Flax Engine Files

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-9-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_9/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-9/1902

Changelog:

• Add view playback support
• Add shader cache invalidation when using debug shader option via cmd line in Editor
• Add frustum culling for editor preview camera mesh
• Add support for Windows on ARM
• Add JobSystem::Dispatch that accepts dependent jobs that needs to be completed before
• Add improved Global SDF tracing when going over different cascades
• Add improved Global Surface Atlas lighting at far cascades and cascade borders
• Add more precise Global SDF raycasting nearby geometry (at cost of performance)
• Add improved Global SDF sampling at empty areas
• Add option to sample Global SDF from higher cascade
• Add nearby probes search to fill cells with missing GI data
• Add random per-probe rotation for rays tracing in DDGI
• Add option for smooth DDGI cascades blending
• Add smoother DDGI probe relocation when old position is visible from new position
• Add improved DDGI cascade selection by using biased world position and smooth the transition
• Add Graphics::SpreadWorkload to disable graphics workloads amortization over several frames when debugging graphics perf
• Add SetStablePowerState for D3D12 when doing shaders profiling
• Add WinPixEventRuntime for D3D12 to provide GPU profiler event names
• Add timeBeginPeriod(1) on Win32 platforms to improve timer precision
• Add support for custom deprecation messages in bindings generator
• Add utility Packing.hlsl shader for colors and vectors packing
• Add SpawnParticles utility to Particle Effect
• Add variable rate update for shadow maps atlas based on distance to light
• Add stencilValue for stencil buffer clearing
• Add shadows caching for static geometry
• Add reducing shadows quality for smaller local lights
• Add better stability to Cascaded Shadow Maps projection
• Add new Static Flag Shadow for cached shadow maps
• Add constant buffers alignment for data structures (16-byte boundaries)
• Add InvalidateShadow for manual shadow cache refresh
• Add ShadowsResolution for manually specified shadowmap resolution for lights
• Add METERS_TO_UNITS and impl metric units in shadows rendering
• Add GlobalSDFDistance to graphics settings for default GlobalSDF range
• Add video texture formats YUY2 and NV12
• Add additional StaticFlagsCompare to Render View for dynamic or static only drawing
• Add grey out to obsolete/deprecated members in properties panel
• Add support for custom file proxies in Editor
• Add support for cooking raw files referenced by assets
• Add FilePathEditor custom editor for path-based editing asset/url refs with a file picker
• Add support for using InputAction editor on string variable
• Add WindowsMinVer config for minimum target Windows version switch
• Add Model SDF baking on GPU via Compute Shader
• Add option to SDF generation via GPU in Model Window
• Add half-texel margin to SDF around the mesh
• Add async SDF generation for all meshes in the scene
• Add improved Model SDF generation with sampling offset and min distance accumulation
• Add caching Model SDF options in the project cache
• Add increased by 1 mip sdf texture resolution for GlobalSDF building
• Add D3D11 shaders naming for profiling
• Add IsDebugToolAttached to GPUDevice for detecting gpu debugger tools attached and auto-enable GPU profiler in that case
• Add option to disable particles preview in scene view and play only looping effects
• Add alternative Rectangle function names for naming consistency
• Add support for log context and logging missing objects container info
• Add support for Windows SDK build 26100 (24H2)
• Add support for injecting scene children on scene loading
• Add new infinite grid rendering in Editor
• Add saving debug log collapse state
• Add Edit Prefab button for selected actor
• Add selecting all assets and scripts that are dropped in the tree panel
• Add separate import settings as new tab in texture window
• Add displaying file extension for scripts in content finder to distinguish C++ files
• Add more functionality and thumbnail to content items in finder for scripts
• Add utility GetInstance method to Json Asset refs in C#
• Add assertions for checking against un-normalized direction vectors
• Add reordering lists and Visject parameters
• Add Editor update event
• Add type display to empty object ref in editor
• Add slot spacing to uniform grid panel
• Add displaying asset picker type
• Add cutting of content items
• Add ability to rename multiple actors using scene hierarchy
• Add improved Visject search and filter
• Add improved UX for disabled boxes in Visject
• Add improved context menu search filtering in Visject
• Add improved comment renaming and visual fix
• Add connection curvature option to Visject
• Add impulse/execution lines slightly thicker than data ones in Visject
• Add minor QoL change for moving reroute nodes in Visject
• Add new material nodes: Cone, Cycle, Linear, Radial, Ring gradients
• Add spawning parameter setter node when holding Alt` during drag and drop
• Add storing Debug Log view options in Editor options
• Add generated marshallers into separate Interop namespace
• Add new Radial Menu control
• Add a warning when there is more than one audio listener enabled
• Add default audio listener to newly created scenes
• Add being able to * Add a thumbnail to a SpawnableJsonProxy
• Add color picker option to accept changes on dismissal
• Add option for enabling enhanced determinism in Physics
• Add Lightmap UV material node
• Add text alignment options to Button
• Add support for customizing Dropdown popup visuals
• Add smooth light brightness fade out at last 10% of ViewDistance (if used)
• Add MaterialInstance.ResetParameters
• Add TextFormat, SelectedItemChanged, and text alignment options to Dropdown
• Add Graphics.ShadowUpdateRate to control global shadows atlas update rate
• Add Git cloning plugin project inside Git repo as submodule
• Add clearing render target pool textures to pink during in Debug builds
• Add IndirectLightingIntensity to Sky for GI intensity control
• Add Contrast Adaptive Sharpening (CAS) filter pass
• Add improved default value detection for scripting object references in bindings generator
• Add improved material instance setup on model import with base material
• Add improved FormatBytesCount to print large sizes in more detailed way
• Add copy/paste for material instance parameters via context menu on Parameters group header
• Add more move value operation for various code places for better performance
• Add support for using C# stdlib api in Visual Scripts
• Add more contextual log printing on missing object/asset reference
• Add Transfrom.AlignRotationToNormalAndSnapToGrid, Vector3.SnapToGrid
• Add ability to edit position curve in timeline with a gizmo in a viewport
• Add custom grid snapping value for translation
• Add software raytraced reflections to transparent material that have both GI and SSR enabled
• Add better engine responsiveness when not focused by ticking platform more frequently
• Add grid gizmo to prefab scene
• Add enlarging debug point of current blend value in Multi blend nodes in Anim Graph window
• Add options menu to json assets
• Add cleaning up modules from target files when deleted
• Add saving collection element groups
• Add copy/paste context actions to the sprite properties panel
• Add preserving local changes to model prefab objects when reimporting
• Add resizing foliage paint gizmo with shift scroll
• Add physics and lights debug drawing in prefabs when enabled
• Add check for not having right mouse button down for changing terrain gizmo sizes
• Add additional Actor virtual methods to C# and Visual Scripting to override
• Add attributes support for dotnet interop for methods, fields and properties
• Add automatic heightmap files removal on Editor shutdown for deleted terrains
• Add navigation focus support to AssetPicker control
• Add caching scroll values for actors in Properties window
• Add creating particle systems from particle emitters via context menu
• Add creating anim graph from skinned model via context menu
• Add prefab root actor option picking
• Add grid snapping option to Visject Surface editor
• Add option to reconstruct Z channel when importing OpenGL normal maps
• Add option to flip imported texture over X axis
• Add option to keep aspect ratio of texture when resizing
• Add UpdateFlags to ISceneRenderingListener::UpdateActor for more contextual control over dirtying actors state in renderer data
• Add NetworkReplicationNode::SetObject to customize object replication settings at runtime
• Add initial AGX tonemapping implementation
• Add widget UI root control type or canvas
• Add tooltip and description inside Visual Script finder menu
• Add bindings for handling MAX C++ defines in enums and converting them to C#
• Add Invert Mouse Y-axis option to input options in Editor
• Add handling .f in C++ values by bindings generator
• Add code gen for FixedAllocation arrays to generate Collection attribute with allocation count
• Add using nameof for adding new Modules to build targets
• Add NetworkReplicator::MapObjectId for networked object identifies mapping
• Add OrthographicSize to Camera for fixed ortho projection size
• Add disabling decals from effecting editor camera model
• Add material instance override options to be in setting button
• Add generic CSharpProxy and Empty C# template
• Add opening file proxy via shell on Windows in Editor as fallback
• Add Shift+End and PageUp/PageDown for TextBoxBase
• Add ControlChildSize option to disable auto resizing child controls in UI panel
• Add Background Brush to the control for more styling
• Add caching review model in Animation window
• Add Foliage.RemoveAllInstances to clear all instances of foliage
• Add gamepad buttons to Axis Config
• Add actor type and script type to search filters (a: for actors and s: for scripts, eg. a:SkyLight, s:TestingMovement, MainLight)
• Add improved anim slot blending between animation in the same slot
• Add picking the longest animation from the imported file instead of the first one as default
• Add CHECK_DEBUG and use it over over ASSERT in normalized direction checks
• Add requesting engine exit event. Expose Fatal error and requesting exit it to C#
• Optimize world matrix storage for drawable objects to use Matrix3x4 instead of full matrix
• Optimize decals rendering
• Optimize depth pass rendering to batch simple materials together
• Optimize env probes data storage in renderer
• Optimize local lights sphere mesh rendering to match the area better
• Optimize BoundingSphere.Intersects to be inlined by the compiler
• Optimize FileReadStream seeking if new position is within the cached buffer
• Optimize draw calls batching sorting with Merge Sort
• Optimize win32 filesystem access via static buffer or unlimited path len
• Optimize Windows Development builds to use SSE2 by default on Windows and use SSE4.1 when targeting Windows 11
• Optimize StaticModel draw into SDF and SurfaceAtlas if SDF texture is unused
• Optimize SceneObjectsFactory::SetupPrefabInstances when loading large scenes
• Optimize SceneObjectsFactory::SynchronizeNewPrefabInstances when loading large scenes
• Optimize Global SDF drawing with async job system
• Optimize Global SDF to use 8-bit storage (50% less memory usage)
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas drawing when atlas is full
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas defragmenting to just reset tiles, not whole objects list
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas setup and objects buffer writing to be async
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas objects culling with shared thread group pre-cull
• Optimize GPU memory usage in Editor when viewport is inactive
• Optimize and refactor DDGI to use linear attention per-probe to dynamically control ray count and blend speed
• Optimize DDGI probes border pixels to be copied within probe update, rather than via separate dispatch
• Optimize draw calls sorting and objects buffer building to be async
• Optimize new rectangle packing to use binary search for faster inserting
• Optimize wait signal in Job System to wake waiting threads only when job batch ends
• Optimize DynamicTypedBuffer and DynamicStructuredBuffer to use GPU-memory for commonly used single-frame uploads
• Refactor DDGI probe relocation algorithm to have smoother and more precise placement
• Refactor draw calls rendering to use single objects buffer and better materials batching
• Refactor RectPack into new RectPackNode and RectPackAtlas that uses more optimized memory allocations
• Refactor SortOrder to use int8 instead of int16 due to performance reasons (more efficient sort keys packing in rendering)
• Refactor Button to inherit from Label and get all of its functionalities
• Refactor WindowsFileSystemWatcher to properly handle file modifications
• Refactor Audio Backend to support single listener only
• Refactor Asset::GetReferences to support file path references
• Refactor shadows rendering to use Shadow Map Atlas
• Rename ShadowSamplerPCF to ShadowSamplerLinear
• Reimplement cascaded shadow maps blending via dithering (optimized shader)
• Update GDK to 230305 and support v143 MSVC toolset
• Update VulkanMemoryAllocator to version3.1.0
• Update Assimp to v5.4.1
• Update meshoptimizer to version v0.21
• Update OpenFBX to the latest version Jun 22, 2024 (* Add new triangulation)
• Update various third party dependencies
• Fix various FBX importing issues (new triangulation, better format support)
• Fix drop down image on scripts to be hidden if no objects are in the group
• Fix xml tooltips processing to ignore excessive whitespaces
• Fix thumb of scrollbar not showing up until dragged by user
• Fix Convert to Parameter to check if can perform action
• Fix playing from first scene with invalid asset id
• Fix project cache in editor to use invariant culture when converting numbers
• Fix game build when using some missing debug draw methods
• Fix editor play state exceptions into errors to prevent locking editor state
• Fix SliderControl not being unfocused on value change
• Fix header height when using HeaderAttribute with multiline label
• Fix TAA jittering when rendering UI in world after TAA resolve
• Fix a few edge cases for cursor showing/not showing
• Fix progress bar normalized percentage drawing
• Fix tree nodes culling when using search in scene tree
• Fix UICanvas controls to update when cavnas skips input events
• Fix UI control borders not tinting
• Fix missing layout performing of splitter panel once splitter is done being dragged
• Fix asset to be soft when transformation is nan or inf
• Fix text wrapping to wrap only on underscores and not other special characters
• Fix timer queries reset before use on Vulkan
• Fix terrain SDF thickness to be fixed at 300 units
• Fix terrain rasterization into Global SDF to less blocky
• Fix Global SDF sampling in materials to properly read far cascades
• Fix Global SDF mip sampling artifacts on edges of distance limit
• Fix DDGI probes scrolling to properly handle bigger scroll deltas
• Fix single-frame DDGI black artifacts when Global Surface Atlas got defragmented
• Fix Global Surface Atlas flickering in scenes with lots of objects
• Fix missing GPU events when using shaders profiling/debugging or graphics dev tools are enabled
• Fix D3D11 to properly issue instanced draws even if instance count is 1
• Fix D3D11 to properly flush CB/SRVs when bindings new shaders after CB/SRV was set
• Fix HashSet adding item via move operation
• Fix playing 6-channel audio with XAudio2 backend
• Fix MIN_int32 compilation on the latest Clang
• Fix model thumbnail for very large assets
• Fix Global Surface Atlas defragmentation flicker when atlas it nearly full
• Fix GlobalSDF for meshes intersections for negative distances inside the geometry
• Fix GPU Tasks queue to be executed on frame start, rather than end
• Fix GPUTexture::GetData to properly handle volume textures
• Fix texture copy into staging one on DX12 and Vulkan
• Fix missing DirectX resources naming in Development builds for profiling
• Fix SSAO flickering artifacts in cooked game (disable depth mips usage)
• Fix Model SDF texture streaming to properly mark highest loaded mip as resident
• Fix generating project files for VSCode on Mac without .NET x64 SDK installed
• Fix statically linked binary modules not getting compiled
• Fix the profiler charts in place and only scroll profiler info
• Fix prefab actor buttons to be invisible in Prefab Window
• Fix Variant getters returning already freed managed handles
• Fix Delegate invoke to copy arguments values to each call instead of passing as reference
• Fix World Triplanar Texture node to support displacement and float4 value
• Fix missing debug draw from prefabs
• Fix terrain modes to not be visible if no terrain panel is showing
• Fix incorrect zoom in viewport if shift key is clicked and window is not focused
• Fix not needed anymore zero clamping from HingeJointDrive in Editor
• Fix surface parameters sorting alphabetically only if script member order is set to Alphabetical
• Fix Vector IsNormalized checks to use larger epsilon
• Fix undo-redo for JsonAssetReference in Editor
• Fix ConvertMouseToRay for orthographic projection
• Fix drawing physics colliders in debug view mode
• Fix Content Finder input action binding in Output Log
• Fix editor viewport mouse control bug when using Alt key
• Fix editor log spam by rebuilding layout when Custom Editor throws exception on update
• Fix network profiler to properly calculate network usage statistics per second
• Fix animated model parameters to be hidden on end play
• Fix leftover bindings for InputEvent and InputAxis events on dispose
• Fix progress bar lerp jumping when first initialized
• Fix foliage shadows rendering when using cull distance
• Fix spline length calculations bug
• Fix SpriteRender all parameters override
• Fix terrain rendering to use the same LOD for main view and shadow passes
• Fix texture streaming reallocation task to ignore not-resident mips
• Fix Multi Blend 2D animation indices outside the blend space
• Fix missing parameters metadata on nested material layers
• Fix turbulence module in GPU particles far away from world origin
• Fix Flipbook node bug
• Fix Pre-Skinned Normal and Position when accessed in Pixel Shader
• Fix missing integer and double math node implementation in Visject
• Fix using Tag as key of serialized dictionary in cooked build
• Fix Visject parameter values restore after script is saved in editor by using original value diff
• Fix GPU particles issues with Global SDF far away from scene geometry
• Fix DDGI probes debug when using very large amount of probes
• Fix directional lights shadows jittering when using TAA
• Fix profiler window tabs layout for charts
• Fix draw calls sorting to favor distance over geometry and material
• Fix GlobalSDF tracing artifacts in reflections by using occlusion bias relative to each cascade voxel size
• Fix border placement in Dropdown control
• Fix importing compressed textures with DirectXTex with resizing
• Fix bug with missing baked SDF data on save when asset data chunk memory was freed by GC
• Fix interface bindings clashing namespace and class name if class has same name as namespace
• Fix properties editor labels positioning
• Fix sprite group name to be updated when sprite name is changed
• Fix BehaviorTreeMoveToNode when goal location changes every frame by less than tolerance
• Fix audio state for non-streaming audio
• Fix HRTF audio on start in cooked game if disabled in settings
• Fix C# structures memory packing to match C++ better
• Fix custom 2D clipping mask to properly inherit parent container clip mask
• Fix HasBorder and BorderThickness for Rich Text Box
• Fix Label auto sizing to be relative to pivot and sync layout when editing
• Fix Linux platform CreateProcess not working with whitespace in path
• Fix Input::AxisValueChanged event to properly handle value changes when using keyboard
• Fix incorrect network RPC sending when target client ids list is provided but is empty
• Fix lightmap uvs density view to handle scale in lightmap and outline non-static objects
• Fix NetworkLagDriver having wrong ChannelType and Length
• Fix realtime environment probes updating
• Fix missing scenes saving when entering play mode in full game mode
• Fix TextBox caret and selection when using text alignment options
• Fix RichTextBox selection bug when using style tags
• Fix navigation focus path in UIControl transform editor
• Fix game crashes due to scene objects C# instances removal on EndPlay before all game logic ends
• Fix freeing managed Object references in marshalled arrays
• Fix graphical glitches in Vulkan backend with AMD GPUs
• Fix error when previewing animation timeline values after reimport
• Fix mesh collider not inverting correctly due to negative scale
• Fix Invariant culture for unknown LCID
• Fix layers array editing to block resizing it
• Fix Translate/Rotate/Scale/TransformSpace hotkeys to be ignored when holding RMB
• Fix warnings about upcoming C# reserved keywords
• Fix deserializing clipboard content in Custom Editor paste checks to avoid safety issues
• Fix CharacterController::SimpleMove gravity displacement handling
• Fix missing CCD detection flag in pair flags to properly handle physics simulation
• Fix vehicles simulation instability when physics substepping is enabled
• Fix redundant first tab on floating window to be removed
• Fix unpacking marshaled field value
• Fix various issues related to fbx files importing (better triangulation)
• Fix incorrect JsonAssetReference<T> serialization
• Fix not being able to drag a window tab all of the way to the right
• Fix Quaternion.FromDirection giving bogus output when fed a perfect down vector
• Fix IsActuallyPlayingSth to be deprecated and (add IsActuallyPlaying to AudioSource)
• Fix crash in CharacterController to not process hits against removed actors
• Fix crash in gpu memory profiler if resource name is missing
• Fix crash when loading large scenes in async by using UnsafeAccessor to initialize scripting object interop fields
• Fix crash in D3D12 when constant buffer was binded but not updated before the draw
• Fix crash in particle emitter load
• Fix crash in build tool when generating project files with incorrect target setup
• Fix crash in editor when opening Visual Script that uses array of visual script references
• Fix crash in audio clip if it's still streaming after unload
• Fix crash in Level.GetScene when index is invalid
• Fix crash on exit when GPU async task failed
• Fix crash when trying to import unsupported EXR-file
• Fix crash when removing Visual Script asset that's instance is selected in Properties window
• Fix crash when showing shader source that is empty
• Fix crash when using content search in Visject surface
• Fix crash when drawing particle effect where one of the emitter assets is not yet loaded
• Fix crash when using and saving scene with Visual Script object instance which asset was deleted
• Fix crash when reading invalid data from file
• Fix crash in Colliders when PhysicsMaterial asset is reloaded in editor