The July Update is now live, we have a progress update on the Sandbox Game, huge optimisations, another new physics engine, new features and a mountain of fixes.

Check out the July Update dev blog to read everything!

Changelist

🎁 Added

• Box3D Physics

• Editor: Added new startup errors dialog for resolving code errors

• Editor: Component Selector now supports nested sub-categories separated by "/"

• Editor: Added Flat View option to Component Selector

• Editor: Missing Undo Steps to ControlSheet and certain ControlWidgets

• Curve Editor: Added "Move Range When Panning" button, which moves the entire curve when panning or zooming

• Curve Editor: Added "Retain Values When Changing Min/Max" button, which doesn't resize the curve's values when resizing ranges

• Curve Editor: Added "Fit to Screen" button, which fits the viewport to the curve's current range

• Curve Editor: Added \[TimeRange] and \[ValueRange] attributes to specify default range min/max and whether or not it's clamped

• ShaderGraph: Added Scene Color node (with UV address modes)

• ShaderGraph: Is Front Face node

• ShaderGraph: Normal Blend node

• ShaderGraph: Reflection node

• ShaderGraph: Tangent View Vector node

• ShaderGraph: Added GraphCompiler.RegisterGlobal

• Shaders: Automatically append mode combo to mode if no arguments are set

• Decals: Gizmos for the size

• Decals: Color Mix option for normal/rmo only decals

• Decals: Parallax Occlusion

• Decals: Color Tint is HDR enabling blooming effects

• Decals: Added decal resources

• Decals: Added transient properties

• Networking: Ability to specify port to use when hosting a dedicated server - defaulting to 27015

• Added AgX Tonemapper

• Enabled sc_visualize_batches publicly

• ParticleEffect.LocalSpace - float, allows sliding between local and world space

• ParticleEffect.InitialVelocity - velocity to start with

• Particle.ConstantMovement - apply movement without velocity

• Particles: ParticleModelRenderer.RotateWithGameObject

• BeamEffect component

• API: BaseControl.CreateFor - allows creating Panel based controls for specific property

• API: ViewSetup

• API: ReflectionSetup + RefractionSetup

• API: Pixmap.UpdateFromPixels( Bitmap )

• API: VideoWriter.AddFrame( Bitmap )

• API: SoundHandle.Time setter

• API: System.Random.FloatDeterministic( int seed )

• API: Color.WithColorMultiplied( float )

• API: \[InfoBox] - allows adding inline help to inspector properties

• API: Scene.FindAllWithTag & Scene.FindAllWithTags

• Add FogStrength to TextRenderer

🧼 Improved

• Hammer: Map builder produces maps with significantly less draw calls, hugely improving performance

• Audio mixing crackling resolved by switching to a request based system

• Curve Editor: Dragging a Curve Handle outside the bounds of the Curve will automatically update the range(s)

• Curve Editor: Grid lines now have nice value increments and change with range instead of being static

• Curve Editor: Can now Pan/Zoom around the Viewport with Mouse3/MWheel

• Curve Editor: Clicking on a Curve Preset will reset the Viewport to fit the Curve

• Curve Editor: Added X-Range Inputs so you can modify the TimeRange of the Curve

• Curve Editor: Holding CTRL while dragging a Curve Handle will snap the Handle's position to the grid

• Curve Editor: Now draws a light grey rectangle with a dashed line to denote the min/max ranges of the Curve

• GameTransform.World is now cached instead of recalculating every access

• ShaderGraph: Can no longer delete Result nodes (the final output nodes)

• Editor: Simplified the Filter Menu in the Component Selector

• Editor: Component selector improvements

• Networking: Stop breaking prefabs during NetworkSpawn

• API: Re-categorize PlayerController.RotateWithGround and remove PlayerController.GroundYaw

• Bloom (quarter depth, fix rendering behind walls)

• Display default property values in editor inspector tooltips

• Clamp alpha on ParticleSpriteRenderer

• RenderTarget.GetTemporary thread safety

• CommandList state is scoped allowing recursive command lists

• Nav Agent path invalidation behaviour

• Highlights: More accurate depth testing on outlines

• Highlights: Can target other renderers explicitly

• Don't render ScreenPanel if it's excluded by a camera's RenderExclude tags

• GameOverlay layer is split into opaque/transparent

• Material Overrides

• Curves use Binary Search for better performance

• Serialize Prefab Instances as diff when sending over network

• Bail out of SoundHandle.Stop if already finished or fading out

• Prefab instance context menu: edit shortcut, tidy

🪛 Fixed

• Startup crash on GTX 900 series cards

• Tooltips were recreating every frame

• Hotload errors when encountering anonymous types

• VideoPlayer: Unable to play VP8 (webm) videos

• Native editor tools (Hammer, ModelDoc) stylings

• Launcher showing added projects as launching when they weren't

• Curve Editor: Fixed grid numbers disappearing when increasing the range

• Curve Editor: Popup no longer opens between two monitors when opened near the edge of the screen

• ShaderGraph: "Render Backfaces" setting getting reset on recompiles

• ShaderGraph: shaders not rendering backfaces in Material Editor

• Fix \[CallerLineNumber] not being properly whitelisted

• RenderTarget.GetTemporary: Don't try to UAV bind or create mips for depth formats

• Decals: Poor culling at edges for rotated decals

• Decals: Normal maps not decoding or transforming to world space correctly

• Decals: Not inheriting their GameObject tags

• Decals: Fix Decals in Valve's Shading Model

• Game Tick/Update running for one frame after ending the game

• \[ColorUsage] HasAlpha issues

• Tint, Tags, Shadow Flags, and Source not getting reset on MeshComponent when disabling "Hide In Game"

• Standalone exports showing black screen

• Editor: Enum selectors showing a horizontal scrollbar instead of wrapping

• Editor: Cloud code assets failing to resolve on project initial launch

• Editor: Disabled text theme color

• VR: Duplicate floor in main menu

• Undefined nav agent behaviour if nav link traversal is not implemented

• Navmesh links worldstart/end position not taking rotation into accont

• WebM video playback for UI and VideoPlayer

• Fixed nested prefab issues related to undo/redi

• Fixed GameObject Transform not transfering to Prefab when Converting a GameObject to a prefab

• Fixed an issue when converting a GameObject (that is part of a prefab instance) to a prefab.

• Fixed prefab changes not propagating correctly to all their dependencies and open editors

• Fixed unlinking a nested prefab not correctly propagating to instances in open editor scenes

• Fixed GameObject to prefab conversion for sub hierarchies that contain nested prefabs

• Fixed reparenting parts of a prefab instance to another GameObject

• Fixed cloning parts of a prefab instance

• Fixed Gameobject ordering not updating when reverting instance to prefab state and applying instance state to prefabs

• Fixed Component order not being restored in some cases after undo/redo

• Fixed NavMeshLink.OnLinkExited not getting called if the link is completed on the frame the agent enters

• Fix drag/drop material preview not resetting in some cases

• Hotload: Fix NRE in DelegateUpgrader

• Hotload: Don't let DefaultUpgrader process delegates

• Fixed connection crash when trying to join via new instance to editor lobby with no game running

• Fixes \[Property] properties from a Component's base class not being serialized when sent to other clients

• Fix network owner being unset in OnAwake when doing NetworkSpawn

• Fixed css gap property creating ugly uneven gaps

• Fixed white viewport when opening the editor

• Fixed terrain still being enabled on disabled GameObjects

• Fixed ListViews holding onto stale items

• Ensure ReflectionQueryCache.ClearTypeCache is called on hotload for game instance

• Fix faulty logic for in-place static field hotload upgrading

• Input Editor Fixes

• Inspector history/locking fixes

• Fix DressPrefabScene

• DebugTextSceneObject uses Graphics.DrawText in worldspace

• Fix HashSetEx Remove() being O(N)

• Shaders: Depth-Aware Mask Fix - Fixes objects in front of glass looking aliased

• Renderer: Multiple Vulkan Validation Fixes

🚯 Removed

• Obsoleted CameraComponent.AddHookBeforeOverlay - Use CommandLists instead

• Obsoleted CameraComponent.AddHookAfterTransparent - Use CommandLists instead

• Spritecard shader - Was only used by legacy particles

• Sandbox.Game.dll - Merged everything into Sandbox.Engine.dll

• Panel.Bind

• Projected Decals