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Babylon.JS 4.2 Game Engine Released - xSicKxBot - 11-13-2020
Babylon.JS 4.2 Game Engine Released
Babylon.js, the open source 3D web based game engine, just released version 4.2 with a ton of new features and tools. Key features of the 4.2 release include:
- New particle editor for direct creation of particle systems in the Inspector
New Node System in Babylon.js
- new Sprite Editor built into the Inspector to create, control and save sprites
- new Skeleton viewer to visual bones and bone weights in Inspector
- texture inspector for debugging texture issues
- PBR support in the Node material editor with access to metallic, roughness, clearcoat, sheen etc when creating materials
- new Procedural Texture, Particle Shader, Post Processing modes added to the Node editor
- reusable frames in Node Material editor, enabling you to reuse shader code between projects easily
- playground templates, essentially quick access code snippets in the code editor using Ctrl+Space
- direct support for pre-filtered .hdr files
- support for React Native for creating native applications
- KTX + Basis U texture compression support
- much, much more
You can learn more about the release in this article here or by watching the videobelow. Babylon.js is an open source project under the Apache 2 license with the source code available on GitHub. If you are interested in learning more about Babylon, be sure to check out our older Babylon.js tutorial series.