Releasing 1.3.0

Official Release Annoucement

General

• Qt 6 / Qt 3D RHI support
• Refactored ForwardRenderer and support for multiple viewport rendering

New APIs

• MeshInstantiator to leverage instanced drawing
• Simplified APIs (View3D, SceneConfiguration)
• New set of Iro Materials
• Reflection Plane
• TransformTracker to watch Qt 3D transforms
• Placeholder and PlaceholderTracker to map a 3D plane to a QQuickItem

glTF

• Performance improvements when loading / reloading gltf files (caching of materials, geometries)
• Asynchronous loading
• Support for new glTF extensions (KHR_texture_transform, KDAB_placeholder, KDAB_reflection_planes)

Releasing 1.2.0

Iro Materials

• Set of simple materials targeting embedded use or cases where PBR is not needed
• Handle KDAB_custom_material glTF extension which allows using custom materials in glTF files

EXT_property_animation

• New glTF extension that allows animating any type of property

ForwardRenderer

• Qt 3D Layers can now be specified
• Add support for Qt 3D debug overlay (introduced in 5.15)

Kuesa.Asset

• Add forwarding of properties on target node

Misc

• Qt 5.15 support
• Many bug fixes and improvements
• Updated documentation

Releasing 1.1.0

glTF2 Importer

• support for draco compression
• support for MorphTarget animations
• support for glb
• support embedded image
• support for sparse accessors

gltfEditor

• AssetPipelineEditor renamed to gltfEditor
• generation of tangents and normals at runtime
• export of compressed gltf
• additional information on Meshes and Textures

Kuesa Runtime

• full documentation and examples
• depth-of-field post processing effect
• bloom post processing effect
• configurable tone mapping and gamma correction
• rewrite of the PBR shaders
• simple, easy to deploy gltfViewer application added
• use of MSAA when available
• improved light support
• gltf2 unlit material extension support
• numerous bug fixes and improvements

Releasing 1.0.0

GLTF2ContextPrivate becomes GLTF2Context

The old GLTF2Context is removed and GLTF2ContextPrivate is renamed to
take its place.