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ViroReact 2.52.0 - Unlock Your Creativity with Shaders
7 days ago by Oliver Edis
Today, we are handing you the keys to the GPU: Full Cross-Platform Custom Shaders are here.
✨ New Features (Shaders & Rendering)
- Custom Shaders: Added full cross-platform support for custom shaders on iOS and Android.
- Shader Propagation: Implemented a system for shaders to propagate down the node tree, allowing for complex group effects.
- Animated Uniforms: Added support for animated shaders via uniform binding.
- Material Preservation: Material animations are now preserved when applying shader overrides.
- Lighting Integration: Added support for lighting properties within custom shaders.
- Texture Handling: Improved texture handling within shader overrides.
- Fragment Standardization: Standardized fragment output across platforms for consistent rendering.
Shaders in action - one model with different shaders applied
🚀 Performance Improvements
- Performance Throttle: Introduced a throttle mechanism for performance optimization.
- Material Sharing: Enabled material sharing across instances to reduce memory overhead and improve draw calls.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Critical Stability: Continued to eliminate memory leaks on iOS (affecting both viro and virocore).
- Critical Stability: Fixed a crash occurring when unmounting Portals on iOS.
- Android Types: Fixed an Android crash caused by an incorrect gravity type definition (corrected to 3D vector [number, number, number]).
- Memory Safety: Fixed a material cloning array overflow that was causing crashes.
- Asset Loading: Resolved issues with VRX asset loading.
- Depth Alignment: Fixed frame alignment issues with monocular depth.
- Anchors: Resolved a "Double anchor reference creation" bug.
- Hit Testing: Fixed hitResultId availability in AR hit tests.
- Threading: Resolved thread lock issues through extensive refactoring.
🔧 Changes
- Depth Logic: Improved depth integration logic for simplified implementation.
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