CryENGINE 3 Free SDK – Build 3410 Changelog

Major New Features:

• DX9 Parallax Occlusion Mapping (POM)
• DX9 Screen-Space Directional Occlusion (SSDO)
• DX9 Particle Global Illumination (GI)
• New “Very High” graphics configuration
• Added Scaleform support (v3.9.93)

Important Updates:

• Improved SLI/CF support
• Improved 32-bit Editor support
• Improved support for 5.1/7.1 surround sound setups
• Improved support for Windows font sizes
• Improved Sandbox UI
• Added Visual Studio 2010 support
• Removed Visual Studio 2008 support

Full Changelog:

• Added UI Emulator
• Added UI Actions
• Added sample HUD & Launcher menu
• Fixed multi-GPU (SLI/CF) flickering issue
• Fixed issue with NVIDIA driver support for 32-bit Launcher/Editor
• Added new surface explosion effects
• Restored particle lifetime curves for alpha, size, etc
• Fixed falling leaves & ground smoke graphical bugs
• Added and reworked existing sound reverb presets
• Added aquatic plants
• Fixed seagull boid error
• Cleaned up and reworked weapons project (sounds, structure)
• Cleaned up and reworked environment project (sounds, structure)
• Fixed LODs of beach trees
• Added LODs for various vegetation assets
• Added new assets for Forest level rework
• Reworked Forest level & improved quality of level, including assets, terrain, area shapes, etc
• Added POM textures for Forest
• Added new destroyed texture for vehicles
• Fixed tire explosion sound
• Fixed red dot for Rocket Launcher not working
• Updated props prefab library with many houses included interiors
• Improved soil & wood impact effects
• Updated ocean material for Forest
• Improved Flowgraph Debugger (Support for Breakpoints)
• Improved surface effects for vehicles
• Refactored vehicle pfx and vfx libraries
• Fixed empty Rocket Launcher effects
• Improved SCAR muzzle flash
• Added SCAR loop tail sounds
• Added AI character Civilian, behavior "Wander between points of interest"
• Added boost functionality to all vehicles
• Improved house/barrel LOD quality
• Added support for AI territories & waves for vehicles
• Adjusted vehicle debris pooling to improve memory management
• Added more control over XYZ detail material slope
• Fixed vegetation bending issues
• Fixed crash when using light shapes
• Fixed bi-directional rotation params for particles
• Fixed stack overflow issue for Win x64
• Fixed level heap violation associated with level unload, temp surfaces and fog volume containers
• Many adjustments to the sound system
• Many adjustments to voxel system
• Fixed crash on Launcher start-up and ALT+TAB functionality
• Fixed LOD loading bug
• Further improvements to Asset Browser
• Fixed geometry issue with light objects
• Fixed potential crash if no top animation exists in layer for hit death reaction
• Fixed crash if no raycaster exists anymore
• Fixed potential issue when animation controls an entity directly
• Fixed potential crash in renderer
• Fixed DOF linkage error
• Fixed DX9 vertex decl. issue
• Added Mute button to Sandbox UI
• Fixed incorrect texture reference in default vehicle lights
• Fixed fakeLight property not working for vehicle lights
• Fixed terrain SetWaterLevel not updating water level in physics
• Fixed environment probe crash
• Fixed issue with Rocket Launcher only dropping after projectile had been destroyed
• Enabled terrain shadow casting on all specs except Low
• Re-enable Fresnel tweaking for water
• Enable dynamic textures and projector texture
• Fixed issue with non-actor entities not receiving hits
• Fixed Character Editor crash when using Morph Targets
• Fixed projection problems with bump map decals applied on vegetation objects
• Fixed issue with pickable items and AI weapons
• Fixed boid animations
• Made several adjustments to boid code
• Fixed issue with under water sound mood
• Fixed particle issue when TurbulenceSpeed < 0
• Fixed rare Editor crash
• Improvements to rigid entity / fluid interaction
• Fixed close attack issue with AI losing sight of player
• Fixed rare issue where using "Save As" in Editor resulted in the .cry file being deleted if an error occurred
• Improved ocean particle interaction based on wave height
• Added ability to define tire explosion particle effects (instead of being hard coded)
• Added ability to define custom params for Rocket Launcher RDS (instead of being hard coded)
• Updated FMOD (4.38.04) binaries - Fix for 5.1/7.1 surround sound crash
• Fixed memory leak in Editor
• Improved emitter debug bounding box drawing, scales correctly, alpha support, etc.
• Improved vegetation profiler
• Allow water volumes to be turned on / off
• Improved scope view for Rocket Launcher
• Fixed crash for using Windows Font > 100% in size
• Fixed shadow disappearing when light props are modified
• Fixed 3rd person camera reset when changing seats in vehicles
• Fixed crash when using broken_mtl option in surface type
• Fixed issue with voxel LOD seams
• Fixed hot reloading of animations in Character Editor not working
• Fixed animation events at 0.0f not triggering
• Fixed updating of current ammo pool on ammo pickup
• Updated latest EAX code
• Fixed Animation System Assert on startup (last unloading of DBA)
• Fixed Animation System Assert in PoseBlenderAim
• Fixed Focus and confine cursor problems in the Launcher
• Fixed issue with LookIK
• Fixed Time of Day synchronisation
• Fixed infinite ammo bug
• Fixed white spec on the rocket launcher scope glass and renamed ids
• Fixed ammo pool not updating on pickup ammo
• Added some missing textures spec & ddn
• Fixed rendering bugs related to vegetation wind
• Changed pfx modifications to use only one library. Now all weapons use the weapon_fx.xml
• Adjustments to civilian AI & reaction to the player
• Updated MaxCryExport: disable export of vertex animation by default
• Fixed VehicleLights flownode not working
• Added ScriptBind and FlowNode for loading TimeOfDay files
• Fixed Crash on opening WheelMaster dialog in the Vehicle Editor
• Fixed Vehicle Editor crash after closing WheelMaster dialog
• Fixed AI Debug Draw TagPoints
• Fixed Starting 2 material effects while using melee attacks ("No Surface Type") and wrong direction
• Updated bullet effects for most surfaces
• Improved dock area assets, collision proxies, LOD’s, scale of objects
• Fixed collision issue on lower area of light house
• Added multiple improvements to decal assets quality
• Added new TOD Street light prefab
• Added Tractor sample asset
• Updated Resource Compiler
• Renamed BehaviorSelectionTree to SelectionTreeEditor
• Adding Auto Backup option in the File menu to easy enable/disable the auto backup of the level
• Updated XT Toolkit
• Being able to start animations from Lua with animation driven motion
• Rename DefaultVehicle to EmptyVehicle
• Updated Editor tips
• Improves the filter edit control behavior in the node tree pane of TrackView by allowing a tab-switch of current matches
• Added ability to change order of track events in the ‘Edit Events’ dialog
• Added quick access for Entities using the Animated Character Extension in the context menu
• Improved civilians reaction to player
• Allow moving keys to the time between 0 and the sequence start time.
• Maya: Validate message control system. Allow some validation messages to be disabled by the user
• Maya: Getting UDP from bone geometries into the game
• Point Light Shaft Properties added to light entity
• Audio Caching for Items
• Added possibility to check for matching rows/colums and wrong ordering in Material Effects with setting mfx_debug to 3
• Collada: Changed the rotation from Y-up to make the facing correct
• Added ScriptBind and FlowNode for loading TimeOfDay files
• Remove old key dialogs from TrackView
• Updated the SDK character model
• Maya: Plugin version update
• Improve the naming of director nodes in TrackView
• Fixed Terrain collision enabled icon being backwards
• Fix broken undo/redo of keys and splines after redo adding a entity to TrackView
• Improved default lighting setup in Character Editor and Animation Graph Editor
• Launcher: Level.cfg are now loaded
• Fixed picking an object inside a group/prefab not working
• Fixed Autostarting a TrackView sequence doesn't hide the player
• Fixed two-handed pickups
• Re-factored graphics configs and removed redundant CVars

Vehicle Updates

Speedboat

• Tweaked material & fixed surface type errors
• Many adjustments to damage behaviors and effects
• Improved wake/spray effects
• Improved 1st and 3rd person cameras
• Added ability to custom define wave effect in XML file (instead of being hard coded)

Abrams

• Added gun overheat effect for Abrams, fixed errors
• Updated Abrams material
• Fixed faulty left tread
• Added recoil animation for main cannon
• Many adjustments to damage behaviors and effects
• Added new sounds and states (engine stop, exhaust smoke puff, etc)
• Increased main cannon damage, improved effects & sounds
• Added lights to Abrams
• Tweaked main cannon projectile to be visible
• Added MP modification to Abrams to give separate driver/gunner control
• Fixed inaccurate Abrams damaged model

MH60 Blackhawk

• Fixed decal issue & made general improvements to material
• Added new texture for downwash effect & improved environment interaction effects
• Many adjustments to damage behaviors and effects
• Added navigation lights toggle
• Added new sounds and states (engine stop, exhaust smoke puff, etc)
• Fixed control issue when helicopter is at its highest limit
• Fixed controls locking up when using gamepad
• Improved handling of rotor animation, uses engine animation, not hard coded
• Added ability to adjust velocity damping via XML instead of hard coded

HMMWV

• Updated HMMWV material
• Many adjustments to damage behaviors and effects
• Improved surface interaction and effects
• Many tweaks to vehicle handling, performance & environment interaction
• Improved 1st and 3rd person cameras