change: set material shadowSide to match side
Change: generate poster image with 1080x1080 px and add og:image:width and og:image:height meta tags

[2.65.2-pre] - 2023-03-11

Change: custom shaders should not log warning for unsupported OrthoParams shader property
Change: Animator methods starting with uppercase are marked as deprecated because UnityEvent methods are now exported starting with lowercase letter, added lowercase methods

[2.65.1-pre] - 2023-03-10

Fix: ParticleSystem using min/max size in the renderer module is now minimally handled
Fix: ParticleSystem emission when using local space with scaled parents
Fix: ParticleSystem not finding SubEmitter systems
Fix: ParticleSystem simulation speed not being applied to gravity and initial speed
Fix: RemoteSkybox not resolving relative url correctly (when assigning a cubemap in the editor)

[2.65.0-pre.1] - 2023-03-10

Fix: issue where <needle-engine> element was not yet in the DOM when queried by exporter codegen which caused the paths to not be assigned and the engine to not load

[2.65.0-pre] - 2023-03-09

Add: runtime checks for recursive loading to prevent it from breaking
Change: internal duplicate active state on Object3D has been removed, instead visible is used. This was previously a workaround for the Renderer setting the visible state when being enabled or disabled but this has been changed in a previous version and it now only sets a flag in the object's Layers instead (which allows for a single object in the hierarchy to not being rendered by setting Renderer.enabled = false while objects in the child hierarchy stay visible)
Change: <needle-engine> src attribute can now also take an array of glbs to load. This simplifies codegen done by exporters and also prevents errors due to bundler optimizations as well as being easier to understand. Runtime changes of the src attribute (especially when using arrays of files) have not been tested for this release. Networking for src changes has been removed in this release.
Change: move engine into src subfolder. All paths to explicit script files are now @needle-tools/engine/src/...
Change: poster screenshot will be taken after 200ms now
Change: canvas default set to false for castShadow and receiveShadow
Change: Remote skybox should not set scene.background when in XR with pass through device (e.g. when using Quest Pro AR or AR on mobile)
Fix: issue where ColorAdjustments Volume effect was applied with active set to false
Fix: Light not being enabled again after disabling the component once

[2.64.0-pre] - 2023-03-07

Add: PlayableDirector now correctly applies timescale
Add: PlayableDirector.speed property allowing to play the timeline at different speeds or even reverse (reversed audio playback is not supported at the moment)
Add: Physics.enabled property for disabling physics updates. This also prevents any collider shapes to be created
Add: this.gameObject.transform property to ease getting started for devs coming from Unity. This property is merely a forward to this.gameObject and shouldnt really be used. The property description contains information and a link to the docs with further information.
Fix: instanced materials using progressive loading are now correctly updated
Fix: Timeline animation tracks now disable the Animator. This fixes cases where two animations were played at the same time. When the PlayableDirector is paused or stopped the animator state is reset
Fix: License styles leaking into website
Fix: Timeline audio not stopping correctly at end of timeline when set to hold
Change: improve instancing updates, instanced objects now auto update detect matrix changes. This includes improvements of instancing when used with Animation components
Change: set particle system layers to IgnoreRaycast to not receive wrong click events on batched particle meshes
Change: Timeline audio is now loaded on evaluation. Only clips in a range of 1 second to the current time are loading. To manually trigger preload of audio you can invoke loadAudio with a time range on audio tracks of a timeline

[2.63.3-pre] - 2023-03-03

Fix: engine published to npm was missing vite plugins

[2.63.2-pre] - 2023-03-03

Fix: license styling in some cases
Fix: duplicatable + draggable issue causing drag to not release the object (due to wrong event handling)
Fix duplicatable + deletion not working properly
Fix: timeline breaking when time is set to NaN

[2.63.1-pre] - 2023-03-02

Add: components now have up and right vectors (access via this.up from a component)
Fix: import of license and logo for npm package

[2.63.0-pre] - 2023-03-01

Add: licensing information
Add: logo to loading display
Change: VideoPlayer now exposes VideoMaterial
Change: Screencapture now only accepts clicks with pointerId 0 (left mouse button, first touch) to toggle screen capture
Change: expose physics gravity setting this.context.physics.gravity

[2.62.2-pre] - 2023-02-27

Add: support for camera-controls attribute on <needle-engine> element. When added it will automatically add an OrbitControls component on start if the active main camera has no controller (you can assign custom controllers by calling setCameraController with the camera that is being controlled)
Fix: rare error in extension_util
Fix: timeline preExtrapolation setting
Fix: disabling Light component should turn off light
Fix: animating camera fov, near or far plane
Fix: threejs layer patch for Renderer visibility is now always applied
Fix: UI runtime instantiate of canvas from templates in scene
Fix: UI text did not update shadow-component-owner on font loading
Fix: UI EventSystem raising click event multiple times in some cases
Fix: UI Text raycast now respects object layer (NoRaycast)
Fix: UI duplicate pointerUp event
Fix: UI highlighting getting stuck in wrong state sometimes

[2.62.1-pre] - 2023-02-23

Fix: pause wasn't evaluating and thus not pausing audio tracks
Fix: debug overlay styles were not properly scoped and affected objects inside needle-engine tag
Fix: Addressables wrong recursive instantiation error
Fix: UI not showing fully when setting active at runtime
Change: timeline tracks are now created immediately but their audio clips are deferred until audio is allowed

[2.62.0-pre] - 2023-02-13

Bump version

[2.61.0-pre] - 2023-01-30

Add: canvas applyRenderSettings
Add: progressive support for particle system textures

[2.60.4-pre] - 2023-01-27

Fix UI prefab instantiate throwing error at runtime
Change: show warning when unsupported canvas type is selected
Change: show warning when trying to use webxr features in non-secure context

[2.60.3-pre] - 2023-01-26

Fix: camera fov for blender export allowing fieldOfView property to be undefined, where the fov should be handled by the blender exporter completely.

[2.60.2-pre] - 2023-01-26

Fix: particle textures being flipped horizontally

[2.60.1-pre] - 2023-01-25

Change: export Mathf in `@needle.tools/engine`

[2.60.0-pre] - 2023-01-25

Add: Particles support for horizontal and vertical billboards
Add: Timeline now supports reversed clip (for blender timeline)
Change: bump gltf pipeline package dependency adding support for global NEEDLE_TOKTX environment variable
Change: timeline clip pos and rot are now optional (for blender timeline)
Fix: when first loading a gltf pass guidsmap to components (for blender timeline)
Fix: scrubbing TimelineTrack scrubs audio sources as well now
Fix: stencils for multimaterial objects

[2.59.2-pre] - 2023-01-21

Add: particles basic support for on birth and ondeath subemitter behaviour

[2.59.1-pre.1] - 2023-01-20

Fix: issue where click on overlay html element did also trigger events in the underlying engine scene

[2.59.1-pre] - 2023-01-20

Add: SpectatorCam.useKeys to allow users to disable spectator cam keyboard input usage (f to send follow request to connected users and esc to stop following)
Change: expose SyncedRoom.RoomPrefix

[2.59.0-pre] - 2023-01-18

Add: AssetReference.unload does now dispose materials and mesh geometry
Add: setParamWithoutReload now accepts null as paramValue which will remove the query parameter from the url
Change: timeline does now skip export for muted tracks
Change: OrbitControls can now use a custom html target when added via script and before enable/awake is being called (e.g. const orbit = GameObject.addNewComponent(this.gameObject, OrbitControls, false); orbit.targetElement = myElement)
Change: Input start events are now being ignored if a html element is ontop of the canvas
Fix: use custom element registry to avoid error with needle-engine element has already been defined
Fix: timeline not stopping audio on stop
Fix: input click event being invoked twice in certain cases
Fix: ParticleSystem start color from gradient
Fix: ParticleSystem not properly cleaning up / removing particles in the scene in onDestroy
Fix: ParticleSystem velocity now respects scale (when mode is set to worldscale)

[2.58.4-pre] - 2023-01-14

Update gltf-extensions package dependency

[2.58.3-pre] - 2023-01-13

Bump version

[2.58.2-pre] - 2023-01-12

Change: use draco and ktx loader from gstatic server by default
Change: reduce circular dependencies
Fix: Reflectionprobe selecting wrong probe when multiple probes had the exact same position

[2.58.1-pre] - 2023-01-09

Add: Prewarm rendering of newly loaded objects to remove lag/jitter when they become visible for the first time
Change: renderer now warns when sharedMaterials have missing entries. It then tries to remap those values when accessing them by index (e.g. when another component has a material index serialized and relies on that index to be pointing to the correct object)

[2.58.0-pre] - 2023-01-09

Add: EventSystem input events (e.g. IPointerClick) are now invoked for all buttons (e.g. right click)
Add: Hot reload for components

[2.57.0-pre] - 2023-01-07

Remove: Meshline dependency
Fix: Testrunner Rigidbody import error

[2.56.2-pre] - 2023-01-06

Change: Component.addEventListener argument can now derive from Event

[2.56.1-pre] - 2023-01-05

Fix: UI setting Image.sprite property did apply vertical flip every time the sprite was set

[2.56.0-pre] - 2023-01-04

Add: file-dropped event to DropListener
Add: UI image and raw image components now support updating texture/sprite at runtime
Change: Bump needle gltf-transform extensions package adding mesh compression and caching for texture compression leading to significant speedups for subsequent production builds (only changed textures are re-processed)
Fix: light normal bias defaults

[2.55.2-pre] - 2023-01-02

Add: Rigidbody.gravityScale property
Add: Gizmos.DrawArrow method
Add: Rigidbody.getAngularVelocity method
Fix: Mesh collider center of mass

[2.55.1-pre] - 2022-12-30

Add: Warning when serialized component field name is starting with uppercase letter
Change: bump component compiler dependency
Fix: Particle rotation over lifetime
Fix: Particles should not emit when emission module is disabled
Fix: LODGroup breaking rendering when used with multi-material objects or added on mesh to be culled directly

[2.55.0-pre] - 2022-12-21

Add: PhysicsMaterial support
Add: Time.timesScale factor
Change: VideoPlayer exposes underlying HTML video element
Change: EffectComposer check if setPixelRatio method exists before calling
Change: WebARSessionRoot and Rig rotation
Fix: WebXRController raycast line not being visible in Quest AR
Fix: Renderer that is disabled initially now hides object
Fix: Some ParticleSystem worldspace settings when calling emit directly

[2.54.2-pre] - 2022-12-19

Change: debug parameter can now take =0 for disabling them (e.g. freecam=0)
Fix: InputField opens keyboard on iOS

[2.54.1-pre] - 2022-12-15

Fix: issue with progressive loading, loading files multiple times if a texture was used in multiple materials/material slots. This was causing problems and sometimes crashes on mobile devices
Fix: balloon messages using cached containers didnt update the message sometimes and displaying an old message instead

[2.54.0-pre.1] - 2022-12-14

Fix: bump gltf extensions package fixing issue with progressive texture loading when multiple textures had the same name

[2.54.0-pre] - 2022-12-14

Add: start and end events for progressive loading
Add: USDZExporter events for button creation and after export
Change: apply WebARSessionRoot scale to exported object, e.g. if scene is scaled down on Android it should receive the same scale when exporting for Quicklook
Fix: process reflection probe update in update event to avoid visible flickr after component enabled state has changed

[2.53.1-pre.1] - 2022-12-12

Fix: implement ButtonColors

[2.53.1-pre] - 2022-12-12

Add: GroundProjection appyOnAwake to make it possible to just use it when the environment changes via remote skybox and not apply it to the default skybox
Change: more strict tsconfig
Change: allow overriding loading element
Fix: apply shape module rotation to direction
Fix: ParticleSystem world position not being set when shape module was disabled

[2.53.0-pre] - 2022-12-08

Add: InstantiateIdProvider constructor can now take string too for initializing seed
Add: USDZExpoter component enabling Open in Quicklook option by default when running on iOS Safari
Fix: Light intensity
Fix: Add workaround texture image encoding issue: https://github.com/needle-tools/needle-engine-support/issues/109
Fix: OrbitControls.enableKeys
Fix: Remove warning message about missing serializable when the reference is really missing
Fix: context.domX and domY using wrong values when in AR mode

[2.52.0-pre] - 2022-12-05

Add iOS platform util methods
Add ?debugrig to render XRRig gizmo
Add support for Spritesheet Animation
Add: EventTrigger implementations for onPointerClick, onPointerEnter, onPointerExit, onPointerDown, onPointerUp
Add: RemoteSkybox environmentBlurriness setting
Fix: Renderer reflection probe event order issue not applying reflection probes when enabling/disabling object because reflection probes have not been enabled
Fix: remove log in ParticleSystemModules

[2.51.0-pre] - 2022-11-30

Change: remove nebula, dat.gui and symlink package dependencies
Change: Light does not change renderer shadowtype anymore
Change: update threejs to 146
Change: update threejs types
Change: Screencapture should not start on click when not connected to networked room
Change: WebXR returns ar supported when using Mozilla WebXR
Fix DragControls drag interaction not disabling OrbitControls at right time
Fix physics collider position in certain cases
Fix Rigidbody not syncing physics position when parent transform changes
Fix Timeline awake / active and enable
Fix: OrbitControls calulcating target position with middle mouse click in worldspace instead of localspace causing wrong movement when parent is transformed
Fix: Raycast in Mozilla WebXR / using window sizes instead of dom element sizes
Fix input with scrolled window
Fix: destroy local avatar on end of webxr session (https://github.com/needle-tools/needle-engine-support/issues/117)
Fix: WebXRAvatar setting correct XRFlags

[2.50.0-pre] - 2022-11-28

Add warning to Light when soft shadows change renderer shadow type
Add: RemoteSkybox can now load jpg and png textures as skybox
Change: Instantiate does now copy Vector, Quaternion and Euler objects to ensure multiple components dont share the same objects
Fix: AnimatorController causes threejs error when creating empty animationclip (Blender)
Fix: AnimatorController error when transition has no conditions array (Blender)

[2.49.1-pre] - 2022-11-25

Add circular instantiation check to AssetReference
Allow filtering context.input.foreachPointerId() by pointer types (e.g. mouse or touch)
Fix typescript error in particle system module function (happened only when strict was set to false in tsconfig)
Fix XRFlag component not being applied on startup

[2.49.0-pre] - 2022-11-24

Add: input iterator methods to loop over currently active input pointer ids
Change: input refactor to work better with touch
Fix GraphicRaycaster serialization warning
Fix deserialization bug when Animation clips array is not serialized (exported from blender)
Fix: remove leftover log in AnimatorController when cloning
Fix XR flag not correctly restoring state
Fix reticle not being rendered when XRRig is inside WebARSessionRoot
Fix Mozilla XR AR overlay (https://github.com/needle-tools/needle-engine-support/issues/81)
Fix Mozilla XR removing renderer canvas on exit AR (https://github.com/needle-tools/needle-engine-support/issues/115)

[2.48.0-pre] - 2022-11-23

Add: debug console for better mobile debugging (shows up on error on mobile in local dev environment or when using the ?console query parameter)
Add: dom element visibility checks and suspend rendering and update loops (if this.context.runInBackground is false)
Add: this.context.isPaused to manually suspend rendering
Add: IComponent.onPausedChanged event method which is called when rendering is paused or resumed
Change: update copy-from-to dev dependency version to fix build error when path contains (
Change: this.context.input does now support pointer lock state (properly reports delta)
Fix: make sure VRButton has the same logic as in three again (regex instead of try-catch)
Fix: WebXRViewer DOM Overlay bugs when dom overlay element is inside canvas
Fix: exitAR not being called in some cases when exiting AR
Fix: this.context.domX and this.context.domY when web component is not fullscreen

[2.47.0-pre] - 2022-11-17

Add: Initial react three fiber components
Change: OrbitControls made lerp stop distance smaller
Change: expose *enumerateActions() in AnimatorController
Fix: Flipped custom reflection texture
Fix: Volume exposure not being applied when no Tonemapping effect was set
Fix: Volume tonemapping not respecting override state setting
Fix: AudioSource.loop not working
Fix: Collider center being not not applied correctly
Fix: MeshCollider scale not being applied from object

[2.46.0-pre] - 2022-11-16

Add: Particles subemitter support
Add: Particles inherit velocity support
Add: Particles size by speed support
Add: Particles color by speed support
Add: Particles trail now fadeout properly when "die with particle" is disabled
Add: Particles circle shape
Change: button hover now sets cursor to pointer
Fix: WebXR controller disabling raycast line for hands
Fix: WebXR hands path when not assigned in Unity
Fix: Mesh Particles not rendering because of rotation being wrongly applied
Fix: Mesh particles size in AR
Fix: Particles color and size lerp between two curves

[2.45.0-pre] - 2022-11-14

Add: RemoteSkybox option to control if its set as background and/or environment
Add: @serializable decorator, @serializeable will be removed in a future version
Add: getComponent etc methods to IGameObject interface
Add: Renderer.enable does now set visible state only without affecting the hierarchy or component active state
Change: Expose Typestore
Change: Animation componet does loop by default (use the AdditionalAnimationData component to set the default loop setting)
Fix: WebXR relative hands path in subfolders
Fix: Rigidbody did not properly detect object position change if the position change was applied a second time at the exact same target position (it worked setting it once and didnt work in subsequent calls - now it does always detect it)

[2.44.1-pre] - 2022-11-13

Add: RemoteSkybox exposes background and environmnet properties to configure if the loaded skybox is set for the scene background and/or the environment light
Change: Expose TypeStore

[2.44.0-pre] - 2022-11-11

Add: Particles limit velocity over time
Add: Particles rotation by speed
Add: ParticleSystem play, pause, stop and emit(count) methods
Add: WebXR.showRaycastLine exposed so it can be disabled from code
Fix: issues in applying some forces/values for different scaling and worldspace <> localspace scenarios
Change: raise input events in core method to also allow receiving WebAR mock touch events
Change: Animation.play() does not require argument anymore

[2.43.0-pre] - 2022-11-10

Add: particles emission over distance
Add: particles can enable trail (settings are not yet applied tho)
Add: camera now useses culling mask settings
Add: particle VelocityOverLife
Add: particle basic texture sheet animation support
Change: ensure time.deltaTime is always > 0 and nevery exactly 0
Fix: progressbar handle progress event not reporting total file size
Fix: layer on camera did affect visibility
Fix: cloning animatorcontrollers in builds did fail because of legacy AnimatorAction name check
Fix: RGBAColor.lerpColors did produce wrong alpha value
Fix: custom shader _ZTest value is now applied as threejs depthTest function

[2.42.0-pre] - 2022-11-09

add Graphics.copyTexture
add Renderer.allowProgressiveLoad
add Gizmos.DrawBox and DrawBox3
add particles burst emission
add particles color interpolation between two gradients
fix: reflection probe material caching for when material is being changed at certain times outside of animation loop and cache applied wrong material
fix: AnimationCurve evaluation when time and keyframe are both exactly 0
change: reflection probe now requires anchor override
change: bump threejs dependency

[2.41.0-pre] - 2022-11-07

Add: start adding particle systems support again
Change: update dependency version to needle gltf-transform-extensions package
Change: light set to soft shadows now changes renderer shadow mode to VSMShadowMap (can be disabled by setting Light.allowChangingShadowMapType to false)
Fix: WebXR creating AR button when called from script in awake
Fix: AnimationCurve.evaluate

[2.40.0-pre] - 2022-11-05

Add support for deleting all room state by calling context.connection.sendDeleteRemoteStateAll() (requires backend to update @needle-tools/needle-tiny-networking-ws to ^1.1.0-pre)
Add Hinge joint
Add Gizmos.DrawLine, DrawRay DrawWireSphere and DrawSphere
Add: physics Collision Contacts now contain information about impulse and friction
Add physics.raycastPhysicsFast as a first method to raycast against physics colliders, the returning object contains the point in worldspace and the collider. This is the most simplest and thus fastest way to raycast using Rapier. More complex options will follow in future versions.
Fix joint matrix calculation
Fix and improve physics Contacts point calculations
Fix issue in physics event callbacks where onCollisionStay and onCollisionExit would only be called when onCollisionEnter was defined

[2.39.0-pre] - 2022-11-04

Add: physics FixedJoint
Change: CharacterController now rotates with camera
Change: scaled mesh colliders are now cached
Change: disable OrbitControls when in XR
Change: first enabled camera component sets itself as rendering camera if no camera is yet assigned (mainCamera still overrides that)
Change: package module field now shows to src/needle-engine
Change: Camera.backgroundColor assigning Color without alpha sets alpha to 1 now
Fix: improved missing serializable detection / warning: now only shows warning for members actually declared in script
Fix: wrong light intensity in VR when light is child of WebARSessionRoot issue 103

[2.38.0-pre] - 2022-11-02

Add context.isInAR and context.isInVR properties
Add physics capsule collider support
Add basic character controller implementation (experimental)
Add context.input.getMouseWheelDeltaY()
Add: SmoothFollow option to restrict following on certain axes only for position
Add: Rigidbody.teleport method to properly reset internal state
Add: load glbs using build hash (appended as ?v=123)
Change: Collision event args now exposes contacts array
Fix Exit AR (X) button not showing up
Fix physics collider center offset
Fix removing colliders and rigidbodies throwing error (when trying to access properties for already removed bodies)
Fix bug in AnimatorController causing broken animations when the same clip is used in multiple states (caused by mixer.uncacheCip)
Fix rigidbody friction allowing for physical bodies being transported on e.g. platforms
Fix onTriggerStay being invoked with the correct collider argument
Fix AnimatorController exit time not being used properly
Fix AnimatorController not checking all possible transitions if one transition did match conditions but could not be made due to exit time setting
Fix Renderer.sharedMaterials not handling SkinnedMeshRenderer
Fix environment blend mode for mozilla XR browser on iOS
Fix: Camera now removing self from being set as currently rendering in onDisable

[2.37.0-pre] - 2022-10-28

Add: rapier physics backend and overall improved physics system like constraint support, fixed physics collider updates and synchronization between rendering and physics world or animation of physical bodies
Remove: cannon-es
Add basic mesh collider support
Add @validate decorator and onValidate event method that can be used to automatically get callbacks when marked properties are being written to (for example internally this is used on the Rigidbody to update the physics body when values on the Rigidbody component are being updated)
Change: assign nested gltf layers
Change: reworked Rigidbody api
Fix: allow Draco and KRTX compression on custom hand models
Fix: applying Unity layers to threejs objects
Fix: BoxHelper stopped working with SpatialTrigger
Fix: AR reticle showing up in wrong position with transformed WebARSessionRoot

[2.36.0-pre] - 2022-10-26

Add: Expose WebXR hand model path
Add: Animation component can now be configured with random time scale and offset
Change: allow blocking overlay errors using the ?noerrors query parameter
Change: don't use Composer for postprocessing in XR (see issue)
Change: physics intersections causing NaN's are now reported prominently and physics bodies are removed from physics world as an interim solution, this provides more information about problematic colliders for debugging
Fix: bug that caused component events for onEnable and onDisable not being called anymore in some cases
Fix: cases where loading overlay using old project template wouldnt be removed/hidden anymore
Fix: WebXR hide large hand grab sphere
Fix: onPointerUp event not firing using WebXR controllers when grabbing an object for the second time
Fix: GroundProjection can now be removed again
Fix: Custom shaders exported using builtin RP can now use _Time property
Fix: Only create two controllers when in AR on oculus browser
Fix: BoxHelperComponent can now handle multi-material objects (groups)

[2.35.6-pre] - 2022-10-24

Add: warning balloon when unknown components are detected and have been most likely forgot to be installed, linking to npmdef docs
Fix: dont show serialization warning for builtin components where specific fields are not deserialized on purpose (since right now the serializer does not check which fields are actually implemented)

[2.35.5-pre] - 2022-10-24

Change: AudioSource exposes clip field
Change: improve error and messaging overlay
Change: detect when serialized Object3D and AssetReference are missing @serializable attribute and show message in overlay
Change: add WebXR hands path to controllers
Fix: WebXR controllers now use interactable object when grabbing (instead of hit object previously) which fixes interaction with nested hierarchies in XR and DragControls

[2.35.4-pre] - 2022-10-23

Change: Renderer material is now sharedMaterial to make it more clear for Unity devs that the material is not being cloned when accessed
Fix: When not specifying any explicit networking backend for glitch deployment it now falls back to the current glitch instance for networking

[2.35.3-pre] - 2022-10-21

Add: Screenshare component share method now takes optional options to configure device and MediaStreamConstraints for starting the stream
Fix: WebXR should show EnterVR button when enabled in Unity
Fix: component enable boolean wasnt correctly initialized when loaded from gltf
Fix: Object3D prototype extensions weren't correctly applied anymore
Fix: Interaction bug when using DragControls with OrbitControls with multitouch

[2.35.2-pre] - 2022-10-20

Add Renderer.mesh getter property
Change: Renderer.material now returns first entry in sharedMaterials array so it automatically works in cases where a Renderer is actually a multi-material object
Change: warn when trying to access components using string name instead of type
Change: update needle gltf-transform-extensions to 0.6.2
Fix: remove log from UIRaycastUtil
Fix: move TypeStore import in builtin engine again to not break cases where import @needle-engine was never used
Fix: React3Fiber template and AR overlay container access when using react

[2.35.1-pre] - 2022-10-19

Change: unify component access methods, first argument is now always the object with the component type as second argument
Fix physics collision events throwing caused by refactoring in last version
Fix loading screen css

[2.35.0-pre] - 2022-10-19

Change: First pass of reducing circular dependencies
Change: Update @needle-tools/gltf-transform-extensions version
Change: Update component compiler to 1.9.0. Changed include:
- Private and protected methods will now not be emitted anymore
- onEnable/onDisable will be emitted as OnEnable and OnDisable issue 93
Change: handle Vector3 prototype extensions
Fix: issue with UI causing rendering to break when enabling text components during runtime that have not yet been active before
Fix: OrbitControls LookAtConstraint reference deserialization
Fix: WebXRController raycasting against UI marked as noRaycastTarget or in CanvasGroup with disabled interactable or blocksRaycast

[2.34.0-pre] - 2022-10-17

Add: start adding support for 2D video overlay mode
Change: Install threejs from @needle-tools/npm - this removes the requirement to have git installed and should fix a case where pulling the package from github would fail
Change: Move Screensharing aspect mode settings into VideoPlayer component
Change: Move InstancingUtils into engine/engine_instancing.ts
Change: BoxCollider now checks if attachedRigidBody is assigned at start
Change: Collision now exposes internal cannon data via __internalCollision property
Fix: EventSystem now properly unsubscribes WebXRController events

[2.33.0-pre] - 2022-10-17

Add: ScreenCapture has mode for capturing webgl canvas (unfortunately it doesnt seem to work well in Chrome or Firefox yet)
Change: move threejs prototype extensions into own file and make available to vanilla js builds
Change: ScreenCapture component has explicit VideoPlayer component reference
Fix: animating properties on custom shaders

[2.32.0-pre] - 2022-10-15

Add: start implementing trigger callbacks for onTriggerEnter, onTriggerExit and onTriggerStay
Change: GameObject.setActive now updates isActiveAndEnabled state and executes awake and onEnable calls when the object was activated for the first time (e.g. when instantiating from an previously inactive prefab)
Change: improve collision callback events for components (onCollisionEnter, onCollisionExit and onCollisionStay)
Change: this.context.input keycode enums are now strings
Fix: local dev error overlay now also displays errors that happen before web component is completely loaded (e.g. when script has import error)
Fix: Rigidbody force is now correctly applied when the component was just instantiated (from inactive prefab) and added to the physics world for the first time
Fix: DragControls component keyboard events ("space" and "d" for modifying height and rotation)

[2.31.1-pre] - 2022-10-14

Change: Rigidbody now tracks position changes to detect when to update/override simulated physics body
Fix: loading relative font paths when exported via Asset context menu

[2.31.0-pre] - 2022-10-13

Add: inital ScreenCapture component for sharing screens and camera streams across all connected users
Add: onCollisionEnter, onCollisionStay and onCollisionExit event methods to components

[2.30.0-pre] - 2022-10-12

Add: Quest 2 passthrough support
Add: UI Graphic components now support raycastTarget again
Add: VideoPlayer now supports materialTarget option which allows for assigning any renderer in the scene that should be used as a video canvas
Changed: updated three-mesh-ui dependency version
Changed: updated needle-gltfTransform extensions package, fixing an issue with passthrough of texture json pointers
Changed: selecting SpectatorCam now requires click (instead of just listening to pointer up event)
Fix: Avatars using instanced materials should now update transforms correctly again

[2.29.0-pre] - 2022-10-10

Add: Context.removeCamera method
Add: SpectatorCam allows to follow other users across devices by clicking on respective avatar (e.g. clicking SyncedCam avatar or WebXR avatar, ESC or long press to stop spectating)
Add: Input events for pointerdown, pointerup, pointermove and keydown, keyup, keypress. Subscribe via this.context.input.addEventListener(InputEvents.pointerdown, evt => {...})
Change: Default WebXR rig matches Unity forward
Fix: WebXRController raycast line being rendered as huge line before first world hit
Fix: SpectatorCam works again
Fix: serializable() does now not write undefined values if serialize data is undefined
Fix: exit VR lighting

[2.28.0-pre] - 2022-10-06

Add: resolutionScaleFactor to context
Fix IsLocalNetwork regex
Fix custom shaders failing to render caused by json pointer change
Change: rename Context AROverlayElement to arOverlayElement

[2.27.0-pre] - 2022-10-06

Fix: EventList failing to find target when targeting a Object3D without any components
Fix: text now showing up when disabling and enabling again after the underlying three-mesh-ui components have been created
Fix: Builtin sprites not rendering correctly in production builds
Change: Bump needle glTF transform extensions version
Change: json pointers now have correct format (e.g. /textures/0 instead textures/0)
Change: Bump UnityGLTF version

[2.26.1-pre] - 2022-10-05

Fix animating activeSelf on GameObject in canvas hierarchy
Fix SpectatorCam component
Fix WebXRController raycast line being rendered as huge line before first world hit

[2.26.0-pre] - 2022-10-05

Add: experimental AlignmentConstraint and OffsetConstraint
Remove: MeshCollider script since it is not supported yet
Change: Camera does now use XRSession environment blend mode to determine if background should be transparent or not.
Change: WebXR exposes IsInVR and IsInAR
Fix: RGBAColor copy alpha fix
Fix: Avatar mouth shapes in networked environment

[2.25.1-pre] - 2022-10-04

Change: DropListener file drop event does send whole gltf instead of just the scene

[2.25.0-pre] - 2022-10-04

Add: allow overriding draco and ktx2 decoders on <needle-engine> web component by setting dracoDecoderPath, dracoDecoderType, ktx2DecoderPath
Add: loadstart and progress events to <needle-engine> web component
Fix rare timeline animation bug where position and rotation of objects would be falsely applied
Change: update to three v245
Change: export THREE to global scope for bundled version

[2.24.0-pre] - 2022-10-01

Add: make engine code easily accessible from vanilla javascript
Fix: handle number animation setting component enable where values are interpolated
Change: Remove internal shadow bias multiplication
Change: Addressable references are now resolved using relative paths
Change: Update package json

[2.23.2-pre] - 2022-09-29

Add: Light component shadow settings can not be set/updated at runtime
Fix: enter XR using GroundProjectedEnv component
Fix: Light shadows missing when LightShadowData component was not added in Unity (was using wrong shadowResolution)
Change: dont allow raycasting by default on GroundProjectedEnv sphere

[2.23.1-pre] - 2022-09-29

Add: Light exposes shadow resolution

[2.23.0-pre] - 2022-09-28

Add RemoteSkybox component to use HDRi images from e.g. polyhaven
Add GroundProjectedEnv component to use threejs skybox projection
Fix: export GameObject in @needle-tools/engine

[2.22.1-pre] - 2022-09-28

Add: noerrors url parameter to hide overlay
Fix: WebXR avatar rendering may be visually offset due to root transform. Will now reset root transform to identity

[2.22.0-pre] - 2022-09-28

Add: @needle-tools/engine now exports all components
Add: environment light from tricolor (used for envlight when set to custom but without custom cubemap assigned)
Add: show console error on screen for localhost / local dev environment
Fix: create environment lighting textures from exported colors
Change: UI InputField expose text
Change: Bump threejs version to latest (> r144) which also contains USDZExporter PR

[2.21.0-pre] - 2022-09-26

Add: custom shader set _ScreenParams
Change: DropListener event details now contains whole gltf file (instead of just scene object)

[2.20.1-pre] - 2022-09-23

Add: AudioSource volume and spatial blending settings can now be set at runtime
Fix: AudioSource not playing on play when playOnAwake is false

[2.20.0-pre] - 2022-09-23

Add: VideoPlayer crossorigin attribute support
Add: debuginstancing url parameter flag
Add: Image handle builtin Background sprite
Add: Component now implements EventTargt so you can use addEventListener etc on every component
Add: EventList does automatically dispatch event with same name on component. E.g. UnityEvent named onClick will be dispatched on component as on-click
Add: experimental progressive loading of textures
Add: WebXR exposes IsARSupported and IsVRSupported
Fix: remove Ambient Intensity
Fix: ShadowCatcher material should not write depth

[2.19.1-pre] - 2022-09-21

Fix: SpatialTrigger intersection check when it's not a mesh
Fix: UnityEvent / EventList argument of 0 not being passed to the receiving method
Fix: Physics rigidbody/collider instantiate calls
Fix: Physics rigidbody transform changes will now be applied to internal physics body
Fix: needle-engine.getContext now listens to loading finished event namely loadfinished
Change: cleanup some old code in Rigidbody component

[2.19.0-pre] - 2022-09-20

Add: initial support for InputField UI (rendering, input handling on desktop, mobile and AR, change and endedit events)
Add: EventList.invoke can now handle an arbitrary number of arguments
Change: lower double click threshold to 200ms instead of 500ms
Change: runtime font-style does not change font being used in this version. This will temporarely break rich text support.
Fix: custom shader regression where multiple objects using the same material were not rendered correctly
Fix: Text sometimes using invalid path
Fix: Remove unused imports

[2.18.0-pre] - 2022-09-20

Add basic support for CameraDepth and OpaqueTexture (the opaque texture still contains transparent textures in this first version) being used in custom shaders

[2.17.1-pre] - 2022-09-17

Improve Animator root motion blending
Fix SpatialTrigger error when adding both SpatialTrigger as well as SpatialTrigger receiver components to the same object
AnimatorController can now handle states with empty motion or missing clips

[2.17.0-pre] - 2022-09-15

Add: automatic runtime font atlas generation from Unity font assets
Remove: shipped font assets in include/fonts
Fix: Physics pass custom vector into getWorldPosition, internal vector buffer size increased to 100
Fix: SpatialTrigger and SpatialTrigger receivers didnt work anymore due to LayerMask serialization

[2.16.1-pre] - 2022-09-14

Change: UI disable shadow receiving and casting by default, can be configured via Canvas
Fix: gameObject.getComponentInParent was making false call to getComponentsInParent and returning an array instead of a single object
Fix: light intensity in AR

[2.16.0-pre] - 2022-09-14

Add: first draft of Animator root motion support
Fix: Renderer.sharedMaterials assignment bug when GameObject was mesh
Fix: Buttons set to color transition did not apply transition colors
Fix: UI textures being flipped
Fix: UI textures were not stretched across panel but instead being clipped if the aspect ratio didnt match perfectly

[2.15.0-pre] - 2022-09-12

Add stencil support to Renderer
Add timeline removeTrackOffset support
Fix timeline animation track offset only being applied to root
Fix timeline clip offsets not being applied when no track for e.g. rotation or translation exists

[2.14.0-pre] - 2022-09-11

Add initial UI anchoring support
Add initial support for URP RenderObject Stencil via NEEDLE_render_objects extension

[2.13.4-pre] - 2022-09-09

Fix UI transform handling for issue 42 and issue 30
Fix AudioSource not restarting to play at onEnable when playOnAwake is true (this is the default behaviour in Unity)

[2.13.3-pre] - 2022-09-09

Fix RGBAColor not implementing copy which caused alpha to be set to 0 (this caused Camera.backgroundColor to not work properly)

[2.13.2-pre] - 2022-09-07

Add support to set OrbitControls camera position immediately

[2.13.1-pre] - 2022-09-07

Fix EventList invocation not using deserialized method arguments

[2.13.0-pre] - 2022-09-07

Add context to StateMachineBehaviour
Fix StateMachineBehaviour binding (event functions were called with wrong binding)

[2.12.0-pre.1] - 2022-09-06

Fix deserialization error when data is null or undefined

[2.12.0-pre] - 2022-09-05

Add initial tonemapping and exposure support
Add AR shadow catcher
Fix objects parented to camera appear behind camera
Fix reticle showing and never disappearing when no WebARSessionRoot is in scene
Fix WebARSessionRoot when on same gameobject as WebXR component
Fix deserialization of @serializable(Material) producing a new default instance in certain cases
Fix OrbitControls enable when called from UI button event
Fix EventList / UnityEvent calls to properties (e.g. MyComponent.enable = true works now from UnityEvent)

[2.11.1-pre] - 2022-09-02

Change: OrbitControls.setTarget does now lerp by default. Use method parameter immediate to change it immediately
Change: bump component compiler dependency to 1.8.0

[2.10.3-pre] - 2022-09-01

Fix EventList serialization for cross-glb references
Fix AnimatorController transition from state without animation

[2.10.2-pre] - 2022-09-01

Fix: skybox/camera background on exit AR
Change: AnimatorController can now contain empty states
Change: Expose Animator.Play transition duration

[2.10.1-pre] - 2022-08-31

Improved RectTransform animation support and canvas element positioning
Fix Animator.Play
Change: Expose AnimatorController.FindState(name)

[2.10.0-pre] - 2022-08-29

Add UI to gltf export
Add button animation transition support for triggers Normal, Highlighted and Pressed

[2.9.0-pre] - 2022-08-26

Add Canvas.renderOnTop option
Fix OrbitControls changing focus/moving when interacting with the UI
Fix nullref in AnimatorController with empty state

[2.8.0-pre] - 2022-08-25

Add export for Renderer.allowOcclusionWhenDynamic
Fix: bug in @serializable type assignment for inherited classes with multiple members with same name but different serialized types
Change: GameObject.findObjectOfType now also accepts an object as a search root

[2.7.3-pre] - 2022-08-25

Fix canvas button breaking orbit controls issue #4

[2.7.2-pre] - 2022-08-23

Fix SyncedRoom to not append room parameter multiple times

[2.7.1-pre] - 2022-08-22

Add: Timeline AudioTrack nullcheck when audio file is missing
Fix: AnimatorController error when behaviours are undefined
Change StateMachineBehaviour methods to be lowercase

[2.7.0-pre] - 2022-08-22

Add initial StateMachineBehaviour support with "OnStateEnter", "OnStateUpdate" and "OnStateExit"
Fix input raycast position calculation for scrolled content

[2.6.1-pre] - 2022-08-22

Fix texture pointer remapping in gltf-transform opaque extension
Change: skip texture-transform for textures starting with "Lightmap" for now until we can configure this properly

[2.6.0-pre] - 2022-08-18

Add scale to instantiation sync messages
Fix BoxHelper
Fix AR reticle being not visible when XRRig is child of WebARSessionRoot component
Fix exception in DragControls when dragged object was deleted while dragging

[2.5.0-pre] - 2022-08-18

Change name of KHR_webgl_extension to NEEDLE_webgl_extension
Change: dont write depth for custom shader set to transparent
Deprecate and disable AssetDatabase

[2.4.1-pre] - 2022-08-17

Add Mathf.MoveTowards
Change: rename needle-tiny webcomponent to needle-engine
Fix ordering issue in needle web component when codegen.js is executed too late

[2.3.0-pre] - 2022-08-16

Add SyncedCamera prefab/AssetReference support
Add TypeArray support for serializable to provide multiple possible deserialization types for one field (e.g. serializable([Object3D, AssetReference]) to try to deserialize a type as Object3D first and then as AssetReference)

[2.2.0-pre] - 2022-08-14

Add event callbacks for Gltf loading: BeforeLoad (use to register custom extensions), AfterLoaded (to receive loaded gltf), FinishedSetup (called after components have been created)

[2.1.2-pre] - 2022-08-14

Fix AnimatorController exit state
Fix AR camera background alpha to be fully transparent by default

[2.1.1-pre] - 2022-08-12

Fix: light shadow bias

[2.1.0-pre] - 2022-08-11

Add @needle-tools/engine to be used as import for "most used" apis and functions
Change: remove obsolete Renderer.materialProperties
Fix: NEEDLE_persistent_assets extension is now valid format (change from array to object)

[2.0.0-pre] - 2022-08-08

Renamed package

[1.21.2-pre] - 2022-08-08

Fix: NestedGltf transform

[1.20.1-pre] - 2022-08-06

Remove: Duplicateable animation time offset hack
Change: GameObjectData extension properly await assigning values
Change: NestedGltf instantiate using guid
Change: instantiate does now again create guids for three Objects too

[1.20.0-pre] - 2022-08-05

Add: NestedGltf listenToProgress method
Add: Allow changing Renderer lightmap at runtime
Fix: Environment lighting when set to flat or gradient (instead of skybox)
Fix: this.gameObject.getComponentInChildren - was internally calling wrong method
Fix: Spectator camera, requires Camera component in glb now

[1.19.0-pre] - 2022-08-03

Add: Animator.keepAnimatorStateOnDisable, defaults to false as in Unity so start state is entered on enable again
Add: warning if different types with the same name are registered
Add: timeline track onMutedChanged callback
Change: PlayableDirector expose audio tracks
Change: BoxCollider and SphereCollider being added to the physics scene just once
Change: try catch around physics step

[1.18.0-pre] - 2022-08-01

Add: Addressable download progress is now observeable
Add: Addressable preload support, allows to load raw bytes without actually building any components
Add: PlayableDirector exposes tracks / clips
Change: modify default engine loading progress bar to be used from user code
Change: add option to Instantiate call to keep world position (set keepWorldPosition in InstantiateOptions object that you can pass into instantiate)
Change: light uses shadow bias from Unity
Fix: instancing requiring worldmatrix update being not properly processed
Fix: Duplicatable world position being off (using keepWorldPosition)
Fix: Animation component, it does allow to use one main clip only now, for more complex setups please use AnimationController or Timeline
Fix: SyncedRoom room connection on enter WebXR
Fix: WebXR avatar loading

[1.17.1-pre] - 2022-07-27

Change: bump component compiler dependency to 1.7.1
Change: context.mainCameraComponent is now of type Camera
Fix: timeline control track
Fix: timeline animation track post extrapolation
Fix: custom shader does not fail when scene uses object with transmission (additional render pass)

[1.17.0-pre] - 2022-07-21

engine: add loading bar and show loading state text

[1.16.0-pre] - 2022-07-20

engine: add using ambient light settings (Intensity Multiplier) exported from Unity

[1.15.1-pre] - 2022-07-18

engine: fix nullref in registering texture

[1.15.0-pre] - 2022-07-15

engine: remove legacy file
engine: add basic implementation of Context.destroy
engine: fix <needle-tiny> src attribute
engine: add implictly creating camera with orbit controls when loaded glb doesnt contain any (e.g. via src)

[1.14.2-pre] - 2022-07-12

engine: fix dont apply lightmaps to unlit materials
engine: remove log in PlayableDirector
engine: add support to override (not automatically create) WebXR buttons

[1.14.1-pre] - 2022-07-11

engine: Fix AnimatorController finding clip when cloned via AssetReference.instantiate
engine: Fix deep clone array type
engine: Fix PlayableDirectory binding when cloned via AssetReference.instantiate

[1.14.0] - 2022-07-10

engine: add VideoPlayer using AudioOutputMode.None
engine: fix VideoPlayer waiting for input before playing video with audio (unmuted) and being loaded lazily

[1.13.0-pre] - 2022-07-07

engine: Add getComponent etc methods to THREE.Object3D prototype so we can use it like in Unity: this.gameObject.getComponent...
engine: Change Duplictable serialization

[1.12.2-pre] - 2022-07-06

engine: Fix networking localhost detection
engine: update component generator package version (supporting now CODEGEN_START and END sections as well as //@ifdef for fields)

[1.12.1-pre] - 2022-07-06

engine: change lightmap extension to be object

[1.12.0-pre] - 2022-07-06

engine: Add DeviceFlag component
engine: Fix VideoPlayer loop and playback speed
engine: Improve VideoTrack sync

[1.11.0-pre] - 2022-07-04

engine: fix enabled not being always assigned
engine: fix react-three-fiber component setting camera
engine: add support for custom timeline track
engine: add VideoTrack npmdef

[1.10.3-pre] - 2022-07-01

engine: Change; PlayableDirector Wrap.None now stops/resets timeline on end
engine: Change; PlayableDirector now stops on disabling

[1.10.2-pre] - 2022-07-01

engine: fix timeline clip offsets and hold
engine: fix timeline animationtrack support for post-extrapolation (hold, loop, pingpong)

[1.10.1-pre] - 2022-06-30

engine: improve timeline clip offsets

[1.10.0-pre] - 2022-06-30

engine: Improved timeline clip- and track offset (ongoing)
engine: Change assigning all serialized properties by default again (instead of require @allProperties decorator)
engine: Change; deprecate @allProperties and @strict decorators

[1.9.1-pre] - 2022-06-29

engine: add methods for unsubscribing to EventList and make constructor args optional
engine: change camera to not change transform anymore

[1.9.0-pre] - 2022-06-28

engine: add support for transparent rendering using camera background alpha

[1.8.0-pre] - 2022-06-27

Add: transform gizmo component
Change: component generator for npmdef is not required anymore
Change: component gen runs in background now
Fix: typescript drag drop adding component twice in some cases
engine: update component gen package dependency
engine: fix redundant camera creation when exported in GLTF
engine: fix orbit controls focus lerp, stops now on input

[1.7.1-pre] - 2022-06-25

Override PlayMode in sub-scene
engine: lightmaps encoding fix
engine: directional light direction fix

[1.7.0-pre] - 2022-06-25

engine: animator controler can handle multiple target animators
engine: fix WebXR being a child of WebARSessionRoot
engine: improve Camera, OrbitControls, Lights OnEnable/Disable behaviour
engine: add Input.getKeyPressed()

[1.6.0-pre] - 2022-06-23

engine: fix light error "can't add object to self" when re-enabled
engine: remove extension log
engine: log missing info when UnityEvent has not target (or method not found)
engine: use lightmap index for supporting multiple lightmaps

[1.5.2-pre] - 2022-06-23

engine: Camera dont set skybox when in XR
engine: dont add lights to scene if baked

[1.5.1-pre] - 2022-06-22

engine: fix threejs dependency pointer

[1.5.0-pre] - 2022-06-22

engine: <needle-tiny> added awaitable getContext() (waits for scene being loaded to be used in external js)
engine: fix finding main camera warning
engine: add SourceIdentifier to components to be used to get gltf specific data (e.g. lightmaps shipped per gltf)
engine: persistent asset resolve fix
engine: update three dependency to support khr_pointer
engine: remove custom khr_pointer extension
engine: fix WebARSessionRoot exported in gltf
engine: smaller AR reticle

[1.4.1-pre] - 2022-06-17

engine: create new GltfLoader per loading request
engine: fix bug in core where it could happen that scripts were added multiple times
engine: Added SyncedRoom auto rejoin option (to handle disconnection by server due to window inactivity)
engine: guid resolving first in loaded gltf and retry in whole scene on fail
engine: fix nullref in DropListener
engine: register main camera before first awake

[1.4.0-pre] - 2022-06-15

engine: add GameObject.getOrAddComponent
engine: OrbitControl exposing controlled object
engine: getWorldPosition now uses buffer of cached vector3's instead of only one
engine: add AvatarMarker to synced camera (also allows to easily attach PlayerColor)
engine: fix Animation component when using khr_pointer extension
engine: VideoPlayer expose current time
engine: fix Animator.runtimeController serialization
engine: make SyncedRoom.tryJoinRoom public

[1.3.1-pre] - 2022-06-10

engine: allow @serializeable taking abstract types
engine: add Renderer.sharedMaterials support

[1.3.0-pre] - 2022-06-09

engine: move log behind debug flag
engine: improved serialization property assignment respecting getter only properties
engine: add optional serialization callbacks to ISerializable
engine: default to only assign declared properties

[1.2.3-pre] - 2022-06-09

engine: downloading dropped file shows minimal preview box
engine: DropListener can use localhost
engine: SyncedRoom avoid reload due to room parameter
engine: LODGroup instantiate workaround
engine: improve deserialization supporting multiple type levels

[1.2.2-pre] - 2022-05-30

engine: change md5 hashing package
engine: file upload logs proper server error

[1.2.1-pre] - 2022-05-30

engine: disable light in gltf if mode is baked
engine: use tiny starter as default networking backend
engine: synced file init fix for resolving references
engine: allow removing of gen.js completely
engine: expose Camera.buildCamera for core allowing to use blender camera
engine: on filedrop only add drag control if none is found

[1.2.0-pre] - 2022-05-27

engine: fix networked flatbuffer state not being stored
engine: make src on <needle-tiny> web component optional
engine: src can now point to glb or gltf directly
engine: fix Raycaster registration
engine: add GameObject.destroySynced
engine: add context.setCurrentCamera
engine: make DropListener to EventTarget
engine: make DropListener accept explicit backend url

[1.1.0-pre.6] - 2022-05-26

Fix gltf transform textures output when used in custom shaders only

[1.1.0-pre.5] - 2022-05-25

engine: fix VideoPlayer being hidden, play automatically muted until interaction
engine: added helpers to update window history
engine: fix setting custom shader Vector4 property
[1.1.0-pre.4] - 2022-05-25
engine: fix tsc error in Animation component
engine: fix Animation component assigning animations for GameObject again
engine: fix Animation calling play before awake
engine: AnimatorController handle missing motion (not assigned in Unity)
engine: AnimatorController.IsInTransition() fix

[1.1.0-pre.1] - 2022-05-20

engine: minor tsc issues fixed

[1.1.0-pre] - 2022-05-20

engine: add isManagedExternally if renderer is not owned (e.g. when using react-fiber)

[1.0.0-pre.18] - 2022-05-19

engine: add basic support for stopEventPropagation (to make e.g. DragControls camera control agnostic in preparation of react support)

[1.0.0-pre.17] - 2022-05-17

fix EventList outside of gltf
fix EventList without any function assigned (No Function in Unity)
engine: support changing WebARSessionRoot.arScale changing at runtime

[1.0.0-pre.16] - 2022-05-12

engine: fix webx avatar instantiate
engine: stop input preventing key event defaults

[1.0.0-pre.15] - 2022-05-12

engine: log error if instantiate is called with false parent
engine: fix instantiate with correct AnimatorController cloning

[1.0.0-pre.14] - 2022-05-11

engine: fix @syncField()
engine: fix AssetReference.instantiate and AssetReference.instantiateSynced parenting
engine: improve PlayerSync and PlayerState

[1.0.0-pre.13] - 2022-05-11

engine: prepend three canvas to the web element instead of appending
engine: SyncedRoom logs warning when disconnected
engine: internal networking does not attempt to reconnect on connection closed
engine: internal networking now empties user list when disconnected from room
engine: GameObject.instantiate does not always generate new guid to support cases where e.g. SyncedTransform is on cloned object and requires unique id
engine: syncedInstantiate add fallback to Context.Current when missing
engine: EventList refactored to use list of CallInfo objects internally instead of plain function array to more easily attach meta info like UnityEvent.off
engine: add GameObject.instantiateSynced

[1.0.0-pre.12] - 2022-05-10

engine: fix font path
engine: add debugnewscripts url parameter
engine: start adding simplifcation to automatic instance creation + sync per player
engine: allow InstantiateOptions in GameObject.instantiate to be inlined as e.g. { position: ... }
engine: add AvatarMarker creation and destroy events
engine: fix networking message buffering

[1.0.0-pre.11] - 2022-05-08

engine: SpatialTrigger is serializable
engine: fix DragControls offset when using without ground
engine: fix WebXRController interaction with UI Button.onClick

[1.0.0-pre.10] - 2022-05-04

engine: fix gltf extension not awaiting dependencies
engine: fix persistent asset @serializable check for arrays
engine: add setWorldScale
engine: fix instantiate setting position
engine: AssetReference does now create new instance in instantiate call
engine: add awaitable delay util method
engine: fix scripts being active when loaded in gltf but never added to scene
engine: minimal support for mocking pointer input
engine: emit minimal down and up input events when in AR

[1.0.0-pre.9] - 2022-05-03

improved default loading element
changed animation pointer to support emissive intensity

[1.0.0-pre.8] - 2022-05-02

lightmaps fixed
glitch upload shows time estimate
deployment build error fix
json pointer resolve
improved auto install
started basic SpriteRenderer support
basic AnimationCurve support
fixed PlayerColor
fixed persistent_assets and serializeable conflict
basic export of references to components in root prefab

[1.0.0-pre.7] - 2022-04-30

WebXR does not load avatar from prefab reference
WebXRSync is added implictly and creates local avatar even when not networked
SpectatorCam is using local avatar
SpectatorCam camera component in Unity is now optional and implictly added if missing

[1.0.0-pre.6] - 2022-04-29

fix environment light
fix light shadows setting
fix video player in extension
fix video player texture not overlaying rendering while awaiting interaction
fix webAR root reticle when no rig component is in scene

[1.0.0-pre.5] - 2022-04-28

start adding support for AssetReference again

[1.0.0-pre.4] - 2022-04-27

add persistent asset extension
removed timeline and animator controller extensions as both are now serialized and resolved in assets
can resolve json pointers (animations/, materials/, textures/, extensions) in component paths
add syncField() decorator

[1.0.0-pre.2] - 2022-04-20

updated to https:// three.js url instead of git:// url
fixated flatbuffers dependency to 2.0.4 due to breaking changes and bugs in 2.0.6

[1.0.0-pre] - 2022-04-19

initial release

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