Nova64 v0.5.1

Released: 2026-05-10

A focused Godot parity push (103 commits): the native host closes most of the remaining visual gaps against the Three.js reference for voxel, WAD, VOX, PBR, and shader carts, and the in-editor JS authoring experience improves.

Highlights

Godot visual parity

• Voxel/Minecraft parity — native voxel.uploadChunk face-culled chunk mesher (Phase 1) + greedy meshing (Phase 2), atlas UV texturing, simplex terrain alignment, biome heights + world seed, dynamic chunk streaming for infinite terrain, and tree-material parity.
• WAD parity — Phase 3 wall textures, uvOffset, getCamera, sector lighting; sprite-billboard flip/orientation fixes; GLB + VOX asset parity.
• Lighting/color parity — phase-4 dynamic lighting animation; tonemap exposure and fog/background color tuned to match the Three.js knee.
• Shader / HYPE / particles / Flash demos brought to parity.

Cart runtime parity in the Godot shim

• Real tween engine, full gameutils, createGameStore / novaStore.
• nova64.ui drawText / setFont / setTextAlign and instanced-mesh API on nova64.scene.
• wizardry-3d playability: setCameraLookAt, color/draw helpers, mesh visibility, encounter utilities.
• F-Zero start-screen camera aligned with gameplay (no perspective jump).

Authoring & loader

• Godot editor — JS syntax highlighting + ESLint for cart code.js files.
• Loader — accept ?cart= as an alias for ?demo=.
• Continued cart + runtime migration to the grouped nova64.* namespace.

Full history: git log v0.5.0..v0.5.1