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Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-8-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_8/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-8-6510/1646

Changelog:

• Add red tint highlight for CPU profiler table entries based on event duration
• Add selecting actor spawned in the prefab window
• Add color box to ColorTrackBall
• Add events tracing feature to Animated Model for animation playback insights
• Add displaying playback position of animation in Anim Graph window
• Add SourceState and DestinationState modes to State Machine interruption modes in Anim Graph
• Add new collection editing UI
• Add option to enable Depth Test on cloth painting debug preview (enabled by default)
• Add sub-groups expanded state restoring in Properties window
• Add directions to Slider control
• Add IsValidIndex to Array
• Add Vehicle Physics Improvements (new options, tank vehicles)
• Add Create parent for selected actors context menu button
• Add hiding Actor's Transform for UIControlActor
• Add RayCast utility to UI controls
• Add MinCount and MaxCount to Collection attribute
• Add require script and actor attributes
• Add option to toggle focus game window on play inside context menu
• Add reload project menu button
• Add support for multiple physical materials in terrain - one for each painted layer
• Add Material to RayCastHit for surface detection logic
• Add API for runtime Terrain editing and expose Terrain patch and chunk to API
• Add support for structure and script types in JsonAsset
• Add improved Visject context menu items search
• Add vertex snapping (gizmo with V key pressed)
• Add support for importing material emissive and roughness from fbx file
• Add support for using pointer in MarshalAs in scripting types
• Add quick creation of scripts via * Add script button on Actor
• Add ScriptingEnum::ToStringFlags for printing flag enums into readable text
• Add font fallback for text rendering
• Add spline editing improvements
• Add focus selection lock input to scene tree window
• Add SnapToGrid to vectors
• Add NextUnitCircleVector2 extension method
• Add the option to deselect all in Editor
• Add rubberband-style selection in a Content View
• Add the ability to quickly change window modes for the game window
• Add improved category drop panel to look similar to other panels in scripts adding popup
• Add parameter to change arrow cap size for Debug Draw
• Add DrawAxisFromDirection and DrawRay with Ray structure for Debug Draw
• Add Actor.GetPrefabRoot()
• Add prefab link breaking to preserve nested prefabs links
• Add skipping showing and applying changes to prefab root actor transform via Level
• Add activeOnly parameter to Level::GetActors
• Add parameter to finds only an active actor from the scenes
• Add breaking node connection under mouse with middle button click
• Add MoveFileToRecycleBin on Linux
• Add support for VS 2022 v17.10 / MSVC 14.4x toolset
• Add check to prevent incorrect NavCrowd::RemoveAgent usage
• Add clamping multiblend value to the range set
• Add partition mode and cascade spacing for Directional Light shadows
• Add saving docking state for custom editor windows
• Add Guid picker to support asset refs
• Add AnimationRootMotionFlags to configure root motion component extraction
• Add RootMotionMode to support extracting root motion from animated skeleton pose center of mass
• Add skeleton mask asset parameter to Blend With Mask anim node
• Add remaining clang options for Apple and Unix toolchains
• Add initial ASTC pixel format support
• Add ‘astc’ encoder lib
• Add BehaviorTreeKnowledgeBooleanDecorator
• Add automatic last dangling separator removal in context menu
• Add better grid gizmo rendering in Editor viewport
• Add save input and undo redo in Editor Options
• Add support for animating LocalizedString value in Scene Animation
• Add UI Control gizmo for editing UIs (in Prefab and Game windows)
• Add resizing UI Control via widgets
• Add cursor change and showing timeline edge duration when moving it
• Add UI Widget to new asset creation for quick UI setup
• Add physical units support to input fields in Editor
• Add InputAxis and InputEvent integration with stdlib features
• Add manual chunks loading before Binary Asset load in case content streaming flushed them out
• Add changes to default post process settings
• Add focusing search bar in content view and output textbox
• Add normal logs for deps build subcommands
• Add support for storing custom platform tools data in Game Cooker cache
• Add auto focus to Editor Window when nothing clicked inside it
• Add initial support for Precompiled Header Files (PCH) in MSVC compilation
• Add support for building engine target as shared library on all platforms
• Add Stopwatch for accurate duration measuring
• Add OutputName to Build Settings for game output exe/package renaming
• Add better win32 resource file injection to be done during linker call
• Add printing stack trace even when not using log file
• Add better stack trace reporting in crashes when running on non-Windows platforms
• Add support for using Tracy profiler on Switch
• Add removing dotnet libs for iterative rebuilds when AOT cache gets cleared
• Add custom editor for buttons that allow listening for them inside the editor
• Add support for multiple VisibleIf attributes
• Add hold arrow key in tree to continuously scroll actors
• Add drag drop for actor script items into scenes and prefabs
• Add ability to use custom file proxy in Editor plugin for file type
• Add an option to skip existing materials when reimporting
• Add Start Time option for Audio Source actor
• Add support for manually dirtying objects that use ReplicationFPS < 0 for manual-only replication
• Add sanity check to prevent crashes when Animated Model has NaN in skeleton pose
• Add support for stencil buffer on Vulkan and D3D11/D3D12
• Add clickable parsing errors in build tool
• Optimize Matrix decomposition to use Matrix3x3 for rotation
• Optimize render targets freeing on the start of the game
• Optimize UI Control serialization
• Update Nintendo Switch support to he latest .NET 8 with Mono SGen
• Update dotnet fork to the latest .NET 8.0.1
• Refactor win32 exe icon updating
• Refactor ThreadLocal when running on hardware with more cores than PLATFORM_THREADS_LIMIT
• Refactor UI Control actor active state mirroring in UI via Visible properties rather than unlinked from parent
• Refactor UI Control linkage in the prefab previews to prevent bugs
• Refactor undo logic for actors reparenting in Editor
• Refactor Editor UI style for selection and drag drop interactions
• Refactor collider shape raycasting utilities to the PhysicsColliderActor class
• Refactor PhysicalMaterial usage to utilize JsonAssetReference struct
• Refactor 3D audio implementation in XAudio2 backend to match OpenAL
• Refactor Visject Surface attributes data storage to use JsonSerializer instead of deprecated BinaryFormatter
• Refactor engine systems to use platform time seconds rather than date time
• Remove unused SaveTime/LoadTime from Scene
• Remove unused 'PixelFormatExtensions::ComputeScanlineCount'
• Rename Navigation.ProjectPoint into Navigation.FindClosestPoint to have consistent API naming
• Fix Animated Model slot animations clearing on start
• Fix fog to be usable for transparent materials (if enabled)
• Fix auto-docking windows on open when system DPI scale is not 1
• Fix missing asset update when dependant asset gets saved in Editor
• Fix unlink usag on Unix systems to properly use returned value
• Fix PostFx Materials blending for duplicated entries
• Fix stopping slot animations and playing the same frame
• Fix unpacking Variant structure if input value is a scalar
• Fix missing default value for new Visject method parameter if method uses Vector param
• Fix shader source code preview in editor
• Fix FileSystem::CopyDirectory not failing when source folder is missing
• Fix mouse events handling over window title bar on Windows
• Fix HeaderAttribute usage with default values
• Fix invalid log timing when log file is disabled in cooked build
• Fix unreliable RPC calls to silently drop if we failed to find an object
• Fix for editor view's cached CameraNearPlaneValue getting overwritten
• Fix Dropdown panel to scale correctly
• Fix ContextMenu short keys as needed to accommodate for scrollbar when visible
• Fix combobox window position based on what direction it opens
• Fix AlwaysShowScrollbars to update visibility state of the scroll bars
• Fix drop location of multiple nodes to be vertical in Visject
• Fix profiling hotkeys not working while profiler window is closed
• Fix GPU profiler event percentage calculation and * Add tint highlight to spot slow entries
• Fix opening projects with PostFx material assigned in Graphics Settings
• Fix Plugins Window layout in UI
• Fix Plugin Project creation when the user types in symbols
• Fix new asset naming to always validate filename
• Fix sprite atlas limit on 4096
• Fix invalid shader codegen when using ddx/ddy in material vertex shader
• Fix terrain painting when using multiple layers
• Fix issue with CharacterController initialization when using Center offset
• Fix copy/paste for UI brushes
• Fix UI Control selection bounds drawing to handle rotations
• Fix NextUnitVector2 to properly produce a vector within a unit circle
• Fix asset thumbnails refresh to support multi-selection
• Fix focusing editor camera on very large objects
• Fix duplicating array values in Editor
• Fix various Editor input shortcuts binding
• Fix Slider deserialization if value range is invalid
• Fix Transform diff serialization to properly handle prefab changes to a single component of transform
• Fix model prefab issue with scaling and rotation
• Fix differences between Assimp and OpenFBX imports in units scaling
• Fix prefab transform on drag drop with parent
• Fix Missing Script replacing in prefab
• Fix for resetting local transform of newly created prefab child
• Fix nested prefabs instance building logic
• Fix creating prefab out of actor to reset local transform of it for better instancing
• Fix cloth editing undo in Prefab viewport
• Fix incorrect vehicle wheels collisions inside trigger volumes
• Fix editor inputs processing in Game window to interferer with game inputs
• Fix no available getter/setter node and item for private parameters in Visual Script
• Fix Temporal Anti Aliasing ghosting and improve quality of blending
• Fix marshaling custom type array to C# with MarshalAs used
• Fix missing file error in Content::GetAssetInfo
• Fix bug with saving Missing Script into file
• Fix transform scaling applying to nested objects when drawing
• Fix uninitialized value of NetworkConfig::NetworkDriver field
• Fix networked objects dirtying for replication
• Fix bug in NetworkReplicator::RemoveObject
• Fix C++ Intellisense not working with latest version of Rider
• Fix incorrect including editor modules in Game.Build.cs when git plugin pulling
• Fix incorrect rigidbody rotation in AddMovement when using locked axis
• Fix codegen skipping if and writing else if first
• Fix codegen for nested enums
• Fix missing networked object ID resolving
• Fix JsonAsset::GetInstance to properly check base class
• Fix problem with Procedural Texture Sample flicker if using scaled UVs
• Fix getting file access time for Apple, Android and Linux
• Fix DateTime::GetDate calculations
• Fix render view panning when bug when no camera is active
• Fix Json serializer for CSharp data to use UTF-8 text encoding
• Fix editor exit with error code when game cooking CL fails
• Fix sorting directories in build tool
• Fix building macOS with the latest Vulkan SDK
• Fix anim graph debugging to include nodes path for nested graphs
• Fix root motion preview in animation window
• Fix invalid Visual Studio solution folder nesting
• Fix color grading issue with LUT texture used
• Fix spatial audio playback in OpenAL with Large Worlds enabled
• Fix terrain smoothing brush separation issue
• Fix going into windowed mode on Windows
• Fix rpath on Linux to handle plugins libraries loading in Editor
• Fix error loggig in headless mode on platforms that use char16
• Fix support for utf8 character in path on unix systems
• Fix deadlock when stack overflows in the Anim Graph update
• Fix timeline tracks dragging like recent improvements to tree UI
• Fix Bone Socket transform when Animated Model pose is not yet evaluated
• Fix error in Editor when Audio Clip duration is very small
• Fix vehicle center of mass rotation used in wheels setup
• Fix loading BehaviorKnowledgeSelectorAny from json object
• Fix incorrect mouse cursor hiding on Windows when window is not focused
• Fix preserving actors hierarchy order when performing undo of actor removal
• Fix UI size changes when saving scenes or prefabs in Editor with different layout
• Fix UI coordinate convertion in CanvasScaler
• Fix split dragging not working in some cases
• Fix carrot and selection height based on dpi scale to correctly scale with interface options
• Fix missing debug shapes in prefab window
• Fix loading shader cache when opened with different engine version
• Fix d3d12 warning on initial gpu buffer state
• Fix small GPU buffer update on Vulkan if data size align up overflows buffer size
• Fix potential issues with shader resources bindings when using custom post processing effect
• Fix TAA jitter in post-resolve passes such as editor primitives and debug gizmos
• Fix Z-fighting issues in Debug Draw when using TAA
• Fix bug in actors duplicate action due to incorrect actors list setup
• Fix snapping to the ground actor when viewport is not focused
• Fix drag and drop regression issue on tree UI
• Fix Revert to Default option when property is marked as ReadOnly
• Fix timeline playback control buttons visibility during seeking-only mode
• Fix game ui inputs to UI when game is paused in Editor
• Fix Mono.Cecil error in NetworkingPlugin when using external libraries
• Fix duplicate generation of native variant conversion helpers
• Fix PhysicsScene change not working in physics actors
• Fix crash when scene graph node gets somehow duplicated by internal error in Editor
• Fix crash in StaticModel::GetMaterial when model is not loaded or has invalid entries count
• Fix crash on incorrect object destruction event
• Fix crash on invalid string converted to managed string
• Fix crash due to incorrect PhysX usage for vehicle setup
• Fix crash while moving simulation disabled kinematic actors
• Fix crash when adding physics scene with auto simulation
• Fix crash when setting maanaged structure data via Variant
• Fix crash when storage file gets deleted due to missing ref from async thread which failed to load it
• Fix crash when finding actor or level with empty name text
• Fix crash when using multi-threaded objects spawn and caching scripting VTables
• Fix crash when replicating C# object with NetworkReplicated attribute on derived generic class
• Fix crash when using degenerated triangle in Multi Blend 2D to properly sample animation
• Fix crash when loading level with abstract script class
• Fix crash when using generic interface in C#
• Fix crash when using network replication or rpc after hot-reload in Editor
• Fix crash when using invalid GPUTextureDescription

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-7-2-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_7/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-7-6407-2/1533

Changelog:

• Add invert green channel option to texture tool
• Add various .NET and VSCode intellisense fixes
• Add new icon for macOS
• Add automatic code modules references adding when cloning plugin project
• Add saved colors to color picker
• Add infinite loop to behavior tree Loop decorator
• Add option to import model file as Prefab
• Add ModelPrefab to imported model prefab for reimporting functionality
• Add various improvements to models importing code
• Add support for loading prefab instance if the root was changed or deleted
• Add support for displaying and reverting array values to prefab value in properties panel
• Add removing thumbnails for deleted assets
• Add Half to Vector2/Vector4
• Add Where, Select and RemoveAll to ArrayExtensions
• Add SloppyOptimization disabledby default and lower default LOD Target Error value for model auto-LOD
• Add better ScaleWithResolution defaults in Canvas Scaler
• Add Async to anim events (false by default) to delay events execution into main thread and prevent multi-threading issues by default
• Add PixelFormatExtensions::ComputeBlockSize
• Add ability to change default Android screen orientation
• Add better Visual Script debugger tooltips display
• Add mouse tracking on Linux
• Add context menu to load additional scenes quickly
• Add auto-sizing for box colliders when they are added to the scene
• Update meshoptimizer to v0.20
• Optimize time service update math code
• Remove old warnings about invalid model instance buffer
• Replace ImportedModelData with ModelData for model importing
• Refactor INetworkDriver::PopEvent to use network event as output parameter rather than raw pointer
• Refactor objects splitting in models importing to be handled by ModelTool not the importer code itself
• Refactor prefab's objectsCache to be explicitly SceneObject values
• Refactor memory allocators to use dedicated path when moving collection data that is not blittable
• Refactor Visual Script debugger apis to use bindings generator
• Refactor Physics Colliders to use auto serialization
• Fix ability in editor to delete content and source folders
• Fix tooltip location check when wraps over the screen
• Fix UI Dropdown size issue with large font
• Fix selecting prefab object when object from prefab is already selected
• Fix constant value sliders in material graphs to not be used due to shader compilations
• Fix deadlock in NetworkManager when network peer returns invalid event type
• Fix zero clamp on hinge velocity to allow negative values
• Fix __cplusplus macro on MSVC and add logging C++ version used during compilation
• Fix missing channel masking in material Scene Texture node
• Fix missing surface graph edited flag after removing anim graph state transition
• Fix missing output parameters conversion when calling interface implementation in scripting
• Fix selecting objects/gizmos with high far plane
• Fix blending additive animations
• Fix MissingScript to be added only when object type exists (skip for prefab instances)
• Fix not showing primary context menu on Visject surface if child control handled input event
• Fix layout of editor updating when adding a script to multiple actors in a scene
• Fix incorrect empty meshes/LODs removal after auto-lod generation
• Fix invalid codegen for array reference passed as output parameter in scripting interface method
• Fix incorrect pointer marshalling from Variant to managed runtime
• Fix model asset thumbnail if mesh is not centered around origin
• Fix prefab window performance with large hierarchies
• Fix not supported dragging prefab actors between windows
• Fix spawned prefab name after drag&drop into prefab window
• Fix invalid BT node decorator linkage after removing it
• Fix invalid tracy events from C# profiling api when profiler gets connected mid-event
• Fix .NET runtime packaging with installed .NET 8 SDK
• Fix Visual Studio build issues with C# projects when engine path has spaces
• Fix Json serialzier regression after hot-reload
• Fix Swap for non-copyable types
• Fix swapping core collections
• Fix project initialization with -new if it already exists
• Fix calling script OnDestroy when removing actors or scripts from the scene
• Fix several actor types performing default spawn behavior when spawning from a prefab
• Fix docking windows on Linux
• Fix importing .dds files as-isif the compressed image is too small for the engine (block size validation)
• Fix dark outline around Screen Space Reflections alpha blending area
• Fix default prefab instance not taking into account root position
• Fix plugin clone and loading to wait for git process end properly
• Fix managed method delegate creation to be thread-safe
• Fix typo in Tag comparison function
• Fix render target pool over-allocation when changing render resolution frequently
• Fix deadlock in Asset.WaitForLoaded when loading task hangs in the loading queue for a main thread sync
• Fix deadlock when loading block-compressed texture that is smaller than block size
• Fix deadlock in asset thumbnails rendering queue when texture streaming fails
• Fix various crashes
• Fix crash in UI prefab changes apply when reparenting controls
• Fix crash when boxing native non-POD structure into managed format
• Fix crash when updating prefabs from async thread
• Fix crash when spawning actor from asyc thread into the SceneObject
• Fix crash when unloading texture that has active streaming tasks
• Fix crash when resizing navmesh capacity with crowd created for that navmesh
• Fix crash when drawing terrain without cached neighbor chunks
• Fix crash in mesh LOD generator if generated mesh has more indices
• Fix crash in Content Storage async job when someone is using file storage and access cannot be freed

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-7-1-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_7/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-7-6406-1/1482

Changelog:

• Add SetThreadAffinityMask and SetThreadPriority and thread name for Apple platforms
• Add storing shader asset includes paths in compact format for portability
• Add unit test for HashSet and Dictionary collection types
• Add debug drawing contact offset for selected collider
• Add custom model picker in material preview
• Add CustomScenes feature to draw a fixed set of scenes within SceneRenderTask
• Add minor improvements to reference properties
• Add more alternative titles to Surface nodes
• Add order and ordering options to comments in Surface graph
• Add SortScore to Visject node archetypes and use it to favor method overrides in Visual Script
• Add Convert to Parameter for Surface constant nodes
• Add support for unlimited window size if MaximumSize is set to zero
• Add spawning UI Canvas Scaler when adding new UI Canvas
• Add handling ViewLayersMask from camera when rendering UI Canvas
• Add copying old UI Control data to new UI Control when changing type
• Add option to limit number of items in Dropdown popup
• Add optional scrollbar to Dropdown popup list
• Add immediate game viewport sync after aspect ratio change in Editor
• Add new light theme to Editor UI
• Add better formatting for automatic tooltips in Editor from xml comments
• Add input bindings for game window mouse unlock and toggle fullscreen
• Add button to reload scenes via Editor menu
• Add short delay before auto-selecting editor tab on drag over header
• Add rebuilding navigation mesh after apply changes in Navigation asset
• Add dragging items support into lists and arrays in the Properties window
• Add CalculateBoneOffsetMatrices option to fix some animated model skeletons rendering
• Add GetRotationFromTo and FindBetween utilities to C# Quaternion API
• Add GetSplineSegmentLength to get spline segment length
• Add new material nodes: Rectangle Mask, FWidth, and AA Step
• Add default value for material Sphere Mask node to create blob gradient around UV center
• Add SetNodeTransform to Animated Model
• Add waking up rigidbodies when changing kinematic state
• Add name to Android main thread
• Add limits to cloth brush values
• Add support for including global configs in engine configuration options
• Add .NET SDK version 7 as forced to be used during game cooking (dotnet8 can be sued with Editor)
• Add clearing BT memory in non-release builds to make issues spotting easier
• Add better errors logging to BT nodes in case of issues
• Add soft check for null managed object value for unboxing
• Add Style property getter to FontAsset to access its style flags
• Add engine version in Editor main window title
• Add security lockers for managed typeinfo access
• Add git submodule init to git project cloning
• Add support for getter-only properties in blackboard selector access
• Add automatic show of skeleton when entering skeleton tab in skinned model editor
• Add extended buttons support for Linux
• Add XDG_DATA_HOME env var usage the approved default as per specification on Linux
• Add GetStackFrames and IsDebuggerPresent on Linux
• Add GetStackFrames on Android
• Add decoding stack trace function names on Apple platforms
• Add always logging unhandled C# exception
• Add better support for .NET SDK and .NET 8
• Add -dotnet=ver command arg to Flax.Build to specify .NET SDK version to use for build
• Add better project files generation for Rider
• Optimize Control.UpdateTransform for faster UI math
• Improve Cloth usage
• Use soft asset ref to graphics settings
• Update Tracy Profiler to 0.10
• Continue Delegate refactor to use single memory allocation and atomic operations for data access
• Remove SHADOW_MAPS_FORMAT and support fallback formats for shadow maps
• Remove actor layer auto apply via message box dialog during Play Mode
• Remove unsupported material parameter types Quaternion and Transform
• Reduce LargeWorlds::ChunkSize to 8192
• Refactor GPUResourceProperty to cleanup code
• Refactor main editor viewport and prefab viewport to share dragging handling code
• Refactor default ContactOffset for Collider to be 2 (keep 10 for CharacterController)
• Refactor HashSet and Dictionary collections capacity to handle rehashing when too many elements were deleted
• Fix DeepClone() when used on object of different runtime type
• Fix CultureInfo to handle missing country code and fallback to outer language code
• Fix various typos and wording in docs
• Fix incorrect tabs selection handling when tab gets removed
• Fix various cases of closing window tabs when using Dock Windows in Editor
• Fix color picker dialog not staying inside the current screen
• Fix custom editor layout rebuilding when it has more editors in use
• Fix error during new json asset creation via ContentContextMenu if the class is missing empty constructor
• Fix various cases of closing window tabs when using Dock Windows in Editor
• Fix Output Log window to scroll log on startup properly
• Fix CollectionEditor to properly support editing multiple arrays
• Fix Dropdown popup to properly scale when using Canvas Scaler
• Fix common Editor tooltips with hardcoded keybindings
• Fix color editing control to properly handle mouse event
• Fix anim slot from playing animations more than 1 time based on speed
• Fix NetworkTransform to properly reject local simulation deltas on incoming authoritative transform data
• Fix BehaviorTree node UI after adding decorator that was already there
• Fix BitArray::SetAll() when the item is not multiple of 8
• Fix some Center geometry import issues and add option to be able to shift mesh to local origin
• Fix generic types including to be recursive in C++ bindings codegen
• Fix content storage usage with relative paths
• Fix issue involving stale scripting assemblies in FlaxEngine.Json dynamic type resolution
• Fix incorrect directional light shadows influence on secondary render views
• Fix incorrect spline length calculation if first point is not at spline origin
• Fix missing interfaces support in Actor::FindScript
• Fix missing initialization of scene objects added from prefab
• Fix marking scene as dirty when creating prefab from existing actor
• Fix unpacking Float3 and other inbuilt Variant types via Unpack node in Visual Script
• Fix issue with asset loading to be properly canceled when reimporting file
• Fix loading delay-loaded-dll on Windows when using project plugin with native dependencies
• Fix bug when spawning new prefab objects during scene load due to regression in async scene init
• Fix memory leak while doing drag&drop with Debug Draw in use
• Fix Visual Script parameter setter node to accept multiple input flows
• Fix scenes reload feature to check if can do it, properly use async in play mode and ask for save if scene is modified
• Fix missing script replacement if data has object id that doesn't match current parent
• Fix Mono GC threads suspend to not deadlock when attaching native threads to managed runtime
• Fix Steam AppId if settings asset is missing and force keep it in sync with steam_appid.txt file (Steam Online Platform)
• Fix PostFx settings in Graphics Settings to be only used when checked as override
• Fix BT logic flow when start/stopping behavior
• Fix deadlock regression when saving Visual Script in Editor with active instance objects
• Fix deadlock in editor when using snap to the group with actor that has empty bounds
• Fix Win32CriticalSection to use spin count of 4000 instead of just 100
• Fix crashes in various dictionary usages caused by duplicated keys
• Fix crash when creating empty cloth
• Fix crash when trying to build navmesh with null scene
• Fix crash on negative collection capacity due to int32 maximum value limit
• Fix crash when not clearing Online Platform in Editor before hot-reload
• Fix crash when rigidbody gets deleted during physical collision
• Fix crash on editor startup without code editor selected
• Fix crash on hot-reload in Editor due to leftover scripting events in ScriptingEvents::EventsTable
• Fix crash in Global Surface Atlas when dirty object is missing
• Fix crash in Multi Blend 2D node in Anim Graph when using single animation on a triangle
• Fix crash during asset loading due to potential threading issue when 2 threads load the same asset
• Fix crash when debugging BT node state while tree is not running
• Fix crash when readingBehaviorKnowledgeSelector value in C# when type doesn't match exactly

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-7-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_7/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-7-6404/1425

Changelog:

• Add Cloth simulation with physics
• Add cloth painting tools to Editor
• Add async cloth simulation via Job System
• Add distance-based and frustum-based culling to cloth
• Add MeshReference to ModelInstanceActor for easy mesh referencing and its data access interface
• Add MeshDeformation utility for generic meshes vertices morphing (eg. via Blend Shapes or Cloth)
• Add NvCloth dependency
• Add copy/move ctor/operator to Delegate
• Add NavMeshRuntime to scripting api
• Add MoveTowards to Vector3
• Add stencil buffer support to GPUPipelineState
• Add GPUContext::SetStencilRef to stencil reference value
• Add DebugDraw::DrawLine with separate start/end colors
• Add RenderTools::CalculateTangentFrame utility
• Add ReadOnly to CustomEditorPresenter
• Add Variant::AsStructure() to comparision operator between VariantType and ScriptingTypeHandle
• Add SerializableScriptingObject for easier serialization of scripting objects in gameplay or content
• Add IPresenterOwner to editor Custom Editor for more context and advanced interactions
• Add GroupArchetype to Visject nodes spawn query check
• Add SealedNodes feature to Visject Surface nodes
• Add SurfaceNodeActions for more contextual surface nodes scripting
• Add OnPasted to Visject Surface nodes for custom post-paste logic
• Add Visject surface boxes and connections drawing customization via style
• Add reroute node usage to Visject only if surface type allows it
• Add AI module to engine
• Add Behavior Trees editing and simulation
• Add BehaviorKnowledgeSelector for Behavior Knowledge unified data access
• Add GetDebugInfo to BT nodes for debugging
• Add Decorators to Behavior Tree
• Add concept of Goals to Behavior Knowledge
• Add animation asset input box to animation sample node
• Add HasDepthClip to GPU Device limits
• Add foreach loop support to Span type
• Add checking for Alt key pressed to expand/collapse all actors in hierarchy
• Add IsDebuggerPresent for macOS and iOS platforms
• Add better viewport camera settings and control
• Add GetHash to Vector types
• Add support for using Revision number in projects version
• Add support for runtime running on GPU without Compute Shaders support
• Add logging any XAudio2 backed errors
• Add Spacebar to toggle play/pause in Audio Clip window
• Add data sent/receive rate charts to the network profiler in Editor
• Add outputting shader source code in Editor to text file when compilation fails for debugging
• Add changing terrain brush size with Shift + Scroll
• Add default font bundling (optional) and setup UI Style to match editor logic
• Add preventing project file regeneration running while compiling scripts
• Add delay to compiler and project generation after large file operations in Editor
• Add SubAssetFolder to model import option to redirect auto-imported materials and textures location
• Add excluding GPU swapchain present time from CPU draw time in profiling tool
• Add showing full exception message in error message box for managed exceptions
• Add popup to editor options closing to remind the user to save
• Add more Editor input binding options
• Add context-sensitive node search to Visject (surface editor)
• Add automatic casting setup to Visual Script graph editor
• Add several fixes to UI sizes when fonts are larger in Editor (eg. when using custom fonts)
• Add customizable statusbar colors to Editor theme (change playmode status color to green)
• Add View Layers options and Reset/Disable/Copy/Paste buttons editor viewport options
• Add RenderFlags and RenderView to Camera actor properties
• Add tooltips to move with the mouse cursor
• Add automatic module creation via Content window context menu (in game Source folder)
• Add using text Show in Finder on macOS in Editor
• Add button to position camera to editor viewport view
• Add showing only collision wireframe in CollisionDataWindow
• Add Main Window to C# through Screen class
• Add SmoothDamp for Vector2 and Vector3
• Add BaseLinesGapScale configurable for Label
• Add improved mouse wheel scrolling behavior in UI
• Add handling double clicking in CheckBox, Button, Dropdown and DropPanel controls
• Add the option to import materials for a model as instances of another material in the project
• Add support for importing embedded textures via Assimp importer
• Add auto-rename start when adding new actor in Scene Tree window
• Add automatic game settings apply when saving json file in Editor
• Add collision type to model importer
• Add bending for connections around nodes in Visject graph editor
• Add improvements to Clang compiler detection
• Add better Visual Studio project Ids preservation when regenerating script project files
• Add always generate additional Visual Studio solution files for all platforms (improves VSCode and Rider usage)
• Add building C# bindings after generating engine project files
• Add VS Code launch task for attaching native debugger
• Add remapping non-native Editor VS build configurations to native configurations
• Add Rider-specific user solution configuration files generation
• Add thread-safety to various scripting methods
• Add better missing script handling in Editor
• Add Game Settings open button to Edit menu
• Add input states to InputEvent and AxisChanged event to InputAxis
• Add SelectionChanged public event for VisjectSurface and properly invoke it only when selection actually changes
• Add ignoring types with CompilerGeneratedAttribute in Editor
• Add ScriptingType to msvc natvis
• Add GetColliders utility to RigidBody
• Add allow using CustomValueContainer as readonly if setter action is null
• Add MarshalAs tag to API structs/classes for custom marshaling via implicit casting
• Add internal access level to Scripting API members (field, properties and functions)
• Add support for accessing scripting properties via ManagedBinaryModule fields API
• Add double-reference support for scripting function parameters to move value
• Add Random::RandRange
• Add spot light inner circle debug lines
• Add light debug view flag to draw light shapes
• Add grid scale to the editor viewport settings
• Add quick Cook&Run button, Play in Editor actions, and customizable number of players setting
• Add locked focus to Editor (Shift+F)
• Add a generic version of AssetReferenceAttribute
• Add NetworkReplicator::ResolveForeignObject
• Add Object::DeleteObjectNow as Object.DestroyNow in scripting
• Add ModelInstanceActor::GetMaterial to get actual material used to render certain entries
• Add ModelInstanceActor::GetMaterialSlots
• Add showing rendering material to model entries
• Add improvements to various context menus in Editor
• Add batch creating prefabs from multiple selected actors in the scene tree
• Add scroll to selected asset/content item on asset picker select menu open
• Add pasting at same level as selected actor parent node instead of under selected node
• Add functionality to combine similar Debug Logs into a log with a count
• Add params tag to API_PARAM for C# variadic parameters support
• Add user defined analyzers/source generators support in Flax.Build
• Add build option to change code optimization level in C# modules
• Add default C# code optimization in Editor development builds
• Add sealed tag to virtual functions in API bindings to block inheritance in C#/VS
• Add common .NET SDK preprocessor definitions
• Add skipping post processing when tonemapping and camera artifacts are disabled
• Add HasBorder option to Button control
• Add borderless window switch at runtime (Windows only for now)
• Add ability to clean terrain patch caches
• Add macOS message box with buttons
• Add versions sorting to VulkanSDK selection on macOS
• Add ignoring .DS_Store files in Content on macOS
• Add FileSystemWatcher for macOS to track file changes in Editor
• Add codesigning to macOS editor package binaries
• Add control/command/option keys handling on macOS
• Add shwoing Json Asset type on ToolStrip of Json Asset window
• Add timeline position numbers and add to GUI
• Add a way to reset an IBrush to null for default functionality in Editor
• Add Method and Origin to ProgressBar for custom progress drawing
• Add automated plugin project creation and Git cloning in Editor
• Add tab breaks for window tabs
• Add new look to Content items
• Add sorting plugin projects in content tree
• Add showing/hiding engine/plugin/misc/generated files in content tree and view
• Add slider control to UI library
• Add InputEvent and InputAxis editors with pickers
• Add InputEvent for UICanvas navigation actions
• Add shift + tab support in UI navigation
• Add ctrl+backspace support to Text Box
• Add more border options to several controls
• Add MMB Panning to Visject Surface
• Add highlighting when mouse is over slider thumb
• Add new Spline editing tools for Editor
• Add editor shortcuts usability when toolstrip or main menu controls are focused
• Add support for editing WheeledVehicle wheels config at runtime without full physics state rebuild
• Add support for editing WheeledVehicle engine/differential config at runtime without full physics state rebuild
• Add remove tag method to actor
• Add conditional profiling in Editor (run only when using Profiler window)
• Add DebugDraw::DrawRay function
• Add WindowBase::Resized delegate
• Add using exact C# method profiler data for profiler events in overriden thunk method callbacks
• Add support for unsubscribing from managed events multiple times
• Add missing Particle Scale getter node to Particle Emitter graph
• Add bigger size of clamp node to handle vector4 in Visject surface editor
• Add PCM (GJK-based distance collision detection system) to PhysX
• Add SolverType and BroadPhaseType to Physics Settings for simulation configuration
• Add ability to choose sloppy mesh simplification or not in model import settings for LODs (better quality Auto-LOD)
• Add ObjectRadius to DrawCall to properly cull local lights and env probes in Forward Shading
• Add objects replication and RPC stats table to Network Profiler
• Add VS folder structure for BuildScripts and FlaxEngine source files
• Add Rider support to Ediotr on macOS
• Add auto-gen script project files at startup when project Cache was cleared in Editor
• Add better hostfxr error messages when failed to setup .NET runtime
• Add missing marshaller methods for compatibility with .NET 8
• Add improved dotnet location search (on macOS and Linux)
• Add usage of xdg-open to open file manager on Linux
• Add support for displaying all active Network Peer stats in Editor Profiler tab
• Add android_native_app_glue.h to be included in engine package
• Optimize UnwindRadians and UnwindDegrees from C# math lib
• Optimize MClass::GetMethod method iteration
• Optimize C# UnboxValue performance, safety and memory usage
• Optimize C# method invokers return value marshalling
• Optimize C# MakeArrayType results in native interop methods
• Optimize actor pasting performance with huge amount of actors
• Optimize ManagedDictionary types and helper methods
• Optimize Delegate to use mutex and hash table over atomic operations for events binding
• Optimize PhysX collision event handling and onContact callback
• Optimize CultureInfoEditor and TagEditor performance when searching entries by text
• Optimize various rendering stages to skip loading shader when effect is disables
• Optimize scenes loading with Job System
• Optimize ScriptingObject managed initialization and marshalling
• Optimize values marshallers and type storage for managed scripting
• Optimize updating scripts tick arrays
• Update recastnavigation lib to 1.6
• Update CSharp script template to use non-indented namespace
• Update custom pugixml changes to pugixml_extra
• Change Debug to be static
• Changed Input.ActionTriggered event to pass aditionall InputActionState value
• Change default dead zone in mouse axis input to 0 (in Flax Samples)
• Disable assertions in Release build mode
• Rename GPUPipelineState::Description::PrimitiveTopologyType to PrimitiveTopology
• Remove unused TIsArithmetic
• Refactor vertex shaders to use GPUShaderProgramVS::InputElement for input layout data
• Refactor FileMode, FileAccess, FileShare enums into normal enums with docs
• Refactor Visject surface nodes cache to reuse between graphs
• Refactor Editor gizmo modes ownership to support using them in prefab window
• Refactor ManagedHandlePool
• Refactor scripts OnDestroy location to be called before actor's OnEndPlay to prevent issues in scripting
• Refactor splash screen quotes
• Refactor std::function usage into Function inside ArrayExtensions
• Refactor audio clip import settings to use auto-generated bindings via AudioTool
• Refactor how macOS launches processes to use ‘NSTask’ which just deals with escaped and unescaped paths better
• Fix doc comments in UnwindRadians and UnwindDegrees from C# math lib
• Fix various keyboard handling on macOS
• Fix incoming drag drop location on macOS
• Fix showing files in the Finder on macOS
• Fix updating Content folder name when renamed in Finder on macOS
• Fix various macOS issues where the BuildTool would not properly run and compile the scripts
• Fix mouse cursor setting on macOS to properly handle screen scale
• Fix error when opening shader asset if it's not visible in Content window
• Fix missing header files in deployed engine package
• Fix nested animation sampling bug
• Fix culling artifacts in animated model preview in Editor
• Fix nested animation playrate when the framerate is different
• Fix incorrect Transform Position To Screen UV in particles graph in CPU code path
• Fix visibility of string wrapper methods used in binding code
• Fix various core types to be trivially constructible as properly POD-type
• Fix releasing non-collectible types with collectible generic types
• Fix DrawSceneDepth to properly draw scene objects when custom actors list is empty
• Fix API_INJECT_CODE injecting duplicated code
• Fix navigation rebuilding during OnEnable/OnStart
• Fix some actor assets into soft checks
• Fix Editor UI when one of the properties panel throws exceptions
• Fix Label to draw text under children
• Fix log spam from TypeEditor if type is missing
• Fix opening FlaxEditor window in Linux after launch project second time
• Fix error when scripting structure uses StringAnsi field
• Fix missing Variant typename for Object or Asset value to properly pass type checks
• Fix managed assembly unloading and scripting ALC reinitialization for native libraries usage
• Fix ManagedArray C# handles with pooling
• Fix particles effect not being able to call play to play again if IsLooping is false
• Fix invoking managed method on value types (eg. Transform) to properly handle instance value
• Fix actor hierarchy to use PrefabObjectID when setting/getting the actor expanded value for prefabs
• Fix docs panel windows in Editor on macOS
• Fix message box on Windows to prevent interaction with the editor and other windows
• Fix UnitsToText to properly print string with 2 decimal places
• Fix deserializing vector types in Editor from ToString FormatException
• Fix Random Range nodes in CPU particles/script graphs when using int
• Fix to stop replication if NetworkManager::NetworkFPS is less than 0
• Fix building for Android with the latest Java version (update to Gradle 8.3)
• Fix AbstractWrapper from showing in new AnimEvent context menu
• Fix missing C# static fields in native scripting api
• Fix visibility of some internal NativeInterop methods for game bindings
• Fix prefab apply bug when one of the prefabs in project is broken
• Fix wheel vehicle drive when EnableSimulation is disabled
• Fix WheeledVehicle driving in Drive4W mode when wheels are in custom order
• Fix managed UTF-8 string allocation not using correct encoding
• Fix incorrect focus on Character Controller
• Fix right click deselecting scene tree nodes
• Fix white window flickering in context menus
• Fix editing array of tags in Editor that is null initially
• Fix Vulkan shader compilation with source files missing the last newline
• Fix rare issue when script could be deleted when working with Visual Studio 2022
• Fix Rider 2022 not being detected when installed with toolbox (Windows and Linux)
• Fix Dictionary and HashSet iterators to prevent unwanted data copies
• Fix ShaderGraphValue floating numbers are formatted with enough precision
• Fix applying prefab changes to nesting prefab instances
• Fix editor window from maximizing/minimizing on menu button double click
• Fix whitespace when opening context menu with spacebar
• Fix EditorModules in Assembly lookup paths to be properly included
• Fix being able to create folder from project folder
• Fix renaming folders in Editor with dot character (.)
• Fix typing DEL character in Text Boxes
• Fix Slider clipping left most pixel
• Fix right clicking on source folder to sometimes select non-visible child
• Fix not capturing the the Debug.Log line in the Debug Log window
• Fix error when model is missing in Editor for prefab editor
• Fix iphonesdk is not required to build macOS Editor (and check for iOS tools on Mac)
• Fix x64 editor/runtime on M1/2 macs
• Fix launching Rider on macOS
• Fix build scripts to detect only supported versions of MSBuild
• Fix missing Variant marshalling for scripting structures bindings
• Fix non-windows platforms csproj files
• Fix error when loading project on non-ASCII path
• Fix editor window closing when using camera flight
• Fix Actor.RotateAround to rotate the actors orientation
• Fix bool editor when null
• Fix blur panel to draw self
• Fix issue with blur strength slider
• Fix HScroll bar from covering nodes in scene and prefab tree windows
• Fix initial Editor window size to not cover task bar on start
• Fix issue of game window not returning focus to parent on mouse leave
• Fix nested profiler events usage
• Fix potential missing editor font bug
• Fix Editor viewport camera drifting with odd viewport sizes
• Fix creating prefabs directly from prefab objects
• Fix missing debug shapes drawing when skeleton node gets selected
• Fix model asset previews to wait for materials to be loaded
• Fix minor issues with OpenFBX (backported specific * Fixes)
• Fix imported fbx file from Blender to use proper Up axis
• Fix model importer to use precomputed Offset Matrix for skeletal model bones
• Fix applying scale to imported models with Assimp
• Fix using DefaultFrameRate for animation imported with Assimp
• Fix importing skinned models with meshes that don't have valid skinning to properly link into the node's bone
• Fix model importer to use precomputed Offset Matrix for skeletal model bones
• Fix scenes objects creation to happen after actors transformations and bounds are initialized
• Fix performance bug in Development/Release builds due to incorrect draw calls batching (uninitialized memory)
• Fix loading shared managed assemblies multiple times
• Fix AnimatedModel box
• Fix particle effects not working properly at high framerate
• Fix deduplication of vertexs to respect vert colors
• Fix shader compilation tracking to check for directory existence
• Fix VisualScript method calls not working with value types
• Fix VS Code missing build tasks in C#-only projects
• Fix VS Code build and launch tasks for plugins, dependencies and duplicates
• Fix building rules assemblies to use the latest C# version
• Fix Visual script parameter item duplication bug
• Fix potential incorrect null checks in FlaxEngine.Objects
• Fix IES profile light computation formula
• Fix Tag deserialization in cooked game
• Fix spatial audio playback when clip is set after the audio source was enabled
• Fix AudioClip loading error when buffer start times diff has rounding error
• Fix various issues with audio clip data buffers to reduce artifacts (especially when using 24-bit data)
• Fix various issues with OpenAL buffers playback (do proper bit convertion)
• Fix AssetsCache to include project path and reject cache when project gets duplicated with cache
• Fix editor tabs control size for tab header when scroll bar is visible
• Fix preserving editor minimized floating windows in saved layout
• Fix removing large amount of assets in Editor at once
• Fix updating time left when destroying large amount of objects
• Fix sprite shadow to match the sprite facing camera
• Fix NavCrowd to properly wait for navmesh loaded
• Fix script serialization failures from removing scripts that have exception errors
• Fix animation graph transition data from source anim info
• Fix double engine assembly init in Editor
• Fix plugins initialization order to properly unload scenes before them in cooked game
• Fix Editor viewport camera transformation getting corrupted when focused
• Fix Editor gizmo sizes in orthographic viewport mode
• Fix opening plugin project files in Visual Studio
• Fix audio preview for multi-channel audio clips
• Fix various issues when playing audio with XAudio2 backend (Windows and Xbox)
• Fix color picker on Linux
• Fix deadlock in Foliage::GetFoliageTypeInstancesCount
• Fix missing particle layout attributes when using Particle Emitter Function
• Fix invalid particle attributes access inside emitter function
• Fix particle emitter function cache clearing for GPU shader generation
• Fix particle attributes usage in GPU emitter function
• Fix C# objects serialization bug when script throws exception during saving to Json
• Fix logging performance and crashes on non-Windows platforms
• Fix HandleObjectDeserializationError to be editor or dev only and thread-safe
• Fix setting up prefab objects ids mapping for nested prefabs to link cross-object references correctly
• Fix asset load to trigger loading task within mutex to prevent race conditions when loading the same prefab from many threads at once
• Fix main menu popups misalignment on Linux
• Fix window placement hints on Linux
• Fix incorrect mapping of Alt key on Linux
• Fix build project generation under Arch Linux
• Fix GetVirtualDesktopBounds for Linux
• Fix double-click on Linux to use maximum distance between clicks
• Fix Cannot find compatible metal driver on macOS due to the newest Vulkan SDK regression
• Fix C#-only game projects to reference precompiled DLLs instead of FlaxEngine.csproj
• Fix generating VS configurations for Win32 and engine projects
• Fix Visual Studio solution project to ensure that main project is the first one
• Fix compilation with the latest Visual Studio 2022 17.7
• Fix compilation error due to exposed public CommonValue inclusion
• Fix missing Visject CM groups auto-expanding if enabled
• Fix missing C++ standard version in VC++ projects intellisense options
• Fix WindowsPlatform::LoadLibrary to not modify the string parameter
• Fix error when calling Network RPC on despawned object
• Fix crash when C# marshalling array with PostFxMaterialSettings Materials
• Fix crash when using Vector3 soft casting in Visual Scripts
• Fix crash to soft-return if managed event bind target object native instance is gone
• Fix crash when baking lightmap for terrain with missing patch texture
• Fix crash on Linux when using unmapped keyboard Keyboard
• Fix crash when using custom Anim Graph node (.NET 7 regression)
• Fix crash when max files open limit is too small on macOS/iOS
• Fix crash due to ManagedObject reference copy in Variant
• Fix crash on terrain export in Editor
• Fix crash when window gets removed during windows update loop
• Fix crash with XAudio2 backend when source is playing
• Fix crash if OpenAL internal device name is all whitespaces
• Fix crash when unboxing managed structure with refs into Variant
• Fix crash when boxing native array to managed value
• Fix crash when copying and pasting in same folder as clone
• Fix crash when toggling WheeledVehicle active state
• Fix crash when generic classes spanned across different assemblies
• Fix crash when loading C# assembly from non-ASNSI path
• Fix crash when setting material instance base material before it's loaded
• Fix crash due to invalid message in Assimp
• Fix crash in C# JobSystem.Dispatch due to GC collecting Delegate object
• Fix crash when importing model with materials and Split Objects enabled
• Fix crash when D3D11 backend fails to create shader due to driver failure
• Fix crash when spawning large amount of network objects at once by sending spawn message in parts
• Fix crash when implementing INetworkSerializable in C#-only
• Fix crash when updating GPU particle system without view buffers allocated
• Fix crash when importing assets in Editor (race-condition from Content Importer thread)
• Fix crash when using Visual Script runtime in async
• Fix crash when generating project files with toolchain setup that fails
• Fix crash on Vulkan when drawing shader without binding proper constant Buffer
• Fix crash when creating empty particle emitter

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_6/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-6-6344/1041

Changelog:

• Add .NET 7 support with C# 11 and the latest DotNet Runtime (new JIT and GC)
• Add Platform.BuildTargetArchitecture to build tool
• Add support for mixed scripts debugging in Visual Studio (both C++ and .Net Core)
• Add logging native exception stack trace on Windows when debugger is attached before going back to the crash location
• Add unit test to verify LibraryImport attributes usage for proper bindings
• Add PhysX 5
• Add Physics Statistics and profiler
• Add FileSystem::GetDirectorySize
• Add option Skip .NET Runtime Packaging to skip backing C# class library with cooked game (to use system-installed if possible)
• Add printing output C# files size in game cooker
• Add C# class library optimization for normal game builds (without AOT)
• Add multi-threading to AOT compilation (3x faster builds for Consoles and iOS)
• Add support for handling network events immediately in NetworkLagDriver when Lag is set to zero
• Add Any State to Anim Graph state machines
• Add Interruption options to State Machine transition
• Add skeleton node or bone copy context menu in Editor
• Add debug drawing selected skeleton node in Skinned Model window viewport
• Add skeleton nodes names debug drawing in Editor preview when enabled
• Add skeleton retargeting to play animations on different skeletons
• Add scale parameter to DebugDraw text drawing to rescale text without reducing font size
• Add support for importing skeleton-only as Skinned Model (eg. from animation file to have skeleton for retargeting)
• Add support for macOS arm64 (M1/M2 chips)
• Add logging missing asset type on failed load
• Add Output/ folder to .gitignore
• Add TaskGraphSystem.RemoveDependency and automatically cleanup dependencies on system destroy
• Add better looking Anim Graph state machines nodes
• Add support for using INetworkSerializable on custom structure in C++ for networking
• Add support for spawning multiple objects over network within a single group that is not from Prefabs
• Add Network Replication Hierarchy for robust control over replication in multiplayer games
• Add network error log for missing network object when accessing ownership
• Add CPU profiler events to various networking functions
• Add network replication hierarchy system to Arizona Framework with settings and scripting features
• Add NetworkReplicator::HasObject
• Add network debugging panel to actors and scripts
• Add INetworkObject::OnNetworkSync
• Add default empty implementations to INetworkObject for easier suage in game scripting
• Add SoftTypeReference<T> to scripting API for lazy-load type references (via typename)
• Add input action phases
• Add Camera.UnprojectPoint method
• Add play, pause, and stop functions to the Particle Effect
• Add better tooltips for assets in Content window
• Add better organization to the style groups of UI controls
• Add better UI for linking scale values in a transform more intuitive
• Add Pivot Relative UI Sizing to controls
• Add support for editing dictionary keys that are structures
• Add asset reload option via context menu in Editor
• Add search actors by parent tag (Level.FindActorsByParentTag)
• Add FindActor by type and name (to actor and level)
• Add CustomArgs to compile and link environment in build tool for customization
• Add preferring high-performance discrete GPUs when enumerating adapters
• Add Utilities::HertzToText via new Utilities::UnitsToText
• Add LineCast and LineCastAll to physics scripting
• Add default new script name to MyScript and avoid namign it as Script to make it easier for use
• Add Platform::GetMousePosition/WindowsPlatform::SetMousePosition for unified access to screen-space mouse position on all platforms
• Add eyedropper color picker for Editor on Windows and Linux
• Add better usability when duplicating points of a spline
• Add various Input class delegates to the C#/Visual scripting API
• Add automated test for loading nested prefab with different root actor
• Add bitmap data slot of Font glyphs in FontTextureAtlas
• Add Span<T> support for scripting fields
• Add Span<T> to C++ debugger natvis file
• Add HRTF Audio support (via OpenAL backend)
• Add updating the main menu shortcut keys on editor options save
• Add Copy Euler angles to Quaternion editor context menu
• Add logging PixelFormat as string instead of integer value for better readability
• Add ClampLength functions to C++ Vector3
• Add InputBindings modifiable from plugin (in Editor public API)
• Add word wrapping on capital letters and underscores for better text rendering
• Add various changes to scroll bar to make it feel better
• Add de-selecting items in content view by clicking empty space in Editor
• Add the play icon to a stop icon and vice versa when clicked for the Profiler
• Add Create collision data action to be performed for each model selected in the Content Window
• Add improvements for Visject context menu interface in Editor
• Add ability to change the fps of the not focused editor window
• Add setting new material instance name to parent material name
• Add EnumAddFlags for easy flags appending
• Add NetworkReplicator::EnableLog to optionally enable verbose logging of networking
• Add NetworkStream::SenderId to detect message sender during object replication or RPC code
• Add NetworkManager::GetClient by uint32 clientId
• Add NetworkRpcParams for sending RPC to specific set of clients or to read sender id
• Add array property replication code-gen for C# networking
• Add networking replication codegen for C# array properties with object references or custom structures
• Add LateFixedUpdate event for scripts
• Add support for decimal values in Font sizes
• Add proper POD types check in C# network replication codegen
• Add support for C# array as network RPC method parameter
• Add objects ID inverse mapping from client to server for proper C# networking codegen
• Add optional replication for network object (if Rep FPS is negative)
• Add support for changing C# nullable references context build option
• Add Content importers and exporters for scripting API
• Add more usability to model/material previews in Editor
• Add option to search only active actor with Tag
• Add output binaries folder cleanp to build clear command
• Add support for writing UTF-8 files in FileBase::WriteAllText
• Add ability to unset type reference with null item
• Add SpanContains utility to C++ scripting
• Add ReallocAligned utility
• Add support for line-breaks in API_INJECT_CODE macro
• Add eol=lf to gitattribute
• Add removing old hot-reload files in project references on Editor startup
• Add better visuals of dragging a tree node
• Add Unload all but this scene to Editor scene tree context menu
• Add using parent actor's name as initial prefab name in Editor
• Add MoveTowards functions to C++ Math
• Add Tags::GetSubTags to scripting api
• Add ViewportIconsRenderer::AddActorWithTexture for custom actor icon per-actor
• Add inputs to Random Range nodes in particle emitter surface
• Add == operator for Actors and Scripts to properly perform comparison in C# scripts
• Add AudioDataInfo.Length
• Add audio clip preview refresh on asset reimport in Editor
• Add current playback position preview with seeking functionality to Audio Clip window in Editor
• Add OpenAL AL_SOFT_source_spatialize extension support for stereo spatial audio playback
• Add AllowSpatialization option to Audio Source
• Add DopplerFactor to Audio Source
• Add Pan to Audio Source for stereo panning
• Add editor playback utilities for Audio Source and Scene Animation Player
• Add saving and re-opening all active scenes between editor sessions
• Add ensuring prefab actors static flags match parent flags or keeps it's own
• Add logging .NET runtime version to build tool
• Add ignoring logging missing env var on Windows
• Add engine version defines for build scripts (eg. FLAX_1_6_OR_NEWER)
• Add automated test for strings formatting and localization
• Add content proxy modifications function and workspace rebuilding for custom asset types extensions
• Add build tool and game cooker caches clearing when opening project with different Editor version
• Add GC to run periodically in order to reduce stuttering
• Add launchSettings.json generation for Visual Studio 2022 with .NET 7
• Add better Texture initialization API with custom data
• Add better Visual Studio solution generation with nested C# project cross-references to properly place projects in group folders
• Improve Root Motion extraction and playback
• Improve automatic slider speed for float value fields in Editor
• Optimize Flax.Build performance to have even faster builds
• Optimize bindings code generation via String Builder pooling
• Optimize text formatting in various places
• Optimzie Newtonsoft.Json lib by removing Xml, Schema support and making it AOT-friendly for AOT game builds
• Optimize out System.ComponentModel.TypeConverter assembly usage to reduce cooked game builds
• Optimize profiler window assets and GPU resources sorting when the view is active only
• Optimize network replication when no client can receive object
• Optimize interface method lookup to eliminate strlen calls
• Optimize vectors normalization
• Optimize UI performance when destroying complex UI structures
• Optimize Utils.InitStructure usage in generated bindings code if structure can be zero-inited
• Optimize CollisionsHelper::FrustumContainsBox
• Optimize out debug symbols generation for C# stdlib in Mono AOT builds
• Update Newtonsoft.Json to 13.0.2
• Update Nintendo SDK support to 16.1
• Update OpenAL version to 1.23.1
• Update dependant DotNet libraries to dotnet7
• Update deprecated WebClient into HttpClient in Flax.Build files download utility
• Update fmt llibrary to version 9.1 (Aug 27, 2022)
• Update Editor analytics from deprecated Universal Analytics to the latest GA4
• Update Tracy to the version 0.9
• Update Flax .gitignore to skip generated code module header files
• Changed Flax Docs license to CC-BY-4.0 license
• Remove mono debugger from VS Code extensions list
• Remove shadows casting and sdf data from editor camera model
• Remove unused Function::TryCall
• Remove extra sleep when Editor is not focused
• Remove EnableAdaptiveForce from Physics settings (deprecated functionality in PhysX)
• Rename networking codegen initializer to NetworkingPlugin for C# netcode
• Refactor vehicles to use Z axis as forward instead of X
• Refactor platform process startup with CreateProcessSettings
• Refactor Editor Windows layout serialization of splitter values to prevent invalid state when loading windows
• Refactor Skeleton Mapping to be handled by Skinned Model instead of Animation asset
• Refactor StringUtils to simplify code
• Refactor various Editor APIs to use auto-generated bindings instead of manual code
• Refactor widowing on macOS to support screen scale and HighDpi mode
• Refactor RootMotionData into Transform to simplify code
• Refactor Level class to unload scenes in reversed order
• Refactor 3d audio with better spatial sound quality
• Refactor Network RPC C# codegen to share code with data serializer
• Fix Anim Graph state machine rule graph opening after transition removal undo
• Fix actors spawning in prefab editor
• Fix bug in StringUtils::PathRemoveRelativeParts when going up to the Windows drive with relative path bits
• Fix deprecation compile warning in NetworkConfig on Clang
• Fix API code injection lines to be excluded from includes cache
• Fix warning on Asset::WaitForLoaded when loading failed before
• Fix AnimatedModel bounds calculations
• Fix bug with path name preventing the item to be renamed when duplicated
• Fix content window auto scrolling regression
• Fix debug draw lines to not use fake-lighting like debug draw surfaces
• Fix Array For Each visual script node local vars setup
• Fix OpenAL spatial audio bugs with left/right and front/back being reversed
• Fix error when using nested Visject Surface context during State Machines editing in Anim Graph
• Fix Json asset cooking to properly serialize whole asset data even if modified at runtime
• Fix collision data cooking from model asset by favoring CPU data fetching
• Fix missing Generic Json Proxy not showing up in the content context menu
• Fix codegen for C# networking when using custom structures for replication and RPCs
• Fix mouse cursor restoring from hidden state on macOS
• Fix window focus notification handling on macOS
• Fix dylib rpath id on macOS
• Fix visuals of Blend with Mask node in Anim Graph
• Fix visuals of the spline tangent points in Editor
• Fix Visual Studio Code jump to line argument
• Fix scene asset runtime contents when saving scene file in Editor
• Fix C# serialization of scene objects when property throws and exception
• Fix C# math sign function for value 0
• Fix C# Math.Remap method as obsolete (use `Math.Map instead)
• Fix C++ API for Vector2/3 Normalization to be the same as in C# API
• Fix ViewportIconsRenderer usage in game C++ scripts
• Fix TextureMipData::GetPixels to properly copy pixels of the same format
• Fix memory leak when exporting png texture via stb
• Fix issues when drag and dropiing actor tree in Editor
• Fix LayersMatrixEditor with many layers in use
• Fix right-click menu deletion to take selection into account in Content Window
• Fix content view items refresh (eg. after delete) when using search field
• Fix Visual Studio project names collision when using both C++ and C# scripting
• Fix C# serialization of reference to self (eg. script sub-object referencing owning script)
• Fix sluggish Editor Viewport camera movement with high DPI
• Fix GridGizmo to render before transparency in Editor viewport
• Fix invalid ability to rename Source/Content folders on content editor
• Fix custom editor window restore after hot-reload
• Fix incorrect space conversion results in AnimatedModel.SetCurrentPose
• Fix vehicle wheel debug orientation
• Fix missing collision events generated during CharacterController::Move
• Fix compile-time error in HashSet::ClearDelete
• Fix codegen for C++ RPS with Array param
• Fix garbage DefaultScene value in new project
• Fix Intellisense errors with referenced binary module structures
• Fix invoking Client RPC on Host client when it's not included in targetIds list
• Fix StringUtils::ConvertANSI2UTF16 to properly handle multi-byte characters length
• Fix bug when using material instance of material that uses GlobalSDF
• Fix bug of the collection size changing while sliding the size number in Editor
• Fix bug with not deleting all children on folder delete
• Fix bug with automatic collision assets creation in non-asset folders
• Fix missing initial audio source volume setup for XAudio2
• Fix network RPC object id mapping back to server id when sent from client
• Fix NetworkTransform invalid fields sync copy-paste typos
• Fix creating localization table on blank project
• Fix bindings generation for in-built Char type used in Array
• Fix model screen size calculation in orthographic view projections
• Fix CPU profiler events extraction when buffer is full
• Fix bindings code instance object param obj to __obj to prevent name collisions
• Fix existing nested prefabs sync applying when updating base prefab changes
• Fix spawning nested prefab with different root actor
• Fix accessing object ownership info locally before object gets fully spawned
• Fix character controller up direction limit between (-1, 1)
• Fix typo in atmosphere precompute shader
• Fix scale link to use ratio when editing transform
• Fix hierarchical network ownership propagation to sub-objects
• Fix NetworkManager::ClientConnected dispatch after network state is changed to online for local client
• Fix UIControl linkage to Prefab window when creating UI within prefab Editor
• Fix UI Control selection highlights when using Canvas Scaler
• Fix 3D UI Canvas point conversion from parent control space to local space
• Fix syncing Custom Editor value when using it to edit value-type
• Fix spawning nested prefab with different root actor
• Fix prefab diff context menu in Editor to properly diff against arrays
• Fix prefab data build number when loading objects from prefab
• Fix Scale Transform Gizmo issue when enabling Scale Snap
• Fix looping animation in Anim Graph when using start position offset
• Fix creating C# scripts in Editor with private ctor method
• Fix textbox submit when it's nav focused
• Fix file lock when loading asset fails
• Fix error when unloading Visual Script item in Editor
• Fix using proper default value in scripting bindings for IntPtr value type
• Fix prefab files copying using Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V in editor content
• Fix RPC invoking on object with different ID but matching parent and type
• Fix BitArray::Set to not be const
• Fix output log text ranges to handle line ending
• Fix crash due to internal errors when drawing asset thumbnails in Editor
• Fix crash on engine exit when asset fails to load due to serialized version mismatch
• Fix crash when substring of String is assigned to itself
• Fix crash when importing model with a LOG Generation but a single LOD specified only
• Fix crash when sampling animation in Anim Graph that uses it's length to calculate start position
• Fix crash when C# type has missing empty ctor or it throws an exception
• Fix crash in GPU devices init when system has no valid GPU driver installed
• Fix crash when loading scene with script which type is not a scene object
• Fix crash on end play when one of the actors has been manually disabled
• Fix crash when reimporting audio clip while it's being played
• Fix crash when updating GPU texture residency to 0
• Fix crash when using multiple audio clips streaming with XAudio2 backend
• Fix crash when starting drag&drop with invalid control state (detached from window)
• Fix crash during hot-reload when using custom assets from game code
• Fix crash due to invalid RPC codegen for enum value type variable
• Fix crash on hot-reload when using custom assets
• Fix crash when modifying animated model skeleton pose from gameplay code during update event
• Fix crash due to replicated objects leak upon system destruction
• Fix crash when window gets deleted before show/close sequence

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-5-6339/932

Changelog:

• Add FLAXENGINE_API to platform specific classes for C++ scripting usage
• Add Ragdoll actor to toolbox
• Add better C++ standard library version detection on Linux
• Add LinuxFileSystem::ShowBrowseFolderDialog
• Add BC4, BC5 and BC7 formats decompression support on non-Windows platforms
• Add support for building Android app on Linux or Mac
• Fix Tag natvis debugger print
• Fix Level::FindActors with Tag
• Fix using Vulkan SDK header from system when cross-compiling
• Fix cursor not changing from IBeam to default when hovering over cancel button in SearchBox
• Fix stability of Global Surface Atlas to smooth objects culling buffer capacity over time

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-5-6338/919

Changelog:

• Add scaling towards mouse position in Visject surface
• Add hiding tooltip while dragging UI control
• Add FlaxEngine project file generation for VS Code
• Add DontCompress configuration to build tool
• Add support for deserialization of deprecated properties in scripting types
• Add sticky the content window search field so the search bars do not scroll with the content items
• Add new editor icons for actors
• Add performing layout when deleting actors and scrolling to duplicated/pasted actor when action is performed
• Add custom game viewport sizing in Editor
• Add scene panel to separate the tree from the search bar and made it not scroll when renaming
• Add actor virtual functions OnDebugDraw/OnDebugDrawSelected/OnEnable/OnDisable to override in scripting
• Add TypeNameEditor for editing typename reference as soft string value
• Add game settings assets loading (not only objects)
• Add Cook&Run and Run cooked game utilities to Game menu list for multilayer games testing
• Add support for editing JsonAsset data at runtime (eg. modify game settings on the fly)
• Add support for custom types/members attributes parsing in scripting bindings
• Add support for custom Action Command in TaskGraph
• Add support for DataContainer in scripting api bindings
• Add support for custom icons for actors in ViewportIconsRenderer
• Add play/pause widget and keybind for particles preview in asset Editor
• Add custom Tags for scripting api types to be used by plugins
• Add Left Click to submit text in textbox
• Add SceneReference to C++ scripting API
• Add AdditionalScenes to BuildSettings
• Add ViewFlags::Sky for conditional sky/skybox rendering
• Add DefaultValue support for scripting parameters
• Add AfterGBufferPass and AfterForwardPass for custom PostFx location
• Add Renderer::DrawActors for quick actors rendering in custom render passes
• Add simplified collider for in-built primitive meshes
• Add new UI for Drop Panels in Editor (bigger header, expandable arrow icon and guidance lines)
• Add RenderBuffers::LinkedCustomBuffers to reuse main game viewport rendered state (eg. GI) in sub-rendered view
• Add GPUContext::SetBlendFactor
• Add SortOrder to drawable object types for transparency sorting override
• Add support for StringAnsi in scripting api
• Add NetworkTransform component
• Add network stats API for transport layer
• Add GBuffer textures to the C# scripting
• Add Editor search fields usage on a single character query (instead of min 2 chars)
• Add NetworkLagDriver for lag simulation over low-level network transport layer
• Add support for different access level for scripting property functions
• Add Layer and StaticFlags from parent actor after spawnign actor in Prefab Window
• Add support for non-const ref parameters with conversion (eg. string or array) in scripting api function parameters
• Add multi-threaded scene rendering with Job System
• Add draw call sorting keys generation during draw calls collection (async)
• Add WorldPosition to postfx material scene textures for world-space position sampling at uv
• Add GPUDevice::CreateConstantBuffer for custom constants buffers usage
• Add option to override Custom Editor for array of type
• Add Tag and Tags for new tags system
• Add FindActor/FindActors with Tag to Level
• Add Tag to PhysicalMaterial for physical surfaces tagging
• Add unit tests for scripting features
• Add thirdparty files in the includes cache for build tool checks
• Add more test cases for various scripting bindings features
• Add bigger input value boxes to Visject Surface
• Add UseAssetImportPathRelative to Editor options and use it by default to store imported asset path relative to the project folder
• Add VS2022 support for building for UWP platform
• Add navmesh update on terrain sculpt undo/redo
• Add this to API_PARAM for static method extension of a type
• Add defer to navmesh update when sculpting action ends to prevent stalls
• Add support for editing path to the asset within AssetRefEditor
• Add Procedural Texture Sampling material node (stochastic)
• Add auto save reminder popup on Editor status bar
• Add Color.FromRGBA
• Add RandomStream to C#
• Add RandomUtil.Rand method to C# and Visual Script for quick random float in range [0;1]
• Add scripts compilation failed status to status bar in Editor
• Add TargetCompiler to Flax.Build toolchains
• Add centered the context menu that is created from clicking the add scripts button on an actor
• Add C++ file includes cache serializartion to improve incremental build times
• Add cancel button to search fields in Editor
• Add hover begin and end event to button
• Add preventing from spawning abstract Actor/Script type
• Add RenderSetup and allow customizing it by gameplay and postfx
• Add RenderingUpscaleLocation for customizing upscaler location in render pipeline
• Add scripts dragging support to scene tree for reparenting
• Add Render2D.DrawTexturedTriangles with index buffer
• Add FlaxEngine.Object.FromUnmanagedPtr for native object raw pointer conversion to managed object
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle support for scripting bindings as System.Type
• Add WriteStructure/ReadStructure utilities for NetworkMessage
• Add automatic network serializers generation for NetworkReplicated fields in C++ types
• Add better location of renaming box for Actor/Folder tree node to start at the label for better UX
• Add project-independent saved windows layouts (stored globally)
• Add better organization to Content projects tree organization for better UX (game project first, ending project last)
• Add Mono.Cecil to Flax.Build
• Add profiler events for plugins init/deinit
• Add GPU Memory profiler to Editor
• Add ViewFlags::Sky for conditional sky/skybox rendering
• Add pooled render targets naming for easier GPU memory usage debugging
• Add SetResourceState and ForceRebindDescriptors to GPUContext for integration with external rendering libraries
• Add support for CanRender in postFx to depend on specific render setup
• Add GetNativePtr to GPUAdapter
• Add changing mouse cursor to ibeam when editing text box
• Add IsAnyButtonDown utility to Mouse and Gamepad
• Add Normalized to Float2 and Vector2
• Add support for using system-installed Vulkan SDK on Linux
• Add FLAX_X_Y_OR_NEWER to game code defines
• Add engine version defines to C++ game scripts
• Add Canvas Scaler control for resolution-independent UI
• Add dev-only name to spawned Particle System
• Add support in GetScript to interface types
• Add option for importing scale tracking to animation asset
• Add BlurScaleWithSize to BlurPanel for resolution-independent blur
• Add Actor Scale linking and unlinking in Properties window for uniform scaling (right-click)
• Add MemoryUsage property to Asset for estimated CPU memory pressure
• Add memory usage query for various asset types
• Add Assets profiler to Editor
• Add support for normal generation when using Assimp model importer
• Add side mouse button shortcuts to the Content window
• Add ability to drag maximized window in Editor
• Add Animation Instance Data node to Anim Graph for caching value per-model
• Add support for 32 bit indices for the terrain chunk geometry
• Add JsonAsset.Save
• Add updated transform Gizmos in Editor
• Add better support for file dialogs on Linux
• Add preferred LLVM linker over other linkers on Linux (faster link time)
• Add serialization to PostProcessEffect fields and expose them in a sub-group in Editor
• Add grouping for new assets creation in Content window
• Add ContentContextMenu attribute for custom assets creation groupping
• Add ActorContextMenu attribute for custom actors creation groupping
• Add ActorToolbox attribute for actors grouping in Editor Toolbox
• Add scroll bars and resiable window to materia;/shader source code viewer
• Add a new way for actor context menus creation (via ActorContextMenu attribute)
• Add to not close the child context menu on click in Editor
• Add Shift key for skeleton mask editor to affect children bones on click
• Add KeyDown and KeyUp events to TextBoxBase
• Add value boxes hiding cursor and returning it to its position when done
• Add caching transform snapping enables and values for main Editor viewport
• Add visual cursor changes when sliding value box or resizing docked window
• Add cursor change for moving the property splitter
• Add support for importing WAV files that contain extra format bytes in fmt header
• Add support for MSBuild in preview version Visual Studio in build scripts
• Add better items placement in Editor content view
• Add support for imported LOD meshes using _ character (eg. mesh LOD_1)
• Add aiProcess_SortByPType to Assimp importer to reduce artifacts from multi-geometry types imports
• Add rename on left click outside the Editor renaming popup
• Add float3 scaling to triplanar texture node
• Add improvements for Editor Gizmo draw order
• Add running Tests on Windows in Github Actions CI
• Add improvement for drag&drop tooltip hiding on operation start
• Add improvement for normal maps detection when importing FBX model files
• Add DDS files import time improvements if already compressed
• Add faster scroll speed to feel less sluggish in Editor
• Refactor GetNonTerminatedText into GetText in StringView
• Refactor raw data ReadSttream and WriteStream to have easier to use API with more features
• Refactor Actor tags into hierarchical reusable Tags system for better gameplay scripting
• Refactor material shaders to use separate constant buffer (slot 1) for shared per-view constants
• Refactor scene rendering to separate drawable actors
• Refactor enum flags with __underlying_type and new EnumHasAnyFlags/EnumHasAllFlags/EnumHasNoneFlags
• Refactor scene rendering to use batched culling for main view and shadow projections
• Refactor ObjectsRemovalService to skip double-buffering due to issues and complexity
• Refactor PostProcessEffect to support C++ scripting
• UWP (Windows Store) platform has been deprecated and soon will be removed
• Remove double click to rename content item
• Remove GPUResourcesCollection and use GPUDevice instead to simplify code
• Remove old RT1_FloatRGB and RT2_FloatRGB in favor pooled render targets
• Rename property GetElementsCount to ElementsCount in C# GPUBufferDescription
• Rename DepthTestEnable to DepthEnable in Graphics PSO to match actual logic
• Reduce Render Targets Pool flushing frequency to prevent memory popping
• Update DefaultLensDirt and DefaultLensStarburst texturs to reduce GPU memory usage
• Upgrade GPU limits to support 16k textures
• Change the default for script members order to declaration
• Optimize Editor camera previews updating performance
• Optimize Depth Of Field effect usage of GPU memory
• Optimize BoundingFrustum::Intersects(BoundingSphere)
• Optimize Global SDF cascades updates intervals (max 1 cascade per frame)
• Optimize Global SDF performance on CPU when scene is mostly static
• Optimize GPUBuffer on D3D11 to not stall CPU on reading staging readback buffer
• Optimize various debug views performance
• Optimize GPU Resource name to prevent memory allocs when changing name frequently
• Fix context menu and tooltips on Linux to be more stable
• Fix dragging timeline ending edge with a mouse cursor
• Fix math node size
• Fix potential rare issues with material shader constants containing invalid data
• Fix Flipbook material node bug when frames X was different than Y
• Fix missing game scripts types when starting editor from IDE with -skipCompile arg
• Fix for Anchor drop down UI closing in Editor
• Fix textbox defocus on edit end
• Fix comparison operators on object reference types
• Fix the additional layers in the matrix when there is less than 4 layers in the layers and tags settings
• Fix missing TraceMode blending in PostFx volume for SSR settings
• Fix child menu arrow image to accommodate for the scroll bar showing when the amount of items exceeds the max
• Fix DPI query on Linux to handle value from KDE Plasma
• Fix process creation on Linux to prevent deadlock when reading process output pipe
• Fix centered window and message box locations on Linux (multi-monitor desktop)
• Fix LinuxFileSystemWatcher not working in sub-directories
• Fix running VC++-project build commands with Rider on Linux
• Fix compiler warnings with Clang 15 or later
• Fix error when joining exited threads
• Fix Mesh data downloading to support not yet streamed vertex/index data gather
• Fix linking against C#-only modules
• Fix rendering with custom feature-set
• Fix null String serialization over network via C# API
• Fix first property name letter to uppercase in Editor properties panel
• Fix temporal anti-aliasing to provide better quality output
• Fix OnSceneUnloaded event to contain valid scene object
• Fix GetNativePtr on Vulkan
• Fix leftover UI control state when it gets disabled/hidden/reparented
• Fix imported shader source last char value to prevent strange diffs in Version Control Systems
• Fix Intellisense issues with Visual Studio Code
• Fix native scripting interface method override in managed scripts on Clang-platforms
• Fix ScriptingObject::FromInterface to return object if the pointer is already valid object
• Fix recursive binary modules usage in scripting
• Fix reading type inheritance in bindings generation with comment at the end
• Fix Visject surface input box color for missing connection type but with type hint
• Fix Audio Source stop/play pait to properly restart streamed audio clips
• Fix missing output clear when reading text array in OpenFBX
• Fix position of child context menus when having to open left in Editor
• Fix typo fix in Graphics Settings, from 'Uee HDR Probes' to 'Use HDR Probes'
• Fix displaying Game and Editor plugins to be batched in Editor
• Fix invalid NetworkMessage usage in C++
• Fix various aspects of the prefab editor window interface
• Fix when sliding the cursor slowly to a screen edge, mouse get flipped to the other screen edge and come back again (only on Windows)
• Fix mouse get cursor flipping (some sliders that use mouse tracking also update the frame of mouse flip, causing a wrong slide delta)
• Fix using dependency module from nested referenced build in C#
• Fix custom animation clip frames range import to properly treat frame indices
• Fix bug with Screen.CursorVisible set in script OnStart
• Fix audio clips streaming to be thread-safe when audio sources play
• Fix asset registry issues when starting Editor on Windows with uppercase path if the cached was lowercase path
• Fix dragging maximized dock window in Editor to restore size
• Fix issue with ParticleEffect properties editor when no asset is selected
• Fix VS Code cpp include paths in generated project files
• Fix compressing on Linux /Mac (when zip package is not installed)
• Fix FlaxEngine.CSharp library file referencing
• Fix Global SDF rasterization when loading scene
• Fix incorrect skybox cubemap caching dirty interval
• Fix overlapping VC++ and CSharp projects in Visual Studio solution
• Fix custom json asset usage for game settings if loaded before game scripting module is loaded
• Fix comparison operator on Array and BitArray
• Fix threading issues with GPU buffers mapping
• Fix default value in viewport options
• Fix xcopy path on Windows in Flax.Build
• Fix missing scripting and serialization extensions for SceneReference usage in scripts
• Fix particle module initialization if it reuses graph from other module
• Fix ribbon particles triangle indices ordering to prevent artifacts
• Fix bug in DownloadMeshData to properly access data during Finished event
• Fix editor values comparison in properties panel to match serializer rules
• Fix Audio Settings not applying doppler factor on play mode start in Editor
• Fix to ignore warning due to missing NDA consoles packages
• Fix Up Direction default value for Character Controller
• Fix using Center property on Character Controller
• Fix GPU Limits to be clamped to the compile-time limits
• Fix `Set Type button on UI Control to be centered
• Fix sub-context menu child popup still being open when parent context menu gets focused again by the user
• Fix missing virtual C++ function override in C# if the thunk points to vtable index at offset=0
• Fix VisualStudioInstance.GetInstances() to be sorted from newest to oldest
• Fix helper mouse button up event on drag drop end on Windows
• Fix passing reference types back to the native code from scripting event
• Fix assertion on thread double-free from registry
• Fix invalid Math::RoundUpToPowerOf2
• Fix issues when passing new unit tests with edge cases of scripting bindigns usage
• Fix crash when returning bool value in overriden scripting method
• Fix crash in SSAO when using very low render resolution
• Fix crash when unboxing integer value type from managed callback via generated bindings
• Fix crash when using material in PostFx global graphics settings (asset loaded before GPU init)
• Fix crash on shutdown due to custom JsonAsset C++ instance
• Fix crash on root motion extraction if source animation has no valid root node animated
• Fix crash when unbinding from Delegate from other thread during invocation
• Fix crash when shader cache file is empty
• Fix crash in content storage crash due to file seek operation failure
• Fix cash in input actions/axis lookups to due to use of StringView
• Fix crash when copying empty span of data into DataContainer
• Fix crash when presenting task which swap chain is not ready
• Fix crash on exit due to remaining DefautlInstance objects

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-4-6334/811

Changelog:

• Add Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination with real-time irradiance probes
• Add JobSystem.Execute utility for quick jobs running
• Add Global Sign Distance Field rendering
• Add Distance to box/point for Bounding Box
• Add LineHitBox to Collisions.hlsl
• Add flip presentation mode and tearing support to D3D11
• Add MeshAccelerationStructure utility for robust triangles geometry queries
• Add more utilities for using Matrix3x3
• Add IsSingleFrame to RenderView for thumbnails/pre-render views drawing without temporal effects and LOD transitions
• Add DynamicStructuredBuffer and DynamicTypesBuffer utilities
• Add automatic group panels hiding if all properties are hidden by VisibleIf rule
• Add utilities for Model SDF generation (on import, in editor window, or batch for all models on a scene)
• Add Sample Global SDF node to materials and particles
• Add Collision (Global SDF) particle module
• Add Conform to Global SDF module to GPU particles
• Add Position (Global SDF) module to GPU particles
• Add utility Copy option for various labels in assets editors
• Add ISceneRenderingListener for using scene information in the renderer cache
• Add utility to editor CodeDocs for tooltips from C# types and members
• Add CustomBuffers for injecting custom state into RenderBuffers
• Add support for implicit casting from Quaternion to other types in shaders
• Add Rotate Vector node to Visject Surface graphs
• Add Screen Space Reflections for transparent materials
• Add Array Add Unique node to Visual Scripting
• Add support for sampling Scene Color in transparent materials (forward pass)
• Add keyboard key navigation to Content View based on items name first character
• Add JsonAsset.Instance for C# asset object
• Add Delegate::BindUnique
• Add Dictionaries to Visual Scripting
• Add support for array of Visual Script objects
• Add support for constexpr fields in Scripting API
• Add World Triplanar Texture node to materials
• Add playback speed option for Scene Animation rendering
• Add Smoothstep and Step material nodes
• Add preserving existing value of the Visual Script parameter when changing its type
• Add View Size node for GUI materials
• Add additive scene opening in Editor via drag&drop into Scene Tree window
• Add Custom Global Code node to materials for injecting custom code, includes or constants
• Add loopCount to PlaySlotAnimation for looping slot animation
• Add Color.FromRGBA
• Add confirmation dialog for Scenes Data building in Editor toolbar (prevent misclicks)
• Add cursor clipping (for RTS, MOBA games)
• Add Double2, Double3, Double4 to C# scripting API
• Add Large Worlds support for 64-bit world coordinates (enable UseLargeWorlds in custom engine build)
• Add relative-to-camera rendering for large worlds
• Add support for the latest Windows 11 SDK (22H2)
• Add support for Physics Scene origin shifting
• Add support for Double2/3/4 for native storage in Variant
• Add custom floats formatting to prevent scientific notation
• Add selectable Environment Probes resolution (in Graphics Settings or per-probe)
• Add support for dispatching jobs within jobs in JobSystem
• Add Transparent Lighting Modes for material with option to use non-directional shading
• Add Global Illumination sampling option to transparent materials (eg. particles)
• Add utility buttons to check/uncheck all Material Instance parameters overrides in Editor window
• Add separate GBuffer view modes in Editor viewport widget
• Add real-time environment probes support
• Add support for baking env probes in cooked game
• Add new trace mode to Screen Space Reflections for DDGI Scene tracing
• Add showing model screen size in the Model Preview
• Add editor camera speed up for gamepad right trigger
• Add GamepadDPadX/GamepadDPadY input axes for gamepad DPad
• Add Engine.FocusGameViewport to implement game menu with camera focus gather
• Add HTML tags processing in Rich Text Box
• Add HtmlParser to engine utilities (with unit tests for it)
• Add option to disable text clipping in text boxes
• Add option to disable selecting text in text box
• Add utility for parsing Color from text (hex or named color)
• Add Content.GetEditorAssetPath
• Add EditorPlugin.DeinitializeEditor to properly cleanup Editor extensions on exit
• Add support for generic types in Scripting API with Template flag
• Add waiting for model to be loaded in SetMaterial
• Add NavCrowd for navigation steering behaviors system for a group of agents
• Add support for renaming GPU resources (development builds only)
• Add new API_TYPEDEF metadata for Scripting API types instantiation (with Alias option)
• Add FLAX_BUILD_BINDINGS define for Scripting API parser to be used if needed
• Add various improvements for C# math library
• Add Content Search window to searching Visual Scripts and other assets
• Add Find references utility for graph parameters and methods
• Add public events for Editor play mode flow
• Add setting timer resolution to lowest possible value in all Windows systems
• Add support for main view information in Surface materials during subpass rendering (eg. shadow depth)
• Add support for font size and color in Header attribute
• Add TypeReference attribute to actors/scripts searching utilities for easier type picking in Visual Script
• Add support for setting C++ version for build module compilation
• Add Nested Animations for compositing animation clips
• Add new Noise library for C++/C#/VisualScript/HLSL utilities
• Add Default auto-generated member to scripting structures and improve deserialization
• Add UseAlpha to RenderBuffers for pass-though renderer with alpha channel
• Add late initialization to Content Finder tool in Editor
• Add support for virtual Prefab assets created from code
• Add GPU Dispatch calls in GPU profiler draw calls collumn
• Add batching undo actions for Surface editing to prevent undo actions spam during a single edit
• Add missing pipeline barriers after Dispatch on Vulkan to prevent race conditions with UAVs
• Add support for using mipmaps with 3D textures
• Add support for in-built color constants in Visject (eg. red/blue/violet)
• Add drawing RenderList if it was not batched/sorted
• Add Actor::GetOrAddChild to C++
• Add auto-selecting new item created in Content window
• Add shader getter to IMaterial interface
• Add shader reloading on header file edit for shaders with compilation errors
• Add support for Volume textures to have residency changed as regular textures
• Add events for streamable resources residency changes tracking
• Optimize empty comments parsing in Scripting API
• Optimize ProbesFilter shader
• Expose IsDuringPlay property for actors and scripts to use in scripting
• Improve StaticModel to register for Scene Rendering once the model has any LOD streamed-in
• Improve initial name for static model collision data asset
• Improve properties display (group all parameters from the same group together)
• Improve JetBrains Rider installation detection
• Improve Linux source code editor detection (Rider and VSCode)
• Improve property names displayed in UI
• Change search boxes in Editor to stick to the top of the panel
• Update to .Net Framework 4.5.2
• Update DirectXShaderCompiler to version 1.7 (July 2022)
• Move Actor.DestroyChildren to C++
• Remove disabling temporal reprojection from Volumetric Fog
• Remove FlaxException
• Remove warning on missing initial entry state for Anim Graph state machine
• Refactor model Import Options to display only relevant properties for asset Type
• Refactor PhysicsActor into Rigidbody (use IPhysicsActor interface manually)
• Refactor HashSet to support custom allocator
• Refactor API_INJECT_CPP_CODE into API_INJECT_CODE to support code injection in other languages
• Refactor Visject reroute node to support reconnecting and have more usability
• Refactor scene objects initialization to call OnAwake before all OnStart
• Refactor engine to support double-precision vectors
• Refactor OrientedBoundingBox to use Transform for transformation instead of Matrix (for large worlds)
• Refactor FlaxTests to run as Editor with all engine services initialized
• Format engine codebase with ReSharper
• Fix Lightmap UVs Source not working in model import options
• Fix for macOS dylib path
• Fix text box not consuming key down event causing editor shortcuts to activate when typing
• Fix preserving Alpha channel when changing color with Value slider
• Fix Android build with NDK 25
• Fix editor options startup to not log error on a missing file
• Fix for faster models exporting
• Fix opening and editing animation with missing Anim Events
• Fix Vector2 equality comparison
• Fix sampling Curves with keyframes that have negative time value
• Fix displaying multiple structure parameters in Visject Surface parameters panel
• Fix opening material or particle emitter in editor if shader compilation fails
• Fix picking to properly select closest triangle for meshes
• Fix Directional Light color alpha in Sky atmosphere color
• Fix CSM split point when using 3 cascades
• Fix TextureBrush to return valid size if texture is not yet loaded
• Fix editor viewport capturing mouse if window is not foreground
• Fix looping streamable audio clips with multiple chunks
• Fix enum operators to be constexpr
• Fix game ticking in editor during cut-scene rendering at edit time
• Fix Ctrl+S in timeline view to not split the camera shot media
• Fix debug name for DirectX resources
• Fix Surface parameter attributes editor popup location
• Fix Constant Buffer binding on D3D12 when using Graphics after Compute pass with the same constants
• Fix the Depth Of Field to be consistent no matter the resolution
• Fix borders sampling in Depth Of Field to reduce leaking artifacts on screen edges
• Fix editor error when selecting foliage type
• Fix FlaxStorage refs counting to be atomic
• Fix pasting/duplicating nodes in Visject to call spawn event
• Fix error when loading surface from not yet loaded asset
• Fix drag&drop into Scene Tree if move goes over valid drop target first
• Fix wrong timestamps in C# profiler events
• Fix copy pasting multi-line text into a single-line textbox
• Fix removing Gameplay Globals
• Fix Multi Blend 2D node if all blend points are on the same line
• Fix selecting Debug Log window entries with the left-mouse button
• Fix errors in Editor when editing particle emitter if effect that uses it is selected
• Fix missing Properties window focus after adding script to the actor
• Fix ParticleEmitter.Spawn() with default duration
• Fix [AssetReference(typeof(typeName)] not working for arrays of assets (fix for collection types)
• Fix PhysX crashes due to lazy actors adding by adding PhysX actors to the scene immediately
• Fix foreach loop in Visual Script to continue flow on null array or dictionary
• Fix default value in Dot and Distance graph nodes
• Fix editing LinearCurve<Color> in properties window (color picker window closed keyframe editing popup)
• Fix using null array of dictionary in Visual Script for init
• Fix invoking anim events for multi-blend animations
• Fix mouse hovering controls under expanded dropdown list panel
• Fix Spline::GetSplineLength freeze
• Fix Editor Analytics tracking option file SetupStyle
• Fix duplicated actors after reparenting actor in Prefab
• Fix Reroute node in Visual Script impulse flow
• Fix Editor play mode exit bug after closing maximized Game window
• Fix using preprocessor define values in Flax.Build bindings parsing
• Fix processing else and elif preprocessor blocks in Flax.Build bindings parser
• Fix parsing comments for Scripting API types that are templates
• Fix snapping object to the group in Editor to skip trigger volumes
• Fix error when double-clicking empty RichTextBox
• Fix minor issue with Visual Script set parameter node calling flow during debugger value evaluation
• Fix uploading volume texture data to GPU in D3D12
• Fix shader source code encoding error on a compilation error
• Fix font rendering and alignment with custom DPI scales
• Fix Dictionary::Remove return value if empty
• Fix error in Forward Shader Feature when rendering directional light shadow map
• Fix ParticleEffectEditor issues after emitter editing if selected
• Fix UsedSRsMask/UsedUAsMask when binding arrays to the shader
• Fix normal map when importing materials for model files
• Fix sorting items in various contextual list popups in Editor
• Fix InstanceOrigin, PerInstanceRandom and LODDitherFactor to not use interpolation between shader stages
• Fix Multiply (and similar) nodes result value in Visject if the first input is disconnected
• Fix highlighting the first error/warning from the Output Log message text
• Fix opening particle emitter editor window if shader compilation fails
• Fix invalid Rigidbody bounds if it has no shapes attached
• Fix crash if D3D device gets DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED during init
• Fix crash with Vulkan when using Blur Panel in Screen Space canvas
• Fix crash on macOS due to Vulkan timestamp queries error
• Fix crash due to GPU Particles define not used in some headers
• Fix crash when setting up recursive Material Instances inheritance
• Fix crash when changing actor scene
• Fix crash on opening skeleton mask window
• Fix crash in scripting init if current localization is null
• Fix crash on API event in C# after Editor hot-reload
• Fix crash on Linux with empty log message
• Fix crash when spawning prefab without scenes loaded
• Fix crash when loading empty json for Variant structure data

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-3-6228/643

Changelog:

• Add macOS support for Game and Editor
• Add improvements for joints editing with debug shapes
• Add D6 Joint motions editing in Editor properties panel
• Add Gordon Ramsay quote to Editor Splash Screen (very important feature)
• Add support for interfaces in Scripting API (cross-language support C++/C#/VS)
• Add preserving timeline position when zooming with a mouse wheel
• Add scrolling timeline horizontally with Shift+Wheel
• Add timeline view panning with right-mouse button even over keyframes editor or curve editor
• Add resizing feature to timeline curve tracks
• Add shared rectangle selection for all timeline tracks to select keyframes
• Add shared selected keyframes moving ability for timeline tracks
• Add copy/paste feature to keyframes and curves editors
• Add keyframes editor to proxy keyframes from subtracks on object track
• Add epsilon clamping for keyframes adding in timeline
• Add live-preview option for editing scene animation
• Add timeline tracks duplicating option
• Add timeline tracks sorting option
• Add timeline keyframes selection via timeline background
• Add support for changing target actor for scene animation actor track
• Add support for multiple media events on audio, postfx and camera tracks in Scene Animations
• Add curve/keyframes select or copy all keyframes option
• Add timeline undo actions batching
• Add option to delete media from Timeline
• Add C++ lambda support for Function<> and Delegate<>
• Add option to compile C#-only scripts on Linux when cooking for Windows
• Add option Select actors using this asset to content menu
• Add ContentItem.OnContextMenu
• Add option to make AssetPicker a read-only
• Add explicit operator for Color32 to Int4
• Add Level::ScriptsReloaded event
• Add CollisionMeshesPrefix option to import collision data from model asset
• Add additional UploadMipMapAsync for GPUTexture update with custom row/slice pitch
• Add ClearUA to GPUContext to clear texture with float values
• Add Content.GetAllAssets to get all asset ids in project
• Add setter to Control.Center
• Add missing memory profiler events to Unix platforms
• Add Ragdoll support and ragdolls generation utility to Animated Model context menu
• Add missing support for some formats in TextureTool
• Add bc7enc16 encored for BC7 texture compression on Linux
• Add Platform.Users to handle users per-platform
• Add minor tweaks to math types
• Add Joint.SetJointLocation for easier joints setup
• Add Joint.SetJointOrientation utility
• Add physics colliders selecting in PhysicsColliders debug view
• Add Animation Slot node for playing animations from code in Anim Graph
• Add EnableAutoAnchor to Joint for automatic target anchor setup
• Add Quaternion::FromDirection to C++
• Add bitangent vectors debugging to Model preview
• Add Finished event to MeshDataCache
• Add SoftAssetReference type
• Add Ragdoll example to Physics Sample project
• Add PS5 platform support (unofficial)
• Add error code logging to navmesh tiles adding issues
• Add double-click to edit timeline media properties
• Add assets loading progress to Editor status bar
• Add Vulkan pipeline cache serialization
• Add Animation Events
• Add json serialization utils for objects to save/load from raw bytes
• Add ScriptingObject::NewObject utility for scripting objects spawning in C++
• Add Loading text info for particle system and animation timelines
• Add timeline media selection and editing to be global in sync with keyframes editors
• Add Level::ScriptsReloadRegisterObject for easier scripting objects refreshing during hot-reload in code
• Add tire wheel tire friction scale parameter for Wheeled Vehicle
• Add easier game or plugin settings asset usage with SettingsBase
• Add GameCooker events for game files deploy and packaging
• Add StringAnsi serialization
• Add support for custom settings asset creation
• Add Online system with online backends for Steam, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network and Switch
• Add improvements for objects spawning and snapping in Editor to include object bounds
• Add decals spawning in editor for drag&drop
• Add option to throw exception in build tool process utility
• Add support for overriding Anim Graph output for Animated Model
• Add support for passing the object reference as scripting function output result
• Add ToString for some packed vector types
• Add timeline media Start time editing in properties popup in seconds if using this view mode
• Add option to disable timeline Media resizing by the user
• Add SuppressFaceRemapTable option for collision cooking
• Add CollisionData.GetModelTriangle to retrieve source geometry triangle index from the raycast hit info
• Add FaceIndex to RayCastHit
• Add support for PrefabObject tracks and automated animation instancing with UsePrefabObjects enabled
• Add Mathf.Frac to C# api
• Add support for Visual Studio 2022
• Add assertions to String index operator to prevent invalid memory access
• Add soft failing to NetworkPeer creation and INetworkDriver initialization
• Add NetworkDriver object pointer to NetworkConfig to be used as custom interface implementation
• Add support for compiling and running engine without C# scripting
• Add setter for ResidentMipLevels on GPU Texture for C# scripting
• Add support for parsing negation in scripting api preprocessor
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle::IsSubclassOf
• Add automatic preserving of basic joint properties when converting between types in Editor
• Add DotNet targets building
• Add tests running on Github Action as CI
• Add Vulkan to automated Github CD builds
• Add macOS to automated daily master builds on Github
• Add option to automatically generate mips for textures created from code
• Add GetPixels and SetPixels to TextureBase for easier textures data editing
• Add arrows navigation for Visject surface nodes
• Add Hidden attribute to scripting fields/properties/methods/events
• Add keyboard navigation for ItemsListContextMenu (used by pickers in Editor)
• Add option to export a single localized string table to .pot file
• Add notification text to Editor status bar after saving to improve user awareness
• Add option to export a single localized string table to .pot file
• Add FallbackTable for localized strings table to redirect missing texts into other language
• Add support for older Android devices that don't support R11G11B10 texture format
• Add features flags for Custom Editors presentation
• Add gamepad camera control for editor viewports
• Add Rectangle.Distance for distance between rectangle and a point
• Add NodesConnected and NodesDisconnected events to Visject surface API
• Add OnParamEdited callback to Visject surface parameters API
• Add Visual Script parameter access editing (public or private)
• Add option to change Visual Script parameter type
• Add Arrays to Visual Scripting
• Add better support for Arrays in Variant for C# Scripting
• Add Array constant node to Visual Script and Anim Graph
• Add support for exporting pdb files for D3D12 shaders if debug data is enabled
• Add C++ scripting API docs to online Flax Docs
• Add scripting enums as ScriptingType
• Add ScriptingEnum utility with useful features for C++ scripting
• Add Variant to string for Enums to use scripting enum items names
• Add support for array initializers as default values for scripting fields
• Add automatic Setup when added patches to empty Terrain
• Add UI navigation system
• Add Tab navigation for Editor UI
• Add F11 shortcut to maximize Game window during play-mode in Editor
• Add preserving selection of the created new folder in the Content window
• Add ability to create an Actor by dragging it to an empty space in the Actor hierarchy window
• Add drag&drop to prefab hierarchy panel for easier usage
• Add F2 shortcut for renaming item in files import dialog
• Add Split Objects object to split imported meshes/animations into separate assets
• Add batching the same function inputs in Anim Graph for better usability
• Add implicit casting to single types from vector types in Variant
• Add particle emitter and anim graph functions docs
• Add localization quality improvements
• Add DefaultFallbackLanguage to the localization settings
• Add split-view for C++/C# code snippets in documentation
• Add support for passing back value via reference to C# scripting event
• Add context menu and tooltip to asset items in Content Finder tool
• Add constructor to Function for lambda
• Add Code Docs module for Editor tooltips
• Add managed assembly xml docs parsing for tooltips in Editor
• Add doc tooltips for actor types in Toolbox windows
• Add tooltips to actors in scene tree and to properties General panel header
• Add support to Dictionary for movable value types with no copy constructors
• Add Math::SinCos
• Add profile events for Editor modules events and startup
• Add overload of Task::StartNew() to support member functions that return void
• Add option for drawing audio clip preview with time offset
• Add improved Android NDK detection and prevent exception
• Add margin to TilesPanel tile
• Add ScrollBarsSize to Panel
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle::IsAssignableFrom
• Add JsonAsset::GetInstance<T> for easier access to C++ json asset data
• Add Render2D::DrawTexturedTriangles variations with vertex colors
• Add Shift for range-based selection in curve and timeline editors
• Add double-precision vectors (Double2, Double3 and Double4)
• Add Orientation option to Content Window
• Add DebugDraw.DrawCone and DebugDraw.DrawWireCone
• Add DebugDraw.DrawArc and DebugDraw.DrawWireArc
• Add ScriptingObject::ToInterface and ScriptingObject::FromInterface
• Add context menu for group panels in properties editor for resetting values
• Add value auto-select when focusing or clicking on input field in Editor
• Add check to prevent inheriting from static or sealed class in scripting
• Add showing Visject context menu group when it's title has a filter match
• Add GDK platform support (potential for Windows support via GDK, base for Xbox consoles)
• Add more options for MicrosoftGame.config
• Add missing flaxengine api tags
• Add filesystem watcher implement for Linux
• Add PROFILE_CPU_ASSET for asset related profiler scoped zone
• Add TryGetToolchain to build platform
• Add Utilities::CountBits
• Add more profiler events and naming for particles/animations jobs events
• Add logging content database init start time
• Add clamping for AA and shadows quality to prevent crashes on invalid usage
• Add LOD Preview debug view mode
• Add Material Complexity debug view model
• Add GPUContext.ClearUA for buffer and texture with uint format
• Add deploying FlaxEditor.pdb for Development configuration to improve crash reporting
• Add Quad Overdraw debug view mode
• Add profiler events to shader compiler
• Add support for using DEPRECATED to mark scripting API as obsolete
• Add PRAGMA_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS and PRAGMA_ENABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS macros to C++
• Add copy/paste for group panel with multiple custom editors nested inside
• Add support for pasting hex color values into Color properties in Editor
• Add Vector::Angle functions to C++
• Add ManagedBinaryModule::FindModule utility for C# type class lookup
• Add improvements for native interfaces usage
• Add support for creating C# scripting object inheriting directly from FlaxEngine.Object
• Add Gamepad support for Linux
• Add LinuxProcess that supports workingDir, env vars and logging
• Add inlined current thread id on Linux and Android
• Add helper parent actor of missing object logging to HandleObjectDeserializationError
• Add caching ShowGUI and ShowDebugDraw in Game window
• Add CookCollision to collision data with triangles as int32
• Add support for uint as triangle indices for mesh updates API
• Add Double-precision Math library
• Add Show in explorer to output log context menu
• Add typename to script panel tooltip and don't inherit tooltip
• Add LookingAt to Actor
• Add native unit tests running
• Update Xbox Scarlett and Xbox One support to ver GDK 2021.04 QFE5
• Optimize FindObject and TryFindObject in Object
• Optimize calling Object.FindObject from C#
• Optimize single undo edit action to not use wrapper
• Optimize Content Finder popup
• Optimize timeline background rendering when zoom is very high
• Optimize audio preview rendering when zoom is very high
• Optimize ThreadLocal by removing size check
• Optimize utilities in AnimationUtils
• Optimize String::ReserveSpace if length doesn't change
• Optimize CPU particles impl parts
• Optimize Asset::onAssetLoaded if even is unused
• Optimize atomic and interlocked memory operations on Win32 (Windows and Xbox) by inlining
• Optimize StringView comparison operators
• Optimize Anim Graph state machine transition rule evaluation to happen before state evaluation for early rejection
• Optimize PhysicsColliders mode rendering in Editor
• Optimize vertex buffer writing in Debug Draw
• Optimize physics shapes debug drawing for large scenes by using culling for colliders
• Optimize Math.NearEqual
• Optimize UI in Editor
• Optimize file copy on Linux
• Optimize Vector3 method to be inlined more often
• Optimize model data access during models importing
• Optimize Toolbox tooltips for scripting types to be resolved when needed
• Optimize FlaxEngine.CSharp.dll size by 300kB after tooltips removal (xml doc will be used)
• Optimize C# bindings in Engine code to static functions that native ABI matches managed signature
• Adjust curve and keyframes UI to be easier to use with a mouse
• Adjust curve background drawing for timeline
• Improve rigidbody warning message
• Increase default UAV slots limit to 4
• Disable compression for lightmaps on Linux (due to low-quality alpha encoding)
• Change Content loading threads count to depend on logical cores count instead of physical (set limit to 12)
• Change NUnit to use custom build from repo instead of nuget package
• Refactor Rigidbody automatic mass calculation to include physical material Density
• Refactor Control autofocus to be handled by control type instead of as part of base.OnMouseDown
• Refactor SoftObjectReference to improve usage of it
• Refactor Timeline UI to use track flags
• Refactor GetChildByPrefabObjectId/GetScriptByPrefabObjectId from Actor to be private
• Refactor native core objects to simplify usage for newcomers (PersistentScriptingObject is now ``ScriptingObject`)
• Refactor Xbox One platform support via GDK instead of UWP
• Refactor default D6JointMotion for D6Joint to Locked
• Refactor UAV slots binding when rendering from PS into UAV
• Refactor DownloadIndexBuffer to return unsigned data
• Refactor prefab instances loading to improve refs loading between prefab objects
• Refactor ContextMenuChildMenu to inherit from ContextMenuButton
• Reenable memory allocations profiling in Editor with Tracy
• Remove insecure autoInitialize option from scenes loading
• Fixes for SIMD.h
• Fixes for compilation on Windows for x86
• Fix missing references to a new prefab objects inside other prefab objects when applying changes
• Fix various bugs in string functions
• Fix null values handling in C# Json serialization
• Fix invalid uses of StringView::GetText() where a null-terminated string was expected
• Fix crash with nested scene animation playback
• Fix for env probes baking in Editor
• Fix connector node creation in Visject on double-click over node
• Fix regression for actor properties diff or default value reverting in Editor
• Fix importing materials from fbx files
• Fix joints properties ranges validation
• Fix D6Joint serialization
• Fix crash when physics scene with only inactive vehicles
• Fix Tracy profiler client allocating memory by using OnDemand mode
• Fix restriction if using I as prefix for interface names
• Fix shadow null character in Flax.Build console command
• Fix default code editor detection in Editor to favor VSCode and Rider over system-default
• Fix bounding box size setter
• Fix automatic properties serialization bug
• Fix imported blend shape offsets from FBX file with multiple materials per-mesh
• Fix issue with Physics Layers filters being ignored for two controllers colliding
• Fix capturing stack trace from user native assemblies on Windows
• Fix typos and wording in readme
• Fix Editor crash when dragging material over CSG brush Surface
• Fix code quality issues detected by PVS-Studio
• Fix shader parsing error due to unknown macro used on shader function visibility condition
• Fix resizing textures with alpha on import to preserve transparent colors (instead of black)
• Fix blend shape dirty vertices range
• Fix structure initialization with default field value if attribute has different value HasInvalidPathChar
• Fix CollisionsHelper::ClosestPointPointTriangle (C++ version)
• Fix depth pitch in UpdateTexture on D3D11 for volume textures
• Fix potential exception in PluginManager dispose in Editor
• Fix DPI calculation on Linux for multiple screens
• Fix MoveFile on Linux
• Fix drag&drop on Linux with file that has spaces in a path
• Fix crash on Linux if the requested font cannot be found for message boxes
• Fix some engine API to be exposed for C++ scripting
• Fix rare crashes with debug draw in Game Window
• Fix undo modifications notify from nested SyncPointEditor
• Fix exporting app icons during game cooking without graphics backend
• Fix compressed textures exporting with resizing on non-Windows platforms
• Fix missing include for Xbox Live services on GDK platforms
• Fix passing Span<byte> to C# method thunk in generated bindings code
• Fix game cooker platform selector layout on small window
• Fix Gameplay Global usage in material with material instance error
• Fix conditional variables usage on broadcast by using a shared mutex
• Fix module libraries linking in modular build mode
• Fix Game Cooker cache when materials or particles or shaders format gets changed
• Fix loading project reference with relative path in the Editor
• Fix TargetViewOffset from textboxes to be hidden
• Fix shader function visibility parsing and add USE_EDITOR define to material shaders
• Fix Visject surface context menu to focus property the selected item
• Fix for localization dashboard
• Fix spot lights rendering on D3D12
• Fix missing Particle Position (world space) node for CPU particles
• Fix C# bindings for Editor for Window build on Linux
• Fix Windows Snap with borderless windows
• Fix missing object linkage when loading missing prefab objects during scene load
• Fix incorrect transformation on imported blend shapes data from fbx file
• Fix tree node navigation with key arrows to be more usable for deep hierarchies
• Fix depth of field blur artifacts on upper and left screen edges
• Fix audio playback issues in some cases with XAudio backend
• Fix audio volume and stereo on XAudio backend
• Fix showing tooltips for tree nodes in Editor
• Fix navmesh update when adding/removing navmesh bounds volume
• Fix engine ticking to catch up faster when falling behind
• Fix HSV value adjusting in Color picker to not exceed 1
• Fix import transform for skinned models
• Fix missing root motion preview in Animation preview panels (with option to disable it)
• Fix Multi Blend 1D/2D root motion extraction with blending
• Fix build tool freeze when parsing scripting header that contains invalid multi-line comment
• Fix missing blend shape data transformation on model data import
• Fix color trackball usage with undo
• Fix passing pointers as output pointer or reference in scripting api
• Fix missing blend shape refresh for Skinned Model window preview
• Fix various issues with Multi Blend 2D node
• Fix prefab changes apply crash
• Fix GUI material preview positioning in the Material window
• Fix reference to a pointer in TypeInfo for scripting bindings generation
• Fix invalid memory write in StringUtils::ConvertANSI2UTF16 on Unix if length is empty
• Fix using object reference in Scripting API with PersistentScriptingObject
• Fix per-instance vertex colors uploading if data is already valid
• Fix RunProcess on Linux with custom working directory
• Fix scene animation warning due to missing object to be fired once per-track without a spam
• Fix support for codeless game projects
• Fix snapping rigidbodies to the floor
• Fix removing keys in Dictionary with string keys
• Fix one error when pasting Visject nodes with type modified compared to archetype
• Fix custom actor options for prefab window
• Fix generated DefaultValue attribute to match the field value type
• Fix possible division by zero in Plane.Normalize
• Fix entering play mode in Editor with pause mode on start
• Fix Input::GetGamepadAxis with InputGamepadIndex::All
• Fix missing AnimatedModel pose access if it's not initialized yet
• Fix error when using over 180 angle for joint limits
• Fix mesh tangent and bitangent vectors generation with OpenFBX backend by using MikkTSpace
• Fix missing copy destination offset in dynamic buffer update on D3D11
• Fix Visject param node getter breaking connection on param change to the same type
• Fix Get/Set field node in Visual Script to update Instance box accordingly for static fields
• Fix monolithic target build with native code module used by referenced plugin
• Fix possible division by zero in BoundingFrustum::GetCorners
• Fix mouse focus issue with Timeline background
• Fix DefaultValue attribute support in Custom Editors for unsigned integers
• Fix editor undo for unsigned integer types
• Fix texture refs in platform settings to be SoftObjectReferences instead of raw Guid
• Fix crash when creating C# object for native object at the same time on multiple threads
• Fix crash when applying prefab that includes both removed and added objects
• Fix crash when streaming texture with unsupported format by the GPU driver
• Fix crash when reading from RingBuffer if it's full
• Fix crash when changing mesh collider in async for not-simulated actor
• Fix crash if texture streaming fails on different texture format on Vulkan due to fallback usage
• Fix crash when spawning managed object on a detached native thread
• Fix crash when trying to read invalid Visual Script parameter from local scope during debugging
• Fix crash when model or skinned model loading fails
• Fix crash on Vulkan swapchain resize if the previous size was 0 (eg. due to window animation on Windows 11)
• Fix crash when passing function with lambda to the Job System
• Fix crash on thread end that used Mono runtime
• Fix crash with terrain in prefab window
• Fix crash on native type in JsonAsset due to scripting hot-reload in Editor

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-2-6224/449

Changelog:

• Add Engine.HasGameViewportFocus to C# API
• Add SuspensionForceOffset to vehicle wheel config
• Add check to prevent double-free from native event in C#
• Add option to select scene asset from Scene tree window
• Add option to Scene context menu to unload it
• Add support for changing scenes via Editor during play mode
• Add better timeline UI positioning for improved viewport navigation
• Add helper tooltips for Scene Animation actions UI
• Add Zoom value box to timeline view context menu
• Add timeline view panning with right mouse button
• Add options for vehicle wheel suspension configuration and state
• Add digital steering option for a vehicle
• Add vehicle telemetry logging debug option
• Add wheeled vehicle tire options
• Add -new command line arg to create a new project
• Increase fog properties limits
• Increase default maximum window width limit to 8k
• Optimize ticking disabled vehicles
• Refactor Tracy source locations to be static
• Fix decal material normal vector blending
• Fix issue with MapTrack for actors
• Fix actor renaming on paste to keep previous name if can
• Fix car wheel location by applying compression of the suspension spring
• Fix WheeledVehicle driving and suspension raycasts
• Fix suspension force offset location
• Fix pasting actors if cannot spawn a object (eg. type missing) to still paste valid objects
• Fix rare crashes due to selection not being empty on play mode start
• Fix some memory leaks
• Fix ENet driver crash
• Fix invalid navmesh build for triggers
• Fix invalid rigidbody center of mass location
• Fix materials parameters display issues after editing
• Fix context menu keyboard arrows navigation to skip disabled items
• Fix UI with list of null items when layout gets rebuilt at item level
• Fix some problems with LocalizedString serialization in C#
• Fix timeline background stops drawing to be more readable
• Fix snap to the ground to use scene graph query instead of physics only raycast
• Fix window focus issue when removing actors