Flax Engine Files

Blog post: https://flaxengine.com/blog/flax-1-12-released/

Release notes: https://docs.flaxengine.com/manual/release-notes/1_12/index.html

Discussion: https://forum.flaxengine.com/t/flax-engine-update-1-12/2585

Changelog:

• Add Web export support
• Add new collection type ConcurrentDictionary
• Add new SDL support as a base for input and widowing on Linux, Mac and Windows (used on Linux by default for now)
• Add -lastproject and remember last project directory in project file dialog
• Add support for .hpp and .c files in Editor
• Add option to render Canvas into GPUTexture
• Add MSDF fonts rendering support
• Add utility function to GUICommon.hlsl for MSDF fonts sampling in shaders
• Add UNITS_TO_METERS_SCALE to shader sources for world units scale
• Add Git repository branch name and commit hash injection into generated code module metadata
• Add allowable characters enum to text box
• Add support for running engine with a single-thread only (content, jobs, drawing, physics)
• Add WindowType enum to CreateWindowSettings for more flexibility
• Add WebGPU rendering backend for Web
• Add platform-specific APIs to C# scripting (eg. AndroidPlatform.DeviceModel)
• Add modern message box style on Windows
• Add limit to max DDGI cascade updates per-frame to 2
• Add ability to loop root node in behavior trees
• Add Triangles to MeshAccessor for easy index buffer access
• Add new and improved color picker in Editor
• Add tree view mode for Content window
• Add improvements to RadialMenu control scripting
• Add alternative node titles to pack/unpack nodes
• Add lazy connecting to Visject nodes via Alt + right-click and drag
• Add option to focus selected Visject nodes with Shift+F
• Add direction gizmo in Editor viewport
• Add scrolling scene tree hierarchy to the newly spawned actor after drag and drop
• Add memory profiler category for Cloth
• Add UnusedStorageLifetime for asset file TTL
• Add new Visject surface editor style for better readability
• Add larger input fields to Visject surface
• Add bigger default size of Editor windows
• Add selected code editor name to UI button for scripts project opening
• Add option to disable shadows on transparent material
• Add CanSpawn to ParticleEffect for runtime control over particles spawning
• Add LongitudinalSlip/LateralSlip to wheel state
• Add Per Instance Random node to Anim Graph
• Add Instance Transform node to Anim Graph
• Add Spring Bone Physics node to Anim Graph
• Add Drag and StretchLimit to SplineRopeBody for more advanced simulation control
• Add Start Distance to Volumetric Fog to match Exponential Fog more
• Add additional way of loading unsupported texture formats via Texture Tool conversion
• Add new IgnoreNodesScale option to skip skeleton nodes scale during import
• Add Platform.GetUserLanguage for text localization, separate from locale used for numbers, currency and dates
• Add Localization.GetLocales to list all languages in a game
• Add docs about conditional features in public API
• Add various improvements to MeshAccessor such as ComputeNormals and ComputeTangents
• Add debug drawing particle collision modules
• Add automatic recognition of Skinned Models for Prefabs
• Add model import option to only create material slots
• Add small improvement to terrain normals`
• Add sampler slots usage and inputs/outputs count to GPU shader program bindings meta
• Add GPUDevice.DumpResources command and fix output to be sorted by size and cleaner to read
• Add GPU_ENABLE_PRELOADING_RESOURCES and use it on Web/Android/iOS to reduce engine resources preloading
• Add Box Projection to Environment Probe for better indoor areas
• Add CaptureOffset to Environment Probe
• Add sharpening and better AABB history clamp to Screen Space Reflections temporal filter
• Add OnSerializing/OnSerialized/OnDeserializing/OnDeserialized callbacks to auto serialization code-gen in C++
• Add RenderColorFormat option to graphics settings for rendering pipeline buffer format
• Add renaming underlying GPU resource (eg. for pooled render targets)
• Add normalization to Reflections debug view to be usable in HDR scenes
• Add ShaderProfileFeatures for more expendable shader feature sets
• Add basis_universal support for textures on Web
• Add implementation for loading interchange texture formats with multiple runtime formats support
• Add SPIR-V compression with LZ4 of Vulkan shaders (35% avg smaller)
• Add .dds file import support to Editor on Mac and Linux
• Add recycle bin to script deleting
• Add editor status message about amount of selected actors
• Add View button to edit Environment Probe texture asset
• Add ProfilerGPU.Dump command for GPU frame profiling log
• Add DirectX12 Agility SDK to third-party includes
• Add screen vignette to Eye Adaptation histogram for more accurate exposure
• Add Linear to sRGB and sRGB to Linear nodes to materials
• Add checkerboard pattern to part of the alpha slider background in color picker
• Add support for picking colors in linear color space (with toggle for special cases like UI)
• Add code signing and disk image notarization for macOS game cooking
• Add file type filters to file dialog on macOS
• Add new GPU Query API that is lightweight and supports occlusion queries
• Add CPU profiler events to texture and buffer creation
• Add support for Depth Bounds test in all graphics APIs
• Add Graphics.TestValue general purpose utility for A/B testing features and perf in shaders during development
• Add improvements to Volumetric Fog quality and performance
• Add dithering to Volumetric Fog to reduce aliasing
• Add smoother shadowed lights scattering by using medium shadow quality in Volumetric Fog
• Add Focused event to control
• Add improved Global SDF quality and precision of rasterization
• Add better debug view for Global SDF to include surface hit normal
• Add force SDF rebuild when holiding F key and using Build All Meshes SDF optino in Editor menu
• Add option to skip loading Model SDFs in game if disabled in Graphics Settings
• Add improved local-light shadow raytracing by starting ray from light, not surface
• Add FPS limit and pause option when game is unfocused
• Add verbosity level to platform log for better integration with Web and Android platforms
• Add Dead Zone to virtual input action for better usage with gamepad sticks/triggers
• Add create file Content Panel toolstrip button
• Add option to keep Content Window new asset options disabled when not possible rathenthan hidden
• Add warning when importing texture that is non-power-of-two and cannot generate mip maps
• Add improvements to particle age/lifetime nodes documentation
• Add Script obsolete and Script only in prefab instance buttons to the script header bar
• Add IncludeInheritedTypes to RequireActorAttribute
• Add some utility for copying parameter names to parameter right clickmenu
• Add improved orthographic/perspective viewport camera toggle
• Add UI editor grid toggle
• Add improved readability of highlighted text in drop-down menus
• Add better moving tools for UI widgets
• Add new actor transform and UI transform editor skin
• Add input GamepadButtonDown and GamepadButtonUp events
• Add Set Parameter node to Anim Graph
• Add Vector4 normalize APIs
• Add special query for closest point on Physx heightfield
• Add Collision Meshes Postfix to filter collision meshes inside imported model via ending
• Add Auto collision option to handle imported or created model collider asset
• Add saving viewport icons scale (global) within Editor window layout
• Add view flag to hide particles drawing
• Add Texture Group option for triplanar and procedural samplers
• Add memory profiler category for engine debug data
• Add incrementing/decrementing value box value with arrow keys
• Add being able to move move Visject nodes in smaller increments
• Add ribbon menu buttons to quick open product local folder
• Add support for entering numbers with digit separator into value boxes (f.e. 1_000)
• Add * to editor settings window title when settings are dirty
• Add Game View toggle via G ket and Navigation debug draw toggle via P key
• Add keyboard navgation to context menu child menus
• Add tab navigation to Editor context menus and popups
• Add curve editor presets
• Add moving selected curve keyframes with arrow keys
• Add support for resizing Visject Curve nodes
• Add support for building dependencies with specific architecture
• Add support for Visual Studio 2026 as a generator for CMake dependencies
• Add ShouldSerialize to ISerializable to properly handle serialization of custom C++ types in prefabs
• Add comment around asset from which asset reference graph originates
• Add highlighted color property to Dropdown control
• Add Network RPC messages splitting for large arguments payloads
• Add improvements to attribute editor
• Add X11 Class hints to Linux-based windows
• Add Mono AOT dynamic module preloading to speed up startup time
• Add support for Cooperative Suspend when running on Mono
• Add support for Visual Studio 2026 as a generator for CMake dependencies
• Add stripping DXIL debug data from the shader cache when not used
• Add AutoAttachDebugPreviewActor for Behavior Tree editor
• Update XCode min version to 16.4
• Update meshoptimizer library to 1.0
• Update to NDK 27 as minimum for Android to fix 16kb page alignment issue on libc++_shared.so
• Optimize engine binary size on Windows and Android (smaller PhysX)
• Optimize actors copy/paste data to use a single JSON for all objects
• Optimize MMethod::GetParameterIsOut to cache all parameters in a single bit-flag
• Optimize VariantType name allocs to use static type when possible
• Optimize out loading texture DefaultLensDirt if it's not needed
• Optimize updating Animated Model bones buffer when it's not dirty
• Optimize Animated Model bones buffer flushing with delayed draw action to reduce lock contention
• Optimize Anim Graph retarget to use cached pose to avoid dynamic memory allocation
• Optimize SkinnedModel::GetSkeletonMapping to not use locking for better perf when multi-threading
• Optimize Volumetric Fog on 2k/4k displays by limiting res to 1080p
• Optimize reflection probes rendering by using depth test to reject occluded pixels early
• Optimize reflection probes, lights and shadow projections rendering with depth bounds test
• Optimize LOG() macro to use stack-allocated buffer for shorter texts
• Optimize Screen Space Reflections tracing with Hierarchical Z-Buffer
• Optimize shadow maps rendering by using new Graphics.Shadows.MinObjectPixelSize to skip sub-pixel objects
• Optimize VariantType to use static type name in game or from non-reloadable assemblies
• Optimize GPUVertexLayout caches with ConcurrentDictionary
• Optimize Global SDF tracing to not scale steps nearby geometry and properly trace mip cascade
• Optimize RendererAllocation by reducing fragmentation with operating on power-of-2 blocks
• Refactor Mesh SDF generation on GPU to use raytracing for more precise results
• Refactor DDGI irradiance filtering for smoother and more accurate lighting
• Refactor DDGI irradiance sampling when nearby probe is missing to use precomputed fallback probes
• Refactor DDGI fallback radiance to use alpha for blending between fixed color and color at snapped location of the last cascade
• Refactor model LOD transition to run only when any material uses Dithered LOD Transition
• Refactor navmesh building to support updating all scenes automatically without specifying one
• Refactor Animation editor to use cloned asset for live preview of nested animations editing
• Refactor Job System to reduce mutex usage with more atomic operations
• Refactor ScreenUtilities into Window to be implemented per-platform but Editor-only feature
• Refactor Editor windows docking system
• Refactor DrawModes field in StaticModel and FoliageType into property with getter/setter
• Refactor sRGB import option on textures to actually handle image contents with gamma
• Deprecate GPUTimerQuery in favor of new queries API
• Update DXC shader compiler to 1.8 version (for D3D12)
• Rename GPUContext::ClearState to ResetState for constentency
• Remove NeedsHitNormal/HitNormal feature from GlobalSDFTrace to simplify code
• Fix shaders on Xbox to be precompiled
• Fix game viewport scaling when using custom aspect or resolution to simulate actual logic
• Fix animation state transition inputs when using other surface context
• Fix being able to open or close script editor with no fields
• Fix skinned model retarget source asset filter to work after AssetPicker refactor with new validator
• Fix invoking Anim Event on the first or last frame
• Fix invoking asset load event if it's referenced directly
• Fix check method for type editor not working in a collection
• Fix Visject Surface node dependent connection types init on load
• Fix issues with model data storage when doing long actions in async (eg. SDF generation)
• Fix prefab preview to better match model bounds inside it
• Fix prefab preview to wait for the assets streaming
• Fix Time::Synchronize not reset time on unpause
• Fix internal function name collision with base class function in bindings
• Fix text box selection height on macOS with custom system scale
• Fix compiler error and wrong CPU architecture warnings on WoA
• Fix spline Bezier drawing when using tangents offsets
• Fix shader compilation with HLSL 2021
• Fix sampling Global SDF gradient at lower border
• Fix Global SDF trace loop limit down to prevent too long shader execution in extreme scenarios
• Fix DDGI iradiance to use debanding by applying quantization error to reduce yellowish artifacts due to R11G11B10 format
• Fix DDGI cascades blending to be smoother
• Fix DDGI flickering on floors aligned to world axes
• Fix directional light cascaded shadow maps rendering stability
• Fix AOT libs cooking to avoid file dirtying for more accurate iterative cooking
• Fix async tasks destruction to wait on the dependencies in chain
• Fix material shader generation when material layer fails to load
• Fix shader graph assets loading to wait for async task
• Fix blend shape always applying zero weight if default weight is zero
• Fix out-of-bounds write while parsing command-line arguments
• Fix Array::RemoveAtKeepOrder to avoid memory override with large mem copy
• Fix HashSet/Dictionary compact rehash under heavy collisions
• Fix collections capacity growing to use the closest power of two
• Fix C# project configuration of launch Game to matych selected config in Visual Studio
• Fix debugging VC++ projects in Rider Linux/macOS to launch correct configuration
• Fix exception thrown when reloading open windows
• Fix clang bindings code generation for non-const ref parameters
• Fix missing scripting api tag on MeshAccessor::Stream
• Fix managed wrapper function parameter handling for BytesContainer and managed boolean array
• Fix incorrect class namespace in bindings class name lookups
• Fix compiling C# scripts that use nuget package to properly resolve it on 1st build
• Fix missing move semantics in script object reference
• Fix Resize to Fit to properly dirty state of level editor
• Fix group element header text clipping
• Fix issue with Editor tabs not collapsing panel 1 if no tabs on panel 1
• Fix Editor tree node not expanding on drag over arrow
• Fix C# Json serialization to use proper value comparison for structures with Scene Object references
• Fix showing C++ structures inlined in collection editor when they have a single property/field
• Fix sRGB between Linear conversion to remain Alpha unchanged
• Fix sky, skylight and reflections banding artifacts with a random noise
• Fix yellowish artifacts due to quantization error in TAA and composite image output
• Fix dark Screen Space Reflections in some spots when using Software Tracing
• Fix Volumetric Fog rasterization on Vulkan (inverted Y axis)
• Fix Volumetric Fog to not flicker on temporal blend when resizing the screen or changing quality
• Fix Volume Particles to apply opacity/mask into emission for proper shape
• Fix small lights and small particles rasterization into Volumetric Fog
• Fix missing DDGI on D3D11 when object counter readback buffer doesn't have data on time
• Fix Vulkan synchronization between CPU and GPU to prevent running over frames in flight
• Fix showing folder contents on macOS in Finder
• Fix various DPI issues on macOS in Editor
• Fix various missing features from window-management on macOS
• Fix shadows from wireframe materials
• Fix missing ChannelMask parameter type clone for Material Instance
• Fix loading cube texture import settings
• Fix missing vertex counting in draws (use index count to approx) for profiler
• Fix parsing else preprocessor and && conditions in bindings generator
• Fix rendering on Intel-based macOS to use integrated GPU primarly
• Fix missing parent tags when creating nested ones from code
• Fix rendering postfx with color grading only in use and optimize color grading LUT to be skipped when unsued
• Fix crash when control reference gets invalid in Editor
• Fix crash when showing cube or volume texture in GPUTextureBrush
• Fix UI raycast if UI is clipping children
• Fix double scaling raycast in canvas scalar
• Fix Rich Text Box vertical alignment of the inlined images and whole contents
• Fix GPU Vertex Layout usage with explicit offsets to properly hash and calculates stride
• Fix broken DrawWireTriangles
• Fix postfx material flicker due to lost asset reference
• Fix missing OrthoSize property serialization on Camera
• Fix animated model bounds to properly update after animation tick
• Fix SplineRopeBody simulation when moving spline actor
• Fix Chromatic Distortion to be based on 1080p as reference for resolution-independent
• Fix drawing editor thumbnails when texture used by asset is using dynamic streaming
• Fix drawing incorrect LOD transition when using 2 cameras in a scene at once
• Fix environment probe selection to use closest one to the object
• Fix sending replication message to newly connected clients for objects that were not spawned
• Fix importing and using files without extension in Editor content
• Fix collection editor of scene object references to use compact inline layout
• Fix material slot comboboxes update when editing model material slots
• Fix rebuilding navmesh data for multiple scenes at once that share the same navmesh runtime
• Fix to not crash after unhandled exception
• Fix various issues with audio and video playback
• Fix missing audio on OpenAL when changing active device
• Fix restoring NuGet packages for target with multiple projects
• Fix restoring NuGet packages to run before project build to ensure files are downloaded
• Fix deploying NuGet packages to include the correct library file name
• Fix deploying NuGet packages to include dependencies (recursive)
• Fix restoring Min Screen Size of the model on reimport
• Fix mesh collision proxy setup for meshes using packed positions format
• Fix timescale in FixedTimestep particles update and when using Editor preview
• Fix missing material graph references
• Fix missing light shadow resolution serialization
• Fix rendering postfx with color grading only in use and optimize color grading LUT to be skipped when unsued
• Fix rare async task crash when it's canceled while dequeuing
• Fix replicated-object deduplication by hashing/equality on ObjectId
• Fix importing file when target location already exists
• Fix Editor state after loading a scene without compiled game modules
• Fix code editor default handling and missing custom code editor arguments
• Fix double-clicking on properties splitter bar to auto resize split
• Fix caret blink speed to make caret visible more of the time
• Fix rotation on UI handles which implements total parent rotation properly
• Fix textbox length set to -1 for unlimited
• Fix Control.LocalLocation to use parent control GetDesireClientArea rather than Bounds
• Fix Render2D.DrawRectangle to avoid alpha overdraw on the corners when thickness is large
• Fix foliage dithered LOD transitions when using shadows
• Fix applying AO twice for lighting in Forward shading and use correct specular occlusion on reflections
• Fix Forward shading to match Deferred in fog and reflections rendering
• Fix texture GPU resource debug name in non-Release game builds to match the path in project
• Fix Vulkan timeout to be larger (5s)
• Fix Global SDF update when changing Draw Modes of the model
• Fix MeshAccelerationStructure to use MeshAccessor for proper mesh format access
• Fix showing internal surface parameters (eg. Base Model in Anim Graph)
• Fix show whole timeline and show whole timeline when animation is opened
• Fix .pch files rebuilds after MSVC toolchain updates
• Fix deadlock when hot-reloading scripts in Editor while Animation asset gets auto-saved
• Fix sphere with negative radius getting culled to early in physics collider debug draw
• Fix potential stack overflow inside CustomEditor.RebuildLayout
• Fix MaterialBase::GetParameterValue when parameter is not overridden
• Fix MeshAccessor to properly reference model asset data during the usage
• Fix MeshAccessor to validate buffer existence in C# API
• Fix MeshAccessor.Stream count for items not aligned to buffer start
• Fix invalid index buffer format returned by MeshAccessor when model is not yet loaded
• Fix PixelFormatSampler.Write in C# to actually work
• Fix missing Custom Global Code code generation in Defines stage
• Fix terrain collision geometry order to match heights buffer
• Fix root linkage for prefab instances copy pasted in Editor
• Fix pasted ghost prefab objects when paste target is not defined
• Fix broken prefab linkage when duplicating nested prefab instance root
• Fix shader error when using Position Offset in deformable material
• Fix binary asset dependencies tracking when dependent asset gets loaded later on
• Fix scripting bindings in searching virtual methods to invoke when there is a name and parameter count collision
• Fix using Dictionary as virtual method parameter in scripting bindings
• Fix Cloth to snap to the parent actor on spawn in Editor
• Fix Cloth with models that use compressed vertex buffer
• Fix missing doppler factor in cooked game with OpenAL backend
• Fix missing scale for inverse squared setting for lights
• Fix client-host replication issue
• Fix .NET 10 tooling detection
• Fix various material nodes to work on D3D12
• Fix memory leak in Editor when using material parameter query
• Fix camera preview placement in editor preview when resizing window
• Fix compute distance crash if no closest point param is defined
• Fix crash when destroying actor that was left in enabled state
• Fix crash when moving disabled kinematic actor target point
• Fix crash when unloading scene during tick of that scene
• Fix crash when reporting from multiple therads to sync and properly log (eg. out of memory)
• Fix crash when texture streaming mip task gets deleted after texture object on GC
• Fix crash if base material gets GCed before it's referenced by instance during loading
• Fix crash on Visual Script missing asset ref after hot-reload in Editor
• Fix crash on Global Surface Atlas objects buffer building
• Fix crash when inserting material functions
• Fix crash due to async content data streaming
• Fix crash due to missing asset reference inside MeshAccelerationStructure
• Fix crash on exit when C# code was bound to asset unloading event called after C# shutdown
• Fix crash on script VTable setup due to async
• Fix crash on invalid unpack node usage in shader graph
• Fix crash on shutdown when one of the windows had outstanding input events
• Fix crash on leftover window handle inside an input device events queue
• Fix crash on Vulkan when vkGetPhysicalDeviceSurfaceFormatsKHR returns VK_INCOMPLETE
• Fix crash when drawing minor foliage node with both children and instances
• Fix crash when creating empty material instance
• Fix crash when using overlapping instances
• Fix crash when applying prefab changes using default instance
• Fix crash when using convex mesh collider with negative scale
• Fix crash when loading CollisionData before physics init
• Fix crash when applying prefab changes
• Fix crash when changing prefab root
• Fix crash when loading Visject graph with a broken connection
• Fix crash when using SkeletonMask::GetNodesMask from 2 threads at once
• Fix crash when caching DebugCommands and classes cache gets modified