Game Features & Fixes

• Added option to turn off Valve Index pre-order weapon skins to the Preferences menu.
  
• Fixed wine bottle labels that had been regressed by the liquids update, and fixed several issues with the liquid shader.
  
• Fixed an issue that could result in corrupt save games.
  
• Numerous crash fixes.

Workshop Features

• Added hl_vr_weapon_generic_pistol, a data-driven weapon entity for workshop customization.
  
• Included sources to many of Half-Life: Alyx's AnimGraphs as example content, plus usability improvements to the AnimGraph editor.
  
• Added simple example addon for audio content, plus audio workflow improvements and fixes.
  
• Added example materials and subrect files demonstrating use of more complex shaders and dynamic expressions.
  
• Added support point, directional, spot and ortho lights to Source Filmmaker.
  
• Added "Show Intro" toggle to hacking plugs (allows placing hacking plugs that do not play a hologram intro animation).
  
• Reduced memory usage for compiling maps (32GB RAM is recommended).

Workshop Documentation

• ModelDoc Tutorials
  
• Replacing Sounds
  
• Custom Pistols
  
• Hotspot Texturing

Workshop Fixes

• Fixed a bug which was causing transitions between Valve maps to disable any loaded addons, and level transitions to not work at all when transitioning between maps within an addon.
  
• Fixed bug where map extensions could spawn multiple times (or not at all) when multiple addons were active.
  
• Fixes and clarifications added to hacking_example map.
  
• Fixed a crash in maps with a very large numbers of handposes.
  
• Fixed shadow artifacts with Source Filmmaker's projected lights.