3.50.0-pre

Needle Engine

• Add: PWA plugin now works with gzip compression
• Add: Asynchronous overload for screenshot2 method that returns a Promise<Blob>
• Add: USDZExporter supports animator.minMaxOffsetNormalized and animation.minMaxOffsetNormalized for QuickLook now
• Add: USDZExporter vertex color export. Use unlit white materials with only vertex colors to export as displayColor without a material. This is supported on iOS 18+ and visionOS 2+.
• Fix: automatically instanced/batched meshes are not exported twice in USDZ anymore.
• Change: "Open in QuickLook" is now "View in AR" to be more consistent
• Change: Deprecate device utilities outside the DeviceUtilities namespace, use the methods directly from the namespace instead (e.g. DeviceUtilities.isSafari())
• Change: legacy Object3D.transform wrapper that returns itself

Unity Integration

• Change: Bump UnityGLTF dependency to 2.14.1

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3.49.0-beta

Needle Engine

• Add: More jsdoc code API documentation
• Add: OrbitControls can now lerp to a target field of view
• Add: Timeline animation tracks now can have 0..1 weights
• Add: getBoundingBox can now optionally respect a layer mask for determining which objects to include
• Fix: Regression with animations not playing on instantiated objects
• Fix: DeleteBox uses getBoundingBox now instead of a custom implementation
• Fix: Duplicatable now correctly checks for its target object already being deleted
• Fix: vite plugins use vite 5.x API (and are still compatible with 4.x)
• Fix: MX Ink support for QuestOS v71+
• Fix: Some logs where incorrectly not behind debug flags
• Fix: Don't export cameras in USDZ when requesting QuickLook-compatible assets
• Fix: Exclude childs of ContactShadows and GroundProjectedEnv from USDZ export
• Fix: Custom hand models should not automatically become occluders in Passthrough XR
• Fix: Avoid potential exception in GameObject.getAllComponents(...)
• Fix: Prevent exception in DragControls when dragged object or controller disappear mid-drag
• Fix: Improve EventList usage from pure JS
• Fix: Regression in OrbitControls.autoFit that resulted in a wrong fit in some cases
• Fix: Improve order of batch validation for automatic instancing when some meshes have different attributes
• Change: Needle Menu styles are more consistent now
• Change: Change casing on isiPad(), deprecate isIPad()

Unity Integration

• Change: Bump UnityGLTF dependency to 2.14.0

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.8

• Fix: error where texture source in exporter hook is None

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3.48.3

Needle Engine

• Add: NeedleXRSession.start("ar") support which will start immersive-ar on supported devices or export an interactive USDZ on iOS devices
• Add: nextjs alias plugin
• Fix: Voip on iOS with connected bluetooth device should select the bluetooth device

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.7

• Fix: gather_animation_channel_hook api change for Blender 4.2.2 (LTS)

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.6

• Improve viewport menu popover appearance

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.5

• Fix: HTTP error in updater

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3.48.2

Unity Integration

• Fix: Unity WebGL build error

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Needle Engine Blender Addon 0.51.4

• Fix: resolve asset reference using the data block instead of evaluated representation (e.g. for ChangeMaterialOnClick)
• Fix: Remove component button is disabled if no object is selected

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3.48.1

Needle Engine

• Add: <needle-engine> attributes for background-color, background-blurriness and background-image
• Fix: Loading of OBJ files exported from ZBrush
• Fix: Loading of FBX files with empty vertex color attributes
• Fix: Unregister mixer in Animation component
• Fix: Needle Menu CSS improvements when using custom html elements inside the menu
• Fix: Needle Menu top positioning now takes CSS safe area into account
• Fix: Balloon message styles adjusted
• Fix: ContactShadows auto fit calculation
• Change: Exit AR button style aligned with Needle Menu

Unity Integration

• Change: Enable AutoReference in Needle Engine Common AssemblyDefinition for easier access to types like FileReference

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