Torque 3D Beta 2 Released (Known issues, fixes, new)

Known Issues

• Advanced Lighting Performance, plenty of performance optimizations to come
• Switching from Advanced lighting, to basic, then back - shadows are glitchy
• Some seams in terrain detail textures reported on an ATI HD 2600M. See thread.
• Initializing Torque in Basic Lighting, then switching to Advanced Lighting; causes particle effects (noticeable when firing either of the stock guns) to lose their textures (the textures are replaced with white blocks).
• PhysX demo - the gun's projectile and explosion sometimes doesn't render.
• Toolbox - When you click on a link to open torsion/visual studios you get a popup that notifies you it's loading, if you don't click "ok" before the app opens it will stay there (it should be set on a timer or some other method of removing it when the app loads).
• Toolbox - The comment system isn't fully implemented, no way to currently add, edit, or remove them
• Web Deployment - Keyboard accelerators being eaten under IE (Tab key and some others)
• Created decal roads have some z fighting display issues with the terrain.
• GuiEditor - Moving the camera in the EditorGui gui causes created decal roads to wander off their created points. Going back to the missionEditor fixes the decal roads positions
• Water doesn't always reflect
• Opening up the editor in the PhysX Demo causes the room to reset prior to destruction
• Terrains appear without textures (therefore it renders black) inside of the PhysX Demo
• Terrain Editor and Painters "Selected Info"'s shadow and main text are separated a great distance away from each other.
• FPS Genre Kit - Warrior Camp - Some of the hut/overhang model's textures aren't mapping or mapped correctly
• World Editor - Currently the fxFoliageReplicator is not listed under objects to add
• Create new from template doesn't currently list new mission like it should
• World Editor - If you set an object to be locked in the Tree View it won't immediately update the dynamic field to reflect this
• Road/River Editor - Inserting and deleting nodes in the River and Decal Road editor can cause either anomalies inserting/deleting between the incorrect points; or crash the editor.
• Gizmo handles are incredibly hard to grab, and you cannot grab them by the arrows on some machines.
• Switching to an editor that requires a check(ex: terrain check); even if you create the terrain, the editor switches back to the object editor.
• Status bar text controls overlap eachother at certain extents.
• Terrain Editor is currently missing the equivalent of "Set Empty", "Clear Empty" and "Set Height" tools.
• Material Editor workflow is still in flux, some more improvements to come.
• Editing materials with toneMaps currently overwrite their corresponding diffuseMaps with NULL bitmaps.(I believe toneMaps are only used occasional in Den)
• Camera Speed - Using the edit text field for camera issues places your the current text cursor behind the text characters, and doesnt allow user to
enter in values manually.

• Material Editor - The objects that show "" for materials names aren't being represented with a default "no material" material like they should.
• Material Editor - (Above bug effect)Some objects that have don't have materials manually assigned to them in script have blank textures(this causes the persistence manager to spam the console with warning text).
• Material Editor - (Above bug effect)Once the material with blank is selected the material editor won't properly show materials unless a new level is loaded
• Terrain Painter - While painting the edge of a terrain block(the opposite end of the terrain is painted with the leftover brush)
• Web build - In IE7 pressing backspace while locked in the game build takes you back a page
• River Editor - Changing default depth value doesnt work
**Advanced Lighting - Swapping from basic lighting to advanced lighting with all of the features sometimes causes a display driver crash

• Web build - Editors do not correctly resize to 800 x 600
• Decal Editor - Partial commit of the decal editor made it in the editor drop down menu. Editor is not usable just yet...

New

• Material Editor Mesh Selector (allows you to select materials by mesh)
• Material Selector (an easier way to preview and select materials)
• Spotlights and Point lights for Advanced lighting
• lens flare / corona effects for PointLight, SpotLight, and Sun
• brightness animation effects (flickers) for PointLight and SpotLight
• PointLight and SpotLight can be mounted to a ShapeBase mountpoint
• Instant splash screen for better feedback that the engine is loading
• $gfx::wirefame will toggle wireframe mode for all material based objects in the scene

Fixes

• Force control object into render list when in first-person; fixes disappearing weapon/player.
• Negative z coords break collision.
• Terrain collision problems.
• When deleting the sun object the area remains lit.
• compile.bat doesnt like sln names with spaces.
• Scaling the water block to zero causes torque to crash.
• Adding Cloud Crashes.
• toolbox crash when cancelling second new project.
• Edit optionsDlg crashes gui editor.
• Toolbox Quick Links, editing anything only changes the first quick link.
• WaterBlock/River no texture.
• Mouse cursor hidden in firefox after running in web.
• Water Explosion Crash.
• scriptAndAssets directory reference for "defaultGame" needs to be changed to "scripts".
• Shift drag to copy/Creating new physx object crashes physx demo.
• Processor::init calculates CPU type/name incorrectly.
• BillBoards LOD causes crash.
• Dragging object moves position/bounds, leaves mesh behind.
• ShapeBaseImage lights, constant/pulse/weaponfire etc, added support for spotlight.
• Material editor crash issue (based on the order of loading).
• DDS files with 'double extensions' (e.g. base.normal.dds) aren't loaded.
• addMaterialMapping console function incorrectly declared/implemented.
• Bug in D3D adapter enumeration.
• Eye position in shader is wrong if object is scaled.
• PlatformFonts leak memory.
• Fixes for hardware which don't support occlusion queries.
• Compiling the Mozilla plugin on Express.
• Web support for PhysX demo.
• Web plugins statically link to ATL/Visual Studio runtimes to make redistribution easier.
• Improved mouse handling for web plugins.
• Simplified web configuration.
• Dynamic loading of engine DLL with no link time dependencies.
• Script FindFiles et al. functions (in fileSystemFunctions.cpp) have been moved over to the new file system.
• Camera->Fit View to Selection menu item is now working as intended.
• Light object was replaced with PointLight and SpotLight.
• Spotlights and spot light shadows work.
• PxMultiActor now interpolates all actor positions between ticks.
• PxMultiActor now breaks on hard contacts with ground and other objects.
• PxMultiActor broken parts now inherent the velocity of the actor they are replacing.
• PxMultiActor radial forces properly account for actor mass and broken state.
• LightRayPostFx post effect.
• $terrain::wireframe will toggle wireframe mode for terrain objects.
• TorqueScript supports syntactic sugar for setWord/getWord via .xyzw and .rgba.
• Added slope min/max limits to terrain painter brush. (Thanks Bo!).
• Significant performance improvements to PhysXMultiActor.
• Fixed GroundPlane which was not returning normals proper cast rays and was leaking convex shapes.
• LightRayPostFx post effect.
• Make player render in shadow pass even if renderFirstPerson is false.
• Applied bad FSAA settings fix that caused horrible performance.
• Removed OpenGL code inclusion for Windows projects.