Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-1-6217/281

Changelog:

• Add API_INTERFACE to scripting API bindings for implementing interfaces
• Add support for loading JsonAsset instance objects if they implement ISerializable interface
• Add NavMesh Modifier Volume actor type
• Add NavAgentProperties
• Add NavMeshProperties
• Add NavAreaProperties
• Add NavAgentMask
• Add support for multiple navmeshes on a scene
• Add navmesh name to logs for better debugging
• Add support for masking navmesh agents in NavMeshBoundsVolume
• Add support for automatic DefaultValue attributes generation for fields in scripting API
• Add support for rotated navmeshes
• Add support for dynamic updating navmesh when moving NavModifierVolume
• Add TestPath utility to navigation system
• Add default spacing for CollectionEditor to 10 for cleaner UI when working with arrays and lists in Editor
• Add invoking BoxVolume::OnBoundsChanged after transform changed
• Add default values initialization for structures and new array entries when resizing
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle debugger view to flax.natvis
• Add more objects types checks and casting utilities to ScriptingObject
• Add support for using ObsoleteAttribute to upgrade old C# asset/script data format after refactor
• Add Actor.HasStaticFlag
• Add option to hide navmesh in editor debug view
• Add low-level networking (cross-platform sockets implementation)
• Add culling for decals (via DrawMinScreenSize property)
• Add scripting API events in Visual Script
• Add support for Events in Scripting API reflection in Editor
• Add IFunctionDependantNode for Visject nodes
• Add Spline actor
• Add Spline Model actor (draws model over spline)
• Add Spline Collider actor (creates collision over spline)
• Add Spline Rope Body actor for ropes, chains and cables physics
• Add Deformable material domain (for spline models)
• Add default Deformable material for splines
• Add auto-select for spawned actors in the level
• Add Add/Subtract methods to Transform
• Add support for copy/paste/rever values for groups in Custom Editor (eg. array editor)
• Add Transform.LocalToWorldVector and Transform.WorldToLocalVector
• Add first derivative calculation utilities for Curve
• Add Build Actions option to editor settings for build button configuration
• Add DebugDraw.DrawWireTriangles for wireframe geometry debug drawing
• Add SoftObjectReference for lazy references to assets and objects
• Add support for custom defines for build system via Flax.Build command line
• Add support for custom SceneGraphNode to handle delete with undo
• Add support for custom duplicate of SceneGraphNode
• Add support for using other VC++ toolset for Window and add cmd arg for selecting compiler manually
• Add an info group for selected Rigidbody in play mode (display speed, velocity, angular velocity, etc.)
• Add support for mapping objects in SceneAnimationPlayer to reuse it for different objects
• Add support for copy/pasting script properties
• Add more utilities to SceneReference
• Add more utilities to LayersMask
• Add Volumetric Fog particles to modify local fog
• Add skipping textbox scrolling if it has no selection
• Add WriteJsonDiff support for JsonConverter for custom object diff serialization
• Add more documentation comments improvements
• Add F to focus camera view in asset previews
• Add WorldSpaceFaceCamera mode to UICanvas
• Add mouse centering in Editor Viewport if initial location is too close to the edge
• Add separation in ContainerControl for Self/Children drawing code
• Add ContainerControl as a base for Common GUI controls (Border, Button, ProgressBar, TextBox)
• Add UICanvas culling (for 3D rendering)
• Add support for spawning Collision Data as Mesh Collider in viewport drag&drop
• Add improvements for objects spawning in editor viewport
• Add support for debug shapes preview in prefab editor window
• Add support for viewport icons rendering in prefab editor window
• Add Add mesh collider option to Static Model context menu
• Add reusing created collision data for model when UI requests it
• Add layers and tags updating
• Add support for borderless window style on Windows that supports system docking and aero shadow
• Add editor window outline color to match the status bar color
• Add more features for platform impl on Linux
• Add more support for window system features in Linux (X11)
• Add support for C++ scripting on platforms that don't support referencing executable file when linking shared library (eg. Linux)
• Add support for C++ scripting on Linux
• Add support for Clang 8, 9 and 10 when building for Linux
• Add clipboard support on Linux
• Add support for resizing textures with stb in TextureTool
• Add support for importing textures with options in TextureTool with stb
• Add separate Platform::GetStackTrace and Platform::GetStackFrames
• Add support for capturing stack trace of called DebugLog from C++
• Add newest dbghelp.dll lib
• Add support for using Level.SpawnActor to add scene from code
• Add integration with Rider IDE
• Add FindRandomPoint and FindRandomPointAroundCircle to the navigation utilities
• Add BoundingSphere::Transform method
• Add support for accessing Game Settings and related assets in C# API in game build
• Add Absolute and Negative to Vector3 C# API
• Add Sprite Render actor for sprites drawing
• Add Render Layers to Camera and Render View for masking objects during rendering
• Add DebugDraw::DrawText for drawing 2D debug text on a screen
• Add DebugDraw::DrawText for drawing 3D debug text in the world
• Add support for updating particle effects in editor view when editing
• Add Mask ZW node to all Visject surfaces
• Add Particle Radius to in-built particle attributes
• Add EditorScene for using gameplay logic in editor preview windows
• Add support for audio clip playback preview in editor window
• Add SceneGraphNode.OnContextMenu for customizations
• Add profiler events to LocalExecutor thread workers in Flax.Build
• Add -shaderdebug cmd line switch to Editor for shaders debugging
• Add support for mutable keyword on API_FIELD
• Add support for caching scripting API bindings during build
• Add MaxConcurrency and ConcurrencyProcessorScale options for Flax.Build cmd line
• Add SceneRenderTask.PreRender
• Add check for C++ bindings generator for property getter and setter method value types to match
• Add virtual to Camera GetMatrices for custom cameras
• Add support for parsing exponential (scientific) notation numbers in input fields
• Add Any node to material
• Add All node to material
• Add Sign node to material
• Add Blackbody node to material
• Add bringing editor window to front on focus
• Add safety checks for particles data to prevent division by 0
• Add support for UICanvas preview in Prefab Viewport
• Add UIControl outlines drawing in Prefab window
• Add virtual memory allocation utilities
• Add exception instead of crash when using DebugDraw.DrawLines with uneven amount of lines
• Add FLAXENGINE_API macro to class JsonAsset
• Add Level.GetActors and Level.GetScripts
• Add some defaults to Quaternion helpers
• Add and refactor several extension methods for Random
• Add Render2D.DrawTexturedTriangles, Render2D.FillTriangles and Render2D.FillTriangle
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle debugger view to flax.natvis
• Add Convert feature for actors in Editor scene tree context menu
• Add RGB & HSV conversion nodes to material graph
• Add more separators to TextBoxBase
• Add allowance for overriding most of the methods in TextBoxBase
• Add auto serialization by default in C++ script template
• Add optional icons to DockWindows
• Add icon for Content window
• Add icon for Debug Log window (based on last unseen logs severity)
• Add WarningOnce, ErrorOnce, InfoOnce, VerboseOnce to Flax.Build logger
• Add colored icons for Debug Log entries (and adjusted entry height)
• Add Render2D tint color layering support
• Add reroute nodes to Visject
• Add arrow key navigation to Visject
• Add support for binary modules with native-code only
• Add improved dll import/export attributes injection when building binary modules
• Add support for using ThirdPartyModule in game/project scripting
• Add StringBuilder::ToStringView()
• Add write barriers for Mono GC in bindings glue code
• Add support for overriding most of the methods in TextBoxBase
• Add ClampLength to Vector2/3/4
• Add StringUtils::ConvertUTF162UTF8
• Add support for using automated codesign for binaries in deployment
• Add passing custom compiler switch when invoking child Flax.Build process during deployment
• Add DrawCylinder and DrawWireCylinder to DebugDraw
• Add Shift+Home shortcut to Text Boxes
• Add support for vertical and horizontal panels to arrange children based on the child anchor
• Add per-monitor/per-window DPI support
• Add new UI Control transform editor
• Add more descriptive "no scene" message
• Add automatic rename to UIControl
• Add constructor to BoundingBox for single point empty box construction
• Add Mouse Wheel Sensitivity option to Editor
• Add selecting prefab root objects first in Editor
• Add error check to prevent changing parent of the Scene actor
• Add focus on acto with F key in editor viewport (improvements)
• Add better support for orthographic projection in Editor viewport controls
• Add option to order script fields/properties in Editor UI based on declaration order (Editor option)
• Add splash screen quote
• Add support for Custom Defines in Game Cooker for build scripts configuration
• Add support for custom defines for build system via Flax.Build command line
• Optimize and improve ActorChildNodes handling
• Optimize build tool
• Optimize MAssembly::GetClass(MonoClass* monoClass) search via assembly image early out
• Optimize automatic navmesh rebuild in editor for navmesh relevant actors only
• Optimize Serialization.h to have separate SerializationFwd.h for more lightweight types serialization impl
• Optimize DebugLog stack trace formatting
• Optimize Texture::DownloadData for staging textures
• Optimize Blend Normal Node
• Optimize compilation time on Windows
• Optimize scripting API bindings generation if loaded API from valid cache
• Optimize DrawCall to pack indirect draw arg and graphics draw data with union
• Refactor navigation system to support multiple navmeshes with more options and API
• Refactored lots of logic in UI to fix various reported issues (eg. vertical and horizontal panels usage has been improved a lot and might behave different than it used to be)
• Refactor game settings to support using API bindings
• Refactor PhysicalMaterial to use API bindings
• Refactor draw calls and instancing logic to be more modular
• Refactor material shaders generator to use modular features as extensions
• Refactor Collider base class to improve code sharing across collider shape types
• Move Curve data serialization to binary format into CurveSerialization.h
• Move ScreenToGameViewport from Engine to Screen (update doc comments)
• Remove Unlink from asset reference
• Remove deprecated and unused ISceneObject and ITransformable
• Improve tokens preprocessor for scripting API headers
• Improve Visual Studio Code solution generation for C# projects
• Cleanup and optimize StringUtils::ConvertUTF82UTF16
• Move Actor static flags helper methods to be manually implemented (less bindings)
• Update stb lib
• Update Recast navigation lib to e75adf86f91eb3082220085e42dda62679f9a3ea
• Fixes for UI control sync
• Fixes for Editor layout element containers
• Fixes for scripting objects
• Fix and code cleanup for Flax Storage types
• Fix PathRemoveRelativeParts for rooted paths
• Fix C# assembly Guids to use cross-platform hashing for stable values
• Fix collecting binary modules for targets with Modular linkage
• Fix Debug Log stack trace collecting in Editor
• Fix importing models with custom UnitScaleFactor
• Fix crash on exit when loading storage file fails
• Fix some minor issues with materials previews in Editor
• Fix debug shapes leftovers update in editor after playmode
• Fix using Scripts in async
• Fix crash on close when using Vulkan/D3D12 rendering backend with async task being canceled
• Fix material Sphere Mask node if radius is specified as integer
• Fix sampling particle position/velocity in material for emitters simulated in Local space
• Fix placement and usage of the new instance creation button in GenericEditor
• Fix MAssembly::GetClass(MonoClass* monoClass) for generic classes
• Fix loading game assets in cooked build via path relative to the project folder
• Fix particles view information in Editor when Game window is unused
• Fix findRandomPointAroundCircle in Detour lib to return points inside circle
• Fix adding items in Array/List editors if element type is reference (eg. class)
• Fix Color struct doc comments
• Fix not using hardcoded order for showing Actor main properties in editor
• Fix loaded asset verification error for json assets that have the scripting type
• Fix crash when using Physical Material with missing instance
• Fix default field value parsing to skip whitespaces
• Fix crash on GPUDeviceVulkan dispose if compute queue was using graphics queue
• Fix using dynamic libraries resolving path on Linux
• Fix some editor UI controls visible in Visual Scripting
• Fix MAssembly classes dictionary cache allocation to be during assembly load
• Fix Dictionary to call ctor/dtor for Buckets when needed
• Fix right-click context menu for Visject Nodes
• Fix crash when using Find/FindLast on empty String
• Fix calling OnParentChanged in Actor load
• Fix compilation warnings
• Fix showing shader source code window over a calling window
• Fix Quaternion comparison epsilon to reduce error rate
• Fix using Bezier curve for Transform (Scale tangents issue)
• Fix for serialization problems with custom structures
• Fix using nested types in scripting API
• Fix navmesh tiles set resizing issue
• Fix saving assets with path containing invalid slashes
• Fix Vertical/Horizontal panels issue with anchored child controls
• Fix updating Label layout after font change when using automatic size
• Fix scripting reload without scenes loaded
• Fix UI not being updated with particular panels used when changing child control anchors
• Fix Scene Queries to lock scene access
• Fix DebugDraw DrawTriangles crash
• Fix PhysX header usage in public API
• Fix missing UICanvas linkage in prefab preview
• Fix skipping UICanvas diff serialization for Size property if render mode is ScreenSpace
• Fix UIControl location deserialization when using prefabs and anchors
• Fix control Offsets margin diff deserialziation
• Fix possible issue for prefab reference value for default value object that might be deleted on prefab apply
• Fix editor viewport camera orbiting issues
• Fix missing selection type in CustomEditorPresenter
• Fix assertion on engine close due to rare invalid storage object refs count
• Fix using scale mode Gizmo
• Fix Rename Popup direction near screen edges
• Fix exception in Custom Editors UI due to invalid reference value processing
• Fix updating UICanvas when using World/Camera Space
• Fix control Offsets updating for control bounds when changing anchors
• Fix bug with Vector Parameters in Animation Graph
• Fix crash on Actor deserialization if parentId is missing but actor already has a parent
• Fix synchronizing ActiveInTreeChanged property with event after prefab changes apply
• Fix crash during Mono GC when object has missing vtable
• Fix painting foliage on inactive objects
• Fix InputText length reset
• Fix scaling rotated objects in world space
• Fix HorizontalPanel children layout
• Fix HorizontalPanel and VerticalPanel auto-sizing if child control is using anchors
• Fix conversion to degrees in Vector3.Angle
• Fix drawing UI Control outline in Game Window
• Fix BlurPanel rendering
• Fix error on starting task to continue if it has been canceled
• Fix font character and hit location calculations with line spacing
• Fix tooltips generation for native properties to reflect getter and setter docs
• Fix crash when changing prefab root object
• Fix issue of deleting non-existent folders from the editor
• Fix FindActor and FindScript in Level
• Fix properties names formatting for UI with 2 character words
• Fix some prefabs editing issues
• Fix code style in C# code
• Fix using get_Control getter method from UIControl in Visual Script
• Fix error when spawning prefab with rigidbody
• Fix layer matrix order in ediotr UI
• Fix double-click mouse event not setting mouse button down
• Fix default frame rate for fbx imported clips to 14
• Fix Graphics module warnings to be sent once
• Fix updating prefab object reference values after apply in prefab editor
• Fix updating UI layout when adding control
• Fix Editor timeline editor controls API visible in Visual Scripting
• Fix using value sliders when on secondary monitor that is one the left side of the primary monitor (virtual desktop)
• Fix UWP build setup messing with FlaxGame target output type
• Fix automatic tooltip generation error
• Fix tooltip background when using custom theme colors in Editor
• Fix tree nodes mouse hovering logic
• Fix crash in motion blur code when screen size is very small
• Fix rare crashes due to rgctx trampolines cache not cleared on assembly reload
• Fix auto-importing materials and textures from model file with invalid path characters used in name
• Fix crash when loading string property in json that is not a string
• Fix missing terrain bounds update after modifying terrain
• Fix updating input fields on editing end without changes
• Fix missing CharacterController bounds if controller is missing
• Fix MaterialParams sync bug
• Fix CSG build crash
• Fix TextBox caret and selection size with custom DPI
• Fix Label auto-height and auto-width when text overflows the lines and it's wrapped
• Fix text not getting clipped in Label with negative margin
• Fix UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding support usage in Json resources
• Fix deserialization of UTF-8 string for C# object properties
• Fix mouse jittering when pressing both mouse buttons simultaneously
• Fix editor dock panel to always focus tab on click
• Fix UIControl invalid showing in prefab window using nested prefab with UI
• Fix crash for empty text in Text Render
• Fix possible exception in actor editor bounds getters
• Fix memory leak for Mono image refs
• Fix various memory leaks on exit
• Fix ParticleSystemWindow overlapping text bug
• Fix invalid Timeline layout UI when opening timeline data
• Fix crash on prefab sync on instance with missing objects
• Fix Label text alignment in auto size text
• Fix synchronizing nested prefabs when adding new ObjectsLookupIdMapping
• Fix actor layer editor setup
• Fix UICanvas state synchronization when working with prefabs
• Fix fullscreen mode on D3D11 and D3D12
• Fix crash in navmesh builder when scene gets unloaded after navmesh tile gets dirty
• Fix preserving objects order in prefab instances on apply (based on the prefab)
• Fix updating UI layout after changing control order
• Fix crash on using Space char in font with no font atlases initialized
• Fix IncrementNameNumber in Editor for Unicode strings (wrong inversing method)
• Fix marking asset as edited when using Multi Blend node positions in Anim Graph
• Fix crash when calling navigation system before navmesh init (eg. in build)
• Fix exception when loading Android NDKs with invalid version folder
• Fix AssetPicker buttons usage without mouse down click over the control
• Fix low-level WindowsPlatform::Log to not print invalid characters
• Fix VS debugger config for Dictionary and HashSet to show only Occupied buckets
• Fix ResizeAuto in SurfaceNode to include custom controls
• Fix C# assemblies id generation to use cross-platform hash code impl
• Fix exposing Mono API when using dynamic linking