Major features and improvements:

• Rendering: PBR/IBL/HBAO
  • --Implementation of Nvidia's HBAO effect (soft shadows in corners and crevices) via Magnum by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2192
  • --PBR/IBL Configuration and customization by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2155
• Skinned ArticulatedObjects:
  • Add skinning support for gfx-replay and legacy replay rendering. by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2120
• More accurate get_random_navigable_point_near by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2221

Other Changes:

• --Attributes/Managers Maintenance : Separate Monolithic ObjectAttributes; Remove unnecessary abstract method; Build JSON From String by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2177
• --[BUGFIX] Background renderer should not create extra contexts by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2180
• Disable broken JS test and make --no-web-apps the default by @eundersander in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2179
• --[BugFix] GibsonSemanticScene JSON access. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2181
• --[BugFix] Get rid of double JSON lookups using HasMember by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2182
• --Articulated Object Attributes/Managers support by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2178
• [BE] - remove dummy sceneId from the API by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2186
• --[Bugfix] Add new fields to test asset skinned_prism.ao_config.json. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2188
• [BE] - Error messages for physics specific API calls without implementation by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2187
• Fixed bug for directories containing spaces by @vishneshjr in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2176
• Update README.md by @dhruvbatra in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/1410
• --[BE/Bugfix]Modify creation of Articulated Object from URDF file name. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2190
• --[BE/Bugfix] Early Bullet/Physics enabled check; C++ test fixes for no-bullet; Python enable_physics default change if no_bullet by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2189
• [docs] Add details for getting hssd from datasets_downloader by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2193
• Add option to toggle frustum culling in replay renderer. by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2199
• [CI] - add spot robot assets to CI test set by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2201
• --[Habitat3.0] Removal of out-of-date/deprecated flags for IBL by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2203
• Add humanoids to gitignore. by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2209
• Update JS build doc. by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2162
• --Add benchmarking for HBAO effect. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2212
• --Address HBAO image transparency oddness; remove unused variable. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2214
• --[BUGFIX] -Ellipses in paths by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2218
• Bugfix: Some objects have invalid scales when replay rendering by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2200
• --[BE/Bugfix]properly handle multiple sequential ellipses by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2219
• Fix wrong instance structures in replay renderer test. by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2220
• Add replay renderer flag to enable HBAO. by @0mdc in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2223
• [CI] - resource class update by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2225
• --[Bugfix/Refactor]-PBR Skin Rendering Prep/Bugfixes. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2222
• New HF Dataset Download by @ASzot in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2232
• --[BUGFIX] Minor bugfixes by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2233
• hab3_bench_assets datasource by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2234
• --PBR Primitive support and gl context bugfix by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2235
• --Documentation for ArticulatedObjectAttributes and PbrShaderAttributes and JSON configurations. by @jturner65 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2237
• update version tags to v0.3.0 by @aclegg3 in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2236

New Contributors

• @vishneshjr made their first contribution in https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/pull/2176

Full Changelog: https://github.com/facebookresearch/habitat-sim/compare/v0.2.5...v0.3.0