Portal 2: Community Edition - October 4th, 2023 Update

Additions (16)

• Added 'paintpower' property for paint color material proxy to request a specific color
  
• Added CSM and flashlight to 'lightmappedreflective'
  
• Added ConVar 'traceray_force_vphysics' for testing (1 = Use VPhysics collisions for displacements, 2 = for everything)
  
• Added ConVar 'traceray_unshrink_vphysics_brushes' which unshrinks VPhysics-type brush entities
  
• Added ModelPanel methods to change/enumerate flexes
  
• Added ModelPanel methods to change/enumerate pose parameters
  
• Added ModelPanel methods to change/enumerate sequences
  
• Added Panorama weapons API for custom weapon select HUDs
  
• Added 'ForceDropPhysObject' input to '!player'
  
• Added 'GameStateAPI.IsPlaytest()' and 'GameStateAPI.IsPlaytestRecording()'
  
• Added 'gameui_activate' command to Steam Input command list
  
• Added 'zoom', 'toggleconsole', 'showconsole' and 'hideconsole' commands to be usable in steam input
  
• Added a mandatory whitelist file for Panorama's AsyncWebRequest function. The '-unrestrictedwebrequests' launch argument will skip this file and allow all requests
  
• Added support for escape sequences '\n', '\t', '\"', and '\\' in VMF and BSP #60 #1899
  
• Exposed 'SetSelected(bool)' on 'RadioButton' in Panorama JavaScript API
  
• Restore the original Connection Problem warning for Legacy UI #1144
  

Fixes (38)

• Adjusted folder mounting order to fix wrong assets occasionally being used
  
• Fixed AI disabling on maps with no navigation nodes (Like 'sp_a2_bts5')
  
• Fixed Co-Op ping tool using SP custom colours
  
• Fixed Hammer crashes related to entity outputs
  
• Fixed Hammer crashes related to saving and loading files
  
• Fixed Hammer inserting extra quotation marks for compile commands #753
  
• Fixed Paint blob particles always being white
  
• Fixed Panorama UI controller movement always moving right no matter the input direction
  
• Fixed Panorama not loading images when game was started with +map
  
• Fixed Portal 1 crosshair not swapping properly when playing with controller
  
• Fixed VBSP not always acknowledging parameters in patched materials
  
• Fixed VGUI panels not loading proper fonts in Panorama
  
• Fixed '-multirun' not working #882
  
• Fixed 'logic_branch' not firing _OnLogicBranchRemoved to its listeners
  
• Fixed 'player_speedmod' not working in singleplayer when inputs are not called directly from the player
  
• Fixed 'trigger_autosave' being deleted upon map load
  
• Fixed a crash on laser-triggered cube respawn #1510
  
• Fixed certain VTFs failing to load due to added resources
  
• Fixed certain entities not being found during a level transition
  
• Fixed crash when determining recipients to multicast to
  
• Fixed crash when omitting certain child elements from the Panorama loading screen panel
  
• Fixed crash when popup-manager.xml is invalid (the game now exits with an error dialogue)
  
• Fixed displacement tool sometimes making 2D views to not update
  
• Fixed flashlight making some opaque water disappear
  
• Fixed hang on start when the engine is told to play an invalid startup movie
  
• Fixed instance outputs bugs
  
• Fixed issues with some collision traces, notably bullet impact traces on displacements
  
• Fixed opening the game menu sometimes requiring an extra ESC input
  
• Fixed point entities in 2D view not drawing outlines and text
  
• Fixed rare possibility for a trace that starts inside a world brush or entity and then runs into a different entity to pass through that entity
  
• Fixed rendering of jigglebones within model panels
  
• Fixed server content taking priority over game files
  
• Fixed shaded textured view not working
  
• Fixed string truncation when using SetMessage input on 'point_worldtext'
  
• Fixed the map name not displaying in the top right corner #912
  
• Made ModelPanel rotation speed consistent regardless of FPS
  
• Prevent a crash when the surface vertex count exceeds the max decal vertex limit
  
• Restore timeout while waiting for your partner in Cooperative
  

Improvements (27)

• Allowed the game to run alongside other Source games without '-multirun' #268
  
• Displacements now use the more accurate VPhysics collisions by default ('traceray_force_vphysics' 1)
  
• Fogui FarZ can now be set to -1 (Default value), which disables the override
  
• Fogui now allows users to enter and copy numbers manually on sliders
  
• Game no longer creates soundcache directory in maps folder when not needed
  
• Hammer fix map dialog now will try to warn about unused keyvalue typos of existing keyvalues are not set, instead of suggesting to remove them
  
• Hammer options dialog now only saves settings when pressing OK button
  
• Hammer options dialog now updates 2D/3D views when changing visual settings
  
• Logical view in Hammer now draws its title
  
• Made VMF saving a little bit more robust to not keep corrupted file on crash
  
• Made steam.inf parsing hardier and informative
  
• Move to visgroup dialog now shows user visgroups as well
  
• Overlays in Hammer should no longer z-fight with wall they are on
  
• Panorama XML parsing errors should now give more context to the error
  
• Panorama now can handle texture reloading without freaking out
  
• Ported Hammer Arch and Torus dialogs to Qt
  
• Ported Hammer Map Diff dialog to Qt
  
• Ported Select Entity dialog to Qt
  
• Reduced the number of required child elements for the Panorama main menu and intro movie
  
• Removed SFUI prefixes from all localization files
  
• Removed max limit on texlights in VRAD
  
• Toggling maximized view in Hammer now doesn't break active mouse look
  
• Transform dialog now shows 1 as placeholder when scaling
  
• Un-developered 'sv_soundemitter' commands
  
• Unamed instances can now use 'func_instance_io_proxy'
  
• 'ambient_generic' now finds Sound Source entity's every time it is played, not only when initialized
  
• 'material_modify_control' now should be able to handle when materials are modified by VBSP (cubemap fixup or wvt patch) on newly compiled maps
  

Console (8)

• Console autocomplete and history can now be navigated with tab and shift+tab, like in other games
  
• Console input is now immediately filled in when navigating the autocomplete menu
  
• Autocomplete now correctly shows the first 100 results alphabetically out of all matches, instead of just the first 100 found
  
• Input history no longer saves empty or duplicate inputs
  
• The backtick key (`) will now always close the console if it is open (controlled by 'con_backtick_always_closes')
  
• Closing the console now also automatically closes the game menu
  
• Pressing ESC will now clear the console input box if it has text, otherwise it will close the console
  
• Closing the console no longer clears the input box automatically