Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-5-6338/919

Changelog:

• Add scaling towards mouse position in Visject surface
• Add hiding tooltip while dragging UI control
• Add FlaxEngine project file generation for VS Code
• Add DontCompress configuration to build tool
• Add support for deserialization of deprecated properties in scripting types
• Add sticky the content window search field so the search bars do not scroll with the content items
• Add new editor icons for actors
• Add performing layout when deleting actors and scrolling to duplicated/pasted actor when action is performed
• Add custom game viewport sizing in Editor
• Add scene panel to separate the tree from the search bar and made it not scroll when renaming
• Add actor virtual functions OnDebugDraw/OnDebugDrawSelected/OnEnable/OnDisable to override in scripting
• Add TypeNameEditor for editing typename reference as soft string value
• Add game settings assets loading (not only objects)
• Add Cook&Run and Run cooked game utilities to Game menu list for multilayer games testing
• Add support for editing JsonAsset data at runtime (eg. modify game settings on the fly)
• Add support for custom types/members attributes parsing in scripting bindings
• Add support for custom Action Command in TaskGraph
• Add support for DataContainer in scripting api bindings
• Add support for custom icons for actors in ViewportIconsRenderer
• Add play/pause widget and keybind for particles preview in asset Editor
• Add custom Tags for scripting api types to be used by plugins
• Add Left Click to submit text in textbox
• Add SceneReference to C++ scripting API
• Add AdditionalScenes to BuildSettings
• Add ViewFlags::Sky for conditional sky/skybox rendering
• Add DefaultValue support for scripting parameters
• Add AfterGBufferPass and AfterForwardPass for custom PostFx location
• Add Renderer::DrawActors for quick actors rendering in custom render passes
• Add simplified collider for in-built primitive meshes
• Add new UI for Drop Panels in Editor (bigger header, expandable arrow icon and guidance lines)
• Add RenderBuffers::LinkedCustomBuffers to reuse main game viewport rendered state (eg. GI) in sub-rendered view
• Add GPUContext::SetBlendFactor
• Add SortOrder to drawable object types for transparency sorting override
• Add support for StringAnsi in scripting api
• Add NetworkTransform component
• Add network stats API for transport layer
• Add GBuffer textures to the C# scripting
• Add Editor search fields usage on a single character query (instead of min 2 chars)
• Add NetworkLagDriver for lag simulation over low-level network transport layer
• Add support for different access level for scripting property functions
• Add Layer and StaticFlags from parent actor after spawnign actor in Prefab Window
• Add support for non-const ref parameters with conversion (eg. string or array) in scripting api function parameters
• Add multi-threaded scene rendering with Job System
• Add draw call sorting keys generation during draw calls collection (async)
• Add WorldPosition to postfx material scene textures for world-space position sampling at uv
• Add GPUDevice::CreateConstantBuffer for custom constants buffers usage
• Add option to override Custom Editor for array of type
• Add Tag and Tags for new tags system
• Add FindActor/FindActors with Tag to Level
• Add Tag to PhysicalMaterial for physical surfaces tagging
• Add unit tests for scripting features
• Add thirdparty files in the includes cache for build tool checks
• Add more test cases for various scripting bindings features
• Add bigger input value boxes to Visject Surface
• Add UseAssetImportPathRelative to Editor options and use it by default to store imported asset path relative to the project folder
• Add VS2022 support for building for UWP platform
• Add navmesh update on terrain sculpt undo/redo
• Add this to API_PARAM for static method extension of a type
• Add defer to navmesh update when sculpting action ends to prevent stalls
• Add support for editing path to the asset within AssetRefEditor
• Add Procedural Texture Sampling material node (stochastic)
• Add auto save reminder popup on Editor status bar
• Add Color.FromRGBA
• Add RandomStream to C#
• Add RandomUtil.Rand method to C# and Visual Script for quick random float in range [0;1]
• Add scripts compilation failed status to status bar in Editor
• Add TargetCompiler to Flax.Build toolchains
• Add centered the context menu that is created from clicking the add scripts button on an actor
• Add C++ file includes cache serializartion to improve incremental build times
• Add cancel button to search fields in Editor
• Add hover begin and end event to button
• Add preventing from spawning abstract Actor/Script type
• Add RenderSetup and allow customizing it by gameplay and postfx
• Add RenderingUpscaleLocation for customizing upscaler location in render pipeline
• Add scripts dragging support to scene tree for reparenting
• Add Render2D.DrawTexturedTriangles with index buffer
• Add FlaxEngine.Object.FromUnmanagedPtr for native object raw pointer conversion to managed object
• Add ScriptingTypeHandle support for scripting bindings as System.Type
• Add WriteStructure/ReadStructure utilities for NetworkMessage
• Add automatic network serializers generation for NetworkReplicated fields in C++ types
• Add better location of renaming box for Actor/Folder tree node to start at the label for better UX
• Add project-independent saved windows layouts (stored globally)
• Add better organization to Content projects tree organization for better UX (game project first, ending project last)
• Add Mono.Cecil to Flax.Build
• Add profiler events for plugins init/deinit
• Add GPU Memory profiler to Editor
• Add ViewFlags::Sky for conditional sky/skybox rendering
• Add pooled render targets naming for easier GPU memory usage debugging
• Add SetResourceState and ForceRebindDescriptors to GPUContext for integration with external rendering libraries
• Add support for CanRender in postFx to depend on specific render setup
• Add GetNativePtr to GPUAdapter
• Add changing mouse cursor to ibeam when editing text box
• Add IsAnyButtonDown utility to Mouse and Gamepad
• Add Normalized to Float2 and Vector2
• Add support for using system-installed Vulkan SDK on Linux
• Add FLAX_X_Y_OR_NEWER to game code defines
• Add engine version defines to C++ game scripts
• Add Canvas Scaler control for resolution-independent UI
• Add dev-only name to spawned Particle System
• Add support in GetScript to interface types
• Add option for importing scale tracking to animation asset
• Add BlurScaleWithSize to BlurPanel for resolution-independent blur
• Add Actor Scale linking and unlinking in Properties window for uniform scaling (right-click)
• Add MemoryUsage property to Asset for estimated CPU memory pressure
• Add memory usage query for various asset types
• Add Assets profiler to Editor
• Add support for normal generation when using Assimp model importer
• Add side mouse button shortcuts to the Content window
• Add ability to drag maximized window in Editor
• Add Animation Instance Data node to Anim Graph for caching value per-model
• Add support for 32 bit indices for the terrain chunk geometry
• Add JsonAsset.Save
• Add updated transform Gizmos in Editor
• Add better support for file dialogs on Linux
• Add preferred LLVM linker over other linkers on Linux (faster link time)
• Add serialization to PostProcessEffect fields and expose them in a sub-group in Editor
• Add grouping for new assets creation in Content window
• Add ContentContextMenu attribute for custom assets creation groupping
• Add ActorContextMenu attribute for custom actors creation groupping
• Add ActorToolbox attribute for actors grouping in Editor Toolbox
• Add scroll bars and resiable window to materia;/shader source code viewer
• Add a new way for actor context menus creation (via ActorContextMenu attribute)
• Add to not close the child context menu on click in Editor
• Add Shift key for skeleton mask editor to affect children bones on click
• Add KeyDown and KeyUp events to TextBoxBase
• Add value boxes hiding cursor and returning it to its position when done
• Add caching transform snapping enables and values for main Editor viewport
• Add visual cursor changes when sliding value box or resizing docked window
• Add cursor change for moving the property splitter
• Add support for importing WAV files that contain extra format bytes in fmt header
• Add support for MSBuild in preview version Visual Studio in build scripts
• Add better items placement in Editor content view
• Add support for imported LOD meshes using _ character (eg. mesh LOD_1)
• Add aiProcess_SortByPType to Assimp importer to reduce artifacts from multi-geometry types imports
• Add rename on left click outside the Editor renaming popup
• Add float3 scaling to triplanar texture node
• Add improvements for Editor Gizmo draw order
• Add running Tests on Windows in Github Actions CI
• Add improvement for drag&drop tooltip hiding on operation start
• Add improvement for normal maps detection when importing FBX model files
• Add DDS files import time improvements if already compressed
• Add faster scroll speed to feel less sluggish in Editor
• Refactor GetNonTerminatedText into GetText in StringView
• Refactor raw data ReadSttream and WriteStream to have easier to use API with more features
• Refactor Actor tags into hierarchical reusable Tags system for better gameplay scripting
• Refactor material shaders to use separate constant buffer (slot 1) for shared per-view constants
• Refactor scene rendering to separate drawable actors
• Refactor enum flags with __underlying_type and new EnumHasAnyFlags/EnumHasAllFlags/EnumHasNoneFlags
• Refactor scene rendering to use batched culling for main view and shadow projections
• Refactor ObjectsRemovalService to skip double-buffering due to issues and complexity
• Refactor PostProcessEffect to support C++ scripting
• UWP (Windows Store) platform has been deprecated and soon will be removed
• Remove double click to rename content item
• Remove GPUResourcesCollection and use GPUDevice instead to simplify code
• Remove old RT1_FloatRGB and RT2_FloatRGB in favor pooled render targets
• Rename property GetElementsCount to ElementsCount in C# GPUBufferDescription
• Rename DepthTestEnable to DepthEnable in Graphics PSO to match actual logic
• Reduce Render Targets Pool flushing frequency to prevent memory popping
• Update DefaultLensDirt and DefaultLensStarburst texturs to reduce GPU memory usage
• Upgrade GPU limits to support 16k textures
• Change the default for script members order to declaration
• Optimize Editor camera previews updating performance
• Optimize Depth Of Field effect usage of GPU memory
• Optimize BoundingFrustum::Intersects(BoundingSphere)
• Optimize Global SDF cascades updates intervals (max 1 cascade per frame)
• Optimize Global SDF performance on CPU when scene is mostly static
• Optimize GPUBuffer on D3D11 to not stall CPU on reading staging readback buffer
• Optimize various debug views performance
• Optimize GPU Resource name to prevent memory allocs when changing name frequently
• Fix context menu and tooltips on Linux to be more stable
• Fix dragging timeline ending edge with a mouse cursor
• Fix math node size
• Fix potential rare issues with material shader constants containing invalid data
• Fix Flipbook material node bug when frames X was different than Y
• Fix missing game scripts types when starting editor from IDE with -skipCompile arg
• Fix for Anchor drop down UI closing in Editor
• Fix textbox defocus on edit end
• Fix comparison operators on object reference types
• Fix the additional layers in the matrix when there is less than 4 layers in the layers and tags settings
• Fix missing TraceMode blending in PostFx volume for SSR settings
• Fix child menu arrow image to accommodate for the scroll bar showing when the amount of items exceeds the max
• Fix DPI query on Linux to handle value from KDE Plasma
• Fix process creation on Linux to prevent deadlock when reading process output pipe
• Fix centered window and message box locations on Linux (multi-monitor desktop)
• Fix LinuxFileSystemWatcher not working in sub-directories
• Fix running VC++-project build commands with Rider on Linux
• Fix compiler warnings with Clang 15 or later
• Fix error when joining exited threads
• Fix Mesh data downloading to support not yet streamed vertex/index data gather
• Fix linking against C#-only modules
• Fix rendering with custom feature-set
• Fix null String serialization over network via C# API
• Fix first property name letter to uppercase in Editor properties panel
• Fix temporal anti-aliasing to provide better quality output
• Fix OnSceneUnloaded event to contain valid scene object
• Fix GetNativePtr on Vulkan
• Fix leftover UI control state when it gets disabled/hidden/reparented
• Fix imported shader source last char value to prevent strange diffs in Version Control Systems
• Fix Intellisense issues with Visual Studio Code
• Fix native scripting interface method override in managed scripts on Clang-platforms
• Fix ScriptingObject::FromInterface to return object if the pointer is already valid object
• Fix recursive binary modules usage in scripting
• Fix reading type inheritance in bindings generation with comment at the end
• Fix Visject surface input box color for missing connection type but with type hint
• Fix Audio Source stop/play pait to properly restart streamed audio clips
• Fix missing output clear when reading text array in OpenFBX
• Fix position of child context menus when having to open left in Editor
• Fix typo fix in Graphics Settings, from 'Uee HDR Probes' to 'Use HDR Probes'
• Fix displaying Game and Editor plugins to be batched in Editor
• Fix invalid NetworkMessage usage in C++
• Fix various aspects of the prefab editor window interface
• Fix when sliding the cursor slowly to a screen edge, mouse get flipped to the other screen edge and come back again (only on Windows)
• Fix mouse get cursor flipping (some sliders that use mouse tracking also update the frame of mouse flip, causing a wrong slide delta)
• Fix using dependency module from nested referenced build in C#
• Fix custom animation clip frames range import to properly treat frame indices
• Fix bug with Screen.CursorVisible set in script OnStart
• Fix audio clips streaming to be thread-safe when audio sources play
• Fix asset registry issues when starting Editor on Windows with uppercase path if the cached was lowercase path
• Fix dragging maximized dock window in Editor to restore size
• Fix issue with ParticleEffect properties editor when no asset is selected
• Fix VS Code cpp include paths in generated project files
• Fix compressing on Linux /Mac (when zip package is not installed)
• Fix FlaxEngine.CSharp library file referencing
• Fix Global SDF rasterization when loading scene
• Fix incorrect skybox cubemap caching dirty interval
• Fix overlapping VC++ and CSharp projects in Visual Studio solution
• Fix custom json asset usage for game settings if loaded before game scripting module is loaded
• Fix comparison operator on Array and BitArray
• Fix threading issues with GPU buffers mapping
• Fix default value in viewport options
• Fix xcopy path on Windows in Flax.Build
• Fix missing scripting and serialization extensions for SceneReference usage in scripts
• Fix particle module initialization if it reuses graph from other module
• Fix ribbon particles triangle indices ordering to prevent artifacts
• Fix bug in DownloadMeshData to properly access data during Finished event
• Fix editor values comparison in properties panel to match serializer rules
• Fix Audio Settings not applying doppler factor on play mode start in Editor
• Fix to ignore warning due to missing NDA consoles packages
• Fix Up Direction default value for Character Controller
• Fix using Center property on Character Controller
• Fix GPU Limits to be clamped to the compile-time limits
• Fix `Set Type button on UI Control to be centered
• Fix sub-context menu child popup still being open when parent context menu gets focused again by the user
• Fix missing virtual C++ function override in C# if the thunk points to vtable index at offset=0
• Fix VisualStudioInstance.GetInstances() to be sorted from newest to oldest
• Fix helper mouse button up event on drag drop end on Windows
• Fix passing reference types back to the native code from scripting event
• Fix assertion on thread double-free from registry
• Fix invalid Math::RoundUpToPowerOf2
• Fix issues when passing new unit tests with edge cases of scripting bindigns usage
• Fix crash when returning bool value in overriden scripting method
• Fix crash in SSAO when using very low render resolution
• Fix crash when unboxing integer value type from managed callback via generated bindings
• Fix crash when using material in PostFx global graphics settings (asset loaded before GPU init)
• Fix crash on shutdown due to custom JsonAsset C++ instance
• Fix crash on root motion extraction if source animation has no valid root node animated
• Fix crash when unbinding from Delegate from other thread during invocation
• Fix crash when shader cache file is empty
• Fix crash in content storage crash due to file seek operation failure
• Fix cash in input actions/axis lookups to due to use of StringView
• Fix crash when copying empty span of data into DataContainer
• Fix crash when presenting task which swap chain is not ready
• Fix crash on exit due to remaining DefautlInstance objects