VOID Engine 2.1.0

VOID Engine 2.1.0

This release improves camera behavior, frame timing, coroutines, and the Beacon event system while keeping VOID's existing renderer and game-loop architecture intact.

Camera

• Cameras attached to batchers now update automatically during rendering.
• Added BaseCamera.OnUpdate(FrameTime) for custom camera behavior.
• Shared cameras update at most once per rendered frame.
• Manual camera updates are no longer required for attached cameras.

Frame Timing

• Reworked FrameTime to manage VOID's game-loop timing state.
• Fixed timestep updates now receive the configured fixed update interval.
• Rendering receives actual frame elapsed time even when fixed timestep mode is enabled.
• Variable timestep mode continues to use actual elapsed time.
• DeltaTime remains time-scale aware.
• ElapsedTime, UnscaledDeltaTime, TotalTime, interpolation alpha, FPS, and slow-frame tracking remain available through FrameTime.

Coroutines

• Replaced the previous coroutine implementation with a VOID-native IEnumerator runner.
• Added nested coroutine chaining through yield return IEnumerator.
• Parent routines resume after child routines complete.
• Nested coroutine chains can run to arbitrary practical depth.
• Root handles remain valid while child routines are active.
• Stopping a root coroutine safely stops and cleans up the entire child chain.
• Coroutine cleanup now safely handles stopping during an active coroutine update.
• CoroutineManager now uses FrameTime.
• Numeric float, double, and int yields continue to represent scaled-time delays.
• CoroutineHandle remains an immutable readonly struct.

Beacons

• BeaconHandle payload data is now exposed as a read-only view.
• Default-initialized handles are safe.
• Added payload Count.
• Improved Get and TryGet handling.
• Subscription mutation is synchronized while publishing keeps the existing fast multicast Action<BeaconHandle> path.
• Publishing remains synchronous.

Beacon Extensions

• Added BeaconManager.PublishDelay for delayed string and enum topic publishing.
• Delayed publishing uses VOID's coroutine system and scaled game time.
• PublishDelay returns a CoroutineHandle and can be cancelled.
• Added typed payload helpers for one through five values.
• Added Get, GetOr, TryGet, Has, IsTopic, HasData, and IsEmpty.

Game Loop

• Separated fixed-update timing from rendered-frame timing.
• Added render-frame tracking for automatic camera updates.
• Preserved graceful shutdown checks so update and rendering stop immediately after the window closes.

Fixes

• Fixed coroutine state mutation when a coroutine stops itself or is stopped during MoveNext().
• Deferred coroutine cleanup until it is safe to dispose the active chain.
• Preserved deepest-first nested coroutine disposal.

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NuGet: Void.Engine 2.1.0