Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-8-1-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_8/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-8-6511-1/1709/2

Changelog:

• Add support for importing .exr textures
• Add logging and cleaning up leaked scene objects after play mode in Editor
• Add trading minor optimizations in MSVC Development builds for compile speed
• Add automatic restoring Anim Event tracks when reimporting animation asset
• Add ShowDebugDrawSkeleton to preview Animated Model skeleton via Debug Draw
• Add toggle orthographic view hotkey (Numpad Decimal)
• Add locking actor selection in properties and prefab windows
• Add displaying all actors in Actor toolbox search tab when no filter is applied
• Add better anim events visuals in timeline editor
• Add sorting search actor toolbox
• Add Tags.Find utility
• Add statically disabled tessellation on macOS/iOS
• Add statically disabled geometry shaders on mobile
• Add CPU profiler events for UI drawing
• Add setter for crword agent position and velocity
• Add option for using Address and Thread sanitizers
• Add hiding TAA settings if TAA isn't enabled
• Add Time.Synchronize to stabilize engine loop
• Add Engine::UpdateCount to sync gameplay logic updates with game loop rather than draw frames
• Add improved size of Multi Blend nodes
• Add undo for Multi Blend points moving
• Add context menu to Multi Blend node points
• Add tooltips to Multi Blend points
• Add Ctrl to snap points to grid in Multi Blend editor
• Add improved visuals of points in Multi Blend
• Add grid labels drawing to Multi Blend
• Add live debugging of blend position in Multi Blend
• Add add/remove buttons to Multi Blend
• Add better const correctness in Mesh and SkinnedMesh api
• Add Write/Read methods to NetworkStream for INetworkSerializable sending in C# api
• Add more useful orientation settings to Android
• Add exported property to activity element in AndroidManifest.xml template
• Add basic Android version settings to editor
• Optimize DrawBatch for faster sorting
• Optimize draw calls sorting in opaque passes
• Optimize TreeNode rendering
• Optimize ActorTreeNode reparent when it's not collapsed but one of the parents is
• Optimize Anim Graph node size and remove limit of max 64 state transitions
• Refactor engine loop to have better sync between game update, physics and drawing
• Refactor UpdateGraph to run after engine services and game scripts
• Refactor Visject Graph nodes data for unlimited size
• Refactor Multi Blend nodes to support up to 255 blend points
• Update DirectXTex to mar2024
• Change default collision type to ConvexMesh from TriangleMesh
• Fix default diffuse color value when importing material
• Fix Editor viewport aspect ratio scaling to be removed from camera mouse movement
• Fix numpad enter to normal enter on Linux
• Fix Two Bone IK to have correct bone roll
• Fix blend shapes transformation applying
• Fix blend shapes normals usage
• Fix blending nested animations to properly handle it per-node
• Fix nested animations sampling
• Fix animated model skinning precision issues
• Fix errors on using spline editor in Prefab window
• Fix error when applying prefab changes with Spline
• Fix deselecting actors when using camera orbiting in viewport after releasing LMB when Alt is up
• Fix text underline being in wrong spot on different DPIs
• Fix particle emitter creation from templates
• Fix various bugs in code detected with address/thread sanitizers
• Fix EyeAdaptation bug to flash on play mode start in Editor when time gets reset
• Fix heightfield not saved when editing splatmap of terrain with physical materials in use
• Fix editor toolstrip by moving game cooking and building to the right for less missclicks
• Fix panning Visject Surface with middle mouse button (right button does it) to prevent missed connections removals
• Fix Debug Log scrolling when many entries are added at once
• Fix cloning value utility for object references
• Fix missing UI Control preview when changing UI Widget type
• Fix surface node context menu to not show when moving surface
• Fix margins issues in context menus
• Fix FindRandomPointAroundCircle to always find a valid point on a NavMesh in the radius
• Fix NavMesh to initialize earlier and prevent issues with crowd agents on a scene
• Fix .NET runtime validity checks with daily runtime builds
• Fix CachedAttributeGetter holding references to collectible types
• Fix to release Prefab assets when unloading Scripting service
• Fix freeze when selecting ModelPrefab referencing a removed asset
• Fix terrain heightmap to use higher range format when decompressed
• Fix bug in ValueContainer.HasDifferentTypes causing incorrect editor setup
• Fix model tool importing to use temp file only for Assimp
• Fix deadlock when parsing invalid HTML text in RichTextBox
• Fix crash on prefab preview with lightmap in use
• Fix crash when accessing physics objects state in OnLateFixedUpdate
• Fix crash when resizing window on Vulkan
• Fix crash when removing Anim Event visual script that is used in opened Animation timeline
• Fix crash when using old Blend with Mask node in Anim Graph
• Fix crash when playing uninitialized audio source
• Fix crash when reimporting animation with translation set