* Shadows are rendered for 3D objects when a **Directional Light** is set up on your scene layer - which is now the case by default for new games and new layers: they will have both a Directional Light and an Ambient Light. This renders shadows like it could be done by the sun.
* 3D models and 3D cubes are now casting shadows. To see them, you must ensure you the "Standard" material type in their configuration (and not the "Basic", which means they don't react to light) and be sure to enable "Shadow casting" and "Shadow receiving". This is done by default for new objects you create or import from the Asset Store.
* Shadows are rendered around the camera on an area that is large enough for most games while giving still good quality results. This means they should work out of the box and be adapted to most games, including large maps.
You can adapt the quality of shadows, intensity of the light (and so shadows), the size of the rendered area by editing the Effects of the layer in the scene (as for other effects).
- Add 3D Effects for color adjustment and bloom.
- A lower quality anti-aliasing is used when post-processing is enable (SMAA instead of MSAA).
- Upgrade to Three.js 0.160.0.
- In case you choose "Model origin" for the "Origin point" property and the model origin is outside of the model, the model size may be smaller than in previous releases. To solve the issue you can:
- Choose one of the other options for the "Origin point" property
- Reset the "Scaling factor" to its previous value to get back the same size as before
- Modify the model to set the origin nearer to the geometry
- Also fix the scaling of flat 3D models
- Breaking change: fix 3D models that were mirrored on Y axis.
- In case some models look upside-down, they can be fixed by adding 180° to the "Rotation around Y axis" property.
- Handle custom origin and center.
* This provides new 3D objects: 3D Box (perfect to create walls, floors, or billboards) and 3D Model (to import objects created in a 3D modeling app).
* 2D and 3D can be mixed in a same game. Each layer of a game can contain 2D objects, 3D objects or a mix of both.
* This allows to build 2D games, 2.5D games and full 3D games: platformers, racing games, FPS, hyper casual games. It's easy to start adding 3D objects to an existing 2D game.
* You can set up a light by adding an ambient light and/or directional light in the effects of a 3D layer. 3D objects can be configured to react to light or ignore it.
* In the future, support for 3D objects will be improved: light objects, animations, etc...
