March 23, 2025

• Added support for game controllers (Xbox, DualSense, DualShock, Nintendo Pro Controller, and generic joysticks) across all platforms.
• Improved physics engine plugin integration.
• Introduced a debug visualization API for enhanced real-time debugging.
• Implemented an Internal Color dialog for a more streamlined UI experience.
• Major improvements to the Explorer.

• Explorer has two icon sets for best icons visualization over different monitor DPIs.
• Executor and Explorer update the Controller class for automatic controller support.
• Explorer now supports multiple control info callbacks (allowing body info to be displayed within node info).
• Basic physics visualization (shapes and joints) has been added to Explorer.
• Inertia tensor information is now available in Explorer.
• All runtime parameter editors have been refactored to support right-click editing, expanding the range of editable types.
• Explorer has been migrated to the Internal Color dialog.
• Scale parameter has been added to the MeshAnimation import Explorer extension.
• The MeshPrimitive extension now correctly handles internal shapes during object editing.
• ScriptFlow and MaterialFlow extensions now use the Internal Color dialog.
• Improved geometry combination performance in the Mesh tool.

• Added 12 Hello Controller manual sample.
• Added tests/system/desktop for the Desktop class.
• Added tests/system/controller for the Controller class.
• Added new physics samples for each physics plugin (Box2D, Bullet, Jolt, PhysX), including 6dof, friction, hinge, impulse, restitution, shapes, and slider.
• Added scripts/script_node_flow_controller, a sample demonstrating flow-based virtual controller animation based on real controller events.
• Added scripts/script_node_flow_keyboard, a sample showcasing flow-based node control using window keyboard events.

• Introduced a new interface/color plugin for controls-based color dialog support.
• Box2D now supports capsule and cylinder shapes.
• The Box2D plugin has been updated to the latest Box2D library.
• The Jolt plugin has been updated to the latest Jolt library.
• All physics plugins now support engine-driven parameter updates, including friction, forces, impulses, shapes, and joints.
• Physics plugins now provide real-time velocity values to the engine.
• The default number of ControlFlow types has been increased to 512.
• ControlCallback has been added to ControlFlow to support custom color dialogs.
• PolyHaven and Sketchfab plugins now reduce preview image brightness when a modal control is present.
• ScriptFlow now includes guards to prevent assertion failures caused by invalid parameters (e.g., getting a child by index).
• The ControlFlow node dialog now displays the current node parameter value.

• The number of Tellusim::Function<> template arguments has been increased to 9.
• ControlRoot now includes a mouse offset parameter, allowing callback handlers to evaluate control offset/scale values when embedded within a ControlArea.
• Added a ‘disabled modal state’ option to ControlRoot, allowing modal focus without dimming other controls.
• Introduced new Mesh|BrepNode|Node|ObjectNode|Material::findChild|getChild() methods that accept literal name arguments.
• Introduced a movable flag for ControlDialog to restrict movement.
• Added InsideCallback to ControlRect for non-rectangular control shapes.
• Added MatrixNxM::outer() product operator.
• Implemented math operations between MatrixNxM types, including addition, subtraction, and scalar multiplication.
• RenderDraw now supports debug primitives visualization, including lines, quadratics, cubics, arrows, rectangles, quads, circles, boxes, spheres, cylinders, and capsules.
• Added a bias parameter to RenderDraw, allowing controllable depth overlap during rendering.
• BodyRigid axes locks are now controlled by BodyRigid flags instead of dedicated methods.
• Added BodyRigid::FlagKeepAwake that prevents Body from sleeping.
• Added BodyRigid::addForce(), addTorque(), addLinearImpulse(), and addAngularImpulse().
• BodyRigid::updateMass() now recalculates body mass and inertia during the next update.
• Added control over maximum linear and angular velocities for BodyRigid.
• Each SceneGraph entity now includes is*Updated() flags for better interoperations.
• Game Controller support has been added for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS. On Windows, the system uses GameInput if available, falling back to XInput by default.

• The quat_to_mat4x3() function has been added to SceneMath.shader
• The get_body_transform() function has been added to SceneBodies.shader
• The get_num_graph_nodes() and get_graph_base_node() functions have been added to SceneGraphs.shader
• Introduced the base_scene_body member to the RenderFrame structure for accessing all body parameters.

• Tangent-space generation performance dramatically increased for meshes with same normals (giant planes).
• PrefixScan and RadixSort now correctly detect the presence of FlagIndirect for dispatchIndirect() operations.
• Corrected joint body assignment during all scene clone operations (nodes, bodies, graphs, scenes).
• Joystick events have been added to the Android activity.
• Corrected window and DialogMenu icon creation on Windows.
• Improved retina-aware DialogMenu icon rendering on macOS.
• New macOS devices have been added to Info class.

February 23, 2025

• Introduced node-based API scripting.
• Added support for an unlimited number of mesh morph targets.
• Correct deformed morph geometries tracing.
• Fixed correct normal calculations for non-uniformly scaled objects when using the non-uniform material option.

• MeshAnimation Explorer extension for animation importing and retargeting has been added.
• SceneScriptFlow Explorer extension, which enables ScriptFlow functionality, has been added.
• ScenePrefab extension with Scattering and all Physics plugins has been added to the Explorer.
• Fragment and Compute app templates have been added to the project tool.

• MaterialFlow iridescent and marble material samples.
• Object mesh morph sample.
• Many new ScriptFlow samples have been added.

• ScriptFlow plugin now offers node-based Tellusim API scripting.
• More socket shapes have been added to ControlFlow.
• ControlFlow type masks now support up to 384 types.
• ControlElement has a new color multiplier parameter.
• Many new nodes have been added to the MaterialFlow plugin.
• Physics plugins support dynamic gravity changes.
• Physics plugins automatically handle body/shape/joint removals.
• Reflection plugin provides information about enums and callbacks.
• ARLink plugin (client to the Tellusim ARLink app) enables real-time facial animation.

• New MeshAttribute::TypeIndex attribute type acts as an index to the optimized (source) position attribute. Morph target attributes can be stored in a compact form and accessed via this index.
• Control of the ControlSplit size is now managed within the ControlRoot interface.
• Pressed callback has been added for ControlSlider.
• ObjectMesh::FlagSkeleton transforms the parent NodeObject into the source skeleton for all child nodes (e.g., different clothes on a character).
• ObjectAnimation::setEmbedded()|isEmbedded() flag controls animation embedding within the scene.
• ControlTree now returns the currently focused item for tooltips.
• Expressions now accept non-default matrix names.
• Trigonometric operations have been added for Vector<> types.
• Script scene classes can now store source code inside scene files.
• Object::createLocal()|GlobalTransforms() methods have been added for simple hierarchical node operations.
• A dedicated morph target buffer has been added to ObjectMesh.
• geometry/TellusimLine.h provides line-related math utilities.
• math/TellusimNoise.h provides Perlin and fractal noise samplers.

• Internal FBX loader now supports blend shapes.
• Updated mesh file format effectively compresses blend targets by storing only modified data.
• Default camera’s ZFar clip plane is Maxf32.
• Default point light radius is 100.
• Matrix4x3f type has been added to the Expression parser.

• Corrected skinned NodeObject bounding box visualization.
• Script::setParameter(), Material::setUniform(), and Material::setTexture() now no longer cause assertions when an invalid name is provided.

January 20, 2025

• C++ reflection.
• JavaScript API.
• Node-based materials editing.
• Material depth intersection blending.
• Randomized texture coordinate sampling.
• All Core SDK language examples render torii objects.

• C++ API reflection plugin has been added.
• JavaScript API plugin for JavaScript-only applications has been added.
• MaterialFlow plugin provides full node-based material editing functionality.
• webp Image format plugin has been added.
• Bound types have been added to all languages.
• Flow plugin includes base GLSL generation library.
• Flow plugin supports different variants and versions.
• Input and output attachment, and create callbacks have been added to the Flow plugin.
• Primitive plugin skips zero-sized cylinder caps.

• All Explorer Material uniform sliders have text editing mode on the right mouse click.
• Explorer Material editor supports vec2 uniforms.
• Old scenes are backed up before the Explorer scene save action.
• Explorer includes a MaterialFlow plugin for node-based material editing.

• 10_hello_image manual sample.
• 11_hello_bindless manual sample.
• platform/storage test has been added.
• materials/material_foliage.scenex animation material example.
• nodes/node_geometry.scenex geometry selection example.
• render/render_refraction.scenex render refraction example.
• material_flow_animation|anisotropy|bumpmap|cell|forward|fractal|parallax|perlin|skinned|texcoord|transparent|vertex sample scenes with MaterialFlow-based materials have been added to Engine SDK.

• Each API class has reflection methods getClassName() and getClassNamePtr().
• makeQuickCompare() function has been added to enable simple inline comparison lambdas.
• Parser::expectToken|Name() functions have been added.
• Spatial::intersection() correctly handles single Node cases.
• Control::addChild() method replaces/swaps the child control and returns the old one if it was replaced (new child) or null if it was swapped.
• ControlCombo can hide the current text with setTextEnabled() and act as simple menu.
• ControlSlider has Double and Right mouse button callback handlers.
• ControlSlider has unconstrained editing mode with the Option key pressed.
• ControlEdit can handle user keyboard events (keyboard events from other controls) with updateKeyboard() method.
• HSV color conversion has been added to the Color struct.

• An issue with a wrong number of parameters returned from String::scanf() function on empty numbers has been fixed.
• Variables with “step” or any other reserved by external function names are automatically renamed into “step_%x” by the compiler to avoid name collision on some API.
• The shader preprocessor recognizes “quiet” pragma and hides macro debug information during errors.
• The shader compiler recognizes “dynamic” pragma and avoids shader cache creation for such shaders.
• ControlRoot::setOverlayOrder() automatically fixes the issue with overlays rendering inside ControlArea.
• ControlDialog limits the number of iterations to 8 to avoid hangs.
• A vertex shader pass has been added to the MaterialShading class. This pass is performed after vertex skinning and morphing and is useful for dynamic geometry that calculates motion vectors automatically.
• All Object shaders use #assign instead of #define macro to avoid “macro has been redefined” warnings.
• attribute_position and attribute_normal shader inputs provide pre-skinned|morphed values good for procedural texture coordinate generation.
• GLTF KHR_materials_anisotropy extension support.
• HLSL access to half SSBO types.
• Global GLSL constant arrays support has been added.
• GLSL array initialization is compatible with vector types.
• MeshMaterial::Anisotropy|AnisotropyAngle parameters have been added.
• The number of SSBO buffers in Pipelines, Kernels, and Traversals has been increased to 32.
• Correct evaluation of nested shader macros without values.
• The number of barriers per barrier() call has been increased to 128.
• A random bug with incorrect parsing of some JPEG files has been fixed.
• isFinite|Normal|Inf|Nan functions are manually implemented.
• Access to SpatialTree internal buffers has been added.
• WebGPU can be initialized from a preinitialized device.
• Frame Viewport struct includes scene_time|ifps|seed|layer members.
• Correct depth bias evaluation for screen space occlusion. The banding artifact has been removed.
• HDR reflection overflow has been fixed on iOS.
• Temporal antialiasing has a better reaction to luminance changes.
• An incorrect first frame motion vector artifact has been removed.
• NodeObject has a new geometry index parameter for strict geometry selection.
• LightGlobal has a new split offset parameter for a better split distribution.
• MaterialMetallic|Specular has a PixelDepth option for random depth value for smooth depth intersection.
• MaterialMetallic|Specular has a Randomized texture coordinates option for tile-less texture sampling.
• New Apple devices have been added to system Info. A device version is also included in the system info string.