jMonkeyEngine v3.8.0-alpha2

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A new alpha2 release is available for testing:

project.ext {
  jmeVer = '3.8.0-alpha2' 
}
dependencies {
    implementation "org.jmonkeyengine:jme3-core:$jmeVer"
    ...
}

Full Release Notes:

A few notable things that are new since the last alpha1 release:

  • Major refactoring to PBRLighting. These changes are temporarily in a new copy of PBRLighting, but this will fully replace PBRLighting.j3md after more testing. If you have experience in shaders, please take a look at this modular version of PBRLighting.frag.

  • Added support for multiple monitors and fulllscreen on a secondary monitor. Check out this example: TestMonitorApp to help test this.

  • Added support for editing textures in-shader: TestShaderImage

  • Bug Fix for animation exception that occurred when playing animations without an ArmatureMask in the last alpha release.

I am still working optimizing and refactoring the PBR terrain shaders (to work with the new modular struct system), but I want to get some feedback on the current changes to PBRLighting before finalizing everything. So feedback and testing for the new modular PBR shader is especially appreciated.

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Awesome work, thank you!

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I’ve tried this against both my VR game Starlight and the Tamarin VR testbed. All looks to work well

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