Lumberyard 1.1 released

Amazon has released Lumberyard 1.1 with over 546 new features improvements and fixes, including:

• Reduced pixelated edges with temporal antialiasing
• Use order-independent transparency to correctly display transparent objects
• Build DirectX 12 supported applications
• New docking system in Lumberyard Editor
• New Cloud Canvas features
• Improvements for networking, Cloud Gems, and the Cloud Gem Portal
• New Features and improvements for the Component Entity System
• New Amazon GameLift Features
• Asset processor displays real-time logging
• New UI Features – drag-and-drop functionality and layout components
• Virtual reality updates including NullVR Gem and Tracking Level Node
• Control the playback for a component entity sequence

Lumberyard is based on CryEngine, but Amazon say that since its initial release over 50% of the original code base has been overhauled. To see the full list of changes, visit Lumberyard’s documentation site.