Qt Quick 3D supports a wide range of new features and improvements for this toolkit component that provides a high-level 3D API for user interfaces as well as a growing number of other possible 3D use-cases. Some of the Qt Quick 3D improvements to find in Qt 6.0 include:
- Qt Quick 3D supports rendering to OpenGL 3.x, OpenGL ES 2.x, Vulkan, Direct3D 11, and Apple Metal.
- Better support for integrating 2D content within 3D scenes.
- Better support for assets in the glTF2 transmission format.
- Re-designed support for custom materials and post-processing effects.
- Big rendering improvements to offer greater fidelity.
- Nearest neighbor filtering support as well as mipmap support and mipmap filtering.
- A new shader generation tool to support offline shader baking.
- Better resource management.
- Dynamic geometric and dynamic textures support.
Andy Nichols of The Qt Company has outlined many of the Qt Quick 3D improvements over on the Qt.io blog .
If all goes well, Qt 6.0 will be released in December.