Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-3-6228/643

Changelog:

• Add macOS support for Game and Editor
• Add improvements for joints editing with debug shapes
• Add D6 Joint motions editing in Editor properties panel
• Add Gordon Ramsay quote to Editor Splash Screen (very important feature)
• Add support for interfaces in Scripting API (cross-language support C++/C#/VS)
• Add preserving timeline position when zooming with a mouse wheel
• Add scrolling timeline horizontally with Shift+Wheel
• Add timeline view panning with right-mouse button even over keyframes editor or curve editor
• Add resizing feature to timeline curve tracks
• Add shared rectangle selection for all timeline tracks to select keyframes
• Add shared selected keyframes moving ability for timeline tracks
• Add copy/paste feature to keyframes and curves editors
• Add keyframes editor to proxy keyframes from subtracks on object track
• Add epsilon clamping for keyframes adding in timeline
• Add live-preview option for editing scene animation
• Add timeline tracks duplicating option
• Add timeline tracks sorting option
• Add timeline keyframes selection via timeline background
• Add support for changing target actor for scene animation actor track
• Add support for multiple media events on audio, postfx and camera tracks in Scene Animations
• Add curve/keyframes select or copy all keyframes option
• Add timeline undo actions batching
• Add option to delete media from Timeline
• Add C++ lambda support for Function<> and Delegate<>
• Add option to compile C#-only scripts on Linux when cooking for Windows
• Add option Select actors using this asset to content menu
• Add ContentItem.OnContextMenu
• Add option to make AssetPicker a read-only
• Add explicit operator for Color32 to Int4
• Add Level::ScriptsReloaded event
• Add CollisionMeshesPrefix option to import collision data from model asset
• Add additional UploadMipMapAsync for GPUTexture update with custom row/slice pitch
• Add ClearUA to GPUContext to clear texture with float values
• Add Content.GetAllAssets to get all asset ids in project
• Add setter to Control.Center
• Add missing memory profiler events to Unix platforms
• Add Ragdoll support and ragdolls generation utility to Animated Model context menu
• Add missing support for some formats in TextureTool
• Add bc7enc16 encored for BC7 texture compression on Linux
• Add Platform.Users to handle users per-platform
• Add minor tweaks to math types
• Add Joint.SetJointLocation for easier joints setup
• Add Joint.SetJointOrientation utility
• Add physics colliders selecting in PhysicsColliders debug view
• Add Animation Slot node for playing animations from code in Anim Graph
• Add EnableAutoAnchor to Joint for automatic target anchor setup
• Add Quaternion::FromDirection to C++
• Add bitangent vectors debugging to Model preview
• Add Finished event to MeshDataCache
• Add SoftAssetReference type
• Add Ragdoll example to Physics Sample project
• Add PS5 platform support (unofficial)
• Add error code logging to navmesh tiles adding issues
• Add double-click to edit timeline media properties
• Add assets loading progress to Editor status bar
• Add Vulkan pipeline cache serialization
• Add Animation Events
• Add json serialization utils for objects to save/load from raw bytes
• Add ScriptingObject::NewObject utility for scripting objects spawning in C++
• Add Loading text info for particle system and animation timelines
• Add timeline media selection and editing to be global in sync with keyframes editors
• Add Level::ScriptsReloadRegisterObject for easier scripting objects refreshing during hot-reload in code
• Add tire wheel tire friction scale parameter for Wheeled Vehicle
• Add easier game or plugin settings asset usage with SettingsBase
• Add GameCooker events for game files deploy and packaging
• Add StringAnsi serialization
• Add support for custom settings asset creation
• Add Online system with online backends for Steam, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network and Switch
• Add improvements for objects spawning and snapping in Editor to include object bounds
• Add decals spawning in editor for drag&drop
• Add option to throw exception in build tool process utility
• Add support for overriding Anim Graph output for Animated Model
• Add support for passing the object reference as scripting function output result
• Add ToString for some packed vector types
• Add timeline media Start time editing in properties popup in seconds if using this view mode
• Add option to disable timeline Media resizing by the user
• Add SuppressFaceRemapTable option for collision cooking
• Add CollisionData.GetModelTriangle to retrieve source geometry triangle index from the raycast hit info
• Add FaceIndex to RayCastHit
• Add support for PrefabObject tracks and automated animation instancing with UsePrefabObjects enabled
• Add Mathf.Frac to C# api
• Add support for Visual Studio 2022
• Add assertions to String index operator to prevent invalid memory access
• Add soft failing to NetworkPeer creation and INetworkDriver initialization
• Add NetworkDriver object pointer to NetworkConfig to be used as custom interface implementation
• Add support for compiling and running engine without C# scripting
• Add setter for ResidentMipLevels on GPU Texture for C# scripting
• Add support for parsing negation in scripting api preprocessor
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle::IsSubclassOf
• Add automatic preserving of basic joint properties when converting between types in Editor
• Add DotNet targets building
• Add tests running on Github Action as CI
• Add Vulkan to automated Github CD builds
• Add macOS to automated daily master builds on Github
• Add option to automatically generate mips for textures created from code
• Add GetPixels and SetPixels to TextureBase for easier textures data editing
• Add arrows navigation for Visject surface nodes
• Add Hidden attribute to scripting fields/properties/methods/events
• Add keyboard navigation for ItemsListContextMenu (used by pickers in Editor)
• Add option to export a single localized string table to .pot file
• Add notification text to Editor status bar after saving to improve user awareness
• Add option to export a single localized string table to .pot file
• Add FallbackTable for localized strings table to redirect missing texts into other language
• Add support for older Android devices that don't support R11G11B10 texture format
• Add features flags for Custom Editors presentation
• Add gamepad camera control for editor viewports
• Add Rectangle.Distance for distance between rectangle and a point
• Add NodesConnected and NodesDisconnected events to Visject surface API
• Add OnParamEdited callback to Visject surface parameters API
• Add Visual Script parameter access editing (public or private)
• Add option to change Visual Script parameter type
• Add Arrays to Visual Scripting
• Add better support for Arrays in Variant for C# Scripting
• Add Array constant node to Visual Script and Anim Graph
• Add support for exporting pdb files for D3D12 shaders if debug data is enabled
• Add C++ scripting API docs to online Flax Docs
• Add scripting enums as ScriptingType
• Add ScriptingEnum utility with useful features for C++ scripting
• Add Variant to string for Enums to use scripting enum items names
• Add support for array initializers as default values for scripting fields
• Add automatic Setup when added patches to empty Terrain
• Add UI navigation system
• Add Tab navigation for Editor UI
• Add F11 shortcut to maximize Game window during play-mode in Editor
• Add preserving selection of the created new folder in the Content window
• Add ability to create an Actor by dragging it to an empty space in the Actor hierarchy window
• Add drag&drop to prefab hierarchy panel for easier usage
• Add F2 shortcut for renaming item in files import dialog
• Add Split Objects object to split imported meshes/animations into separate assets
• Add batching the same function inputs in Anim Graph for better usability
• Add implicit casting to single types from vector types in Variant
• Add particle emitter and anim graph functions docs
• Add localization quality improvements
• Add DefaultFallbackLanguage to the localization settings
• Add split-view for C++/C# code snippets in documentation
• Add support for passing back value via reference to C# scripting event
• Add context menu and tooltip to asset items in Content Finder tool
• Add constructor to Function for lambda
• Add Code Docs module for Editor tooltips
• Add managed assembly xml docs parsing for tooltips in Editor
• Add doc tooltips for actor types in Toolbox windows
• Add tooltips to actors in scene tree and to properties General panel header
• Add support to Dictionary for movable value types with no copy constructors
• Add Math::SinCos
• Add profile events for Editor modules events and startup
• Add overload of Task::StartNew() to support member functions that return void
• Add option for drawing audio clip preview with time offset
• Add improved Android NDK detection and prevent exception
• Add margin to TilesPanel tile
• Add ScrollBarsSize to Panel
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle::IsAssignableFrom
• Add JsonAsset::GetInstance<T> for easier access to C++ json asset data
• Add Render2D::DrawTexturedTriangles variations with vertex colors
• Add Shift for range-based selection in curve and timeline editors
• Add double-precision vectors (Double2, Double3 and Double4)
• Add Orientation option to Content Window
• Add DebugDraw.DrawCone and DebugDraw.DrawWireCone
• Add DebugDraw.DrawArc and DebugDraw.DrawWireArc
• Add ScriptingObject::ToInterface and ScriptingObject::FromInterface
• Add context menu for group panels in properties editor for resetting values
• Add value auto-select when focusing or clicking on input field in Editor
• Add check to prevent inheriting from static or sealed class in scripting
• Add showing Visject context menu group when it's title has a filter match
• Add GDK platform support (potential for Windows support via GDK, base for Xbox consoles)
• Add more options for MicrosoftGame.config
• Add missing flaxengine api tags
• Add filesystem watcher implement for Linux
• Add PROFILE_CPU_ASSET for asset related profiler scoped zone
• Add TryGetToolchain to build platform
• Add Utilities::CountBits
• Add more profiler events and naming for particles/animations jobs events
• Add logging content database init start time
• Add clamping for AA and shadows quality to prevent crashes on invalid usage
• Add LOD Preview debug view mode
• Add Material Complexity debug view model
• Add GPUContext.ClearUA for buffer and texture with uint format
• Add deploying FlaxEditor.pdb for Development configuration to improve crash reporting
• Add Quad Overdraw debug view mode
• Add profiler events to shader compiler
• Add support for using DEPRECATED to mark scripting API as obsolete
• Add PRAGMA_DISABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS and PRAGMA_ENABLE_DEPRECATION_WARNINGS macros to C++
• Add copy/paste for group panel with multiple custom editors nested inside
• Add support for pasting hex color values into Color properties in Editor
• Add Vector::Angle functions to C++
• Add ManagedBinaryModule::FindModule utility for C# type class lookup
• Add improvements for native interfaces usage
• Add support for creating C# scripting object inheriting directly from FlaxEngine.Object
• Add Gamepad support for Linux
• Add LinuxProcess that supports workingDir, env vars and logging
• Add inlined current thread id on Linux and Android
• Add helper parent actor of missing object logging to HandleObjectDeserializationError
• Add caching ShowGUI and ShowDebugDraw in Game window
• Add CookCollision to collision data with triangles as int32
• Add support for uint as triangle indices for mesh updates API
• Add Double-precision Math library
• Add Show in explorer to output log context menu
• Add typename to script panel tooltip and don't inherit tooltip
• Add LookingAt to Actor
• Add native unit tests running
• Update Xbox Scarlett and Xbox One support to ver GDK 2021.04 QFE5
• Optimize FindObject and TryFindObject in Object
• Optimize calling Object.FindObject from C#
• Optimize single undo edit action to not use wrapper
• Optimize Content Finder popup
• Optimize timeline background rendering when zoom is very high
• Optimize audio preview rendering when zoom is very high
• Optimize ThreadLocal by removing size check
• Optimize utilities in AnimationUtils
• Optimize String::ReserveSpace if length doesn't change
• Optimize CPU particles impl parts
• Optimize Asset::onAssetLoaded if even is unused
• Optimize atomic and interlocked memory operations on Win32 (Windows and Xbox) by inlining
• Optimize StringView comparison operators
• Optimize Anim Graph state machine transition rule evaluation to happen before state evaluation for early rejection
• Optimize PhysicsColliders mode rendering in Editor
• Optimize vertex buffer writing in Debug Draw
• Optimize physics shapes debug drawing for large scenes by using culling for colliders
• Optimize Math.NearEqual
• Optimize UI in Editor
• Optimize file copy on Linux
• Optimize Vector3 method to be inlined more often
• Optimize model data access during models importing
• Optimize Toolbox tooltips for scripting types to be resolved when needed
• Optimize FlaxEngine.CSharp.dll size by 300kB after tooltips removal (xml doc will be used)
• Optimize C# bindings in Engine code to static functions that native ABI matches managed signature
• Adjust curve and keyframes UI to be easier to use with a mouse
• Adjust curve background drawing for timeline
• Improve rigidbody warning message
• Increase default UAV slots limit to 4
• Disable compression for lightmaps on Linux (due to low-quality alpha encoding)
• Change Content loading threads count to depend on logical cores count instead of physical (set limit to 12)
• Change NUnit to use custom build from repo instead of nuget package
• Refactor Rigidbody automatic mass calculation to include physical material Density
• Refactor Control autofocus to be handled by control type instead of as part of base.OnMouseDown
• Refactor SoftObjectReference to improve usage of it
• Refactor Timeline UI to use track flags
• Refactor GetChildByPrefabObjectId/GetScriptByPrefabObjectId from Actor to be private
• Refactor native core objects to simplify usage for newcomers (PersistentScriptingObject is now ``ScriptingObject`)
• Refactor Xbox One platform support via GDK instead of UWP
• Refactor default D6JointMotion for D6Joint to Locked
• Refactor UAV slots binding when rendering from PS into UAV
• Refactor DownloadIndexBuffer to return unsigned data
• Refactor prefab instances loading to improve refs loading between prefab objects
• Refactor ContextMenuChildMenu to inherit from ContextMenuButton
• Reenable memory allocations profiling in Editor with Tracy
• Remove insecure autoInitialize option from scenes loading
• Fixes for SIMD.h
• Fixes for compilation on Windows for x86
• Fix missing references to a new prefab objects inside other prefab objects when applying changes
• Fix various bugs in string functions
• Fix null values handling in C# Json serialization
• Fix invalid uses of StringView::GetText() where a null-terminated string was expected
• Fix crash with nested scene animation playback
• Fix for env probes baking in Editor
• Fix connector node creation in Visject on double-click over node
• Fix regression for actor properties diff or default value reverting in Editor
• Fix importing materials from fbx files
• Fix joints properties ranges validation
• Fix D6Joint serialization
• Fix crash when physics scene with only inactive vehicles
• Fix Tracy profiler client allocating memory by using OnDemand mode
• Fix restriction if using I as prefix for interface names
• Fix shadow null character in Flax.Build console command
• Fix default code editor detection in Editor to favor VSCode and Rider over system-default
• Fix bounding box size setter
• Fix automatic properties serialization bug
• Fix imported blend shape offsets from FBX file with multiple materials per-mesh
• Fix issue with Physics Layers filters being ignored for two controllers colliding
• Fix capturing stack trace from user native assemblies on Windows
• Fix typos and wording in readme
• Fix Editor crash when dragging material over CSG brush Surface
• Fix code quality issues detected by PVS-Studio
• Fix shader parsing error due to unknown macro used on shader function visibility condition
• Fix resizing textures with alpha on import to preserve transparent colors (instead of black)
• Fix blend shape dirty vertices range
• Fix structure initialization with default field value if attribute has different value HasInvalidPathChar
• Fix CollisionsHelper::ClosestPointPointTriangle (C++ version)
• Fix depth pitch in UpdateTexture on D3D11 for volume textures
• Fix potential exception in PluginManager dispose in Editor
• Fix DPI calculation on Linux for multiple screens
• Fix MoveFile on Linux
• Fix drag&drop on Linux with file that has spaces in a path
• Fix crash on Linux if the requested font cannot be found for message boxes
• Fix some engine API to be exposed for C++ scripting
• Fix rare crashes with debug draw in Game Window
• Fix undo modifications notify from nested SyncPointEditor
• Fix exporting app icons during game cooking without graphics backend
• Fix compressed textures exporting with resizing on non-Windows platforms
• Fix missing include for Xbox Live services on GDK platforms
• Fix passing Span<byte> to C# method thunk in generated bindings code
• Fix game cooker platform selector layout on small window
• Fix Gameplay Global usage in material with material instance error
• Fix conditional variables usage on broadcast by using a shared mutex
• Fix module libraries linking in modular build mode
• Fix Game Cooker cache when materials or particles or shaders format gets changed
• Fix loading project reference with relative path in the Editor
• Fix TargetViewOffset from textboxes to be hidden
• Fix shader function visibility parsing and add USE_EDITOR define to material shaders
• Fix Visject surface context menu to focus property the selected item
• Fix for localization dashboard
• Fix spot lights rendering on D3D12
• Fix missing Particle Position (world space) node for CPU particles
• Fix C# bindings for Editor for Window build on Linux
• Fix Windows Snap with borderless windows
• Fix missing object linkage when loading missing prefab objects during scene load
• Fix incorrect transformation on imported blend shapes data from fbx file
• Fix tree node navigation with key arrows to be more usable for deep hierarchies
• Fix depth of field blur artifacts on upper and left screen edges
• Fix audio playback issues in some cases with XAudio backend
• Fix audio volume and stereo on XAudio backend
• Fix showing tooltips for tree nodes in Editor
• Fix navmesh update when adding/removing navmesh bounds volume
• Fix engine ticking to catch up faster when falling behind
• Fix HSV value adjusting in Color picker to not exceed 1
• Fix import transform for skinned models
• Fix missing root motion preview in Animation preview panels (with option to disable it)
• Fix Multi Blend 1D/2D root motion extraction with blending
• Fix build tool freeze when parsing scripting header that contains invalid multi-line comment
• Fix missing blend shape data transformation on model data import
• Fix color trackball usage with undo
• Fix passing pointers as output pointer or reference in scripting api
• Fix missing blend shape refresh for Skinned Model window preview
• Fix various issues with Multi Blend 2D node
• Fix prefab changes apply crash
• Fix GUI material preview positioning in the Material window
• Fix reference to a pointer in TypeInfo for scripting bindings generation
• Fix invalid memory write in StringUtils::ConvertANSI2UTF16 on Unix if length is empty
• Fix using object reference in Scripting API with PersistentScriptingObject
• Fix per-instance vertex colors uploading if data is already valid
• Fix RunProcess on Linux with custom working directory
• Fix scene animation warning due to missing object to be fired once per-track without a spam
• Fix support for codeless game projects
• Fix snapping rigidbodies to the floor
• Fix removing keys in Dictionary with string keys
• Fix one error when pasting Visject nodes with type modified compared to archetype
• Fix custom actor options for prefab window
• Fix generated DefaultValue attribute to match the field value type
• Fix possible division by zero in Plane.Normalize
• Fix entering play mode in Editor with pause mode on start
• Fix Input::GetGamepadAxis with InputGamepadIndex::All
• Fix missing AnimatedModel pose access if it's not initialized yet
• Fix error when using over 180 angle for joint limits
• Fix mesh tangent and bitangent vectors generation with OpenFBX backend by using MikkTSpace
• Fix missing copy destination offset in dynamic buffer update on D3D11
• Fix Visject param node getter breaking connection on param change to the same type
• Fix Get/Set field node in Visual Script to update Instance box accordingly for static fields
• Fix monolithic target build with native code module used by referenced plugin
• Fix possible division by zero in BoundingFrustum::GetCorners
• Fix mouse focus issue with Timeline background
• Fix DefaultValue attribute support in Custom Editors for unsigned integers
• Fix editor undo for unsigned integer types
• Fix texture refs in platform settings to be SoftObjectReferences instead of raw Guid
• Fix crash when creating C# object for native object at the same time on multiple threads
• Fix crash when applying prefab that includes both removed and added objects
• Fix crash when streaming texture with unsupported format by the GPU driver
• Fix crash when reading from RingBuffer if it's full
• Fix crash when changing mesh collider in async for not-simulated actor
• Fix crash if texture streaming fails on different texture format on Vulkan due to fallback usage
• Fix crash when spawning managed object on a detached native thread
• Fix crash when trying to read invalid Visual Script parameter from local scope during debugging
• Fix crash when model or skinned model loading fails
• Fix crash on Vulkan swapchain resize if the previous size was 0 (eg. due to window animation on Windows 11)
• Fix crash when passing function with lambda to the Job System
• Fix crash on thread end that used Mono runtime
• Fix crash with terrain in prefab window
• Fix crash on native type in JsonAsset due to scripting hot-reload in Editor