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

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

Changelog:

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