NutshellEngine 0.2.6 improves audio functions and the editor's renderer.

Runtime

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

Features

• /!\ Breaking Change! Added a way to change a sound's playback time.
  • Added a startTime parameter to playSound and playSoundAtPosition to specify the time in the sound to start playing from, in seconds.
  • Added  setSoundSourceTime and getSoundSourceTime.
  • Sounds now include a length parameter, specifying the sound's length in seconds.

• /!\ Breaking Change! The default image sampler in the provided Graphics Module now uses a Nearest filter.

• The provided Graphics Module now selects a discrete GPU by default to avoid situations where an integrated GPU lacking some Vulkan extensions was selected, causing applications to not launch.

Bug fixes

• /!\ Breaking Change! Fixed an issue where textures loaded from .ntml material files didn't have their correct color spaces.

Editor

The Editor is the software used to make games with.

Features

• Lights now make shadows.

A directional light, a point light and a spot light

• Colors and some material parameters can now be edited live.

Material live editing

• Frustum culling is now used to improve the renderer's performance.

• Drag-and-dropping materials and models on a selected Entity on the renderer applies the change to all selected Entities.

• Middle-clicking a file on a file selector now selects that file in the asset list.

Bug fixes

• Metallic, roughness and occlusion textures are now correctly bound.

• Sphere colliders are now correctly scaled.

• Fixed an issue where the editor could open twice when clicking on a recent project with both the left and the right mouse buttons.

• Minimum anisotropy is now 1.