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