Nova64 v0.5.0 — _The Great Namespace Push_

Released: 2026-04-29

The 0.5 line opens by consolidating the grouped-namespace migration begun in v0.4.9 into a stable, canonical contract. 100+ bare globals are retired in favor of nova64.* sub-namespaces shared identically across Three.js, Babylon, and Godot.

Highlights

• Grouped nova64.* namespace — every cart in the official gallery (71+) and every internal runtime callsite migrated to nova64.draw.*, scene.*, camera.*, light.*, fx.*, shader.*, input.*, audio.*, physics.*, voxel.*, ui.*, tween.*, sprite.*, data.*, util.*, xr.*, wad.*. runtime/namespace.js (NAMESPACE_MAP + buildNamespace()) is the single canonical cart-facing contract for all three backends.
• Babylon Noa voxel adapter — runtime/backends/babylon/noa-adapter.js + noa-prototype.js back the shared nova64.voxel.* API with native chunk meshing: identical cart code, two voxel runtimes.
• Babylon WAD/XR/TSL parity — WAD walls/floors/sprites flow through the same engine-assigned mesh-proxy path Three.js uses; native Babylon WebXR (@babylonjs/core 9.4.1) with Cardboard fallback; deterministic seeded TSL galaxy guardrail.
• Godot native host trunk-class carts — minecraft-demo, f-zero-nova-3d, star-fox-nova-3d, space-harrier-3d, fps-demo-3d (with WAD map picker) running natively via GDExtension + QuickJS; JS syntax highlighting + ESLint in the Godot editor for cart code.js files.
• Runtime hardening — cart-reset hook registry (runtime/cart-reset.js), _loadGeneration race guard in the cart loader, namespace-aware effects pipeline so stale bindings cannot silently no-op.
• Migration tooling — scripts/migrate-to-namespace.{cjs,js}, scripts/audit-carts.mjs, scripts/walk-carts.mjs.

Full history: git log v0.4.9..v0.5.0