Important Info

New Feature

• (Game) Added friction to the vehicles depending on surface type.
• AIActors keep track of their initial position now.
• Skel-extensions.
• (Flowgraph) New nodes Math:ArcSinus, Math:ArcCosinus, Math:ArcTangens, Math:Ceil, Math:Floor, Math:Mod.
• (Particles) New camera-related params: fFocusCameraDir, fCameraDistanceBias. Also bFocusRotatesEmitter (revived from CE 3.4). Refactored and optimized particle render functions.
• Add compile-time support information to RC's generic info.
• (CryDesigner) Added a debugger tool.
• (AISystem) dynamic path adjustments work more reliably with "large" obstacles on slopes (CE-1959).
• (Game) corpses can now time out via CVar g_corpseManager_timeoutInSeconds (CE-1989).
• (Physics) Exposed rope awake flag. This allows ropes to be activated automatically on game start, rather than needing to fire an impulse through flowgraph.
• Exposed "floating" flag in surfacetypes.xml.
• (Physics) World dump update.
• Dynamic water volumes.
• (CryDesigner) Added "Seamless edit" check box so that turn seamless edit on and off.
• (CryDesigner) Implemented "Select All".
• (Particles) New params for alpha test control (CE-892).
• (CryDesigner) Implemented the Exclusive Editing Mode.
• (CryDesigner) Added a new parameter "Step Rise" for Stair tool.

Fixed

• (Sandbox) corpses no longer persist throughout multiple game sessions in Sandbox (CE-1988).
• Fixed vehicle partially invisible after respawning (CE-1957).
• (Particles) Fixed crash when vertex count over limit, and buffer alignment bug.
• (Editor) Restored SnapToGrid, Wireframe, Remember & Goto Location toolbar functionality (CE-2116).
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug about remaining side faces while push/pull.
• (Particles, Editor) Moving emitter entities no longer spawns multiple emitters.
• Fix Undo not working when using terrain painter "Flood" (CE-1958).
• Fixed it so reserving unbound entities works again (fixes case where a net entity is referenced before it spawns).
• Issue with skeleton's memory statistics (CE-1731).
• Dynamic water volumes fixes.
• (Game) Can't drive tank in multiplayer (CE-1352).
• (AISystem) some weapon offset for peeking were missing in the Human AI character.
• (AISystem) non-queued signals were causing wait-operations to never finish (CE-1956).
• (Scaleform) UIElements instances leaking in editor.
• (Flowgraph) Reload in UIEmulator broke Flowgraphs.
• (CryDesigner) Made mirrored objects not be able to attend "Merge", "ResetXForm" and "Pivot to Center".
• (CryDesigner) Fixed bevel tool bugs.
• (CryDeisgner) Fixed bugs causing broken faces in an union operation.
• (Game) Grenades don't explode (CE-1333).
• Water volumes serialization issue (CE-2046).
• (3DEngine) material glow parameter doesn't get updated correctly when triggered via flowgraph (CE-1653).
• Apply texture modifiers for vegetation & shadow gen pass (CE-1827).
• Advanced watervolume profiler crash in 64bit (CE-2024).
• Perforce plug-in: Fix crash if no connection, fix reconnection.
• (Renderer) Reset current device context shaders when unbinding resources (CE-2016).
• (Particles) Spawn on ParentCollision now works for every collision. Incorporated new fCameraDistanceBias into static bounds. Fixed scaling and speed errors with child particles.
• (Sound) Fix for soundlistener getting disabled when using trackview (CE-1912).
• (Game) Removed unused Level-tag logic from game-localization (CE-1948).
• Possible crash on layer hiding/unhiding (CE-1962).
• Fixed wrong LODs on composite objects (CE-86).
• (ScriptProxy) OnCollision not properly clearing m_hitTable (CE-2006).
• Removed rope position forcing in ai/physics mode.
• (Game) Fixed physics Impulse parameter not working for Recoil in weapon scripts (CE-2018).
• Fixed a bug related to missing polygons after moving elements.
• Fixes for when MAX_JOINT_AMOUNT for animations is raised above 256. Some previously hardcoded arrays now use the define.
• (CryDesigner) Added filling a face based on two unconnected edges.
• (Shaders) Fixed issue with Flowmap using incorrect channel in Watervolume shader.
• (Particles) fix for incorrect alpha scaling. Reverted some unneeded alpha scale param conversions. Alpha clipping applied to decals as well.
• (CryDesigner) Fixed a bug displaying incorrect measurement helper number of a front stair.
• (Particles) Fixed sorting errors between particles and other transparent objects, by using proper 3DEngine-set distance (CE-1147).
• Force-integrate ReactiveTextureStreamer.cpp. Fixes StdAfx.h casing.
• Fix for crashing UIElements on exit.
• (Particles) Fixed SpawnOnCollision/Death with parent Bounciness < 0 (CE-2212).
• Disable TryLock feature on SRW locks for Windows. Fixes inability to start CRYENGINE on Windows Vista.
• (Game) Updated weapon_fx particles, fixed MG weapon overheat effect not playing.
• (AISystem) some weapon offset for peeking were missing in the Human AI character.
• Typesorting postponed (Char attachments).

Added

• New BehaviorTrees with custom TPS queries added specifically for SDK tutoring purpose.
• (Assets) Added pistol melee 1p animation. Added pistol pfx. Removed unnecessary duplicate SP/MP params. Small tidy of structure.
• (CryDesigner) Added and modified materials and texture for CryDesigner Selection so that lighting doesn't affect the material.
• (Assets) Added sample material/textures for blend layer with POM.
• (Assets) Added several floor tile materials and textures with blend variations.
• (Assets) Added CRYENGINE logo textures. Updated jointed_breakable material. Updated cloth_2 material which has the CE logo on it.
• (Assets) Added rough version water volume material.
• (Assets) Added sample water volume material and textures with decal setup.
• (Assets) Updated weapon tracer assets to newer, larger version. Deleted old unused assets.
• (Animation) added turn animation for when standing (CE-1793).

Optimization

• More proper default out-of-grid settings.
• Tweak to coll_type tag parsing for surface types.
• (RENDERER) Lowered bandwidth for lens flare RT to 10F.
• (Sandbox) Update Boost (for Python integration) from 46.1 up to 55.0. To support libs for VS 2012.

Refactored

• Cleanup of physics setup.
• Removed RawFace structure.
• Replaced BrushUtil:: namespace with BUtil:: namespace.
• Cleanup and Decoupling of CAnimationSet.
• Removed redundant functions.
• Phys testbed maintenance.
• Saved both entity guid and resolved id during export; MP levels request to use entity id, which can be generated via batch export.
• Deleted unused codes on drawing helpers.
• (CryDesigner) Renamed "PushPull" to "Extrude".
• (CryDesigner) Changed the clip tool name from "Clip" to "Slice".

Tweak

• (Game) Don't use LowLevel physics when vehicles are stationary.
• (Game) Keep physics awake for a bit longer to prevent it falling asleep on the apex of a slope.
• (Flowgraph) Added ability to unassign an entity in a Node (CE-1611).
• (Particles) Warning "ignoring spawning of immortal independent effect" now shows full sub-effect name (CE-796).
• (Rendering) Warning "mismatch between texture and sampler type" no longer displayed for simple missing assets (CE-27).
• (AISystem) secondary visual sensor added to "default" perception configuration.
• (AISystem) Tactical Position System: more further debug rendering added.
• Abrams: Added additional empty params. Removed deprecated params. Added recoil shake to weapons.
• (Game) Added CVar g_suppressHitSanityCheckWarnings (CE-1298).
• (Savegame) Unified savegame name, now based on IGame::GetName.
• Rifle: Removed unnecessary duplicate SP/MP params. Small tidy of structure. Moved some duplicate values from sub-sections into default section. Removed invalid params. Made tracers visible.
• (Physics) Enabled e_DeformableObjects by default (CE-1991).
• (Particles) Editor now displays TRangeParam<> doublets in compact Vec2 format.
• Strip semi-commas off the end of #pragma statements. Added missing shader compiler DLL.
• Changed the bone limit for current gen consoles and PC to 1024 (last gen consoles use the old value of 256).
• Behavior Tree visualizer now also shows the Selection Variables.
• AI script Human_x.lua now defaults to the "SDK_Grunt_04" behavior tree.
• (Assets) Forest update. Added AB particle layers and moved particles. Moved logic into logic layers. Added small steps into some houses. Deleted non-streaming layer and put assets into appropriate layers. Converted some brushes into geomEnt for ropes. Broke up some of the terrain painting with more varied materials.
• (Assets) Forest: Moved some objects in the wrong layers. Replaced Cave geometry beams with volumetric beam materials on the lights.
• Updated deformable_barrel material.
• Readjusted the orientation of the HUD bone to prevent tilting of the onscreen Hud during aim and walk with the Pistol.