NutshellEngine 0.2.5 improves the editor's renderer and the runtime's UI functions.

Runtime

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

Features

• /!\ Breaking Change! Improved drawUI functions.
  • Added an AnchorPoint to drawUIText and drawUIImage, the anchor point specifies what point of the UI element is its origin.
  • Added a CoordinateType to drawUIText, drawUILine, drawUIRectangle and drawUIImage, the coordinate type is either pixel or normalized, and it allows to chose between coordinates in pixels or normalized (between 0 and 1 on both axes).
  • Added  a rotation parameter to drawUIText, allowing to rotate the text around its anchor point.
  • Newlines ('\n') are now supported in drawUIText.

Bug fixes

• /!\ Breaking Change! Fixed a color issue in the provided Graphics Module.

Before and after

• Fixed an issue with frustum culling in the provided Graphics Module.

Editor

The Editor is the software used to make games with.

Features

• Implemented PBR rendering on the Editor's renderer, making it closer to the runtime's provided Graphics Module.
  • Normal, metalness, roughness and occlusion textures are now taken in count when rendering the Entities.
  • Image sampler's Anisotropy level is taken in count when sampling texture.

Before and after

• Reversed depth is now used to mitigate Z-Fighting issues.

• The "camera go to Entity" keybind now doesn't reset the camera's orientation.

• Added texts to the Selection undo-redo queue to be more explicit.

• Added file icons to the asset list's contextual menu (right click).

• The log window containing all the logs resizes when the window resizes.

• When a scene is opened, the main window shows its relative path instead of its absolute path.

• When dragging-and-dropping a model or a material on an Entity that doesn't have a Renderable component, a Renderable component is created.

Bug fixes

• Fixed infinite loop that could occur when renaming a script.

• Fixed undo-redo when dragging-and-dropping a model or a material on an Entity.

• Fixed a crash when creating a new project on Linux.

• Fixed an issue when editing a material and selecting an image outside of the project's directory.

• Fixed an issue when displaying .ntim image files in the image file widget.