Stability & Bug Fixes

A small maintenance update with crash and bug fixes.

Stability

• Fixed a GPU crash on characters with facial animation and other morphs.

• Fixed a GPU crash when reflection probes were baked with the Quality filter.

• Fixed crashes involving 3D skyboxes, including when the world they belong to is unloaded.

• Fixed a crash when UI elements were added or removed while the UI was updating.

• Fixed a crash from animations using out-of-range parameters.

• Fixed several rare rendering crashes involving missing textures, complex UI gradients and unloaded materials.

• An error in a game's rendering code is now reported instead of crashing the game.

• Crash reports now include much more detail about GPU and video memory crashes, which will help us track down the ones that are left.

Graphics

• Fixed screen-space shadows turning black where they meet the skybox.

• Fixed depth of field producing stray black or white pixels.

• Fixed object highlight outlines on the back faces of models.

• Fixed world text jittering on moving objects.

• Fixed 3D skyboxes sometimes missing parts of their scenery.

• Fixed visual glitches when views use different anti-aliasing settings.

• Laptops and other integrated GPUs are now detected more reliably, so default quality settings suit them better.

• You'll now get a warning when a game uses more video memory than your GPU has available.

Gameplay

• Gibs from broken props now keep the prop's material and surface type.

• Explosions now check for cover correctly, and their damage is credited to the weapon or prop that caused it.

• Fixed some physics joints ending up misaligned or throwing errors.

• Scraping sounds now only play for physics objects that are moving.

• Fixed sound areas not following the object they're attached to.

Multiplayer

• When joining a server fails, you're now told why instead of it silently giving up.

Loading games

• Game code now comes from a new service that builds it for the exact version of s&box you're running.

Input

• Fixed the mouse cursor not locking back into the game after opening a window or panel.

Linux

• Fixed launching multiplayer and creating or joining lobbies from the editor.

• IDs generated on Linux now match Windows, fixing mismatches when Linux and Windows players share content.

• Fixed problems with file paths that differ only in upper and lower case.

Other

• Updated the Steam client libraries.

• Standalone games no longer change your s&box install location setting.

For creators

• Games must now compile on our servers before they can be published, and you'll see the compiler errors if they don't.

• Fixed tinting on aggregate meshes in Hammer.

• Fixed a Hammer crash when a viewport started rendering while another render was still in progress.

• Fixed crashes when loading some maps and when merging very large meshes.

• Fixed shader compiler crashes on unterminated sections, errors at the end of a file and long error messages.

• Projects with more than 65,535 linked files now work.

• Fixed SVG textures breaking when they're hot-reloaded.