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 invalid
• Fix Transform diff serialization to properly handle prefab changes to a single component of transform
• Fix model prefab issue with scaling and rotation
• Fix differences between Assimp and OpenFBX imports in units scaling
• Fix prefab transform on drag drop with parent
• Fix Missing Script replacing in prefab
• Fix for resetting local transform of newly created prefab child
• Fix nested prefabs instance building logic
• Fix creating prefab out of actor to reset local transform of it for better instancing
• Fix cloth editing undo in Prefab viewport
• Fix incorrect vehicle wheels collisions inside trigger volumes
• Fix editor inputs processing in Game window to interferer with game inputs
• Fix no available getter/setter node and item for private parameters in Visual Script
• Fix Temporal Anti Aliasing ghosting and improve quality of blending
• Fix marshaling custom type array to C# with MarshalAs used
• Fix missing file error in Content::GetAssetInfo
• Fix bug with saving Missing Script into file
• Fix transform scaling applying to nested objects when drawing
• Fix uninitialized value of NetworkConfig::NetworkDriver field
• Fix networked objects dirtying for replication
• Fix bug in NetworkReplicator::RemoveObject
• Fix C++ Intellisense not working with latest version of Rider
• Fix incorrect including editor modules in Game.Build.cs when git plugin pulling
• Fix incorrect rigidbody rotation in AddMovement when using locked axis
• Fix codegen skipping if and writing else if first
• Fix codegen for nested enums
• Fix missing networked object ID resolving
• Fix JsonAsset::GetInstance to properly check base class
• Fix problem with Procedural Texture Sample flicker if using scaled UVs
• Fix getting file access time for Apple, Android and Linux
• Fix DateTime::GetDate calculations
• Fix render view panning when bug when no camera is active
• Fix Json serializer for CSharp data to use UTF-8 text encoding
• Fix editor exit with error code when game cooking CL fails
• Fix sorting directories in build tool
• Fix building macOS with the latest Vulkan SDK
• Fix anim graph debugging to include nodes path for nested graphs
• Fix root motion preview in animation window
• Fix invalid Visual Studio solution folder nesting
• Fix color grading issue with LUT texture used
• Fix spatial audio playback in OpenAL with Large Worlds enabled
• Fix terrain smoothing brush separation issue
• Fix going into windowed mode on Windows
• Fix rpath on Linux to handle plugins libraries loading in Editor
• Fix error loggig in headless mode on platforms that use char16
• Fix support for utf8 character in path on unix systems
• Fix deadlock when stack overflows in the Anim Graph update
• Fix timeline tracks dragging like recent improvements to tree UI
• Fix Bone Socket transform when Animated Model pose is not yet evaluated
• Fix error in Editor when Audio Clip duration is very small
• Fix vehicle center of mass rotation used in wheels setup
• Fix loading BehaviorKnowledgeSelectorAny from json object
• Fix incorrect mouse cursor hiding on Windows when window is not focused
• Fix preserving actors hierarchy order when performing undo of actor removal
• Fix UI size changes when saving scenes or prefabs in Editor with different layout
• Fix UI coordinate convertion in CanvasScaler
• Fix split dragging not working in some cases
• Fix carrot and selection height based on dpi scale to correctly scale with interface options
• Fix missing debug shapes in prefab window
• Fix loading shader cache when opened with different engine version
• Fix d3d12 warning on initial gpu buffer state
• Fix small GPU buffer update on Vulkan if data size align up overflows buffer size
• Fix potential issues with shader resources bindings when using custom post processing effect
• Fix TAA jitter in post-resolve passes such as editor primitives and debug gizmos
• Fix Z-fighting issues in Debug Draw when using TAA
• Fix bug in actors duplicate action due to incorrect actors list setup
• Fix snapping to the ground actor when viewport is not focused
• Fix drag and drop regression issue on tree UI
• Fix Revert to Default option when property is marked as ReadOnly
• Fix timeline playback control buttons visibility during seeking-only mode
• Fix game ui inputs to UI when game is paused in Editor
• Fix Mono.Cecil error in NetworkingPlugin when using external libraries
• Fix duplicate generation of native variant conversion helpers
• Fix PhysicsScene change not working in physics actors
• Fix crash when scene graph node gets somehow duplicated by internal error in Editor
• Fix crash in StaticModel::GetMaterial when model is not loaded or has invalid entries count
• Fix crash on incorrect object destruction event
• Fix crash on invalid string converted to managed string
• Fix crash due to incorrect PhysX usage for vehicle setup
• Fix crash while moving simulation disabled kinematic actors
• Fix crash when adding physics scene with auto simulation
• Fix crash when setting maanaged structure data via Variant
• Fix crash when storage file gets deleted due to missing ref from async thread which failed to load it
• Fix crash when finding actor or level with empty name text
• Fix crash when using multi-threaded objects spawn and caching scripting VTables
• Fix crash when replicating C# object with NetworkReplicated attribute on derived generic class
• Fix crash when using degenerated triangle in Multi Blend 2D to properly sample animation
• Fix crash when loading level with abstract script class
• Fix crash when using generic interface in C#
• Fix crash when using network replication or rpc after hot-reload in Editor
• Fix crash when using invalid GPUTextureDescription