### Fixed

- Fixed an issue where the Detail Manager caused frequent Scene View updates in edit mode, reducing edit mode rendering performance.

## [0.12.10] - 2026-01-10

### Changed

- Prefab prototypes now support an unlimited number of Optional Renderers.

- Added XR camera checks when determining culling mode to support setups with multiple cameras, both XR-enabled and non-XR.

### Fixed

- Fixed an issue where shaders occasionally used incorrect instance data buffer indices when using Optional Renderers.

## [0.12.9] - 2026-01-09

### Changed

- Added position input and output to the tree proxy vertex shader for improved cross-platform compatibility.

- Added extra index checks when removing a prefab instance to prevent potential out-of-bounds exceptions.

### Fixed

- Fixed a benign Serializable warning related to CustomPass in Unity 6.3 HDRP.

- Fixed potentially uninitialized variable (transformOffset) build warning in Unity 6.3.

- Fixed the AddPrefabInstanceImmediate method to use the instance count instead of the buffer size when assigning bufferIndex.

- Fixed "Ignoring duplicate keyword line" shader warnings for SpeedTree shaders.

- Fixed a bounding box calculation error when a child renderer has a positional and rotational offset.

- Fixed a memory leak when regenerating renderers while using Optional Renderers.

- Minor UI fixes.

## [0.12.8] - 2025-12-12

### New

- Billboard settings now show custom texture and color property selection when the shaders does not use one of the predefined property names.

- Optimizations for the terrain system when using large numbers of terrain chunks.

- Added an option to disable terrain bounds checks for the Detail Manager.

- Added an option to toggle distance-based detail density reduction per terrain.

- UI improvements.

### Fixed

- Fixed a benign edit-mode error caused by the Camera.Render call when changing detail prototype settings in the latest SRP versions.

- When the billboard shader cannot be found, the system now logs an error instead of throwing repeating exceptions.

## [0.12.7] - 2025-11-27

### New

- Added UNITY_SERVER check to automatically disable GPU Instancer on server builds.

### Fixed

- In URP and HDRP demo scenes, fixed the “Camera does not contain an additional camera data component.” warning in Unity 6.2 or higher.

- Fixed a NullReferenceException in PrefabManager when registeredInstances is null.

## [0.12.6] - 2025-11-24

### New

- Added the Auto Enable by Instance Count feature for Prefab Manager prototypes.

- Added new validation checks to prevent container prefabs from being added as prototypes.

- UI improvements.

## [0.12.5] - 2025-11-24

### New

- Improved performance by reducing the number of compute shader dispatch calls when using multiple render sources.

- Improved detail and tree instance update performance during terrain movement.

- Reduced GC allocations during Tree Manager matrix updates.

- Added context menu options to GPUITerrain for adding prototypes to terrain data from Tree and Detail Managers.

### Fixed

- Resolved the obsolete TryGetGUIDAndLocalFileIdentifier warning in Unity 6.3.

- Fixed a GUI error when adding Texture prototypes to Detail Manager in Unity 6.2.

- Resolved an issue where adding a prototype to Detail Manager and selecting “Add to Terrains” caused the prototype to duplicate.

- Fixed a flickering issue in XR when GPUI Camera initialized before the XR device while using Single Pass Instanced.

## [0.12.4] - 2025-11-01

### Fixed

- Fixed a syntax error in the shader converter.

## [0.12.3] - 2025-10-30

### New

- Added a "Fix Terrain List" button to the Tree and Detail Managers for easily removing null or duplicate terrain references.

### Changed

- The GPUITerrainBuiltin component no longer initializes the rendering system on its own unless registered with a Detail or Tree Manager.

- Commonly used GPUI components are now automatically disabled on unsupported platforms.

- Added a preferences option to include a script define symbol that disables error messages on unsupported platforms.

- Improved Built-in RP surface shader conversion for better compatibility.

### Fixed

- Resolved an issue where Material Variation values were transferred to another instance when removing a prefab instance.

- Resolved an issue where Material Variations were disabled after calling the Regenerate Renderers method.

## [0.12.2] - 2025-10-01

### New

- Added an Edit button next to the Prefab Object field in the Detail Manager, allowing you to replace the prefab detail prototype on the terrains with another prefab (also supports LOD Groups).

### Fixed

- Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect Instancing Bounds calculation on Vulkan and OpenGL.

- Resolved an issue where disabling the Prefab Manager in the same frame as removing instances, and then re-enabling it, caused errors.

## [0.12.1] - 2025-09-05

### Changed

- Added advanced runtime settings to control buffer usage and the maximum compute work group size.

- Added additional filters and optimized the Prefab Selector editor window for improved speed and reduced memory usage.

### Fixed

- Resolved an issue where the Prefab Manager's RequireTransformUpdate method did not apply updates.

## [0.12.0] - 2025-08-25

### New

- Optimized SetPass calls for better performance.

- Added Calculate Instancing Bounds option for async bounds calculations and reduced batch counts.

- Added Override Shadow Layer option to Profile settings, allowing different layers to be used for shadow draw calls.

- Improved Prefab Manager performance for transform updates.

- Added support for Mesh LOD Override on Mesh Renderer components in Unity 6.2. (Mesh LOD is not fully supported, but a specific LOD can be selected for all instances.)

- Added Force Mesh LOD option to Profile settings, allowing a specific mesh LOD to be used if the mesh has LODs in Unity 6.2.

### Changed

- System now determines operation mode based on hardware capabilities instead of Graphics API or platform.

- Added a multi_compile keyword (GPUI_NO_BUFFER) to shaders for devices with limited hardware. Shader variants using this keyword are automatically stripped from PC and modern console builds.

### Fixed

- Resolved rendering issues on Android devices with Xclipse GPUs using the Vulkan API.

- Fixed flickering issue when using Optional Renderers.

## [0.11.3] - 2025-08-12

### New

- Improved shader generation for Prefab Material Variations.

- Added Crowd Animations support to the Variation Definition.

- Implemented wind simulation for Tree Creator shaders with per-instance variation.

- Added the RequireTransformUpdate method to the Prefab Manager as an alternative to the Transform Updates option.

- Added an Auto Generate Billboards option to the Tree Manager to make billboard generation optional.

### Fixed

- Resolved an issue where tree wind animations would not work with the Prefab Manager if the original prefab’s Mesh Renderers were disabled.

- Fixed incorrect wind direction for rotated Tree Creator trees.

- Fixed a benign editor error that occurred when removing a prototype from the Prefab Manager.

## [0.11.2] - 2025-07-24

### Fixed

- Resolved rendering issue on Linux with Vulkan API.

- Fixed editor error caused by preview cache during assembly reload.

## [0.11.1] - 2025-07-23

### Changed

- Added a dialog box with an Overwrite option when running shader setup from the menu.

### Fixed

- Resolved shader conversion issue with the Better Lit Shader.

- Added missing linear-to-gamma conversion for tree instance colors.

## [0.11.0] - 2025-06-20

### New

- GPU Instancer Pro - Crowd Animations integration.

- Performance improvement by reducing shadow draw calls when using the "Show LOD Map" setting.

- Improved performance for vegetation transform matrix calculations.

- Added an Ignore Renderers component which, when added to a child GameObject of a prefab, prevents GPUI from rendering the renderers on that GameObject and its children.

### Fixed

- Eliminated a GC allocation caused by accessing Component.tag when using multiple cameras.

- Fixed an issue where the Terrain module attempted to load the Foliage shader before it was imported.

- Minor UI fixes.