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 video below. 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.
