Quantum 2.1 – the Next Leap

by Robert · December 21, 2020

The team is working heavily on Quantum v2.1 and we are confident that you won’t have to wait for too long anymore.

Version 2.1 comes with a lot of new features and even more improvements to make working with Quantum a great experience.

You are welcome to ask the Quantum team in Discord in case you like to learn more about specific features.

Physics

Shape Casts (addition to the queries API, ability to project any shape over a distance/direction and retrieve contact points + position/normalized-time of the contact)
Inertia Tensors (3D) replace the current simple inertia value
Improved solver performance
(in development) GJK continuous collision detection (not guaranteed to be finished)
(in development) extrapolation options for prediction-culledajor

Navmesh and Pathfinding

Full 3D navmesh support (returned paths, queries, all return 3D vectors)
3D surface movement for steering agent (either over approximage navmesh surface or using raycast projections over accurate physics mesh)
several other small improvements

New State Inspector

create/remove/modify entities in runtime from the quantum state inspector (even on online games)
view predicted or verified frame
color-coding of components initials (facilitates identifying entities composition in a list)
multiple clients support (related to the multi-client prototype tooling)
several other QoL improvements

In-Frame Asset DB improvements

added ReplaceAsset API
added AddAssetIwhtValidGUID
improved FindAsset (via string path) to also offer the option to search the in-frame asset DB
Added API to inject initial instance for in-frame Asset DB during game initialization.

Multi Client in Editor

connect and inspect/view multiple clients to quantum servers
switch input/view/gizmos on/off for all clients
allows easy debugging of visual experience of the online game directly from editor, no builds required

Binary Assets

no more .bytes files (rebake all maps, and navmeshes)
added compression pipeline
serializer compression flags (serialize threshold + decompress on load for server)

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