Flax Engine Update 1.8.6511.1

General Updates
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One month after 1.8 release we publish Flax 1.8.1 update. It contains the latest improvements and fixes added to the engine over the past weeks including 25 pull requests from various contributors.

Major improvements for this update are: improved update-draw synchronization in engine loop, new support for importing exr textures and usability for Multi-Blend nodes in Anim Graph.

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Feel free to discuss the update here :slight_smile:

Contributors: mafiesto4, GoaLitiuM, Tryibion, rkrahn, Zode, xxSeys1, Menotdan, Muzz, duarteroso

PRs merged: 25

Changelog:

  • Add support for importing .exr textures
  • Add logging and cleaning up leaked scene objects after play mode in Editor
  • Add trading minor optimizations in MSVC Development builds for compile speed
  • Add automatic restoring Anim Event tracks when reimporting animation asset
  • Add ShowDebugDrawSkeleton to preview Animated Model skeleton via Debug Draw
  • Add toggle orthographic view hotkey (Numpad Decimal)
  • Add locking actor selection in properties and prefab windows
  • Add displaying all actors in Actor toolbox search tab when no filter is applied
  • Add better anim events visuals in timeline editor
  • Add sorting search actor toolbox
  • Add Tags.Find utility
  • Add statically disabled tessellation on macOS/iOS
  • Add statically disabled geometry shaders on mobile
  • Add CPU profiler events for UI drawing
  • Add setter for crword agent position and velocity
  • Add option for using Address and Thread sanitizers
  • Add hiding TAA settings if TAA isn’t enabled
  • Add Time.Synchronize to stabilize engine loop
  • Add Engine::UpdateCount to sync gameplay logic updates with game loop rather than draw frames
  • Add improved size of Multi Blend nodes
  • Add undo for Multi Blend points moving
  • Add context menu to Multi Blend node points
  • Add tooltips to Multi Blend points
  • Add Ctrl to snap points to grid in Multi Blend editor
  • Add improved visuals of points in Multi Blend
  • Add grid labels drawing to Multi Blend
  • Add live debugging of blend position in Multi Blend
  • Add add/remove buttons to Multi Blend
  • Add better const correctness in Mesh and SkinnedMesh api
  • Add Write/Read methods to NetworkStream for INetworkSerializable sending in C# api
  • Add more useful orientation settings to Android
  • Add exported property to activity element in AndroidManifest.xml template
  • Add basic Android version settings to editor
  • Optimize DrawBatch for faster sorting
  • Optimize draw calls sorting in opaque passes
  • Optimize TreeNode rendering
  • Optimize ActorTreeNode reparent when it’s not collapsed but one of the parents is
  • Optimize Anim Graph node size and remove limit of max 64 state transitions
  • Refactor engine loop to have better sync between game update, physics and drawing
  • Refactor UpdateGraph to run after engine services and game scripts
  • Refactor Visject Graph nodes data for unlimited size
  • Refactor Multi Blend nodes to support up to 255 blend points
  • Update DirectXTex to mar2024
  • Change default collision type to ConvexMesh from TriangleMesh
  • Fix default diffuse color value when importing material
  • Fix Editor viewport aspect ratio scaling to be removed from camera mouse movement
  • Fix numpad enter to normal enter on Linux
  • Fix Two Bone IK to have correct bone roll
  • Fix blend shapes transformation applying
  • Fix blend shapes normals usage
  • Fix blending nested animations to properly handle it per-node
  • Fix nested animations sampling
  • Fix animated model skinning precision issues
  • Fix errors on using spline editor in Prefab window
  • Fix error when applying prefab changes with Spline
  • Fix deselecting actors when using camera orbiting in viewport after releasing LMB when Alt is up
  • Fix text underline being in wrong spot on different DPIs
  • Fix particle emitter creation from templates
  • Fix various bugs in code detected with address/thread sanitizers
  • Fix EyeAdaptation bug to flash on play mode start in Editor when time gets reset
  • Fix heightfield not saved when editing splatmap of terrain with physical materials in use
  • Fix editor toolstrip by moving game cooking and building to the right for less missclicks
  • Fix panning Visject Surface with middle mouse button (right button does it) to prevent missed connections removals
  • Fix Debug Log scrolling when many entries are added at once
  • Fix cloning value utility for object references
  • Fix missing UI Control preview when changing UI Widget type
  • Fix surface node context menu to not show when moving surface
  • Fix margins issues in context menus
  • Fix FindRandomPointAroundCircle to always find a valid point on a NavMesh in the radius
  • Fix NavMesh to initialize earlier and prevent issues with crowd agents on a scene
  • Fix .NET runtime validity checks with daily runtime builds
  • Fix CachedAttributeGetter holding references to collectible types
  • Fix to release Prefab assets when unloading Scripting service
  • Fix freeze when selecting ModelPrefab referencing a removed asset
  • Fix terrain heightmap to use higher range format when decompressed
  • Fix bug in ValueContainer.HasDifferentTypes causing incorrect editor setup
  • Fix model tool importing to use temp file only for Assimp
  • Fix deadlock when parsing invalid HTML text in RichTextBox
  • Fix crash on prefab preview with lightmap in use
  • Fix crash when accessing physics objects state in OnLateFixedUpdate
  • Fix crash when resizing window on Vulkan
  • Fix crash when removing Anim Event visual script that is used in opened Animation timeline
  • Fix crash when using old Blend with Mask node in Anim Graph
  • Fix crash when playing uninitialized audio source
  • Fix crash when reimporting animation with translation set
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91Great news! I tested GameTime causality right away.

With same simple time logger used previous post

public override void OnUpdate()
{
Debug.Log($“Update, Gametime :{FlaxEngine.Time.GameTime}”);
}

public override void OnFixedUpdate()
{
Debug.Log($“Fixed Update, GameTime:{FlaxEngine.Time.GameTime}”);
}

I got sequences of sample times:

…
[ 00:01:17.840 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :2.0166 647
[ 00:01:17.841 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:2.0166 588 (Decreased value after 17.840 Update)
[ 00:01:17.857 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :2.0333 316
[ 00:01:17.857 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:2.0333 257 (Decreased value after 17.857 Update)
[ 00:01:17.877 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :2.0499983
[ 00:01:17.877 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:2.049992
[ 00:01:17.891 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :2.0666 647
[ 00:01:17.891 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:2.0666 587 (Decreased value after 17.891 Update)
…

It became much more less desynced from 1.8, but was not desync-proof.

From the changelog FlaxEngine.Time.Synchronize() method is added, but the usage was unclear.
Adding a call of Synchronize() inside FixedUpdate() hanged game from user input, and logged:

[ 00:08:20.390 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0.0168121
[ 00:08:20.390 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:0
[ 00:08:20.391 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0.016808
[ 00:08:20.391 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:0
[ 00:08:20.391 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0.0167983
[ 00:08:20.391 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:0
[ 00:08:20.391 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0.0168182
[ 00:08:20.391 ]: [Info] Fixed Update, GameTime:0

And adding Synchronize() inside Update() also hanged game from user input, and logged:

[ 00:09:19.449 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.451 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.451 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.452 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.452 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.452 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.452 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.453 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0
[ 00:09:19.453 ]: [Info] Update, Gametime :0

What is the exact purpose of Synchronize() and how to use it?