Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-11-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_11/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-11/2330

Changelog:

• Add new memory profiler
• Add suport for Tracy profiler on Mac
• Add integration with Tracy profiler to plot main memory categories
• Add new Arena Allocator for optimized dynamic memory allocations with a shared lifetime
• Add memory alloc profiling for virtual pages (on Win32)
• Add process memory stats for Apple platforms
• Add version to game settings
• Add variable DDGI probe size in debug view based on cascade
• Add GPU profiling support to Tracy integration
• Add debug tool detection for Nsight Graphics
• Add explicit GPU resource transitions, memory and compute barriers
• Add logging missing instance layer on Vulkan
• Add debug name for PSO catching on D3D12/Vulkan during profiling incl. Development builds
• Add Platform::Yield
• Add PLATFORM_CONSOLE define and fix desktop to be as Windows/UWP, not Win32
• Add support for using custom memory allocator in lambda bind to Function
• Add GPUResourceMapMode.NoWait flag to control buffer data reading
• Add nvapi third party module (NVIDIA driver extensions)
• Add AGS third party module (AMD driver extensions)
• Add nvapi/AGS libs to D3D11 for efficient UAV writes overlaps on NVIDIA/AMD GPUs
• Add automatic periodic Vulkan Pipeline State Cache serialization
• Add red color to Tracy profiler zones that cause CPU waiting to improve profiling
• Add time slicing to Deserialization stage of async scenes loading to avoid hitching
• Add higher level streaming time budget in frame based on idle time
• Add UseLogInRelease to engine config to disable logging in Release builds
• Add new Custom Lit shading model for custom lighting in materials (eg. Cel Shading)
• Add resizing to Custom Code nodes in Materials
• Add improved way of ColorValueBoxes drawing transparent colors
• Add support for building engine without logging
• Add label/button text to string convertion for better debugging
• Add CharacterController.Resize for quick crouching implementation for characters
• Add option to change Character Controller capsule origin to start at feet location
• Add SCOPE_EXIT macro
• Add PositionFormat and TexCoordFormat to model import option for mesh data encoding
• Add GPUDevice.VideoOutputs with a list of attached monitors
• Add stencil buffer usage with object layer information
• Add new scene textures SceneStencil and ObjectLayer to sample Stencil buffer
• Add render layer mask to decals
• Add ReadWriteLock to platform api
• Add support for large 16kb page sizes on Android
• Add Android native crashes caching
• Add new PreIntegratedGF with 80% smaller memory but more accurate data
• Add hot-reload support for material feature template sources on material generation
• Add and use Max Mesh Position Error to Build Settings for automatic mesh vertex positions storage
• Add improved import path UI
• Add LayoutElementsContainer.Image with IBrush for Editor
• Add new UIBrush that uses UIBrushAsset json resource with a brush data
• Add hotkey to quick focus debug console input (Ctrl+~)
• Add highlighting to layers matrix editor to improve UX
• Add node alignment formatting options to Visject
• Add highlight to the Visject socket with context menu and improve button texts
• Add additive (box) and subtractive selection to Visject surfaces (with Ctrl to add or Shift to remove from selection)
• Add shortcuts for View flags and Debug View modes in Editor
• Add shortcuts for windows in Editor
• Add accent colors to Content Finder tool
• Add wrap scrolling items list with arrow keys and simplify scrolling logic
• Add GetOrAddButton utility for MainMenu
• Add GPUTexture.UploadData for changing texture contents via TextureData container
• Add Texture Size node to particles
• Add option for debug shapes drawing for particle emitters
• Add option to show vertices and triangles of collision model in a collider data window
• Add unscaled time to Material Time node
• Add support to move Visject socket connections
• Add skybox rotation feature
• Add model import options auto-restore from model prefab
• Add more color gradiant node stops (count from 8 to 12)
• Add particle data layout debugger tab
• Add editor option for disabled transform gizmo brightness
• Add showing added and removed Actors from Prefab Diff menu
• Add collection item duplication via context menu
• Add Editor option to auto resize Properties List splitter bar based on longest text
• Add custom Editor splash screen image (import texture SplashImage inside project Content folder)
• Add shortcut for editor settings
• Add controls and filter to actor Toolbox search
• Add option to add capsule in add colliders menu
• Add more Editor options for windows and tabs behaviour/logic
• Add new APIs to Animated Model for more control over custom nodes
• Add slider with time position to Audio Source editor
• Add ClipStarted and ClipFinished events to Audio Source
• Add option to create a new projects from within the Editor
• Add support for parsing inheritance with preprocessor blocks inside it
• Add support for Visual Studio 2026 and v145 MSVC toolset
• Add drawing RigidBody center of mass and attached colliders
• Add a info message on Debug Log pause on error
• Add a broken link icon (used in actor scale editor)
• Add a better way of displaying transparent colors in color properties
• Add InvokeOnUpdate to C++ scripting api
• Add more utility methods for Layer Mask api
• Add initial work on nuget package support
• Add shift selection for tree nodes in Editor
• Add VSCode organization for project plugins into own folders
• Add maximum supported .NET SDK version to 10
• Add prefab UI viewport scaling
• Add surface formatting option to straighten node connections
• Add Visual Script editor method override context menu searchable
• Add Visject editor panning with RMB over nodes
• Add options for viewport icons
• Add preventing autosave when using editor context menus
• Add Output Window console to show all commands on spacebar
• Add editor option for build configuration when using cook and run
• Add support for using shadow maps from linked scene rendering (eg. for 1p weapons)
• Add shader header proxy for easy .hlsl files creation within Editor
• Add support for negative Fog Cutoff Distance on fog to draw it in front of the camera Far Plane, no matter the setup.
• Add actor name to prefab diff view
• Add quick toggle to debug window group buttons
• Add Tag editor quick expand with Shift key
• Add ability to unfold folded categories when scrolling with keyboard in dropdown list in Editor
• Add better keyboard navigation to Content Finder and fix right click clearing search
• Add button to quickly jump into Localized String Table that contains it
• Add viewport icons scale relative to the distance and editor control over it
• Add utility for if in play mode that returns true for shipped applications (Engine::IsPlayMode)
• Add auto selecting first item in item list context menu if no selection and the user presses enter
• Add better logging of unsupported .NET version in tools
• Add Import/export warning message boxes
• Add SortOrder to Environment Probe
• Add exception and crashes catching with processing on iOS/macOS
• Optimize asset references to support direct registration to reduce Delegate memory allocations and overhead
• Optimize editor profiler allocations when capturing data
• Optimize actors registration in SceneRendering to track free items
• Optimize async scene loading to run in separate stages with time-slicing
• Optimize physics simulation with higher limit of 8 threads
• Optimize physics transformation updates propagation in async via Job System
• Optimize updating actor rendering entry with better thread locking that support async writes on actor update
• Optimize Actor::DestroyChildren
• Optimize ContainerControl.DisposeChildren
• Optimize CSharp scripting runtime to use arena allocator per-assembly
• Optimize dynamic memory allocations for managed runtime interop collections with a new Arena Allocation
• Optimize ProbesRenderer to use time-slicing for cubemap faces rendering and filtering
• Optimize SpriteRenderer to lazy-init
• Optimize Particles drawing to use a whole RenderContextBatch
• Optimize GPU Particles simulation to perform memory buffer copies/updates before dispatch
• Optimize GPU particles Bitonic sort to use separate buffers for indices and keys to avoid additional buffer copy
• Optimize GPU particles simulation, sorting and drawing with better resource transition barriers
• Optimize GPU particles simulation by scheduling larger sims first to overlap more work
• Optimize compute shader pipeline binding on D3D12 and Vulkan when unchanged
• Optimize sorted particle indices format to 16-bit for small emitters
• Optimize environment probes filtering shader
• Optimize foliage rendering with concurrent arena allocator
• Optimize textures/buffers uploading on Vulkan with page allocator
• Optimize GPU textures and buffers uploads with a batched memory barrier
• Optimize Global SDF dispatches with UAV write overlaps
• Optimize DDGI probes update to overlap both irradiance and distance data dispatches at once
• Optimize Debug Draw performance of splines to use frustum culling
• Optimize Debug Commands name building and support nested classes with name hierarchy
• Optimize Asset::GetPath in cooked build
• Optimize Spline debug rendering far from camera
• Optimize particles drawing to run in async jobs
• Optimize scripting objects spawning on AOT platforms
• Optimize Audio streaming to reduce lock conten...

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
  *...

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 `Tex...

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-8-2-released/

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

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-8-6512-2/1738

Changelog:

• Add watermark attribute to add watermark to string fields in editor
• Add removing selected blend space point with Delete key
• Add margin to item tree in toolbox
• Add shift scroll for panels and textbox
• Add control transform to General group for better usability
• Add trimming content item name and actor name on rename to prevent dangling whitespace
• Add drag drop controls to Actor Toolbox
• Add font and case options to Label and Textbox
• Add color properties to Panel's scroll bars
• Add width padding for tooltip text
• Add tree node guidelines for Editor hierarchies
• Add checkerboard background to color picker dialog color
• Add support for adding script via drag drop on actor
• Add minor improvements to UI Editor widget drawing
• Add better error messages to NetworkReplicator::SetObjectOwnership for incorrect usage
• Add layer masking for PostFxVolume against Camera's RenderLayersMask
• Add OnStaticFlagsChanged to Actor
• Add Gameplay Global combobox to default to the last type of variable
• Add For Distribution to be enabled by default in Release builds
• Add Windows on Arm build support for PhysX and NvCloth libs
• Add test case of nested types in scripting
• Add option to move all selected UI Controls while holding Shift key
• Optimize navmesh building and reduce scene lock time
• Rename Options to Editor Options and move under Edit menu
• Refactor Color.FromRGBA and add matching old logic Color.FromARGB
• Fix looping root motion
• Fix error when using undo after removing Multi Blend node
• Fix odd offset between 1st property and property label
• Fix empty layers to be ignored by LayerMask Editor
• Fix TreeNode not rendering all nodes properly with invisible children
• Fix editor to focus prefab window on item spawn
• Fix textbox caret not showing on empty string
• Fix caret location on text box with no text
• Fix drawing an extra character with Render2D.DrawText
• Fix actor type drag spawn to correctly assign parent
• Fix editor game window focus while cursor is not visible
• Fix smooth step visject node width
• Fix color picker dialog
• Fix item search to clear on select prefab
• Fix incorrect async methods used as RPCs (not supported now)
• Fix ReadOnly attribute handling in collection editors
• Fix UI navigation when using multiple canvases
• Fix TAA in editors debug view modes
• Fix compilation warnings when using 64-bit coords
• Fix compilation when using non-strongly typed enum as default value
• Fix Editor not launching if custom interface fonts are missing
• Fix creating virtual terrain collision of actor that is not in a game
• Fix missing camera model preview in Prefab viewport
• Fix missing curve initialization when loading from json
• Fix windows cursor to force show or hide based on cursor hidden value
• Fix bindings code generation for nested types
• Fix deadlock between content storage and asset that is being updated during load
• Fix crash when using scripting object as interface implementation in object property displayed in Editor
• Fix crash when unboxing of array type Variant
• Fix crash when Visual Script event binding instance is invalid

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

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

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-8-6511-1/1709/2

Changelog:

• Add support for importing .exr textures
• Add logging and cleaning up leaked scene objects after play mode in Editor
• Add trading minor optimizations in MSVC Development builds for compile speed
• Add automatic restoring Anim Event tracks when reimporting animation asset
• Add ShowDebugDrawSkeleton to preview Animated Model skeleton via Debug Draw
• Add toggle orthographic view hotkey (Numpad Decimal)
• Add locking actor selection in properties and prefab windows
• Add displaying all actors in Actor toolbox search tab when no filter is applied
• Add better anim events visuals in timeline editor
• Add sorting search actor toolbox
• Add Tags.Find utility
• Add statically disabled tessellation on macOS/iOS
• Add statically disabled geometry shaders on mobile
• Add CPU profiler events for UI drawing
• Add setter for crword agent position and velocity
• Add option for using Address and Thread sanitizers
• Add hiding TAA settings if TAA isn't enabled
• Add Time.Synchronize to stabilize engine loop
• Add Engine::UpdateCount to sync gameplay logic updates with game loop rather than draw frames
• Add improved size of Multi Blend nodes
• Add undo for Multi Blend points moving
• Add context menu to Multi Blend node points
• Add tooltips to Multi Blend points
• Add Ctrl to snap points to grid in Multi Blend editor
• Add improved visuals of points in Multi Blend
• Add grid labels drawing to Multi Blend
• Add live debugging of blend position in Multi Blend
• Add add/remove buttons to Multi Blend
• Add better const correctness in Mesh and SkinnedMesh api
• Add Write/Read methods to NetworkStream for INetworkSerializable sending in C# api
• Add more useful orientation settings to Android
• Add exported property to activity element in AndroidManifest.xml template
• Add basic Android version settings to editor
• Optimize DrawBatch for faster sorting
• Optimize draw calls sorting in opaque passes
• Optimize TreeNode rendering
• Optimize ActorTreeNode reparent when it's not collapsed but one of the parents is
• Optimize Anim Graph node size and remove limit of max 64 state transitions
• Refactor engine loop to have better sync between game update, physics and drawing
• Refactor UpdateGraph to run after engine services and game scripts
• Refactor Visject Graph nodes data for unlimited size
• Refactor Multi Blend nodes to support up to 255 blend points
• Update DirectXTex to mar2024
• Change default collision type to ConvexMesh from TriangleMesh
• Fix default diffuse color value when importing material
• Fix Editor viewport aspect ratio scaling to be removed from camera mouse movement
• Fix numpad enter to normal enter on Linux
• Fix Two Bone IK to have correct bone roll
• Fix blend shapes transformation applying
• Fix blend shapes normals usage
• Fix blending nested animations to properly handle it per-node
• Fix nested animations sampling
• Fix animated model skinning precision issues
• Fix errors on using spline editor in Prefab window
• Fix error when applying prefab changes with Spline
• Fix deselecting actors when using camera orbiting in viewport after releasing LMB when Alt is up
• Fix text underline being in wrong spot on different DPIs
• Fix particle emitter creation from templates
• Fix various bugs in code detected with address/thread sanitizers
• Fix EyeAdaptation bug to flash on play mode start in Editor when time gets reset
• Fix heightfield not saved when editing splatmap of terrain with physical materials in use
• Fix editor toolstrip by moving game cooking and building to the right for less missclicks
• Fix panning Visject Surface with middle mouse button (right button does it) to prevent missed connections removals
• Fix Debug Log scrolling when many entries are added at once
• Fix cloning value utility for object references
• Fix missing UI Control preview when changing UI Widget type
• Fix surface node context menu to not show when moving surface
• Fix margins issues in context menus
• Fix FindRandomPointAroundCircle to always find a valid point on a NavMesh in the radius
• Fix NavMesh to initialize earlier and prevent issues with crowd agents on a scene
• Fix .NET runtime validity checks with daily runtime builds
• Fix CachedAttributeGetter holding references to collectible types
• Fix to release Prefab assets when unloading Scripting service
• Fix freeze when selecting ModelPrefab referencing a removed asset
• Fix terrain heightmap to use higher range format when decompressed
• Fix bug in ValueContainer.HasDifferentTypes causing incorrect editor setup
• Fix model tool importing to use temp file only for Assimp
• Fix deadlock when parsing invalid HTML text in RichTextBox
• Fix crash on prefab preview with lightmap in use
• Fix crash when accessing physics objects state in OnLateFixedUpdate
• Fix crash when resizing window on Vulkan
• Fix crash when removing Anim Event visual script that is used in opened Animation timeline
• Fix crash when using old Blend with Mask node in Anim Graph
• Fix crash when playing uninitialized audio source
• Fix crash when reimporting animation with translation set

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 inval...

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 cal...

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
• U...