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@gchahal1982 gchahal1982 released this 07 Nov 16:29
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v5.1.0
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A minor release: new additive authoring helpers, an agent verify loop and a colour-parser fix. Nothing in the 5.0.x public API is removed or narrowed.

Added

  • aura3d verify: one JSON report from typecheck, assets, lint, build, serve and a Chrome/CDP render-and-inspect pass. A seeded benchmark of 10 broken scenes ships with it; the repair results are n=1 runs and are not a general success-rate claim.
  • First-screen cheat sheet: llms.txt now opens with eight type-checked, GPU-rendered general pattern blocks.
  • @aura3d/engine/procedural subpath: seeded noise, path2d, curves, lathe, sweep, parametric surfaces, heightfield terrain and part composition, each returning a custom geometry spec.
  • camera.frame, camera.frameScene, camera.framePose and camera.worldBounds auto-framing helpers.
  • effects.godRays, effects.volumetricBeam, material.strata, material.caustics and material.lightBeam helpers.
  • A4 portable shader-graph pilots for Last Train (cloud sea) and Silt and Signal (water), behind ?portable=1, default off.
  • Tools only: the E6 spatial benchmark harness (tools/spatial-bench, Aura3D vs three.js viewers) and a diagnosis of streamed points. Aura3D streamed points are JS-bound today (about 10 fps at 100K points); the fix is planned for 5.1.x.
  • @aura3d/mcp phase 1 (stdio MCP server: symbols, docs search, recipes, scaffold, asset and deploy wrappers, error explanations). The package is private and not published.

Fixes and behaviour changes

  • Static scenes whose only motion is a time-reading custom shader (uTime) or world.water now keep drawing; before, they drew one frame and looked frozen.
  • Colours: every CSS colour form (#rgb, #rrggbbaa, rgb(), hsl(), oklch(), named colours) now parses. Behaviour change: an invalid colour string now throws COLOR_INVALID naming the option; before, it silently rendered near-black.
  • Looks: an HDRI that fails to load falls back to a procedural probe and reports LOOK_HDRI_MISSING in app.diagnostics().warnings; check-deploy warns when a look's HDRI file is missing.

Known limits

  • Deferred to 5.1.x: look defaults, typed mutable buffers, picking, React embedding, zero-install physics, materials, contact-shadow visibility and the guessable-API pass.
  • Browser acceptance round 3 and WebGPU evidence have not been run for this release.
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