v0.5.0

Supports Godot 4.5+

Island Builder (Breaking!)

Complete refactor! Island generation has changed, so you may need to do some migration!

• Island Builder is now entirely isolated to Rust, so it can be used outside of Godot if desired.
• New IslandBuilderSettings resource and associated sub-resources, allowing you to easily share the same settings between many islands.
• Added addons/stag_toolkit/island_builder/default_settings project setting to specify what IslandBuilderSettings resource to use as default if none are provided.
• New IslandBuilderSettingsTweaks resource which allow you to specify per-island random seeds.
• Added Ambient Occlusion baking. This is really slow, but can be automated with a level build pipeline.
• Mesh normals are now weighted by face-area to reduce artifacts.
• There are now multiple noise steps, allowing for rockier islands with more striations.
• Added an editor gizmo that displays the voxel boundaries and voxel size of the island once serialized.
• Very destructive operations are now locked behind a checkbox in the builder UI
• Memory and threading optimizations
• Island Previews now use rust-native threads and a swap buffer to improve speed and stability.
  • Known issue: If the island input is changed while the preview is generating, the preview will not re-generate again to show the new change. I will fix this in a patch.

I plan to make a video tutorial on how to use the new Island Builder in the near-ish future.

StagTest (Breaking!)

• SignalExpector no longer requires an argument to specify how many variables are passed with a signal (thanks to Godot implementing variadic functions (godotengine/godot#82808)
• StagTest will now detect script errors, push_error and assert and fail the test.
• Added --suffixes= command-line option to specify what files should be opened as tests (i.e. I want to open only --suffixes=.tscn files, instead of --suffixes=.tscn,.scn)

Miscellaneous

• Update to Godot 4.5, godot-rust v0.4.2
• Added StagLogger class for error catching and granular logs (i.e. disabling certain log levels, or logging to a temp file)
• Added StagUtils.walk_directory method for easily gathering lists of resources
• SimulatedRopeBinding drops reference to bound SimulatedRope when the rope exits the scene tree (...please remove your SimulatedRope from the scene tree before freeing it!)
• Fix SimpleLOD not properly removing collision-only meshes when using --import flag
• Fix SimpleLOD import failing if values are not configured
• Improve internal benchmarks

Experimental

Add StagPhysicsServer class. This has not been thoroughly tested and needs refinement as I figure out what I'm doing, so expect a lot of breaking changes! The intent of this node is to provide parallelization options for physics operations like raycasting (i.e. rope collision).

Full Changelog: v0.4.1...v0.5.0