Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-4-6334/811

Changelog:

• Add Dynamic Diffuse Global Illumination with real-time irradiance probes
• Add JobSystem.Execute utility for quick jobs running
• Add Global Sign Distance Field rendering
• Add Distance to box/point for Bounding Box
• Add LineHitBox to Collisions.hlsl
• Add flip presentation mode and tearing support to D3D11
• Add MeshAccelerationStructure utility for robust triangles geometry queries
• Add more utilities for using Matrix3x3
• Add IsSingleFrame to RenderView for thumbnails/pre-render views drawing without temporal effects and LOD transitions
• Add DynamicStructuredBuffer and DynamicTypesBuffer utilities
• Add automatic group panels hiding if all properties are hidden by VisibleIf rule
• Add utilities for Model SDF generation (on import, in editor window, or batch for all models on a scene)
• Add Sample Global SDF node to materials and particles
• Add Collision (Global SDF) particle module
• Add Conform to Global SDF module to GPU particles
• Add Position (Global SDF) module to GPU particles
• Add utility Copy option for various labels in assets editors
• Add ISceneRenderingListener for using scene information in the renderer cache
• Add utility to editor CodeDocs for tooltips from C# types and members
• Add CustomBuffers for injecting custom state into RenderBuffers
• Add support for implicit casting from Quaternion to other types in shaders
• Add Rotate Vector node to Visject Surface graphs
• Add Screen Space Reflections for transparent materials
• Add Array Add Unique node to Visual Scripting
• Add support for sampling Scene Color in transparent materials (forward pass)
• Add keyboard key navigation to Content View based on items name first character
• Add JsonAsset.Instance for C# asset object
• Add Delegate::BindUnique
• Add Dictionaries to Visual Scripting
• Add support for array of Visual Script objects
• Add support for constexpr fields in Scripting API
• Add World Triplanar Texture node to materials
• Add playback speed option for Scene Animation rendering
• Add Smoothstep and Step material nodes
• Add preserving existing value of the Visual Script parameter when changing its type
• Add View Size node for GUI materials
• Add additive scene opening in Editor via drag&drop into Scene Tree window
• Add Custom Global Code node to materials for injecting custom code, includes or constants
• Add loopCount to PlaySlotAnimation for looping slot animation
• Add Color.FromRGBA
• Add confirmation dialog for Scenes Data building in Editor toolbar (prevent misclicks)
• Add cursor clipping (for RTS, MOBA games)
• Add Double2, Double3, Double4 to C# scripting API
• Add Large Worlds support for 64-bit world coordinates (enable UseLargeWorlds in custom engine build)
• Add relative-to-camera rendering for large worlds
• Add support for the latest Windows 11 SDK (22H2)
• Add support for Physics Scene origin shifting
• Add support for Double2/3/4 for native storage in Variant
• Add custom floats formatting to prevent scientific notation
• Add selectable Environment Probes resolution (in Graphics Settings or per-probe)
• Add support for dispatching jobs within jobs in JobSystem
• Add Transparent Lighting Modes for material with option to use non-directional shading
• Add Global Illumination sampling option to transparent materials (eg. particles)
• Add utility buttons to check/uncheck all Material Instance parameters overrides in Editor window
• Add separate GBuffer view modes in Editor viewport widget
• Add real-time environment probes support
• Add support for baking env probes in cooked game
• Add new trace mode to Screen Space Reflections for DDGI Scene tracing
• Add showing model screen size in the Model Preview
• Add editor camera speed up for gamepad right trigger
• Add GamepadDPadX/GamepadDPadY input axes for gamepad DPad
• Add Engine.FocusGameViewport to implement game menu with camera focus gather
• Add HTML tags processing in Rich Text Box
• Add HtmlParser to engine utilities (with unit tests for it)
• Add option to disable text clipping in text boxes
• Add option to disable selecting text in text box
• Add utility for parsing Color from text (hex or named color)
• Add Content.GetEditorAssetPath
• Add EditorPlugin.DeinitializeEditor to properly cleanup Editor extensions on exit
• Add support for generic types in Scripting API with Template flag
• Add waiting for model to be loaded in SetMaterial
• Add NavCrowd for navigation steering behaviors system for a group of agents
• Add support for renaming GPU resources (development builds only)
• Add new API_TYPEDEF metadata for Scripting API types instantiation (with Alias option)
• Add FLAX_BUILD_BINDINGS define for Scripting API parser to be used if needed
• Add various improvements for C# math library
• Add Content Search window to searching Visual Scripts and other assets
• Add Find references utility for graph parameters and methods
• Add public events for Editor play mode flow
• Add setting timer resolution to lowest possible value in all Windows systems
• Add support for main view information in Surface materials during subpass rendering (eg. shadow depth)
• Add support for font size and color in Header attribute
• Add TypeReference attribute to actors/scripts searching utilities for easier type picking in Visual Script
• Add support for setting C++ version for build module compilation
• Add Nested Animations for compositing animation clips
• Add new Noise library for C++/C#/VisualScript/HLSL utilities
• Add Default auto-generated member to scripting structures and improve deserialization
• Add UseAlpha to RenderBuffers for pass-though renderer with alpha channel
• Add late initialization to Content Finder tool in Editor
• Add support for virtual Prefab assets created from code
• Add GPU Dispatch calls in GPU profiler draw calls collumn
• Add batching undo actions for Surface editing to prevent undo actions spam during a single edit
• Add missing pipeline barriers after Dispatch on Vulkan to prevent race conditions with UAVs
• Add support for using mipmaps with 3D textures
• Add support for in-built color constants in Visject (eg. red/blue/violet)
• Add drawing RenderList if it was not batched/sorted
• Add Actor::GetOrAddChild to C++
• Add auto-selecting new item created in Content window
• Add shader getter to IMaterial interface
• Add shader reloading on header file edit for shaders with compilation errors
• Add support for Volume textures to have residency changed as regular textures
• Add events for streamable resources residency changes tracking
• Optimize empty comments parsing in Scripting API
• Optimize ProbesFilter shader
• Expose IsDuringPlay property for actors and scripts to use in scripting
• Improve StaticModel to register for Scene Rendering once the model has any LOD streamed-in
• Improve initial name for static model collision data asset
• Improve properties display (group all parameters from the same group together)
• Improve JetBrains Rider installation detection
• Improve Linux source code editor detection (Rider and VSCode)
• Improve property names displayed in UI
• Change search boxes in Editor to stick to the top of the panel
• Update to .Net Framework 4.5.2
• Update DirectXShaderCompiler to version 1.7 (July 2022)
• Move Actor.DestroyChildren to C++
• Remove disabling temporal reprojection from Volumetric Fog
• Remove FlaxException
• Remove warning on missing initial entry state for Anim Graph state machine
• Refactor model Import Options to display only relevant properties for asset Type
• Refactor PhysicsActor into Rigidbody (use IPhysicsActor interface manually)
• Refactor HashSet to support custom allocator
• Refactor API_INJECT_CPP_CODE into API_INJECT_CODE to support code injection in other languages
• Refactor Visject reroute node to support reconnecting and have more usability
• Refactor scene objects initialization to call OnAwake before all OnStart
• Refactor engine to support double-precision vectors
• Refactor OrientedBoundingBox to use Transform for transformation instead of Matrix (for large worlds)
• Refactor FlaxTests to run as Editor with all engine services initialized
• Format engine codebase with ReSharper
• Fix Lightmap UVs Source not working in model import options
• Fix for macOS dylib path
• Fix text box not consuming key down event causing editor shortcuts to activate when typing
• Fix preserving Alpha channel when changing color with Value slider
• Fix Android build with NDK 25
• Fix editor options startup to not log error on a missing file
• Fix for faster models exporting
• Fix opening and editing animation with missing Anim Events
• Fix Vector2 equality comparison
• Fix sampling Curves with keyframes that have negative time value
• Fix displaying multiple structure parameters in Visject Surface parameters panel
• Fix opening material or particle emitter in editor if shader compilation fails
• Fix picking to properly select closest triangle for meshes
• Fix Directional Light color alpha in Sky atmosphere color
• Fix CSM split point when using 3 cascades
• Fix TextureBrush to return valid size if texture is not yet loaded
• Fix editor viewport capturing mouse if window is not foreground
• Fix looping streamable audio clips with multiple chunks
• Fix enum operators to be constexpr
• Fix game ticking in editor during cut-scene rendering at edit time
• Fix Ctrl+S in timeline view to not split the camera shot media
• Fix debug name for DirectX resources
• Fix Surface parameter attributes editor popup location
• Fix Constant Buffer binding on D3D12 when using Graphics after Compute pass with the same constants
• Fix the Depth Of Field to be consistent no matter the resolution
• Fix borders sampling in Depth Of Field to reduce leaking artifacts on screen edges
• Fix editor error when selecting foliage type
• Fix FlaxStorage refs counting to be atomic
• Fix pasting/duplicating nodes in Visject to call spawn event
• Fix error when loading surface from not yet loaded asset
• Fix drag&drop into Scene Tree if move goes over valid drop target first
• Fix wrong timestamps in C# profiler events
• Fix copy pasting multi-line text into a single-line textbox
• Fix removing Gameplay Globals
• Fix Multi Blend 2D node if all blend points are on the same line
• Fix selecting Debug Log window entries with the left-mouse button
• Fix errors in Editor when editing particle emitter if effect that uses it is selected
• Fix missing Properties window focus after adding script to the actor
• Fix ParticleEmitter.Spawn() with default duration
• Fix [AssetReference(typeof(typeName)] not working for arrays of assets (fix for collection types)
• Fix PhysX crashes due to lazy actors adding by adding PhysX actors to the scene immediately
• Fix foreach loop in Visual Script to continue flow on null array or dictionary
• Fix default value in Dot and Distance graph nodes
• Fix editing LinearCurve<Color> in properties window (color picker window closed keyframe editing popup)
• Fix using null array of dictionary in Visual Script for init
• Fix invoking anim events for multi-blend animations
• Fix mouse hovering controls under expanded dropdown list panel
• Fix Spline::GetSplineLength freeze
• Fix Editor Analytics tracking option file SetupStyle
• Fix duplicated actors after reparenting actor in Prefab
• Fix Reroute node in Visual Script impulse flow
• Fix Editor play mode exit bug after closing maximized Game window
• Fix using preprocessor define values in Flax.Build bindings parsing
• Fix processing else and elif preprocessor blocks in Flax.Build bindings parser
• Fix parsing comments for Scripting API types that are templates
• Fix snapping object to the group in Editor to skip trigger volumes
• Fix error when double-clicking empty RichTextBox
• Fix minor issue with Visual Script set parameter node calling flow during debugger value evaluation
• Fix uploading volume texture data to GPU in D3D12
• Fix shader source code encoding error on a compilation error
• Fix font rendering and alignment with custom DPI scales
• Fix Dictionary::Remove return value if empty
• Fix error in Forward Shader Feature when rendering directional light shadow map
• Fix ParticleEffectEditor issues after emitter editing if selected
• Fix UsedSRsMask/UsedUAsMask when binding arrays to the shader
• Fix normal map when importing materials for model files
• Fix sorting items in various contextual list popups in Editor
• Fix InstanceOrigin, PerInstanceRandom and LODDitherFactor to not use interpolation between shader stages
• Fix Multiply (and similar) nodes result value in Visject if the first input is disconnected
• Fix highlighting the first error/warning from the Output Log message text
• Fix opening particle emitter editor window if shader compilation fails
• Fix invalid Rigidbody bounds if it has no shapes attached
• Fix crash if D3D device gets DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED during init
• Fix crash with Vulkan when using Blur Panel in Screen Space canvas
• Fix crash on macOS due to Vulkan timestamp queries error
• Fix crash due to GPU Particles define not used in some headers
• Fix crash when setting up recursive Material Instances inheritance
• Fix crash when changing actor scene
• Fix crash on opening skeleton mask window
• Fix crash in scripting init if current localization is null
• Fix crash on API event in C# after Editor hot-reload
• Fix crash on Linux with empty log message
• Fix crash when spawning prefab without scenes loaded
• Fix crash when loading empty json for Variant structure data