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Babylon.JS 4.2 Game Engine Released - xSicKxBot - 11-13-2020
Babylon.JS 4.2 Game Engine Released
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/babylon-js-4-2-game-engine-released.png" width="760" height="387" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p><a href="https://www.babylonjs.com/">Babylon.js</a>, 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:</p>
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<li>New particle editor for direct creation of particle systems in the Inspector</li>
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<li>new Sprite Editor built into the Inspector to create, control and save sprites</li>
<li><span>new Skeleton viewer to visual bones and bone weights in Inspector</span></li>
<li>texture inspector for debugging texture issues</li>
<li>PBR support in the Node material editor with access to metallic, roughness, clearcoat, sheen etc when creating materials</li>
<li>new Procedural Texture, Particle Shader, Post Processing modes added to the Node editor</li>
<li>reusable frames in Node Material editor, enabling you to reuse shader code between projects easily</li>
<li>playground templates, essentially quick access code snippets in the code editor using Ctrl+Space</li>
<li>direct support for pre-filtered .hdr files</li>
<li>support for React Native for creating native applications</li>
<li>KTX + Basis U texture compression support</li>
<li>much, much more</li>
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<p>You can learn more about the release <a href="https://babylonjs.medium.com/babylon-js-4-2-simplicity-reimagined-965f88d0fad">in this article here</a> or by watching the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiTAfDB8Dis">video </a>below. Babylon.js is an open source project under the Apache 2 license with the source code <a href="https://github.com/BabylonJS/Babylon.js">available on GitHub</a>. If you are interested in learning more about Babylon, be sure to check out our older <a href="https://gamefromscratch.com/babylonjs-tutorial-series/">Babylon.js tutorial series</a>.</p>
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