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