Update 26.03.18

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

https://sbox.game/news/update-26-03-18

Here's some highlights from the blog.

Movie Maker: Demo Recording

We've added a demo recording feature this week, fully integrated with Movie Maker. You can record objects and components in your scene to a MovieClip that can be played back in-game, or imported into Movie Maker for further editing. These movies could be edited into gameplay trailers or machinima, or used within games for killcams, leaderboard replays, or tutorial demonstrations.

Sausage Survivors 2

We released our first public version of Sausage Survivors 2 this week, give it a go! Community member Eridium did a great video covering it too below, including some developer interviews.

🎁 Added

• In-game demo recording for Movie Maker — automatically record objects with renderer components in any game, play them back in-game or import into the Movie Maker editor

• Mapping displacement tool for terrain sculpting, similar to Hammer

• Paste and duplicate objects at cursor position in the editor, with an option to disable in editor preferences

• Up/down arrow keys now nudge the value of float and integer controls when focused

• Float control step buttons for fine-tuned value adjustment

• Quad slice line preview when changing the number of cuts

• Added GameObject reference to missing component log messages for easier debugging

• Added TypeHintAttribute for Object/Value types with hinted types

• Added ControlWidget.OnLabelContextMenu for extending right-click context menus on control widget labels

🧼 Improved

• Upgraded shader compiler (DXC) to HLSL 2021, enabling namespaces, improved syntax, and paving the way for Slang migration

• Sprite batch bounds are now calculated in parallel for better performance

• Fast Texturing Tool initializes the rectangle based on existing UVs instead of defaulting to full-size

• Resize tool now works on all selection modes, not just the default

• Clip tool improvements

• Allocation overlay now shows additional stats and improvements

• Undo dock UI improvements

• Launcher UI tweaks — fixed text alignment, boosted button brightness, consistent window icons

• Replaced VariantControlWidget switcher button with right-click label

• Gibs now use BatchGroup when spawning for proper networking to non-local clients

• InterfaceConverterFactory now respects JsonConverterAttribute on interface types

• GameTags.GetTokens now returns all tags including ancestor tags

• GetTokens now uses atomic pointer swap to avoid race conditions when iterating

🪛 Fixed

• Dresser component fully trusting user data, allowing players to equip cosmetics they didn't own

• DDGI stale buffer crash caused by referencing deleted Vulkan buffers in render attributes

• Bounds calculation for boneless meshes on SkinnedModelRenderer

• Defensive checks for valid poses and bones to prevent animation system crashes

• Cash on shutdown caused by crashhandler64.dll — now properly calls SteamAPI_Shutdown()

• Race condition crash during Steam Audio HRTF initialization

• Persistent data loading crash when files no longer exist on disk

• ModelDoc close crash by removing all binding targets before shutdown

• Terrain flickering caused by divergent GPU access on AMD GPUs

• Vulkan validation error for NonPixelShaderResource pipeline stage flags in barriers

• SpriteRenderer sorting improperly against other renderers like TextRenderer

• Texture corruption caused by CopyFrom unregistering textures from the resource system

• UI regressions — filter applying after transform causing cropped images, and rotation animation using distance-based lerp

• Toolbar buttons in viewport sidebar disappearing after exiting Play Mode

• MemberCopyCache hotload exception

• Undo breaking when undo scopes made no changes — now properly cleans up with try/finally

• Navmesh bounds not updating when loading scenes in succession

• OnDragStart sometimes getting called twice, causing multiple drops

• Incorrect offset when extracting faces from a scaled mesh

• Bake scale recomputing UVs from coordinates instead of preserving existing UVs

• Underwear appearing incorrectly when legs or chest are hidden by clothing, and removed underwear from clothing icon previews

• Terrain texture memory leak on prefab save — terrain component now cleans up on destroy

• Editor camera NRE when double-clicking a GameObject in the hierarchy during Play Mode

• Protected command bypass in ConsoleSystem.Run

• CompilerService attributes-based RCE exploit by blacklisting UnsafeAccessorAttribute, SkipLocalsInit, and AsyncMethodBuilder

• Audio thread safety issues — audio resources are no longer destroyed by the main thread while in use by the mixing thread

⚠️ Known Issues

• Nvidia drivers 595.71 onwards crash, last knowing working version is 591.86