Drag[en]gine Release 1.22

DragonScript

• Added Engine.updateResourceLoading() to help in situations where asynchronous resource loading has to be waited on synchronously.
• Added writeRectArea to BaseXmlLoader.
• Added offset parameter to ECBehaviorHitScan.
• Fixed potential exception in language library due to primitive values not setting base function index to 0.
• Added convenience call to get/set StubWithElement properties using Dictionary.
• Fixed leak problems caused by using removeWidget() instead of safeDispose.
• Added EasyXMLElement.hasTags to simplify detect if an element has child tags.
• Updated igde template to provide VSCode project.
• Added Game.onAppActivate() event and Engine.getAppActive() function to handle gaining and loosing application focus.
• Fixed AnchoredElementList.getAt() implementation not matching comment.
• Added support to ECBehaviorCamera to load camera parameters from *.decamera file using property "pathParameters".
• Fixed problem with ComboBox selecting editor widget text while typing if text in list box is matched.

Drag[en]gine

• Added variable unsigned integer and variable string support to decBaseFileReader and decBaseFileWriter.
• Fixed incorrect "decUuid.operator bool" implementation.
• Hardening against thread dead-lock.
• Fixed xml parser to properly support "<", ">", "&", "'" and """ in addition to "&#...;".
• Added new facial expressions supported by Meta facial expression extension.

Blender Scripts

• Added homogenize tools.
• Improving UI layout.
• Added export merge helper operator. this allows to organize exports in non-destructive way. before exporting use the operator to merge all objects in the same collection into the export object. especially supports merging shape keys combined with subdivision or decimate operators.
• Added support to package for extension repository (Blender 4.x feature).

OpenGL

• Fixed canvas-canvas-view not properly updating if canvas-view is not synced by another means than the canvas-canvas-view.
• Hardened against thread data race.
• Hardened against GPU driver bugs to better survive short stallings.

OpenAL

• Added protection against task cancel on exit.

WebP(-3d)

• Added support to mark images as grayscale although webp can not handle grayscale. This allows to use webp for grayscale images without consuming 3 times the memory. requires an EXIF metadata tag "UserComment" with value "dewebp:grayscale.

DEIGDE

• Added *.decamera as resource type to path properties.
• Fixed visiblity/scaling not applied to outline component of WObject component sub element.
• Fixed object wrapper not working properly with animator if animation is not set.
• Fixed object wrapper not working properly with animator if animation is not set.
• Added "dataDirectory" as new replacement token for igde templates.
• Fixed igdeCamera class not setting enable-gi/hdrr property to camera on creation (true is enforced.

World Editor

• Fixed and improved camera handling when viewing the world using an object camera to line up shots better.

Conversation Editor

• Added paste conversation snippet command also to regular actions not just topic, if/else and wait actions.