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

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

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

Changelog:

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