We’re happy to announce that v1.74.0 of the Engine has now been released with some exciting new features.
Improved Gaussian Splatting
We’ve updated our Gaussian Splatting rendering to fully support spherical harmonics. Rendering with spherical harmonics provides more lighting information, which can result in much more realistic renders. You can see the comparison in the two images of the same capture below. This is an exciting step forward in creating high quality renders!
Without spherical harmonics
With spherical harmonics
ESM Scripts
We’re also excited to ship the Script class, which represents an important step towards our new ESM Scripting system. ESM Scripts are a modern way to build PlayCanvas projects that fully support ES Modules and offer more features out of the box. We’ll be launching ESM Scripts soon, so stay tuned for more information.
Also included are a number of fixes and updates. As always, you can find more information in the PlayCanvas Releases.
You can grab the latest version from npm or Github for testing. We plan to promote this new version to the Editor on the 25th September. In the mean time, happy testing 