Flax Engine Update 1.4.6334

General Updates
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Today, we’d like to announce the new Flax 1.4! This version brings lots of new features like Realtime Global Illumination, better licensing, crowd navigation, large world support , and tons of good stuff.

For this update together with our contributors, we’ve made over 643 commits and merged 23 Pull Requests into Flax repositories. Thanks for your support!

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Feel free to discuss the update here :slight_smile:

Contributors: mafiesto4, GoaLitiuM, iainmckay, PrecisionRender, mxruben, whocares77, ScottLongley, tom-weiland, Wolfos

PRs merged: 23

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
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#2

Thanks for the update!

#3

Excellent job! Thanks!