4.1.0-alpha.6

Unity Integration

• Update build pipeline to latest alpha

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4.1.0-alpha.5

Needle Engine

• 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

Unity Integration

• Allow Node 22 LTS

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4.1.0-alpha.4

Needle Engine

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

Unity Integration

• Add: FileReference types now have an option to be assigned from an asset in the scene, URL string or filepath string
• Change: Generated font assets are now cached
• Change: Attempt to auto recover corrupted npx cache

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4.1.0-alpha.1

Needle Engine

• 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

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4.1.0-alpha

Needle Engine

• 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.

Unity Integration

• Add: Get AI Help for converting C# to typescript
  We added a small UI label above C# components that do not yet have a matching Needle Engine component. Clicking this label will ask the AI for how the component can be translated to typescript.
• Add: "Explain with AI" component context menu in Needle Engine/Explain with AI

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4.0.4-alpha

Needle Engine

• 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

Unity Integration

• Add: NeedleCloudAsset component password field

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4.0.3-alpha

Needle Engine

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

Unity Integration

• Add: NeedleCloudAsset component. Initial version to load Needle Cloud into the Unity Editor and Needle Engine runtime. To use just add the NeedleCloudAsset component to a GameObject in Unity.
• Fix: EDU license handling

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.52.1

• Fix: Issue where restarting the server would fail

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4.0.2-alpha

Needle Engine

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

Unity Integration

• Add: Basic WebXR hand models and assign as default models in the XRControllerModel script

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4.0.1-alpha

Needle Engine

• 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

Unity Integration

• Change: Update Editor UI styles

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