NutshellEngine 0.3.1

NutshellEngine 0.3.1 brings more changes to animation, add new functions and add quality-of-life improvements.

Runtime

The Runtime is the part of the engine that runs the games made with the editor.

Features

• /!\ Breaking Change! Textures, such as in Materials or Particles are now using ImageID to point to an image, instead of an Image*.
  • This change allows to use images that don't have a CPU-side representation as textures.

• Added new functions to get access to the names of all assets of a type stored in the asset manager (for example: getImageNames to access the names of all loaded images).

• /!\ Breaking Change! Colliders have been modified:
  • ColliderShape is now a std::variant of ColliderBox, ColliderSphere and ColliderCapsule.
  • The intersect function now takes two references of ColliderShape instead of two pointers.

• /!\ Breaking Change! In ImageSampler, anisotropyLevel has been renamed to maxAnisotropy.

• Added level-of-detail settings to ImageSampler to configure the minimal and maximal levels of mipmaps to sample.

• Added a new createEntitiesFromScene function to load Entities from a scene file without leaving the scene.
  • It can be used as a way to define templates in different scene files to load complete Entities into the scene at runtime.

• /!\ Breaking Change! Animations got more changes:
  • In functions related to Animations, the animationIndex parameter has been replaced by a pointer to an Animation.
    • Entities can now play Animations that don't come from the model file of their mesh.
  • The Mesh structure does not contain the Animations of the model file they were in anymore. Instead, they have a pointer to the Model they come from.
  • Animations are now treated like any other assets, with createAnimation, destroyAnimation, findAnimationByName, getAnimationName and getAnimationNames functions.
    • When loaded from a model file, they are stored with the name "nameOfModelFile:nameOfTheAnimation".
  • Added a getPlayingAnimation function returning the animation currently played by an Entity.

• Removed Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion from the provided Graphics Module.
  • This method caused performance and visual issues with screen-door transparent objects.

• Initial window width and height can be specified in the options file (assets/options/options.ntop).

Bug fixes

• Fixed a situation when playing a non-looping Animation locked the application in the provided Graphics Module.

• More text can be renderer on the screen in the provided Graphics Module.

• Changed the default Occlusion-Roughness-Metalness texture in the provided Graphics Module.

• Fixed an issue where anisotropy could be enabled when between 0 and 1 as it should only be enabled when anisotropy is superior to 1, in the provided Graphics Module.

Editor

The Editor is the software used to make games with.

Features

• When an Entity is created, it is now directly open for renaming.

• Project settings contained in assets/options/options.ntop can now be opened through the Options menu.

• Added the possibility to set the initial window width and height in the project settings.

• Entity Cameras' displayed aspect ratio depend on the specified window width and height in the project settings.

• When building and running an application, a console will not open anymore.

• Disabled some material's attributes when other contradictory attributes were used (for example: diffuse color and diffuse opacity are now disabled when a diffuse texture is set).

• The entire scripts directory can now be opened inside the specified code editor from the scripts list contextual menu.

• Scripts can now be dragged and dropped to the Entities on the renderer.

Bug fixes

• Fix log not appearing correctly when renaming an Entity to an already taken name.

• Opening the specified code editor should be quicker.