v0.117.0-rc11 Whole Worlds

Everything in rc10, plus big batches of terrain edits that land many a frame, ground that streams in wherever the camera goes, and nodes that can always be destroyed.

Terrain edits

• A batch of big digs and flattens is made ahead in the background and lands many a frame, instead of one a frame. A loading screen that grades a site with hundreds of edits finishes several times sooner.
• terrain.editBudget(ms) sets how much of each frame terrain edits may take (4 ms by default). Raise it while a loading screen covers the view, and set it back after; it returns the budget it replaced.
• A small edit over ground the world has not made yet is made in the background too, so the first dig on a fresh world no longer stalls the frame.

Streaming

• Ground streams in around the game camera as well as around physics bodies, so a rock or moon the camera flies up to gets its ground without terrain.warm. terrain.lodAnchor moves the camera's anchor, as before.

Scripting

• destroy removes any node, including an empty root that assembly.split makes. A handle to a node that is already gone logs a warning instead of doing nothing silently.
• A kinematic body that a script moves from update while it rides a moving world sits one step behind its node, where rays and overlaps cannot find it. The Console now says so once, naming the body, and the fix: move it in fixedUpdate, or parent it to the world it stands on.

Upgrading

Nothing to do.