Update 26.01.28

A new update has been released, you can view the full changes on our blog post.

https://sbox.game/news/update-26-01-28

Indirect Light Volumes

We've released our first iteration of indirect light volumes, these offer a form of baked global illumination giving games and maps much more depth. We want to see if we can offer a good replacement for Hammer baking, in a way that is more iterative and less intense - for example this only takes a few seconds to bake, compared to the half a day Hammer takes to bake.

( My Summer Cottage by Small Fish )

Foliage Update

Trees and foliage have received a well deserved makeover.

Changelog

🎁 Added

• Indirect Baked Lighting - DDGI

• Project settings window, accessible from project bar in the top right of the editor window

• GameObjectSystems can have confgiurable properties, accessible in the project settings window

• Networked local instances now have a unique SteamID for testing persistence

• Networked objects can now be "detached" meaning they're no longer networked

• Snap To Frame option for particle sheet sequences

• Popup.PositionModel.Right

🧼 Improved

• Binaries (exes, dlls) are now code signed by Facepunch - makes Windows trust them more

• Foliage shader has been improved in many ways, adding new options, fixing dithering, and more

• Mapping tool hotspot matches Hammer's hotspot

• Mapping selection enhancements

• Mapping face selections

• Active material is remembered with a cookie when you restart the editor

• Profiler post processing removes dead threads

• Console output gets forwarded to attached debuggers

• Unspawned networked objects do nothing when Network.Refresh() is called

• Lots of micro optimizations for networking CPU performance

• Dedicated servers use Steam Networking's SendMessages API

• Codegen lambdas are cached

• Optimize Json.Diff.ReorderAddedObjects

• Vector3 micro optimizations

• Reduce smoothdamp usage in audio components

• GroupButtonControlWidget Enabled/ReadOnly handling

• Movie Maker Maintenance

• BlobDataSerializer is now stack based

• Enabled VK_EXT_robustness2, adding extra safety and allowing null

• When creating a new asset, it is named before being created instead of renamed

• GenericControlWidget will pick the parameterless ToString method @766974616c79

🪛 Fixed

• Potential crash with PoseContext::TryTakePose and PoseContext::GetPose

• Potential crash with AsyncResourceLoader accessing the resource system during shutdown

• Crash on shutdown when the main loop throws an exception

• Crash when rendering envmaps during an active render pass

• Crash when closing dock tabs by the context menu

• Crash with Qt widgets getting deleted too soon in event callbacks

• Crash with exclusive fullscreen in editor mode (disabled it)

• Error with ReferenceMaterial not being found when loading the fast texture tool

• Error when using dump_scene command

• Trying to ConVarSystem.AddAssembly the same game assembly twice

• Video generation for batch upload by making sure ScreenSize is set

• ScreenRecorder not respecting framerate cvar

• Rubber surface being way too bouncy

• Certain tools eating shortcuts because the ViewportToolbar was taking focus

• Fast texture tool UV's not being frames to the preview

• Fast texture tool world scale having confusing extra options

• Missing large network files on local networked instances

• GameObjectSystems not existing on clients (older version) erroring when connecting to servers

• ConsoleWidget trying to parse arg: anchor as uri

• Cloud assets not persisting between sessions @trende2001

🚯 Removed

• SceneTrace.UseRenderMeshes are now editor only

• GPU crash diagnostics which had some performance overhead