Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-2-6222/423

Changelog:

• Add Nintendo Switch support (coming soon to registered developers)
• Add support for separate data and code output directories in Game Cooker
• Add initializer list support for arrays in C++ scripting
• Add Vehicles support
• Add error log when trying to load bytes from file data that is too big
• Add MeshBase as shared impl part for Mesh and SkinnedMesh
• Add support for generating Collision Data from Skinned Models
• Add warning when using Triangle Mesh collider under RigidBody
• Add support for masking Material Slots when cooking Collision Data
• Add support for string constants as defaults in scripting API
• Add Localization support and tools
• Add support for importing .po files
• Add LocalizedStringTable asset type
• Add LocalizationSettings
• Add LocalizedString
• Add CultureInfo to C++ API
• Add GOLDEN_RATIO constant
• Add new editor icons
• Add byte array deserialization from base64 encoded string
• Add support for importing assets into custom formats with AssetsImportingManager
• Add support for custom asset type factory in game code
• Add support for nesting Array inside Dictionary in scripting API
• Add support for using generic class value types in scripting API bindings code
• Add importing .po files with strings localization
• Add searching for localization strings in C#/C++ code
• Add searching for localization strings in scenes and prefabs
• Add exporting localization into .pot file for translation
• Add CultureInfo editor with picker
• Add undo support for Json Asset editor window
• Add string localization API
• Add LocalizedString support for UI
• Add CreateSearchPopup to editor utils
• Add LocalizedString to TextRender for localized text
• Add support for using animated model with anim graph using different skinned model
• Add FindClosestNode to Animated Model
• Add Keyboard.IsAnyKeyDown
• Add missing name some for GPU resources
• Add Low-Level Networking
• Add depth test for point/spot lights rendering to optimize far lights rendering
• Add HasTypedUAVLoad to GPULimits (use for GPU lightmaps support baking detection)
• Add DRED and optional GPU-Based Validation for D3D12
• Add UAV slots dimensions to cache for D3D12 validation
• Add Bokeh DoF rendering on D3D12 (works fine after fixes)
• Add background color in collections (better readability for nested collections)
• Add support for NotNullItems option in collections editors
• Add support for using pointers in scripting API events
• Add support for using references in scripting API events
• Add Delay node to Visual Scripting
• Add timeline position synchronization with animation playback in Editor preview
• Add profiler Sleep event to Editor sleeping phrase when out of focus
• Add Nameof helper utility for C++
• Add automatic Game Settings setup after adding new settings asset for the first time
• Add Streaming settings with texture groups configuration
• Add support for stripping textures quality when cooking game (per-platform)
• Add dynamic textures streaming based on visibility
• Add support for using per-texture group sampler in Materials
• Add GetStringAnsiView to json value
• Add option to open all selected assets in content window
• Add support for loading C# dictionaries in native json reader
• Add Category attribute for types grouping in editor dialogs
• Add texture groups preview to Graphics Quality window in editor
• Add support for editing texture group in editor (without reimporting)
• Add support for programmable samplers in shaders
• Add AnimationUpdated event to Animated Model
• Add SetCurrentPose to Animated Model
• Add SetMasterPoseModel to Animated Model for modular characters
• Add digit check for scripts renaming
• Add Tracy profiler support
• Add SceneTicking to engine API
• Add -debugwait cmd line arg to wait for C# debugger attach on engine start
• Add physics queries for convex meshes
• Add editor option to customize the default location for new editor windows
• Add automatic profiler events for C# methods invocation
• Add automatic profiler events for Visual Script methods invocation
• Add automatic tooltip for ComboBox based on selected item tooltip
• Add option to hide GUI in Game Viewport
• Add MapTrack to SceneAnimationPlayer
• Add GPU profiler events to ProbesRenderer
• Add helper FindScript<T> and FindActor<T> to Actor
• Add NoUndo attribute for properties without undo usage
• Add option to show Debug Draw shapes in Game Viewport
• Add option to copy/paste value from Visject box via context menu
• Add support for using library-style includes for build tool includes cache
• Add 9-slicking support for UI to draw sprites and textures
• Add skipping generating structure fields accessors for private fields in scripting
• Add option to use Point sampling when drawing textures and sprites in UI via Brushes
• Add Int16 and Uint16 scripting/serialization support for Visual Scripting
• Add preserving package output directory across sequential package builds
• Add -play cmd line arg for Editor to play game (optional scene id arg value to play certain level)
• Add support for custom package output directory for engine deploy
• Add support for custom build configurations for engine deploy
• Add daily master branch builds as Continuous Deployment on Github Actions
• Add more indentation to scene tree items to make it more readable
• Add support for custom drag & drop into level/prefab viewports from custom asset items
• Add focus to game window on play
• Add Job System
• Add Foliage Density Scale option to Graphics Quality Window in Editor
• Add support for Function<> as method parameter in scripting
• Add order for Margin properties
• Add SceneNavigation for scene data for navigation system
• Add Task Graph
• Add option to use seconds for timeline/media duration
• Add Engine::UpdateGraph for async engine/game update
• Add async animations updating via Task Graph
• Add async particles updating via Task Graph
• Add support for allocator type in Dictionary
• Add idle Sleep between frames to save CPU cycles when inactive
• Add logging Windows build number
• Add RingBuffer template
• Add support for allocator type in Dictionary
• Add Stopwatch instead of DateTime.Now for increased accuracy in Flax.Build profiling tools
• Add keyboard shortcuts to viewpoints (numpad)
• Add PLATFORM_THREADS_LIMIT for maximum concurrency limiting
• Add MemoryCompare, MemoryClear and MemoryCopy for direct memory access in C#
• Add ignoring memory allocations from profiling tools in Editor Profiler
• Add intermediate data folder removing on build tool clean command
• Add Actor.RotateAround
• Add automatic namespace usings collecting when generating scripting bindings glue code for csharp
• Add automatic slider speed for float value input fields with limits specified
• Add Alpha Panel control
• Add Draw Indirect support for Vulkan
• Add GPU Particles support for Vulkan
• Add support for rendering into 3d textures on Vulkan
• Add support for Geometry Shaders on Vulkan
• Add incremental actors naming when spawning them in viewport
• Add Network impl for PS4
• Add safety checks to material constants binding code to prevent invalid memory access
• Add GPUContextVulkan::CopySubresource
• Add more profiler events for performance tracking
• Add Content.Stats for assets statistics (replaces Content.AssetCount)
• Add Streaming.Stats for resources streaming statistics
• Add view snapping mode to Directional Light shadows for better stability
• Add preloading initial Editor scene to improve startup performance
• Add support for custom background brush to Button
• Add DebugDraw::DrawTube
• Add Rectangle.Distance
• Add option for preview a single mesh UVs
• Add memory usage info to Animation details
• Add more helper methods for batched debug shapes drawing
• Add Physics Colliders debug view mode to display physical world shapes (solid)
• Add UpdateSpeed to Animated Model for playback speed scaling
• Add widgets for animation preview play/pause and speed changing
• Add support for creating virtual Anim Graph at runtime for a single animation playback
• Add Terrain physics collision debug drawing support
• Add faked lighting to improve Debug Draw solid shapes rendering readability
• Add preview panel with skinned model to the Animation window
• Add support for rendering percentage scale with upscaling to backbuffer
• Add culling and render mask check for models rendered via Custom Actors list
• Add warning log in build tool when target is missing
• Add JsonSerializer.ParseID with return value
• Add support for bundling custom assets by GamePlugins
• Add CustomUpscale postFx to replace upscaler with a custom script
• Add ClosestPointPointLine for Vector3 to C#
• Add more documentation to FlaxDocs
• Add support for Rider 2021, use latest detected version of Rider
• Add using the latest detected version of Rider
• Add support for moving object with transform gizmo when mouse moves outside the viewport during usage
• Add BoundingBox.MakeScaled
• Add using immediate DebugDraw for animated model skeleton drawing in Editor preview
• Add support for Vector2/3/4 and Quaternion constants for default value attribute in C# scripting api
• Add option to show bounds of the animated model in Editor preview
• Add option to show bounds of the model in Editor preview
• Add support for AssetPreview to use debug drawing if needed
• Add support for focusing on foliage instance bounds when editing it
• Add support for focusing on model when painting its vertices
• Add support for object reference wrappers usage in hash maps and dictionaries
• Add serialization improvements for Int2/3/4
• Add constructors Vector2/3/4 <=> Int2/3/4
• Add operators for Int3/Int4
• Add common funcs for Int2/3/4
• Add some more splash-screen quotes
• Add optional location for Plugin Icon to be inside plugin project root
• Add MeshDataCache utility for async mesh data caching
• Add buttons for play/pause/stop Animation timeline in editor window
• Add tint to timeline navbar buttons
• Add bone icon for Anim Graph connections with local skeleton nodes pose
• Add support for using structures as Visual Script and Anim Graph parameters
• Add support for object and enum properties in Anim Graph
• Add support for disabling Vulkan timer queries per-platform via define
• Add option to preview model meshes Normals and Tangents in Editor preview
• Add AddForceAtPosition to Rigidbodies
• Add full documentation tooltip to Visject new parameter type picker list
• Add support for VisibleIf on value editors using group panel
• Add support for importing assets into custom formats with AssetsImportingManager
• Add strong typed This node output in Visual Script
• Add super smooth quaternion editing in Editor UI
• Add support int64 values in EnumComboBox
• Add support for custom value propagation in CustomEditor
• Add LocalLocation to UI controls
• Add support for cooking collision data from model asset on main thread and fix issue if mesh is during streaming
• Add support for Is Null, Is Valid, As, Is and Type Reference nodes in Anim Graph
• Add C++ Json Asset and C++ Function Library templates
• Add better support for control anchors editing with bounds preserving and pivot setting (Shift and Control modifier keys))
• Add loading info text when opening scene animation window
• Add support for reusing UIControlControlEditor and AnchorPresetsEditorPopup in Editor plugins
• Add the namespace of a field from another module support in C# bindings code
• Add sorting for used namespaces in bindings and include nested types checks
• Add missing includes in headers
• Add UI Control location editing to be relative to the Pivot point
• Add DefaultQueryExtent to navmesh properties
• Add option to Delete Sprite in Editor
• Add automatic resizing for the timeline track preview values for better readability
• Add support for Pack/Unpack Structure nodes and Enum constant in Anim Graph
• Add support for OnSerializing, OnSerialized, OnDeserializing and OnDeserialized callbacks for C# types serialization with Json
• Move default AllocatePages/FreePages impl from Unix to PlatformBase
• Move JsonConverters to a separate file
• Rename AnimationManager to Animations and expose to public
• Reimplement Temporal AA with less ghosting and better quality
• Improve detection of Rider installations
• Implement DownloadDataCPU for Mesh and add result entries count
• Improve animation preview usability for debugging
• Improve tooltips generation for scripting types
• Improve timeline frame labels displaying
• Increase scroll bars size for easier usage
• Increase items limit for Visject secondary context menu before scroll bar usage
• Optimize building C#-only projects references
• Optimize UI for complex timelines with many tracks
• Optimize Vulkan Framebuffer when not using color blending
• Optimize Profiler window update to refresh only visible tab UI
• Optimize Profiler window UI
• Optimize Debug Log window new entries adding (manual placement instead of full layout)
• Optimize BoundingSphere::FromBox
• Optimize Debug Draw for large amount of single-frame debug shapes and lines
• Optimize Debug Draw wireframe sphere to use auto-LOD
• Optimize Streaming service with Task Graph to use async update on a Job System
• Optimize Vulkan shader compiler memory allocation
• Optimize ContentStorageManager with Task Graph to use async update on a Job System
• Optimize memory allocations in Vulkan backend
• Optimize flushing active transform of physically simulated actors
• Optimize physics simulation collisions pair cache
• Optimize Foliage instances serialization by using raw json value write
• Optimize various engine code
• Optimize Foliage::OnFoliageTypeModelLoaded to rebuild only single foliage type clusters
• Optimize String usage with StringView for basic file paths operations
• Optimize C# script compile times by using Roslyn C# compiler server on Windows
• Optimize C# method invoke in bindings via direct Mono invoke
• Optimize managed memory allocations
• Optimize includes in ThreadLocal.h
• Optimize Scene Rendering (data caching and more)
• Optimize CPU particles sorting with Radix sort
• Optimize C# Actor.GetChildren<T>() and Actor.GetScripts<T>()
• Optimize Animated Model bones matrices buffer update
• Optimize scripting object data deserialization
• Optimize Foliage with quad-tree clustering per foliage type
• Optimize Foliage rendering with manual instanced draw calls batching
• Optimizations in various parts of the engine
• Optimize renderer memory allocations with RenderListAllocation (mem pooling)
• Remove unused WindowsManager::CalcCenteredWinPos
• Remove UI Controls from Json Asset picker dialog
• Remove unused DictionaryInitialSize from MAssemblyOptions
• Refactor focusing on selection logic in Editor
• Refactor FontReference to reference type (class)
• Refactor base types initialization to be done during API processing
• Refactor AnimGraph to support asynchronous execution
• Refactor CPU Particles to support asynchronous execution
• Refactor FileSystemWatcher interface to make it simpler
• Refactor AnimGraph debug flows to use scripting API event (faster)
• Refactor Variant type ManagedObject serialization to be usable for Visual Scripting
• Change default Update FPS in time settings to 60
• Change profiler samples length to 10s at 60hz
• Change all Flax Samples to 60 FPS
• Change to not log computer/username in log files
• Change CalculateTangents to false as default and calculate normals/tangents by default if missing
• Change WindowBase to allow for better code sharing for platforms without advanced windowing
• Update fmt to version 6.2.1 (9 May 2020)
• Fix dummy locale on Linux
• Fix using TextBoxBase with child controls
• Fix format string errors assertions into soft checks
• Fix natvis display for string views
• Fix handling spacing in collection editors to align label in a proper way with margin
• Fix JsonAssetProxy.IsProxyFor
• Fix stack overflow when using recursion with nested scene animations
• Fix escaping backslashes in generated tooltip descriptions
• Fix build settings limits
• Fix reparenting actors in editor to preserve world position
• Fix bounding box calculations for Animated Models
• Fix tooltips to be constrained by monitor bounds instead of virtual desktop or parent window bounds
• Fix Is Null and Is Valid nodes in Visual Script to handle managed instances comparison
• Fix crash when unloading scene that has been already unloaded
• Fix Label text positioning when using Auto Fit
• Fix creating reroute nodes in Visject during debugging
• Fix missing mipIndex when clearing lightmap textures with a buffer on baking start
• Fix error when actor from unloaded scene is selected
• Fix showing Game Plugins in editor plugins window
• Fix disabling VertexSnapping for 3D UI rendering
• Fix Editor UI tree control click to handle selection update before
• Fix camera position when changing Editor view orientation
• Fix gizmo in top down view on Z-axis movement (and other combination of perpendicular views)
• Fix showing context menu in Scene Tree window with scroll used
• Fix paths in plugin projects root nodes in Content Database
• Fix crash when importing model mesh with multiple materials but no mapping on a Geometry
• Fix CharacterController still colliding after being disabled at runtime
• Fix exception in Editor UI is model has invalid material slot index assigned
• Fix gizmo stability when using single axis
• Fix text processing with wrapping enabled if layout bounds width equals the line width
• Fix Control.GetChildAtRecursive with overlapping controls
• Fix crash when reading empty string from stream
• Fix adding particle emitter to a system timeline to have full duration
• Fix naming native threads on Linux and Android
• Fix crash when reloading virtual asset
• Fix false-positive of Surface node value modification
• Fix handling invalid asset in AssetPicker instead of throwing exception
• Fix buffer overrun crash in ForwardShadingFeature
• Fix drawing shadows for particles that use Depth Fade node
• Fix importing model animations curves with scaled local bone TransformBuffer
• Fix missing operators and constructor in Pair
• Fix asset paths to be from project rather than packages
• Fix loading native dependencies for binary modules from other folders than engine binaries or project root
• Fix auto-focus for dock window on right-click to prevent Game Window mouse steal when using context menu
• Fix String::Resize to support buffer growing
• Fix catching mouse focus in Editor play mode with game is paused
• Fix out of bound access to RichTextBoxBase internal buffer
• Fix POD structure check in scripting api if contains array field
• Fix some profile event names
• Fix crash on Font invalidate
• Fix C# profiler events from other threads
• Fix renaming selected actor in scene tree after creation and use editor shortcut
• Fix minor warnings in shaders
• Fix locale on Linux
• Fix file dialogs from changing the working directory (on Windows)
• Fix compilation on specific system locale configuration (build tool issue)
• Fix synchronization for dbg symbols on Windows
• Fix using fixed array initializers in scripting API field
• Fix error in context menu search on fail
• Fix ThreadLocal to use atomic operations and prevent rare race conditions
• Fix running Flax on Windows with STD console output
• Fix undo errors in editor on Margin property serialization
• Fix checking paths when opening Visual Studio project items to prevent dummy files creation
• Fix base method calls handling in scripting vtable overrides
• Fix game plugins initialization order in Editor play mode to mock the standalone game
• Fix checking min engine version for referenced projects too
• Fix loading game binaries in Editor if they are still missing are recompile
• Fix rare crash when passing array to managed world with object refs inside structures
• Fix calling base class of overridden scripting object via vtable entry for method that has multiple parameters
• Fix AnimatedModel bounds calculation to use skeleton bones locations
• Fix range selection in Tree to skip invisible nodes
• Fix deserialization of C# dictionaries for prefabs
• Fix Script deserialization if ParentID is not specified in stream
• Fix changing prefab root
• Fix undo for custom serialized objects (eg. LocalizedString)
• Fix missing asset register for new json resources
• Fix API_AUTO_SERIALZIATION usage if base type is not serializable
• Fix case sensitivity check for StartsWith and EndsWith in StringView
• Fix using Delegate<> in API event
• Fix TypeSearchPopup showing types that base type is hidden
• Fix script template not complain about doc warnings
• Fix tooltip attribute generation for multi line xml doc comments
• Fix Transform Node/Bone in replace mode when transform is identity
• Fix protected internal access modifier usage
• Fix textbox bugs
• Fix editor viewport input when using ScreenSpace canvas in a prefab
• Fix ScreenSpace UICanvas prefab preview activate/deactivate
• Fix order when pasting UI Controls
• Fix ScreenSpace UICanvas order in Prefab preview (move back to prevent editor widgets occlusion)
• Fix Visual Script method override node auto-size
• Fix descriptors bindings to shaders on D3D12
• Fix missing UAV barriers on D3D12
• Fix GPU synchronization on D3D12
• Fix D3D12 resource state transitions barriers
• Fix lightmaps baking on D3D12
• Fix using custom allocator on array field in scripting class
• Fix UI after editing Dictionary key value
• Fix various Editor UI icons issues to improve reliability and design
• Fix Asset::ToString() to not depend on refs count and look simpler
• Fix generating includes list in c++ glue code for script (non-pod and variant wrappers can produce additional includes)
• Fix Blend Space 2D to use corrected additive blending
• Fix texture streaming minimum mips to load for block compressed textures
• Fix spline model visibility after enable if was disabled on start
• Fix default value generation for numbers and enums in scripting api
• Fix parsing doc comments in scripting api with inlined summary tag
• Fix scripts projects opening to support async open when using Editor menu option
• Fix using Keyboard and Mouse objects in C# scripting
• Fix cached font usage to use proper unmanaged object validation check
• Fix selecting multiple different UI controls in Editor
• Fix crash due to SamplesBuffer::Add bug
• Fix errors when changing UIControl type in prefab
• Fix crash with too big blur strength used in Render2D
• Fix WeakAssetReference handling asset unload
• Fix very rare cases of deadlocks in Asset::WaitForLoaded
• Fix terrain normal mapping issue
• Fix using nested types in Visual Script
• Fix crash when reimporting sprite atlas
• Fix sprite atlas serialization after editing
• Fix naming new sprites in Editor
• Fix models uvs preview drawing
• Fix synchronizing ActorTreeNode order after actor duplicate
• Fix missing rotation parameters in capsule physics queries
• Fix BitonicSort constant buffer size error on Vulkan due to structure padding
• Fix structured UAV/SRV buffer usage on Vulkan
• Fix crashes during deserialization of invalid data
• Fix getter only properties not showing in Editor