needle-engine-support

Needle Engine

• Add: expose options to disable XRController rays, hit points and teleport on the XRControllerMovement component
• Add: NeedleXRController emitEvents to disable input events for controllers
• Fix: Cases where XRController button isDown and isUp wasn't updated for primary and squeeze buttons.
• Change: WebXRButton container zIndex is now 5000

Unity Integration

• Fix: DefaultAvatar hands model
• Change: XRControllerMovement minimal turn angle is no 0 to disable rotation
• Change: ComponentGenerator.debug will now include more information regarding node.js not being found
• Change: ComponentGeneratorRunner will now use session state for determining if node is installed
• Change: Bump EditorSync package dependency to 2.0.2-beta

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Needle Engine

• Add: NeedleXRController getButton() now returns an enhanced GamepadButton object which contains bools for isUp and isDown
• Add: Access to NeedleXRSession via this.context.xr
• Fix: XR lifecycle issue where script became inactive during onEnterXR
• Fix: XR Avatar component for synchronization should not log an error when not connected to networking backend
• Fix: XR renderOnTop option for worldspace UI
• Fix: XR screenspace UI should not render for now
• Fix: change event argument for space (input in 3D space) is now of type IGameObject to expose worldPosition etc
• Fix: offerSession should request AR mode when only showAR button is enabled in WebXR component
• Change: calls to instantiate(prefab, {}) can now be invoked with anonymous options object as second parameter, for example instantiate(prefab, { parent: myParent })
• Change: the SyncTransform component does now automatically throttle fast mode (reducing the frequency of updates) when running on the glitch backend and when having set more than 10 components to fast

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Needle Engine

• Add: new Needle WebXR system
  • Core component event methods give much easier access to the XR system (e.g. onEnterXR or onXRControllerAdded)
  • Easy access to XRSystem data like gripWorldSpace or controller buttons using the NeedleXRController class
  • Default functionality like movement, teleport and rendering of controllers or hands is now encapsulated in separate components that can easily be enabled or disabled or overriden.
  • All XR input events now go through the event system and can be received on components using the input event methods (like onPointerDown)
  • Support for offerSession for QuestBrowser
  • Support for new depth-sensing in Quest pass-through mode
• Add: much improved DragControls offering different modes for screen and XR interaction, snapping or XR distance grab
• Change: Update three.js to 0.160
• Change: pointer events don't need the IPointerEventHandler interface anymore - they're now already available on the core Behaviour class via e.g. onPointerDown
• Change: for networked avatars add a PlayerState and a Avatar component to your avatar prefab

Unity Integration

• Add: UnityEngine.TextAsset references will now be copied to the output directory
• Change: update Needle Engine to the new XR system

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Needle Engine

• Add: VideoPlayer preload method to start loading the video file without having to start playback
• Add: VideoPlayer support for m3u8 video stream format (set the mode to URL and assign the video streaming url)
• Add: SceneSwitcher autoLoadFirstScene option
• Add: this.context.connection now has a getter for current websocket url
• Add: USDZExporter option to set max texture size
• Fix: SceneSwitcher should not load it's own scene again causing recursive loading
• Fix: Gizmo lines being culled sometimes
• Fix: Gizmo parented to another object should not be returned to cache if it got destroyed while being rendered (e.g. Gizmo.Label)
• Fix: prevent destroyed component from being added to an object again
• Change: Physics.raycast does now ignore lines by default (you can pass in a custom line threshold >= 0 to override that)

Unity Integration

• Fix: Add guarding against trying to reference the root web project scene from a referenced sub-scene
• Fix: Exception when calling FindObjectOfType from different thread
• Change: Custom Shader setting is now at the top of a material
• Change: Update UnityGLTF to 2.8.1-exp

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