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arXiv cs.GR details WorldBench, a benchmark for judging LLM-generated Three.js voxel worlds by actually exploring the scene, not just reading code or a few screenshots. The paper finds those two …
Babylon.js 9.30.0 lands with a small but useful set of fixes for WebGPU, WebGL1, particles, and the flow graph editor, plus one new canvas color-management hook. The biggest developer-facing change …
Babylon.js 9.29.0 lands with a mix of performance work, WebGPU fixes, and editor/runtime polish. The release trims CPU particle allocations, fixes 3D texture mipmap generation, and adds frame-graph and loader …
Babylon.js 9.28.0 tightens rendering correctness and adds a new root-motion path for animation groups. The release also fixes OBJ AssetContainer handling, improves Gaussian Splatting texture sampling, and patches a WGSL …
Babylon.js 9.27.1 adds a normalized occlusion query visibility API and broadens frame graph geometry rendering to cover Gaussian splats, sprites, and particles. The patch also fixes several WebGPU/WGSL and Gaussian …
Babylon.js 9.27.0 adds KHR_interactivity export support across core, loaders, and serializers, giving teams a cleaner path to author interactive glTF content. The release is a focused feature update rather than …
Babylon.js 9.26.2 lands with a useful grab bag for rendering and tooling teams: a new mesh blending post process, KHR_interactivity Phase 1 support, and fixes for a WebGL DoF seam …
A free open source JavaScript raycasting library is now available for 2D game work, with 10 interactive examples to show practical uses. It focuses on the core question of what …
Babylon.js 9.26.1 lands as a patch release with a few developer-facing upgrades that matter for asset pipelines and bundle size. The biggest additions are a new MultiTexture class, a dithered …
Babylon.js 9.26.0 adds an OpenUSD WebAssembly scene loader, making USD assets easier to preview and integrate in-browser. The release also expands rendering and tooling with object ID geometry textures, IBL …
A minimalist JavaScript rebuild shows how Meowdoku’s cat-puzzle rules can be expressed in just a few lines of code. The core logic is straightforward: one cat per row, column, and …
Babylon.js 9.25.0 adds a batch of WebXR upgrades, including dynamic viewport scaling, tracked sources, depth-sensing lifecycle controls, composition layer limits, and richer controller haptics. The release also brings white balance …
Babylon.js 9.23.0 lands with new WebXR capabilities, including persistent anchor lifecycle support, room capture, and semantic labels for planes and meshes. The release also improves Gaussian splatting with budget-driven, multi-camera-aware …
PixiJS v8.20.1 is a small patch release with a few practical fixes for rendering and cleanup. The biggest developer-facing change is a fix for UBO offset preservation in the unsafe-eval …
Babylon.js 9.22.2 lands as a small but practical maintenance release with a few notable feature additions. The biggest developer-facing changes are half-float support for Gaussian Splatting PLY data, single-file prefiltered …
Babylon.js 9.22.1 is out as a small patch release focused on Viewer Lite compatibility. The update is narrowly scoped, but it should matter to teams embedding Babylon’s viewer in lightweight …
Babylon.js 9.22.0 is a maintenance release focused on stability and rendering correctness, with fixes for alpha-mode sentinel crashes, inaccurate caps and depth/stencil metadata, and several IBL bugs. It also repairs …
Babylon.js 9.21.2 is a patch release focused on stability and rendering correctness. It fixes an alpha-mode sentinel crash, corrects reported caps and depth/stencil metadata, and addresses three IBL bugs that …
Babylon.js 9.21.1 lands with a practical WebGPU fix and a new FSR 1 render pipeline for WebGL2 and Native. The bug fix prevents scenes from going black when maxSimultaneousLights pushes …
Babylon.js 9.21.0 lands with a mix of rendering fixes and feature work, including WebGPU stability improvements, XR upgrades, and better GPU particle editing. It also patches several loader and NativeEngine …