Update 1.13.7012

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-13-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_13/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-13/2718

Changelog:

• Add Hardware Occlusion Culling to models, foliage, particles, terrain and local light shadows
• Add HZB Occlusion Culling
• Add more logging on GPU crash
• Add Array ctor from Span
• Add security limits for network to avoid too many messages processing
• Add option to hide debug commands (eg. one auto-added within container class)
• Add new defaults to Graphics settings to target High by default
• Add auto-fill to plugin project clone based on clipboard
• Add debug preview to selected resource in GPU Memory tab
• Add API to draw Skinned Model from code with Animated Model pose
• Add FLAXENGINE_VERSION_MAJOR/FLAXENGINE_VERSION_MINOR macros to shaders compilation
• Add PostProcessEffect.CollectDrawCalls to properly draw custom meshes
• Add temporal dithering and more accurate blending for contact shadows
• Add volume debug draw highlight to the selected env probe
• Add Light Overlap debug view mode
• Add IndirectShadowsStrength to GI settings for artist-controlled light leaking
• Add NVIDIA PerfSDK plugin for Flax Engine
• Add Graphics.Shadows.Dump command for profiling shadow mapping
• Add Graphics.GI.Dump command for profiling DDGI/GlobalSDF
• Add Graphics.GI.GetConvergence to use GI bounce progress for game loading screens/fades
• Add new DDGI Reflections rendering mode for fully dynamic indirect specular
• Add CanBuild to target for selective project references compilation
• Add GIProbesSpacing and GlobalSurfaceAtlasResolution to global Graphics for runtime editing
• Add noise to Global SDF and Surface Atlas debug preview to smooth the tracing
• Add Global SDF dynamic chunks updates between full cascade updates to hide latency on fast moving objects
• Add new Lighting debug view mode for both diffuse and specular lighting preview without material colors
• Add option to render DDGI indirect lighting in half-res with bilateral upscaling
• Add zooming in and out (FOV) in editor viewport using C and Z keys
• Add support for Windows 11 SDK version 28000
• Add auto focus on model when changing Base Model in Anim Graph
• Add direction gizmo rotation while holding right mouse button
• Add help support to Debug Commands via XML docs parsing
• Add client-side window decorations support for macOS editor windows
• Add MacWindow logo loading and use correct one for Editor
• Add Volume to audio clip import options
• Add material instance creation out of other instance
• Add filtering whitespaces to Xml doc comments of type members and optimize filtering
• Add type picker when creating abstract class or interface
• Add cross button to unset abstract class or interface object value
• Add layers settings shortcut to actor layer dropdown
• Add support for building Android targets from macOS
• Add navigation to Slider control
• Add Create Prefab Variant option to Prefab asset context menu
• Add utility UI Control spawn menu inside scene/prefab context-menu
• Add middle and right mouse button actions to asset/object pickers to clear value or show popup quickly
• Add shortcut to show editor windows content (Ctrl + 0)
• Add max .NET version to 11
• Add hiding tooltips when mouse buttons are pressed
• Add custom animation inputs to Multi Blend nodes
• Add improved tooltips to Visual Script types with file name
• Add auto-scroll the Content Window navigation bar to the current folder
• Add grey display for deprecated enum options
• Add improved Rider projects C++ preprocessor definitions (Linux/macOS)
• Add new ScriptingObjectInterfaceReference to reference object with interface
• Add rich text formatting to Debug Log title messages
• Add Start/EndTextInput for control to toggle character input events
• Add MSDF font enhancement (eg. shared size per-asset)
• Add word wrap support to Rich Text Box
• Add various improvements to CSG Brushes editing workflow
• Add more useful titles for BT decorator nodes
• Add red/green highlights to debug BT node decorator result
• Add editable keyframe proxies for linear and bezier curve editors, including time/frame fields and curve values
• Add tangent editing support for bezier curve keyframes in the keyframe edit popup
• Add curve keyframe edit popup draggable so it can be moved away from the curve view
• Add CLion support (via CMake project files)
• Add option when entering play mode to always restore to the editor window after exiting play mode
• Add auto-select of newly copied/moved content items
• Add CHECK_NO_RETURN for checks in code that should continue function execution
• Add VariantType::GetScriptingType for easier type information access
• Add simpler Variant::Enum that auto-setups variant type from enum scripting info
• Add more LOD Generation options to model import settings (eg. borders lock, preserve UVs)
• Add Physics::DeleteScene
• Add properties search field
• Add distance-scale to vertex paint vertices
• Add vertex paint brush size changing with shift+scroll
• Add improvements to Gameplay Globals editing
• Add auto-renaming newly added Visject parameters
• Add Texture and Cube Texture support to Gameplay Globals
• Add RealtimeSkybox mode to SkyLight for dynamic skylight
• Add Brightness, ResolusionScale, DebugView, and LayerMask to viewport persistence
• Add Video playback value on Video Player
• Add way to get blackboard by type
• Add AGENTS.md file (to Engine repo)
• Add auto scroll to new track when adding track to animation
• Add groups to Animated Model properties and improve skeleton debug drawing
• Add GetValue by type in c# for gameplay globals
• Add Escape key to deselect in Editor
• Add VersionControlInfo to output game build info and log game version with branch/commit info
• Add D3D12MemoryAllocator for resource allocations on DX12
• Add GPUMemoryStats for GPU video memory stats
• Add GPUDrawPass for more efficient render attachments setup
• Add detecting Vulkan SDK version in build tool
• Add scalability via AA Quality setting for TAA
• Add realistic soft shadows on Ultra quality with PCSS filter
• Add SourceAngle property to Directional light that controls PCSS penumbra size
• Add highlight to Motion Vectors Debug view for better content optimizing
• Add Optimization sub-group in view modes list in Editor Viewport
• Add VSync support to Vulkan
• Add support for loading custom mouse cursor images
• Add support for using macros in scripting function parameter default values
• Add GetTextureData function to texture API in C#
• Add 'GPUBuffer' parameter type to materials and particles
• Add rendering stats for Data Upload
• Add Reversed Z rendering for higher depth buffer precision in open-worlds
• Add in-built editors for DateTime and TimeSpan
• Add ShowInPlayMode to HideInEditor attribute for properties/fields that should display in editor only during play mode
• Add new Level.PreloadSceneAsync for streaming levels before they need to be loaded in
• Add debug prints for logs init for console issues troubleshooting
• Add missing serialization and empty ctor to CultureInfo
• Add EditorUtilities::GetSDK to query SDKs via Flax.Build from editor
• Add FromMemory and LoadMemory to Texture for loading images from memory
• Add GetUserAvarar to Online Platform interface
• Add rich-presence to Online Platform interface (status text and game id)
• Add game overlay UI utilities to Online Platform interface
• Add online platform implementation for PSN on PS5
• Add GDK manifest localization to fix packaging issue
• Add half-res DDGI reflections resolving to optimize rendering on low-end devices
• Add Global SDF trace step scale for SSR reflections to handle SSR Quality
• Add ViewportRect to Camera and rendering for split-screen drawing
• Add ViewportRect to UICanvas for UI placement
• Add InputLatencyMs stat to ProfilingTools
• Add Loaded event to Asset in scripting
• Add BoundingSphere.Transform with Transform instead of Matrix
• Add GPUQueryType::BinaryOcclusion for simpler visibility checks
• Add MaterialTextureMipBias to control texture mip bias in materials for better frame upscaling
• Add new temporal upsampling option (TAAU) when using location DuringAntiAliasing
• Add new FSR 4.1 plugin update (SDK 2.3)
• Add Graphics::MotionVectors::MinObjectScreenSize to skip too small objects from drawing motion vectors
• Add mesh index buffer optimization based on meshoptimizer library
• Add Global SDF Overdraw debug mode for content optimizations
• Add improvements to DDGI sampling and filtering in areas far from probes
• Add improved fallback GI outside the DDGI range to use a special ambient probe for stability
• Add CascadeBlendSize to Directional Light
• Add DefaultProbeCubemapFormat to Graphics Settings with option to compress env probe textures
• Add MeshAccessor.LoadBuffer with format for Index Buffers
• Add Temporal Antialiasing as default AA method
• Add selection drawing and picking gizmo to Foliage Types editing tab
• Add audio device change detection in OpenAL backend
• Add ExpandChildSize option to vertical/horizontal panels to resize child controls to fill the panel size
• Add DrawMaterial feature to RenderToTextureControl for custom post-processing the cached UI image
• Add ConstantInvalidate option to RenderToTextureControl for no-cached image
• Add Bypass feature to RenderToTextureControl to skip rendering cached image
• Disable Motion Blur and Eye Adaptation by default
• Deprecate the Direction actor property and replace with Forward
• Remove deprecated UWP platform from Game Cooker window
• Rename SceneRenderTask::RenderingPercentage to RenderScale
• Rename Sphere Mask node A and B inputs to be more clear what they do
• Rename Actor bounding box and sphere properties to be more verbose with Bounding prefix
• Rename BRDF visibility functions prefix to V_ from Vis_
• Change default for showing Debug Draw in game window
• Optimize XML documentation reference parsing and overall performance
• Optimize model actors entries serialization
• Optimize auto generated Variant Types in bindings to reduce dynamic memory allocs in game builds
• Optimize dirty shadow bounds update for particles and foliage
• Optimize Vulkan texture clears with render pass attachments clear operation
• Optimize Vulkan render passes with a new GPUDrawPass to manually control attachment operations in higher-level API
• Optimize various rendering effects with GPUDrawPass
• Optimize GPU memory allocations on D3D12 with D3D12MemoryAllocator
• Optimize foliage serialization by batching instance data, performing quantization, and LZ4 compression
• Optimize first scene startup by preloading it during loading screen
• Optimize content modifications watching events processing in large projects
• Optimize CPU rendering of shadowed foliage by splitting draw contexts into separate async jobs
• Optimize foliage instance bounds calculations
• Optimize FoliageInstance size to cut down memory by and reduce cache misses when drawing foliage
• Optimize foliage rendering with less cache misses
• Optimize foliage drawing by caching per-instance world matrix
• Optimize large scene files loading by aligning json pool allocator pages to 64kB
• Optimize large scene/prefa/json assets metadata loading by avoiding parsing full contents
• Optimize draw calls batching and instancing with better sort keys generation and processing
• Optimize shadows and depth rendering with instancing support for transparent shaders
• Optimize LightmapUVs to be stored already as Half4 to avoid runtime conversions during rendering
• Optimize scene rendering loop performance
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas to cache objects shader data
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas updates distribution for subobjects (eg. foliage instances)
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas with object draws limit per frame
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas defragmentation with copying old atlas to avoid redrawing all objects
• Optimize Global Surface Atlas full direct lighting redraw to copy whole emissive atlas at once
• Optimize basic Mathf function to use more inlining
• Optimize Mathf to use float versions of intrinsic
• Optimize Animated Model rendering with hardware instancing
• Optimize animated model startup to avoid double init of the bones buffer and pose
• Optimize resizing dictionary to add new unique keys faster for primitive and int values
• Optimize DDGI probes debug with a batched instanced draw
• Optimize DDGI indirect lighting resolving to use depth bounds test
• Optimize rendering when using TAA to draw PostFX directly to backbuffer
• Optimize development-only shaders and rendering code to compile it out in Release game builds
• Refactor BRDF roughness input to be squared
• Refactor Temporal Anti-Aliasing shader to have less ghosting and quality scalability
• Refactor RenderingUpscaleLocation enum item names
• Refactor Wireframe view mode to draw wireframe on top of lit view
• Refactor Asset events naming to match engine scheme
• Refactor CommandLine parsing and processing
• Refactor GeometryDrawStateData storage into RenderBufers for correct split-screen rendering
• Refactor ISceneRenderingListener events to contain more data
• Refactor rendering code by moving RenderContext to a separate harder file
• Refactor Actor::Draw to use only variant with RenderContextBatch to simplify rendering code
• Refactor NetworkMessage and NetworkStream to handle errors gracefully, including in Release builds
• Refactor engine shaders folder to have better organization
• Refactor OnlinePlatformXboxLive and OnlinePlatformSteam into shared FlaxEngine.Online namespace
• Update to .NET 10
• Update LZ4 library to v1.10
• Update to the latest Vulkan SDK 1.4.350
• Update Vulkan API to 1.2 on Windows
• Update Vulkan API to 1.1 on Android
• Update Vulkan API to 1.4 on macOS and iOS
• Update DirectX12Agility to 1.619.3
• Update DirectXShaderCompiler to 1.9.2602
• Update actor LookingAt to be a more descriptive name
• Fix deprecated flag usage when loading scenes over multiple frames
• Fix loading SceneReference property in Visual Script
• Fix Global Surface Atlas rasterization of objects with negative scale
• Fix Global Surface Atlas tiles padding and position precision to have proper stability
• Fix DDGI sampling when using non-directional lighting (eg. smoke particles or volumetric fog)
• Fix default shadow depth bias values and control them based on shadow resolution/quality mix
• Fix Directional Light fade at distance
• Fix Directional Light rendering to be skipped when color alpha is zero
• Fix Guid diff serialization and loading invalid values
• Fix editing flag enum to properly toggle bits incl. bit masks
• Fix missing SDK print for ones from modules or plugins
• Fix editing array of CultureInfo values
• Fix ForDistribution build option to not be explicitly enabled in Release builds
• Fix various shader warnings
• Fix UI double-click actions to work only with left mouse button
• Fix editor fonts resolution scale on High DPI screens
• Fix main camera by proper active cameras list ordering
• Fix delay on virtual GPU texture upload to be immediate
• Fix Quad Overdraw pass to skip draws from materials that don't support it
• Fix CanvasScaler point projection when using location offset
• Fix for flickering tree structures on expand/collapse
• Fix Windows SDKs and Toolsets log from build tool to be sorted descending by version
• Fix compiling project with plugins for Web
• Fix project version control info for empty .git repo
• Fix Global Surface Atlas sampling sub-texel error
• Fix self-shadowing artifacts in DDGI on fast moving objects
• Fix DDGI/SDF quality in editor view when moving static objects around
• Fix Debug Draw shapes manual depth test when using resolution upscaling
• Fix various rendering elements when using upscaling
• Fix using Tools menu without Game Settings asset
• Fix custom draw calls submission within post-process callback
• Fix Global Surface Atlas with large worlds
• Fix height fog density calculation with large worlds
• Fix warnings when running on null renderer
• Fix rendering transparent material on WebGPU without shadows
• Fix occlusion queries on WebGPU and Vulkan
• Fix missing network messages reading init to avoid crashes on incorrect message
• Fix various edge-cases in network replication system to avoid crashes
• Fix dangling replication queue items and parts after client disconnected
• Fix saving virtual Material Instance asset
• Fix safety of the network handshake and C# network stream
• Fix ENet packet leak after receive event
• Fix ENet network driver to use 3 separate channels for different packet types
• Fix ENet network driver stats from all peers
• Fix assertion on shader load failure
• Fix missing Int2/Int3/Int4 in Variant support implementation parts
• Fix Rider detection on macOS when installed in the user Applications folder
• Fix Vulkan Tracy timestamp queries on MoltenVK
• Fix macOS popup/tooltip windows handling
• Fix drag&drop on X11 Linux with SDL
• Fix mouse position in events reported from caption area on Windows
• Fix window decoration buttons not clickable with DPI scale
• Fix property get/set function name length in dotnet bindings
• Fix output log history popup management to smoother usage
• Fix MeshAccessor triangle count calculation bug
• Fix Variant static typenames caching bug in Editor
• Fix asset 'Reload' option to be available when asset failed to load for manual load
• Fix asset storage handling when file is locked
• Fix asset cache eviction for locked files to retain cached info
• Fix reloading assets that failed to load
• Fix dirtying scenes after building navmesh in Editor
• Fix scene texture node with WorldPosition
• Fix model material access with empty entries
• Fix Web build when python is installed in folder with whitespaces in path
• Fix building deps for Windows ARM64
• Fix UI focus entries list when opening import files dialog
• Fix auto-selecting newly imported or created assets in Editor
• Fix prefab Script track IDs for Scene Animation remapping
• Fix vertex paint brush size to match the highlight sphere
• Fix Editor Grid jitter after TAA resolve
• Fix ProgressBar fill with large margin
• Fix spline editing in Large Worlds
• Fix alternating table row coloring
• Fix Render2D line thickness scaling
• Fix procedural Skinned Mesh creation from code
• Fix t-posing when Multi Blend 2D when one of the triangulated point animations is empty or loading
• Fix timeline curve expanding to properly show whole curve area
• Fix GUI blur panel to respect input image alpha
• Fix Camera Space canvas rendering to properly clip viewport
• Fix collapsed curve keyframes display bug
• Fix mesh vertices deduplication to use relative error, not fixed value
• Fix Large World offset bug in triplanar texture nodes
• Fix eye adaptation to be turned off in editor asset previews
• Fix shader error when using non-ASCII characters in material
• Fix importing skinned models with multiple LODs
• Fix text box highlighting not using DPI
• Fix material drag over highlights to not flicker
• Fix missing distortion rendering on Deformable materials
• Fix missing treeview folder shortcuts
• Fix project generation when configuration/platform is unsupported
• Fix Editor toolbar to exclude project path but only name
• Fix dynamic C# scripting features in Editor by preloading stdlib assembly
• Fix indexed properties from displaying in Editor (throws exception)
• Fix terrain resolution in editor
• Fix terrain collision leftover when destroyed manually
• Fix terrain patch add mode not picking patches in scaled terrain
• Fix game window resize to maintain placement within screen (eg. centered)
• Fix game window resolution when resizing during fullscreen on Windows
• Fix game window to maintain resolution and be centered when going out the fullscreen on Windows
• Fix window layout when changing System DPI on Windows
• Fix infinite grid actually infinite
• Fix mesh index buffer when using 32-bit indices
• Fix content browser stealing focus from popup asset windows on SDL
• Fix Wayland window not getting attached to the drag operation
• Fix Vulkan swapchain surface to be preserved during resize
• Fix the release of Vulkan samplers
• Fix NodesCache desync after hot-reload in Editor
• Fix C# std lib detection due to RepositoryUrl change
• Fix nested prefab stack overflow when adding new object to nested prefabs hierarchy
• Fix nested prefab stack overflow when applying changes with animated models inside hierarchy
• Fix CSG Brush face moving bugs
• Fix mesh collider updates after recooking collision data
• Fix curve track right-drag panning responsiveness
• Fix curve track resize handling
• Fix Scene Animation preview playback controls and time comparison behavior
• Fix scripts/content files getting deleted after file modifications
• Fix scripting assembly file loading when file is locked
• Fix Editor's Game window minor stability issues
• Fix Editor windows order when restoring after scripts reload
• Fix floating editor window ordering and focus restoration on macOS
• Fix default value in Editor when it's null for value-type
• Fix GUI traversal during child removal
• Fix streaming of wide/tall textures
• Fix discarding unsaved asset editor changes
• Fix Roslyn analyzer include resolution
• Fix using NuGet package with different dependencies
• Fix Game Cooker wait on code compile/load end before cooking starts
• Fix ParseFloat rejecting a '+' sign in the exponent
• Fix slider control with negative minimum range value
• Fix spawning actors in viewport to have better origin placement
• Fix animation slot bugs and stabilize scripting playback
• Fix BT node size when renaming decorator
• Fix bug in BT sub tree knowledge type validation
• Fix C# 'IsByRefLike' types that cannot be created on heap
• Fix In/Out attribute warning in generated bindings for boolean arrays
• Fix Multi Blend animations reversed playback when using negative speed
• Fix missing mutex lock in Game Cooker thread
• Fix Wayland dragging events racing with SDL data offers- #4279
• Fix crash in scripting bindings when unboxing null class
• Fix crash on custom Assimp logger
• Fix crash on headless Editor game run
• Fix crash on inactive DDGI probes on 1st frame
• Fix crash on D3D11 init with debug when Direct3D debug layer is missing
• Fix crash when looping BT with Force Success node
• Fix crash when loading invalid VisjectMeta
• Fix crash when using curves inside Anim Graph
• Fix crash when encoding CJK characters from UTF-16 into UTF-8
• Fix crash when GPUBuffer creation fails on D3D11
• Fix crash when skeleton node has invalid binding in Animated Model pose
• Fix crash StringUtils::Copy on Win32 when length is zero
• Fix crash on D3D11 draw without valid state set
• Fix crash on too long path on Unix
• Fix crash when reading process output on Windows with an empty data
• Fix crash when calling DebugCommands from async threads
• Fix crash when using WheeledVehicle as player pawn in Arizona Framework
• Fix crash on invalid Multi Blend 1D indices