0.2.6165

Version 0.2.6165 - 26 August 2018

Contributors: klukule, stefnotch

• Add Nested Prefabs
• Add creating, editing and using prefab assets
• Add restoring prefab instance changes or per property value
• Applying prefab instance change to the prefab asset
• Add PrefabManager (use SpawnPrefab to instantiate prefab)
• Add prefab thumbnails rendering
• Add dedicated prefabs editing window
• Add Editor.GetActorEditorBox and Editor.GetActorSphere
• Add Vector3.Distance2D and Vector3.Distance2DSquared
• Add Actor.ScriptsCount and Actor.GetScript(int index)
• Add Actor.GetScriptInChildren and Actor.GetScriptsInChildren
• Add SceneRenderTask.FrameCount
• Add Actors query methods to get child actors and scripts via C# type (except generic methods)
• Add TextRender.UpdateLayout to sync vertex buffer and bounds manually after modification
• Add Tangent Vector and Bitangent Vector node types to materials graph
• Add lazy init for C# objects for Actors
• Add methods to Render2D to draw texture/sprite with point sampler(except of linear)
• Add support for volume render targets and render target arrays
• Add material parameter types: RenderTargetArray, RenderTargetCube and RenderTarget3D
• Add Pi node to material and anim graph
• Add C# API to clear per render target mip or array/depth slice
• Add C# API to render PostFx material to a texture mip or array/depth slice with configured viewport
• Add C# API for the render target surface views
• Add functionality to create a new node in Visject when creating a new connection
• Add support for sampling texture arrays and volume textures in materials
• Add showing texture mip map in editor window
• Add showing texture using point sampler in editor window
• Add showing mip, custom channels mask or changing filter for cube texture preview
• Add UseVSync option to Graphics Quality Window in Editor
• Add changing scene preview brightness per editor viewport
• Add support for custom sampling Cube Textures in materials
• Add sync for lightmap textures set streaming
• Add using mipmaps from lightmap
• Add using script folder location to namespace of the created script in Editor
• Add highlighting the mesh when dragging a material over it
• Add Int2 and Int3 types to math library
• Add Decal.CreateVirtualMaterialInstance utility function
• Add F6 shortcut in Editor to pause/resume play in editor
• Add extension methods for random streams and collections utilities
• Add help buttons in editor with links to documentation
• Add logging inner exception via Debug
• Add GraphicsDevice.NativePtr
• Add more invalid characters filtering for renaming assets validation
• Add reference to Newtonsoft.Json library for game code scripts (Assembly and Assembly.Editor)
• Add throwing Null Reference exception when using deleted object
• Add selecting dockpanel tab in editor via drag and drop
• Initialize UIControl and UICanvas during Actor Init rather than BeginPlay event
• Refactor Scripts and Actors to be treated as unified Scene Objects by more Engine parts
• Refactor Scripts serialization in Scene files (inline Scripts in the scene objects collection and use ParentID for parent actor linkage)
• Rename UIControl.AddChild<T>() to UIControl.AddChildControl<T>() to prevent overlapping with the Actor class method
• Improve actors deserialization performance
• Improve baked lightmaps post processing to reduce artifacts
• Update Newtonsoft.Json to 11.0.2
• Use models instead of DebugDraw for TransformGizmo parts drawing
• Modify Render2D draw methods with alpha blending
• Optimize C# GUI
• Optimize Decals projection model complexity
• Optimize Actor.Scripts getter if actor has no scripts
• Optimize Scene Graph building in Editor
• Reduce memory allocations during rendering
• Improve content loading and streaming threads responsiveness
• Disable auto connecting in Visject
• Modify objects disposing service to collect more objects per frame if needed
• Rename Actor.ChildCount to Actor.ChildrenCount
• Fix AO Intensity serialization issue
• Fix crash related to model asset material slots count
• Fix lightmap mip maps generation
• Fix lightmap textures binding when streamed
• Fix TextRender bounds before transform update
• Fix FocalDistance deserialization issue
• Fixed a up/down arrow key bug in Visject context menu
• Fix crash when importing some FBX models
• Fix material instance parameters synchronization with base material
• Fix positioning spawned point and spot light in editor via drag and drop
• Fix rare NaN in Depth Of Field shader
• Fix various typos in documentation comments
• Fix various DirectX 12 rendering issues and support MSAA
• Fix high CPU usage by using Condition Variables by thread pool threads
• Fix various crashes for huge amount of tasks cancellations
• Fix textbox control transparency
• Fix crash when casting float4 to float in materials
• Fix lightmap texels filter to reduce negative coefficients and improve texels blurring
• Fix lightmap mipmaps generation and usage
• Fix typos
• Fix many bugs and crashes

0.1.6163

Version 0.1.6163 - 14 July 2018

Contributors: stefnotch, Sauler

• Add IndirectLightingIntensity parameter to lights and to the scene setting (global)
• Add ModelActor.HiddenShadow for rendering only model shadow
• Add ModelActor.BoundsScale for scale its bounds
• Add Border control
• Add BlurPanel for blurring GUI background with Gaussian blur
• Add GUI material preview in Editor
• Add Mesh.UpdateTriangles
• Add ShowInEditor attribute to display object private fields/properties in editor
• Add more styling options to GUI controls
• Add SolidColorBrush, LinearGradientBrush and MaterialBrush
• Add support for rendering text in GUI with a custom material
• Add support for masking GUI materials
• Add CSG.Model to Scene for CSG geometry rendering (exposed)
• Add events Collider.TriggerEnter and Collider.TriggerExit
• Add renaming selected actor with F2 key (via scene tree)
• Add arrow Keys & Enter to choose an autocomplete suggestion in Visject
• Add alternative names for nodes (* for multiply, + for add, etc.) in Visject
• Add auto connecting selected nodes in Visject when new node is added
• Add adding new Visject nodes to selection
• Rename IImageSource to IBrush (and related symbols)
• Remove ViewFlags.CSG
• Move Tree, TreeNode, ContextMenu, ComboBox, and ValueBox control types to Editor assembly
• Fix sampling directional light shadow map cascades for volumetric fog scattering
• Fix texture mip data downloading
• Fix focus in Visject on node creation
• Fix Debug Window messages count button size
• Fix expanding tree nodes in some cases
• Fix for missing reference in FlaxObjectRefEditor
• Fix World Position sampling in GUI material types
• Fix control location constraint for Anchor Style set to Center
• Fix main thread stall when loading scene in async
• Fix crash when renaming actor during scripts reload
• Minor fixes

0.1.6162

Version 0.1.6162 - 2 July 2018

• Add support for DirectX profile events
• Fix rendering on Intel GPUs
• Fix dynamic models bounds updating
• Fix various memory leaks
• Fix VerticalPanel layout

0.1.6161

Version 0.1.6161 - 1 July 2018

• Added support for importing .hdr files
• Added support for exporting assets in Editor (textures, sprite atlases, cube textures, audio clips, models and skinned models)
• Added support for virtual texture assets (with updating from code)
• Added support for saving textures to file (in Editor)
• Added API to get texture mip data
• Added more C# API for creating models with custom LODs from code
• Added support for virtual skinned models creating from code
• Added support for updating skinned model properties at runtime
• Added support for editing material slots collection for Model/SkinnedModel
• Added support for saving Model/SkinnedModel to other asset and saving generated geometry to the file (in Editor)
• Added support for downloading vertex and index buffers data from the Mesh/SkinnedMesh (from GPU or from memory/drive)
• Added Mesh.HasVertexColors, Mesh.HasLightmapUVs and Mesh.IndexBufferFormat
• Added Int4 type
• Added DebugDraw.DrawArrow
• Added support for uploading mesh data from the other threads
• Added MessageBox.BrowseFolderDialog
• Added AllowUnsafeCode for projects template
• Added drawing arrow with selected directional/spot light direction in Editor
• Fix node values types for Surface copy paste
• Fix project regenerate on script change
• Fix import file dialog list

0.1.6160

Version 0.1.6160 - 27 June 2018

• Added UICanvas and UIControl actor types for building Game UI systems
• Added texture import option Flip Y
• Added support for global custom PostFx applied to all game scene viewports
• Added using position snapping when spawning the object via drag and drop
• Added C# API to get GPU memory usage and dump resources info to log
• Added RenderBuffers.DepthBuffer to be accessed from the C# API
• Added new attribute VisibleIf to show/hide properties in editor based on object state
• Added creating mesh from code with 16bit index buffer
• Added new PostFx Material rendering location: BeforeReflectionsPass, can be used to implement custom light types and extend the shading pipeline
• Added PostProcessEffect.Location that specifies location during frame rendering when to execute the custom postFx
• Added PostProcessEffect.UseSingleTarget that allows to render graphics in additive mode to the input texture (can be used to optimize game performance)
• Added PostProcessEffect.Order that allows to sort the effects
• Added new PostFx location AfterAntiAliasingPass for PostFx Materials and Custom PostFx, can be used to perform rendering after full-screen AA filter
• Added more C# API for the scenes management
• Added helper API for scene assets referencing
• Added events Collider.CollisionEnter and Collider.CollisionExit
• Added Camera.ConvertMouseToRay
• Added dedicated editors for primitive types: double, long, ulong, byte, sbyte, short, ushort, uint and char
• Added dedicated editor for Guid type
• Added Actor.AddChild<T>
• Added ExpandGroupsAttribute to help with editor UI rule creating
• Added showing material slot name in selected ModelActor/AnimatedModel entries list
• Added showing tooltips for Scripts (use TooltipAttribute on a script class)
• Added showing tooltips for inlined groups in editor
• Added ability to create object in editor for null reference in script
• Support importing .dds files as a single texture (not only cube texture)
• Change default editor font to Roboto (bigger characters set)
• Improve materiał instances performance
• Implement proper GUI serialization and editing (via attributes)
• Improve GPU memory usage efficiency (better render targets sharing)
• Improve reflections specular occlusion
• Increase sun shadow maps resolution for quality level Medium
• General GUI refactoring and improvements
• Reduce dynamic memory allocations during rendering
• Remove Control.Name
• Remove LH postfix from math functions
• Remove CharacterController.Velocity setter (not supported by PhysX), getter still works
• Refactor editor asset picker
• Refactor Flax GUI library controls to be more usable in games
• Move Editor-only GUI controls to FlaxEditor assembly
• Change default Editor update rate to 60FPS
• Optimize collision events sending (less memory allocations)
• Optimize memory allocations during rendering
• Optimize Render2D.DrawText memory allocations
• Change default Contact Offset for the Colliders to 10
• Change scene tree node double click to start rename it (not focus on actor)
• Change EnvironmentProbe.AutoUpdate to be disabled by default
• Fix fog blending mode (can can be black now)
• Fix transforming meshes to root node when importing animated models
• Fix applying scale on imported model if any mesh has additional transformation
• Fix rare crashes when baking the collision mesh data
• Fix Parallax Occlusion mapping ignores custom UVs
• Fix duplicated content item when selecting with shift
• Fix auto-detecting workspace modification for scripts recompilation
• Fix PostFxVolume blending with blend radius set to 0
• Fix issue with material instance params not syncing layout in builded game
• Fix Get Parameter node width based on param name
• Fix crash when disabling script without a parent actor (eg. created from code)
• Fix crash when using parameter getter spawned with Visject context menu
• Fix recording immediate undo action after using Color Picker
• Fix scale gizmo snapping
• Fix alpha blended GUI rendering
• Fix AnchorStyle update for Center mode
• Minor fixes

0.1.6158

Version 0.1.6158 - 9 June 2018

• Added BoneSocket.UseScale
• Added showing No camera text in game window when no enabled cameras
• Implement all Control.AnchorTypes logic
• Fix crash on material compilation error
• Fix project shaders database caching to use also materials format version
• Fix crash when searching for CustomEditorAttribute
• Fix deadlock when compiling 20 or more layered materials at once (recursive layers)
• Fix crash when using PostFx with not used parameters
• Fix typo in Mask Z node

0.1.6157

Version 0.1.6157 - 7 June 2018

• Added Editor Options
• Added scroll bar to tabs menu in Toolbox window
• Added live preview for the color picker
• Added caching expanded actor nodes in Scene Tree
• Added Font.Asset to get font object parent asset
• Added new event Scripting.Exit to handle engine closing
• Added calling Start function if Script is enabled for the first time from code at runtime
• Added support for Matrix parameter type for Materials
• Added dedicated MatrixEditor
• Added Depth node to Materials (linear distance of the pixel/vertex to the camera)
• Added Mask nodes to Material/AnimGraph to get swizzle values like X,Y or XY, ZW
• Added dragging the Material/AnimGraph parameter into the surface
• Added creating Material Instance from Material in Content Window
• Added spawning surface parameters getter node via context menu
• Added showing scene filename on a Scene Tree node name
• Rotate decal actor in Material Preview (easier to use on Plane model)
• Support importing TIFF files with extension .tif
• Improve Material/AnimGraph parameter renaming with left mouse double click
• Improve selecting actors in editor (don’t pick colliders if Physics Debug mode is off)
• Improve texture format auto-detection
• Improve gizmo and camera usage with Alt to orbit and move objects
• Improve internal C++ calls to prevent crashes in invalid object usage cases
• Improve C# assemblies debug symbols loading (don’t use pdb2mdb tool)
• Improve editor status strip message to use the editor state messages
• Improve filtering property name labels (cut common prefixes, share memory)
• Improve GPU and I/O async tasks cleanup and cancellation on exit
• Fix crash for Copy Bone if skeleton has only a single bone
• Fix crash when sampling material pixel shader surface properties in vertex shader
• Fix importing 1x1 texture with mipmaps generation turned on
• Fix crash when reimporting binary asset to the different type
• Fix crash when spawning in editor model with more than 300 meshes
• Fix drawing gizmos, editor primitives and debug shapes in debug render modes
• Fix setting scene modified flax on actor spawn
• Fix rare errors when reimporting the asset
• Fix Camera.Viewport property (invalid size)
• Fix removing tag from the actor
• Fix minor memory leaks
• Fix crash for empty PostFx/GUI material which is not using constant buffer

0.1.6156

Version 0.1.6156 - 1 June 2018

Contributors: klukule

• Added Decals support
• Added C# 7.2 support
• Upgrade to Mono 5.12
• Added SGen for C# Garbage Collection (multi-threaded GC)
• Added support for catching StackOverflowException
• Added Decal actor
• Added Material types: Decal and GUI
• Added selecting the material preview mesh (cube, sphere, plane, cylinder or cone)
• Added atan2 function to materials
• Improve initial asset registry building (faster files discovery)
• Improve managed objects performance (don't pin persistent managed objects)
• Optimize scenes reload on scripts reload (keep data cached in memory)
• Optimize draw calls sorting performance (for 2k+ draw calls)
• Support Position Offset in layered materials
• Support sampling material layer that is using material layer input
• Support copy/paste files and folders in the Content Window
• Support calling Update/LateUpdate/FixedUpdate in editor for scripts marked with ExecuteInEditModeAttribute
• Improve materials compilation
• Optimize DirectX 11 backend state changes
• Swap Roughness with AO in GBuffer
• Use CreateDXGIFactory1 on DirectX 11 backend (min Win7 support)
• Added scripts define FLAX_X_Y_Z for scripting to include patches
• Added tooltip to Visject Surface graph nodes with the node type
• Added C# API to copy folders and files with a system clipboard
• Fix Combobox text clipping
• Fix Character Controller collisions filter
• Fix many crashes on scripts reload in editor
• Fix C# various internal structures serialization
• Fix scriptis builder events sending
• Stability improvements related to meshes rendering
• Minor fixes