Flax Engine Files

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-10-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_10/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-10/2184

Changelog:

• Add new Bloom rendering (wider and more realistic)
• Add smooth shadows blending between directional light cascades (via Graphics settings)
• Add displaying asset failed text if it occurs
• Add SystemName and SystemVersion to Platform API
• Add Script::IsEnabledInHierarchy
• Add utility operators for LayersMask bit operations
• Add HighestSetBit and LowestSetBit utilities
• Add logging CPU name on Windows
• Add DriverVersion to GPUAdapter for checking on old GPU drivers
• Add GPUTexture::DownloadData to C#
• Add profiler zone for native library loading
• Add leaderboards support to Online interface
• Add Visject per-node custom search and use it for Multi Blend nodes to filter animations used
• Add Base Model to Animation Window to preview animation via a different base skeleton with retargetting
• Add AutoAttachDebugPreviewActor option to editor for quick debugging anim graphs on dynamically spawned player
• Add Edit GUI option to Game Window
• Add absolute snapping option to transform gizmo
• Add rubber band select to scene editor viewport for selecting multiple actors
• Add using c: in search filtering to find control types
• Add showing No parameters text when no parameters to be displayed in Preview tab
• Add better selection bounds for multi axis transform gizmo
• Add search operator tooltip to scene tree search bar
• Add option to quickly create box, sphere, convex or triangle mesh collider for the selected static model
• Add improvement to script compilation failed warning to be a bit nicer
• Add visual feedback on ranged value slider knob hover
• Add wait on asset load when accessing material parameter values directly
• Add safety check to exit game in Release mode when running with graphics debugger attached
• Add GPUVertexLayout to graphics backends
• Add support for up to 4 texture channels when importing meshes
• Add support for vertex colors for skinned models
• Add option to copy/paste skeleton retargetting between models
• Add progress indicator in editor for assets loading
• Add optional direction option to context menu
• Add editor windows to quick actions via Content Finder tool
• Add debug commands to Output Log window in Editor
• Add GetFields and GetMethods to binary module api
• Add ToSpan for MemoryWriteStream and simplify code with it
• Add content deprecation system that auto-saves assets in Editor that use old data format
• Add network keys table to optimize ids and names sending over network
• Add object replication data cache and send via Reliable channel to reduce data transfer
• Add Quaternion quantization for network stream
• Add Task::WaitAll with a span of tasks and wrap around profiler macro
• Add SystemName and SystemVersion to Platform api
• Add Slice to Span and use it to make code cleaner
• Add PixelFormatSampler utility to quick read/write operations on various data formats
• Add support for up to 65536 skeleton bones in skinned meshes
• Add mesh vertex layout and GPU memory size display in model window
• Add total mesh vertex stride display in editor panel
• Add content deprecation system that auto-saves assets in Editor that use old data format
• Add content deprecation upgrades support to prefabs and scenes when loading levels in Editor
• Add serialization of game settings for proper upgrade when loading deprecated data
• Add logging first scene asset id in cooked game
• Add engine fatal error types handling
• Add general out-of-memory handling
• Add improved GPU crashes reporting
• Add safety memory buffer for crash or out of memory handling
• Add logging memory usage by external apps on crash
• Add Program Size Memory and Extra Development Memory access and log on start
• Add Engine::ReportCrash event for custom crash reporting or handling
• Add named terrain layers
• Add warning when used param is being deleted in surface graph
• Add ButtonAttribute to display methods in editor properties panel
• Add support for curves in C++ scripting api
• Add displaying whole curve in properties panel upon show
• Add adding keyframes to curve on double-click
• Add zooming in curve editor relative to the mouse cursor and adapt to curve size
• Add splitter bar for resizing curve editor inside properties panel
• Add F key shortcut to show whole curve in editor view
• Add Alignment option to Vertical and Horizontal Panels
• Add being able to obfuscate text in a text box with a character
• Add support for Vector3, Float3, Double3, and Quaternion mutliselect value changing
• Add support for multi-control editing
• Add support for .NET 9 SDK and runtime
• Add C++ version and compiler path into VS Code project files
• Add handling C++ curly brace field default values for code gen to C#
• Add support for C++ trailing return C# generation
• Add hanglind nameless C++ function argument support for C# generation
• Add multi-line string literal parsing inside custom api code injection blocks
• Add scrolling to the new script after adding it
• Add .aab bundling for Android
• Add Android emulation options to Game Cooker
• Add Android devices listing and quick deploy/log tools
• Add invert options for texture imports for Red, Blue, and Alpha channels
• Add re-enabled scale center gizmo
• Add improved debug message on incorrect ray direction length
• Add support for creating Json Assets in editor out of structure type
• Add nested prefabs editing buttons inside Prefab Window
• Add UI Mode switch to Prefab Window
• Add ControlReference for easier UI referencing in code
• Add double-click customization for Scene Tree nodes (focus, rename, open prefab)
• Add context to object reference control to narrow finding actors and scripts (for prefab editing)
• Add game plugin template
• Add DebugDraw.DrawCapsule and deprecate DrawTube
• Add support for searching actors and scripts by interface
• Add audio volume and muted in game panel tab rmb menu
• Add Actor.Clone for actors duplication at runtime (including scripts and children)
• Add Double4x4 for higher precision matrices operations
• Add GPUResourceUsage.Staging for both CPU read/write access
• Add Shift HSV and Color Blend material nodes
• Add new triplanar node to materials for normal maps sampling
• Add option for local-space triplanar mapping
• Add warnings on incorrect GPUBuffer or GPUTexture usage when binding to GPUContext (in non-release builds)
• Add warning if wrong type while setting material/animation parameter
• Add import path UI and button to open folder in asset import settings
• Add runtime input mapping helpers
• Add support for displaying Multiple Values info to object reference pickers
• Add double clicking an object reference in a prefab to select the object within the prefab
• Add RMB menu entry to show item in Content Window if there is a search
• Add anchor and pivot drawing for UI Gizmo
• Add grey-out color for read only textbox
• Add a confirmation dialog for editors when the reset button is clicked
• Add No parameters UI to particle effect and animated model
• Add debug draw clear to game and editor panel (if in use)
• Add drag drop to FilePathEditor
• Add root parameter to Level.GetScripts
• Add rotate position shape as particle module
• Add snapping to grid with Ctrl key when moving keyframes in curve
• Add focus selection to curve editor and apply margin around shown curve section
• Add caching and restoring curve height in properties panel
• Add Debug Log and Output Log color customization
• Add SIMD support for rapidjson when processing json data
• Add improved AndroidNdk detection to handle versions folder in env var location and fallback to automatic
• Add debug draw clear method
• Add blend space drawing in Multi Blend 2D editor
• Add stencil support in PSO on DX11
• Add the option to ignore specific warnings during build of C# scripts
• Add check and warn user if asset is being moved between the content to source folders
• Add preserving existing Model Prefab objects when reimporting asset
• Add reloading existing scene if opened again
• Add maintaining vehicle wheels ordered in properties when sorting an invalid list
• Add cache to asset references graph for faster displaying data
• Add button in GameCooker window to open output build folder
• Add disabling add script item if it is not being added to a required actor
• Add gravity to CharacterController::AddMovement for proper movement when using Root Motion
• Add getter for WheeledVehicle throttle
• Add more scripting templates
• Add hotkey for parent to new actor (Ctrl+G)
• Add highlight when actor reference is single clicked
• Add File menu option to open game project folder
• Add improved delete assets confirm dialog
• Add a hint to the Output Log if there are no messages shown because of filters
• Add invalidating build rules assembly when files added, moved or renamed
• Add hiding unrelated properties in Material properties for Decal, PostFX or GUI materials
• Add expanded play mode game window focus options by a focus back option
• Add missing particle parameters overrides when duplicating emitter track
• Add Vector3.SignedAngle utility method
• Add option to reverse winding order of imported model
• Add renaming surface comments with F2 key
• Add support for Quaternion in GPU particles graph
• Add support for using API_TYPEDEF macro on using typedefs
• Add support for using template type inside MarshalAs tag value
• Add grey out gizmo in Editor during play mode when editing static actor
• Add XCode version parsing
• Optimize terrain debug shape drawing by caching lines into a vertex buffer
• Optimize network transform replication
• Optimize NavMesh to not allocate tile memory twice and add safelock to asset data
• Optimize blend weights to use 8-bit per bone (instead of 16-bit)
• Update Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Configuration.Interop.dll from 3.4.2244 to the latest 3.11.2177
• Update rapidjson to latest version
• Update engine core collection types code
• Update code signing to support sign with identity on Windows
• Refactor meshes format to support custom vertex layouts and new flexible api to access mesh data
• Refactor Nullable<T>
• Refactor UI Control initialization to keep layout locked while loading hierarchy
• Refactor Dictionary and HashSet to use shared base class
• Refactor and improve collections code
• Refactor Globals exit/error state to be in Engine class
• Refactor Multi Blend animations sampling length to fix blend spaces with anims of different length
• Refactor models and meshes to share more code in a base class
• Refactor read and write data stream api to use the newest format
• Rename Vertex Shader input semantic ofBLENDWEIGHT to BLENDWEIGHTS
• Remove deprecated asset data upgrades and old model vertex structures
• Remove pixels sampling from TextureTool (moved to the new PixelFormatSampler)
• Refactor Bezier splines drawing and editing to property evaluate value and match curve evaluation
• Refactor models and meshes to share more code in a base class
• Simplify capacity presetting for Dictionary to handle memory slack scale internally as users care about items count only
• Fix log file spam and limit size to 1GB
• Fix CanvasScaler's minResolution and resolution curve to the minimum amount
• Fix scroll bars when using negative content area (eg. curve editor)
• Fix game UI root control to properly raycast over 3D canvases
• Fix showing splash screen window when running Editor in headless mode
• Fix actors grouping to make shared parent at the cenetr of the group
• Fix collecting referenced asses from Animation asset
• Fix Quaternion error tolerance to be more reasonable due to math optimization enabled in compiler
• Fix scene tree menu options being enabled when not supposed to be
• Fix curve editor showing whole curve in a view
• Fix curve editor zoom to be relative to the curve size
• Fix curve editor panning to be stable
• Fix logging missing ref duplicates
• Fix drawing editor primitives later in the pipeline to draw gizmos on top of world-space canvas
• Fix incorrect dummy GPU Buffer format when binding missing resource to Vulkan descriptor
• Fix C++ Vector3::Angle to return value in degrees just like C# API (instead of radians)
• Fix Platform::GetCacheLineSize to be deprecated in favor of existing CPUInfo.CacheLineSize
• Fix editor tables rows coloring to start with darker one
• Fix missing casting from scalar Variant types to Enum
• Fix proper handling of Scripting.InvokeOnUpdate if called within that callback
• Fix pasting or duplicating Multi Blend nodes
• Fix Visject Surface search to check nested surfaces (such as State Machine graphs)
• Fix root animation in blend spaces when one of the animations doesn't use root motion but animated root node channel
• Fix raw scripting object pointers auto-serialization
• Fix locked Properties window after scene change
• Fix object reference dropdown icon to be hidden for ReadOnly references
• Fix scale gizmo to correctly do two axes
• Fix issue with re-loading scene and toolstip not updating
• Fix collection removal option to be disabled when marked with attribute option
• Fix importing last frame from animations to correctly loop
• Fix spatial and non-spatial, mono and multi-channel audio sourcs playback on OpenAL
• Fix audio artifacts when importing 32-bit IEE wav files
• Fix game-build version of DebugDraw for C# but without xml docs
• Fix displaying double vectors in Visject constant fields
• Fix particle sim shader compilation warning on Vulkan
• Fix shadows sampling error in shader due to incorrect sampler used
• Fix incorrect scene object memory leak printing if some objects are destroyed during game plugin shutdown
• Fix UI Controls layout auto-resizing to always use pivot-relative logic
• Fix custom GUI material writing depth when it's not needed
• Fix text box shift not working when selection start is at the text length
• Fix Rich Text Box ascender usage in line breaks for correct images placement
• Fix set order in parent for spawning actor with a parent in editor
• Fix exception in object editor does not show inner exception
• Fix new messages being cut off in Debug Log
• Fix actor adding context menu in the scene tree
• Fix Windows detection to use correct system version it was build for (eg. Win10 or Win7)
• Fix parsing floating point values with . separator instead of ,
• Fix mouse cursor when opening state in animation state machine
• Fix asset reference window showing temp assets
• Fix scripts reload to auto-save any modified assets in editor windows
• Fix showing Content Search window to properly use context window
• Fix collision proxy not updating on sequential mesh changes
• Fix incorrect result array memory copy from native to managed code
• Fix scripting AssemblyLoadContext not getting unloaded
• Fix new terrain debug drawing of collision lines
• Fix shadow maps rendering regression bug
• Fix LOD Preview regression due to new instancing logic
• Fix missing material instance load failure when parameters load fails
• Fix actor reference select in prefab editor
• Fix LOG_FLUSH to flush only when automatic mode is disabled
• Fix parsing nested template types in scripting type inheritance
• Fix TypeUtils.GetTypeName for nested generic types
• Fix Version marshaling as parameter
• Fix packaging issues to properly read asset data after it's serialized with a new format
• Fix output log window to properly handle copy and other input events
• Fix context menu to resize instead of flash when showing while already visible
• Fix LoadAssetTask to properly dereference asset loading task pointer when asset init fails
• Fix scale not being applied to physics center
• Fix duplicated newlines on Github Action output on Windows
• Fix output log scroll reset on new log entries addition bug
• Fix game deployment if output name contains invalid path characters
• Fix project files generation to skip unsupported platforms/architectures in referenced targets
• Fix duplicate root node values changed handler bug on the BehaviorKnowledgeEditor
• Fix ComputeShapeSqrDistanceToPoint on PhysX with Large Worlds
• Fix MUtils::GetClass for Float2
• Fix passing object reference as out parameter in scripting method invoke
• Fix NetworkManager not resetting LastUpdateTime
• Fix stencil usage in Vulkan
• Fix blend states and blend factor usage on Vulkan
• Fix rotation of UI size handles
• Fix UI Control anchors to clamp between 0 and 1
• Fix .exe being deleted when using the Run cooked build option
• Fix Android build on .NET 9 and use DotNet version that is found by build tool path
• Fix Edit Prefab button no longer change Content window folder
• Fix UI Editor Gizmo to select control with raycast-first for more precise usage
• Fix editor orthographic viewport in top or bottom view
• Fix typo for error message when trying to load a project file that does not exist
• Fix various asset windows shutdown when editor is disposing during crash
• Fix content item text scale with content view scale
• Fix editor error in Actor node IsActive fails
• Fix new colider transform when using Add collider option
• Fix perlin and simplex noises to return normalized value to range 0-1
• Fix showing whole curve if its empty
• Fix curve editor scroll bars to be hidden when not enabled
• Fix curve tangents reset on drag start
• Fix curve tangent handles to maintain size relative to the current view scale
• Fix curve tangent colors to match editor style
• Fix curve tangents editing to have stable movement no matter the view scale
• Fix float precision issue when drawing curve or timeline time axes
• Fix capturing empty project icon when Editor viewport was never rendered
• Fix selection still showing when text box is not focused
• Fix Platform::GetCacheLineSize to be deprecated in favor of CPUInfo
• Fix spline node to support prefab editor
• Fix RenderToTextureControl to render correctly when using different texture size than control size
• Fix sprite and texture 9-slice rendering brush to properly calculate border size
• Fix scene tree selection for dropped actors that are reparented
• Fix SnapToGrid to skip when grid component is 0
• Fix anim graph state transition title to auto-fit
• Fix .NET SDK detection when only the runtime is installed
• Fix missing C#-only project configurations when platform SDK is missing
• Fix not defined localized strings to use fallback instead of empty text
• Fix incorrect motion vectors for material that uses position offset
• Fix rare crash while debugging scripting unload
• Fix error when no valid .NET SDKs were found
• Fix error in LocalizationSettingsEditor after adding new locales
• Fix playing mono audio sounds with panning
• Fix Visject gradient stops to update graph only on sliding end
• Fix error in XML docs processing
• Fix memory leak in Video player on Windows
• Fix memory leak in particle buffers recycling
• Fix triplanar texture mapping when using Large Worlds
• Fix DebugDraw.DrawWireArc with Large Worlds enabled
• Fix large worlds rendering of meshes
• Fix editor grid gizmo when using Large Worlds
• Fix actor hierarchy initialization when it gets modified by a script on the fly
• Fix missing masked terrain rendering
• Fix game viewport size to not include DPI scale (screen-space uses it)
• Fix text clipping behind the button in Behavior Knowledge Selector editor
• Fix selected spline points to be drawn relative to the view for greater readability
• Fix failing Windows Test CI if FlaxTests.exe fails
• Fix scripting bindings codegen for SoftTypeReference and SceneReference
• Fix .NET runtime and SDK compilation issues with newer runtime
• Fix C# projects not compiling in VS with native code plugins present
• Fix code project files generation to properly handle path slashes and ignore binary modules without exports
• Fix Visual Studio solution nested project names on Unix systems
• Fix collision cooking for skinned models that use different vertex format
• Fix incorrect prefab serialization to correctly handle diff on object references to prefab objects
• Fix error when applying prefab changes with missing (deleted) nested prefabs
• Fix objects creation to ensure managed object ctor is always executed
• Fix HRTF audio to be disabled due to common audio problems
• Fix shaders parsing to skip comments in between special macros
• Fix vertical axis and blend points center in Multi Blend space editor
• Fix Forward and Backward in Matrix and Matrix3x3
• Fix Collection value containers to use correct value assignment
• Fix invisible Game window on play start when it was hidden
• Fix parsing scripting type inheritance with generics
• Fix potential exception in UIControlEditor by checking if value is valid
• Fix crash in CPU profiler on conversion to ulong
• Fix crash in animations system when assets gets loading/unloaded while async jobs are active
• Fix crash in particles system when assets gets loading/unloaded while async jobs are active
• Fix crash in OpenAL audio backend on context rebuild
• Fix crash on leftover UI Canvas linked in Prefab window after reload
• Fix crash on incorrect light shadow state after shadowmap resizing failure
• Fix crash due to alive reference to old asset validator
• Fix crash while initializing OpenAL
• Fix crash when curve zoom was too high
• Fix crash when boxing native non-POD structure into managed data
• Fix crash when reading object value from BehaviorKnowledgeSelector
• Fix crash when setting C# property of value-type from native code
• Fix crash when spline actor gets removed
• Fix crash when applying prefab with missing scripts in use
• Fix crash when importing fbx model with convex polygon with duplicated vertices
• Fix crash when using physics overlap tests with Collider outputs that catch Terrain
• Fix crash on Vulkan when binding dummy buffer as missing uniform buffer
• Fix crash on incorrect MultiBlend2D triangles memory
• Fix crash when using different values in various math nodes in Visject
• Fix crash when loading cloth that has different paint data size than mesh
• Fix crash when importing large audio file
• Fix crash when cooking game without game settings asset
• Fix crash when using audio playback and playing editor meanwhile
• Fix crash when using anim graph asset after it's reloaded (after editing)
• Fix crash on shadows when using D3D10
• Fix crash when using ref struct reflection in managed api